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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5
I’ve upgraded Geekie.org to WordPress 2.5 (stable), and am very satisfied with the new look. Users won’t experience too many differences, but the admin backend and PHP code do differ from WordPress 2.3.
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The final stable version of WordPress 2.5 is finally out!
I will be upgrading first thing tomorrow morning. Excellent!
This time, just read the WordPress development blog for their information. I won’t even try covering what 165 other blogs have already posted about!
(3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5) Loading ...WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate 2
Recently, Matt Mullenweg (the founder of Automattic) created a screencast of the new WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate 2, yet another step to a stable release of the highly anticipated WordPress 2.5.
The screencast is embedded below for your convenience:
[flash http://s.wordpress.org/resources/2.5/dashboard-and-images.swf mode=2]
At the same time, WordPress.org has a new look resembling the WordPress 2.5 admin dashboard design.
(5 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...WordPress 2.5 RC1
Categories: PHP; Tagged with: Apple, beta, blogging, Firefox, Joomla, open source, PHP, Safari, WordPress
This is probably the one piece of major open source news right now. WordPress has released a Release Candidate of WordPress 2.5, which has been highly anticipated by the blogging community. Everyone and every blog is talking about it, even the WordPress Podcast.
If you’re looking for some fantastic new features and a great new appearance, you can wait until the WordPress 2.5 Stable release, or you can download the RC1 now. I am currently sticking with WordPress 2.3.3; you can’t expect me to try EVERY beta and release candidate of all the open source projects! (I did experiment with Joomla! 1.5 RC1, and am currently playing with Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 and Safari 3.0.4 for Windows.)
Great new appearance:
All these new features make WordPress 2.5 closer to the experience of using a hosted service like Blogger, except with much more control over your own site.
You can get WordPress 2.5 RC1 now.
(5 votes, average: 3.4 out of 5) Loading ...Anticipating WordPress 2.5
The WordPress Planet has been posting recently about a silently-delayed release of WordPress 2.5, a huge step up from WordPress 2.3.3. It was supposed to have been released March 10, 2008. It is now March 16, 2008.
Similar to the hype with the long-awaited release of Joomla! 1.5 Stable, people all around the world are anticipating WordPress 2.5, which is said to have a much nicer admin backend, a changed plugins system, and dozens of other features.
The difference between waiting for Joomla! 1.5 Stable and waiting for WordPress 2.5 is that WordPress is used by a huge number of active bloggers around the world. It is said that tens of millions of people read blogs powered by WordPress every day; this is no overestimate. Whether it’s an average Joe blogging about his life, or Yahoo! talking about their latest developments, or even eBay, WordPress is suitable for everyone.
Joomla! is a CMS, and large corporations build their own CMS’s. But WordPress was intended to be a blogging / content platform, and it has been used as that (and many more things) because it’s simply easy to use.
I await WordPress 2.5 as eagerly as anyone else. Sure, the new source code can be obtained via SVN, or the nightly builds, but I’ll wait until the stable.
Get WordPress for your own site, or create a free WordPress blog at PersonalLog.
(5 votes, average: 3.4 out of 5) Loading ...Compressing JavaScript, CSS, and plain HTML using zlib.output_compression in PHP
Categories: PHP; Tagged with: compress, Firefox, JavaScript, PHP, toolbar, zlib
Today, a newly-registered user “jcapshaw” noted (on an older blog post about using zlib for output compression in PHP) that he wanted to send JavaScript, CSS, and HTML files through PHP for gzip compression. Clearly, as I pointed out in that blog post, the PHP developers prefer zlib.output_compression over the ob_start(’ob_gzhandler’) method, even though the zlib.output_compression method takes more work to set up. Why shouldn’t we apply it to other text-based files as well?
On one of my developments, RHHSMusic.com, I use several optimization methods recommended by the Yahoo! Developer Network, including:
- CSS sprites (combining navigational images into one larger file and using CSS to show only part of the image)
- Expires header (telling the browser how long the file would be valid, and for how long it wouldn’t need to re-fetch the file)
- Gzipping components of the site, including normal PHP/XHTML documents, ALL CSS stylesheets, and most JavaScript files
- Placing stylesheets in the <head> section
- Placing JavaScript includes at the very bottom of the page, just before </body>
- Not including site-wide CSS & JS in the HTML page
- Using multiple hostnames (javascript.rhhsmusic.com and media.rhhsmusic.com) to encourage parallel downloading
- Using ETags to identify when a file has changed
The majority of the above are accomplished through PHP; whether it’s PHP includes, PHP classes, or using PHP to gzip CSS & JS.
This article discusses how that is accomplished.
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