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There has been a bug reported in the latest WordPress version 2.8, but the strangest thing is that not everyone who upgrades to WordPress 2.8 encounters this problem.
The problem occurs when automatically updating plugins and it probably has to do with wrong write permissions, so it does not happen with everyone.
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We have just upgraded our WordPress version to the latest 2.8. Don’t forget to make your backups, just in case! Major differences:
Alex explains that for example when switching themes it is not very useful to have this category “featured” hanging around and therefore the following hack is a great solution in avoiding exactly that.
The following hack comes from Mike Jolley over at Blue Anvil and its function is to “Show related posts (based on tags)”.
We were not really sure what to post on the top-right side of the home page, but we have figured it out.
Go into your header.php file and delete whatever there is now between your title tags. Then place the code below in it and you’re one step closer to getting found in the search engines!
Mike and Dan will personally review all new websites that they stick in this gallery. For now only the 10 most recent have received this personal review.
In their post AskApache has listed their own robots.txt file (at the time of publishing). If you want to use it, we have pasted it below. Obviously you should change the location of the sitemap.xml to your own location!
While putting together another theme, he was thinking that it would save a lot of time if there would be some sort of dummy text pack that he could just upload and test his theme design with. He says that especially for testing magazine theme designs that have lots of content that need to function correctly.
Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung over at WP Recipes and Cats Who Code, comes this fantastic hack on “How to get rid of curly quotes”.
An excellent tutorial on how to customise your WordPress Login Screen has been written by Michael Martin over at Pro Blog Design.
A couple of weeks ago Jeff Starr of Perishable Press came with the post Important Security Fix for WordPress. eff’s server had crashed and all of a sudden his entire website was wide open for any hostile take-over, because people visiting his site were seeing the install.php screen of WordPress!
Alex Denning over at Nometech.com writes a post about “10 WordPress themes that make great frameworks”. In his post Alex actually does not focus on themes that advertise themselves as frameworks. Instead he wants to highlight regular themes that can be very suitable as a framework.
Although personally we are no big supporters of widgets, WordPress version 2.8 is very close to releasing and many need to know the changes!
That’s why Justin Tadlock has written “The complete guide to creating widgets …
