Automatic Upgrade To WordPress 2.6.1
I’ve devoted my time migrating glitchline to wordpress. I could say that its ok at the moment although I still have things to do on that blog. Anyway, WordPress 2.6.1 is released, it has minor bug fixes but we can still enjoy wordpress 2.6 if we want.
2.6.1 offers several improvements for international users. Styling of the admin for right-to-left languages is much improved thanks to the efforts of the Farsi and Hebrew translation teams, and a mysterious gettext bug caused by certain PHP configurations is now fixed. For IIS users, 2.6.1 fixes several permalink problems. Image insertion problems in the Press This feature experienced by IE users are also fixed. Of note to everyone is a fix for a performance bug in the admin where those with a lot of plugins would experience slowness on some pages. -taken here.
I’m actually waiting for another updated wordpress version to test a plugin I installed two weeks ago. The said plugin, WordPress Automatic Upgrade 1.2.1 had various negative feedbacks but it is now fix on their latest version 1.2.1 released last July 18. It did wonders on upgrading my two blogs, hassle free.
Instead of seeing a display note “WordPress 2.6.1 is available! Please update now” on your wp admin panel, another bar below will display “Click Here to Automatically Upgrade WordPress to latest Version.” Its easy, no need to be a geek to upgrade a wordpress blog. Just click and follow the prompt, download database (for back up) if you want. WordPress Automatic Upgrade 1.3 will be coming soon especially now, a perfect combination for latest release of wordpress 2.6.1. Now, my addiction to upgrading my wordpress version is healed. LOL
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Glitchline Is Temporary Unavailable
As of this time, my personal blog is still down. I can’t update this blog for a while until its running smoothly. To my co-recipro droppers, glitchline still continued to drop on your sites. And to other glitchline droppers such as my favorites and yesterday’s droppers, I did reciprocate.
I hope everything will be okay soon.
G-Blogs 2.0 Still In Beta
G-Blogs is where I started blogging in 2004, it was a moblog or mobile blog. Due to many glitch of the old g-blogs system, there are rampant hacking of blogs just to prove their worth. Was it worth it? That’s a long story but without g-blogs, I maybe not here blogging. I still love g-blogs even if I did got tired of the old system. If not, I will not be blogging about it now.
Just a short recap of the old system. Old g-blogs can be access to any built in browsers before, it was possible to moblog using third party browser such as Opera, Opera Mini, Netfront etc. Legitimate bloggers can download images, audios, videos from other moblogs for Php 5 per file. I did forgot the rates already. To some, they can upload and download other files such as mobile applications, virus, ebooks and other unsupported files for FREE.
Those were the happy days until the Globe Telecoms numerously changed the system from time to time and our moblogs are always unavailable. Good thing that they decided to use wordpress to their recently launched g-blogs.
What’s with g-blogs 2.0?
G-Blogs 2.0 is built to give you a refreshing experience in personal blogging. Powered by the powerful open blogging platform, WordPress MU, G-Blogs 2.0 is equipped with new and exciting features that enhance the way your life’s moments with your friends online.
This is a giant step forward on blogging considering that I, myself experienced blogging at g-Blogs before. Indeed a wise decision but the normal mobloggers are waiting to access the site using their built-in browsers just like the old g-blog days. Globe Telecoms temporarily disabled G-Blogs’ SMS/MMS and WAP blogging service, as they prepare for the enhancements which they will be launching soon.
G-Blogs 2.0 is still in BETA – fresh out of the clinic after a thorough beauty makeover. This means you may still see a few bumps, scars, unwanted moles or hairs – things you would want us to tweak a bit, or probably even get rid of, here and there. If ever you do encounter any, do send us a note at gtg-blogs@globetel.com.ph and we’ll gladly tidy them up for you.
After recovering my old g-blog, I access the page for my old entries retrieval. They said wait for 24 hours to export my blog blog to new blog. That was 4 days ago and still nothing happened. Since I already knew wordpress, I hope they add more widgets (and plugin if possible), add page feature and more template choices. As of now, there are only two available template.
G-Blogs is built on WordPress MU. Should you need an extra know-how on advanced coding and features, feel free to visit their FAQ section.Technically, no need to hack for free download anymore just like the old days… The site can be access using Opera using Inet connection on mobile.
Entrecard Favorites, Top Droppers & Recipro-Droppers
Who says that its impossible to received a perfect drop from entrecard? See the image below, it shows that I didn’t receive perfect drops from one blog but to eight blogs. Usually, my top droppers are recipro-droppers but this time from 8 co-recipro-droppers last month, there are only 4 now. What happened? I guess, some members missed a day or more dropping. But I am happy because there are some from my favorites who consistenly reciprocate and I received perfect drops. Just as I promised to my other top droppers on my favorites, you’ll be added to my technorati favorites and will subscribe to your feeds. This is for perfect recipro-droppers only.
The image above is impressive, I can’t wait to post it here. Anyway, about my favorites, I removed some of them (below 20 drops) and added more droppers. From 32, there are 50 now on my favorites. I’m still thinking if I can still accomodate more than 50 to give way to other droppers. 300 drops limit per blog is not enough for me anymore. Actually, its hard to fave again those droppers I removed not unless they didn’t change their entrecard image or if I remember them enough. My apologies on this issue.
You can add them on your favorites: Diet Pulpit, NE Patriots Draft, E-business Ideas Make Money Online With EJ Cooksey, Majik’s Thoughts, Thailand, Land Of Smiles, Stir The Cauldron, Beaker’s Dimensions. I believe some of them were already on my technorati, got to subscribe to their feeds. And here’s the remaining top droppers: On The Bricks and People You Need To Know.
Speed Up WordPress 2.6
As I saw my dashboard this morning, WordPress 2.6 is officially released July 15 to US but July 16 to my location, a month earlier to expected August 2008 release. I instantly decided to update my wordpress 2.5.1 without knowing the added features. I admit, I don’t want to be left behind and updating wordpress version is kinda addicting. LOL. I didn’t even made a back-up.
You can read the WordPress 2.6 features to this link. After uploading the files and database upgrade, of course I looked for changes on my dashboard. Haven’t found any yet but noticed the “turbo” link at the upper right corner of admin panel.
Here’s what I saw after clicking the turbo link:
Wordpress now has support for Gears which adds new features to web browser. hmnn… sounds a major change so I installed and enabled Gears. Then I clicked it once again to see what will happen next.
I had an error, it says:
“Local Storage Status: Error: Download of ‘http://www.ebooktechie.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/themes/advanced/skins/default/img/menu-arrow.gif returned response code 404“.
I checked on my web host and saw that I haven’t upload such folder. So I upload it and reclick “turbo”. Now it says:
“Local storage status: Updated completed.”
So, I guess, there are no more problems. I’m impressed. Looking forward for future wordpress upgrades, I told you, this is addicting. LOL
