Drop Down Menu, Drag And Drop Of WordPress 2.7
I’m done updating this blog to wordpress 2.7. Actually, I’m excited to see my new dashboard after the upgrade. If you haven’t updated your blog, the image below shows how it would look like.
At first, I’m not impressed because of the default gray color of my dashboard. I’ve changed it by editing the profile, it is located on the upper right side of your dashboard. But hey, this is a major upgrade, lets not talk about the colors.
I’m impressed with the drop down menu (left side of the image). I love drop down, spacious dashboard. I haven’t explore much of this new wordpress admin panel and haven’t heard that “drag and drop” feature of it. I was supposed to make an entry tonight but I can’t wait to make a quick post. When I was writing this post, when I point my mouse to “widget title” (sorry, don’t know what to call them) and tried to drag (hold left click mouse) and drop (release left click of mouse) it to other location. It was transferred. Wow! Now, I’m really impressed!
But when I card dropping this morning (haven’t plan of upgrading my wordpress at that time), I saw a blog that was used to have the same template as mine and she changed her template because of unusual outcome of her template. I hesitated to upgrade and decided to test upgrade. The template didn’t looked funny so I proceed to upgrade this blog.
Take note that I shifted to simple script from fastastico few months ago. I didn’t use Automatic Upgrade plugin because this is a major upgrade. Now, I’m hoping for plugin updates.
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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