At the beginning of July, weblogtools Collection ran a survey asking people what version of WordPress people were using.
71% of those who responded were using the current version, 2.8. I didn’t think the results were that surprising because most of the people who read that blog are staying current on WordPress version, themes and plugins.
Last week I wrote about using the WordPress More tag to control the content displayed on the front page of your blog.
As I mentioned, you can have the More link say anything you want. WordPress also provides a CSS class for the more link that you can use to style it.
Most WordPress Themes are set up to display the full post on the front page rather than the excerpt. If you display a number of articles on the front page, such as the 10 that are in the default WordPress settings, this can make for a very long front page.
I like to use the More tag to display the first paragraph or so and then have a link that says Continue or Keep Reading. And what is nice about using the More tag is that you don’t have to edit any templates – it is right on the toolbar in both the html and visual editors.
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Scheduled WordPress posts missing the schedule has been an ongoing problem for some users since WordPress 2.5. There isn’t a single solution although I did find a possible one for people using WordPress 2.6 and IIS servers.
Before I continue, I have a confession to make. I haven’t yet upgraded this site to 2.8+. I was waiting for the security updates and we’ve had two so far and I am so busy upgrading other sites that I keep putting mine off. So, I decided to wipe out the installation on my test server, make it exactly the same as this site, and upgrade everything there before upgrading here.
Feeling melancholy or just love the tranquility of the color blue?
Either way, here are 10 WordPress themes that all feature the color blue. There should be something for everyone who loves blue or is feeling blue.
(I love the color of the sneakers in this photo. When I’m going for a color other than black for sneakers or a backpack, it is usually pink though).
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