Not sure why they decided to do this, but Quicktags are disabled in WordPress 1.5 if Safari is detected as the web browser being used. Anyway, it’s easy to renable it. Simply open up wp-admin/admin-functions.php and edit it as described in this post on the WordPress forums.
The upgrade suprisingly took only a few minutes, and no problems that I can see. That is, except for the fact that my static pages i.e. About Me and Tech no longer look quite right. No matter – will start working on re-generating them later in the week.
Gasp! Version 1.5 is finally out!
Download it right now!
Am going to iupgrade to it right away! Wish me luck!
Just surfing around as usual when I noticed a link to a new FREE blogging service, siimlar to Blogger and LiveJournal. The big difference is that is running on WordPress – yes, the very software this blog is powered by?
I’ve set up a test account and it seems to be running off a version 1.5 beta of WordPress, as the manager interface seems to contain features missing from my version 1.2.2 of WordPress..including a handy theme manager!
Time will tell whether its popularity will cause annoying slowdowns etc when publishing, like the ones I’d encoutered back when I was using Blogger (which was just 2 months ago!). But I doubt it, because unlike Blogger, WordPress doesn’t rebuild every single page when you publish anything.
So will I abandon this blog and use one at Blogsome?
Nah, I prefer the freedom and security of running off my own hosted server (especially the ability to backup the MySQL database of my blogs).
Well we all know that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (yes the web browser that comes preinstalled in every copy of Windows) is probably the least secure web browser around, due to the countless well-publicised security issues involving it. But is it really true that IE is the undisputed leader when it comes to browsing speed? Or has Mozilla Firefox claimed the throne?
Read this browser speed comparisons – the conclusions might surprise you!
Plume CMS has turned out to be precisely what I was looking for because it has a very beautiful and simple interface, a quick and easy way of posting information (almost blog-like…we’ll get back to that in a while), elegant and simple file management system which allows users to upload files into their own subdirectories (only), AND easily create links to those files/images using a point-and-click interface….in other words, just what a harried teacher with little-to-no free time needs! (Does that mean I have a lot of free time so I’m doing all this? Nah, it just means I have had no social social and little sleep these past few days!).
The only problem was, it came bundled with just a single template which makes for a shockingly sparse look.
Luckily, a few posts in the forum later, I discovered that Plume CMS actually shares its scripting and template system with another blogging system by the name of DotClear, which IMO has the most beautiful interface on an open source blogging software at present. Thanks to some helpful pointers s in the Plume forums, I set about adapting several DotClear themes to Plume, and the result is what you can see on this list.
Here’s a demo teacher page I created. Ok will demo it to my HOD tomorrow and write an eSSS now!
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