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Extra: Wordpress 2.6.5 Released

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 by Peter Zhang

This was a funny release. Ryan, the developer said that they skipped 2.6.4 in order to avoid the confusion with the fake version. Heh, let’s see how the people that released the fake version would react.

Anyway, this release, they fixed a security issues and three small fix. TechCube already updated, have you?

Visit this post for more on 2.6.5: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/


Woot, WP 2.7 beta 3 is out!

Sunday, November 16th, 2008 by Peter Zhang

I believe you are just as excited as I am. This time, there are 160 changes being made, and let’s all hope WP 2.7 final will be out soon =)

You can download it here: http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7-beta3.zip, but of course, as always, we do not recommend you to use this in live production, but only for testing purposes only =)

Here is the original post of WP 2.7’s announcement: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-beta-3/


Vote for your favorite Wordpress Icons!

Friday, November 14th, 2008 by Peter Zhang

The Wordpress team has just released yet another blog post about their developmoent on Wordpress 2.7. This time it is about a poll on the project icons. Just a little bit before, they have called for a competitions for all the icon designers to join and submit their iconset. And here they are the finalists, and the fate of these icons are on our hands.

I have quickly glanced through the poll and found some interesting icons. Vote for your favorite icons today!

The poster also mentioned that they will be getting close to Beta3, but still having some IE6 issues =(. Aww, well, wish them the best and hope 2.7 comes out soon!

Read the entire article here: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-27-project-icon/


Wordpress 2.7 – Beta 2 Released

Friday, November 7th, 2008 by Jonathan Lau

Wordpress 2.7 Beta 2 has just been released!

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Setup your own website for free with Wordpress!

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 by Peter Zhang

Ever wanted to create one of your own blogs and record down your inspirations from life? With this guide, setting up a blog is made easy.

Usually, there are two ways for you to set a blog:

  • Use a blog hosting service such as Blogger, Wordpress.com, AxieBlogs, etc.
    • Advantages: Very very very easy setup
    • Disadvantages: Less competant to customize
  • Find a hosting space and instally our own blog script
    • Advantages: Full customization ability, even design your own theme, addons, etc.
    • Disadvantages: A bit complicated to set up (not anymore with this guide)

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Porting your website design to Wordpress Theme #2

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 by Peter Zhang

This tutorial is a continuation of the Porting your website design into a WordPress theme, if you haven’t already read that post, or isn’t looking for specifically the things we will include in this post (listed below), we strongly recommend to check out that post first.
Today, we are going to talk about:

  • Single.php
  • Category.php
  • Comments.php
  • And other tips when you design.

We have already handled the four most important flies in the previous article, and so today’s tutorial is going to be relatively easier =)

If you like this post, Digg it here: http://digg.com/programming/Porting_your_website_design_into_a_WordPress_theme

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First Look at Wordpress 2.7

Saturday, October 18th, 2008 by Jonathan Lau

The interface for Wordpress 2.7 has finally been released today after months of waiting!

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Porting your website design into a WordPress theme

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 by Peter Zhang

Recently when Jonathan and I designed this theme, I was in charge of porting it over to make it work on Wordpress. (Yes, that means Jonathan did everything else.. Kudos to him =P) It was not totally painful with the great amount of help i can get from Wordpress Codex and other websites, but I felt it would be more convenient to compile all of them together into a simple guide.

This tutorial is going to teach you how to port your [finished] website design to a WordPress theme. It sounds hard, but it is actually not. =) So, let us begin…

Please note that the finished work of this tutorial will not have WP 2.7(or up) features (nested comments, etc.)

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