Exploring The Internet

I am using WordPress 2.5.1 and thinking it is about time to upgrade to WordPress 2.6; but before I do that, I want to find out what features WordPress 2.6 has provided and what improvements it’s been made. Searching the Internet and found the following features about WordPress 2.6:

• Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits
  This feature allow you to view your changes of your posts and pages with a specific date.  If you make mistakes on your blog, this feature is handy in a way that it allows you to go back to your older version of the post. Thus saving your headache. It is even handier for multi-author blogs because it allows you to track changes being make by who or when.

• Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web
  This is a feature that allows you to add a bookmark to your toolbar by simply clicking on Press This. It will provide you a fast and smart popup to do posts to your WordPress blog. It is quite convenient if you want to post video on your blog from YouTube or Flickr.

• Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging
  Gears is one of the open source projects developed by Google. With this feature one can add more new features to your web browser. Gears can be installed with the following system requirements:
  • Windows XP/Vista
  • Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+

  It is optional that you want to install it or not. According to WordPress Blog in WordPress.org, your WordPress blog works fine without it.

• Theme Previews: See it before your audience does
  This feature allows you to view your selected theme in a pop-up window with your live contents in it. Therefore you don’t have to activate your theme in order to see it alive in public.

• Other small features and improvements included in WordPress 2.6 are:
  • Word count
  • Image captions
  • Bulk management of Plugins
  • A completed revamped image control
  • Reordering galleries
  • Plugin update notification bubble
  • Default avatars customization
  • Upload media in a full screen mode
  • Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure by default.
  • Full SSL suport
  • No interface issues of having many thousands pages or categories
  • Allows you to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location
  • Allows you to select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click”
  • Allows you to toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one
  • Provides a number of proactive security enhancements
  • Develops stronger, better, and faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI
  • Fixes approximately 194 bugs.

Next post I’ll show you how to upgrade your existing version to WordPress 2.6. So stay tuned…

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For my dear subscribers. If you are getting a lot of emails lately, please accept my apologies. I am updating all my posts as well as rearranging all my categories and tags. So please bear it with me till it is done. Thank you for your cooperation.

Admin of Exploring The Internet: Lanna Wuthenow

For security reasons, every blog/website should have a contact form; especially if you don’t want people to find your email in your blog/website for spamming. A contact form serves the same purpose as an email address. It provides your readers one way to get in touch with you. Even though they do not know your email address, they can still send you an email. That is because a contact form will allow you to hide your email address in it. If a blog/website has multiple blogging authors, some contact forms will allow you to set up to contact only a specific author. So this is a very neat feature since you do not want to send an email to every author on that site.

Getting a contact form is never being easier with WordPress because you can just pick any plugin to use. Before You download PHP Contact Form v.2.0WP, make sure you check out its authors’ websites: WordPress-Ready Contact Form v.2.0WP and Secure and accessible PHP contact form for WORDPRESS. They provided detail information of what features it includes, how to install it, and what WordPress themes it supports. The following are the WordPress themes it supports so far:

Default by Michael Heilemann

The default WordPress theme based on the famous Kubrick. Included with WordPress.

Classic by Dave Shea

The original WordPress theme that graced versions 1.2.x and prior. Also included

Beast-Blog by Mike Cherim

Beast-Blog Info | Beast-Blog Demo | Download Beast-Blog.

BeastBlog v.2.0 by Mike Cherim

BeastBlog v.2.0 Info | BeastBlog v.2.0 Demo | Download BeastBlog v.2.0

Almost Spring by Becca Wei

Almost Spring Info | Almost Spring Demo | Download Almost Spring.

Blix by Sebastian Schmieg

Blix Info | Blix Demo | Download Blix.

Connections by Patricia Muller

Connections Info | Connections Demo | Download Connections.

Green Marinee by Ian Main

Green Marinee Info | Green Marinee Demo | Download Green Marinee.

Ocadia by Becca Wei

Ocadia Info | Ocadia Demo | Download Ocadia.

Pool by Borja Fernandez

Pool Info | Pool Demo | Download Pool.

SeaBeast by Mike Cherim

SeaBeast Info | SeaBeast Demo | Download SeaBeast.

I just installed this contact form a moment ago. Check it out in my “Contact Us” page. I’ll add update to this post and let you know how things turn out to be.

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