Every now and then, when the team behind Facebook decided to implement big changes to the way it looks or the way it works, the whole world go nuts briefly before the grumbles died and life goes on. Yesterday was one of such time. When Timeline (why does it remind me of Memolane so much?) is rolled out, I expect there to be another stir on the Internet.
Because of the pesky Webarh infection, I’m reinstalling/restarting my sites with the old content but fresh installs + cleanup. I was hoping to be able to take the opportunity to get multisite working but… no such luck. In any case, this is just a list to remind myself of what I did and have to remember to do to get the bare basics of my old sites up before tackling things like plugins and themes and what not.
I was fiddling with the latest Release Candidate installation when I saw a pretty yellow box appear at the top of my page. Imagine my surprise!
From WordPress Blog : WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”
It isn’t much to say that I have been waiting for months for this release. But it couldn’t have come at a better time for me.
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/09/keep-wordpress-secure/
Knowing logically that websites can be infected with virus and reading a blog engine developer’s lengthy advice to upgrade the blog engine you are using to prevent getting infected with a worm is quite different. Nowadays malware are everywhere. 
Good thing is my blog and webbies are up to date. If you or somebody you know is using a WordPress version that has not patched the security vulnerability, heed Matt’s advice.
For programs, I mean. I’ve been meaning to write this for a while. If you are like me whose desktop has dozens of file explorer windows, MSN messenger windows and text files cluttering your desktop and making it difficult and tedious to find things, this post is for you. These are tab related add-ons and programs that will help to cut down the clutter and allow you to work from just one interface.
I used the Silk WordPress admin menu icon set with Tangofy plugin because I didn’t like the monochromatic icons, but I didn’t particularly like the whole of that or any of the other sets. So yesterday when I was playing with the custom taxonomy thing for Drache’s test site, I got side-tracked and modified the admin icons into a set that I like. This is the result, Rainbox Mix.
Woot! WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 is up! I’ve been trying out the nightly builds and watched as things changed and very happy with how things are now, especially the icons and how the quick management of post and page will show on mouse-over now instead of all the time previously.
Can’t wait for the official version to be out. It’ll be great, I know it. 
Slated to be released on 10th November 2008, this is the must-upgrade version for me, since this one is going to have left-hand navigation, personalize-able admin pages, sticky posts and new options for the plugin feature. It’s basically going to be THE WordPress I’m looking forward to.
How I know? From this review.
I’m actually contemplating combining Apathetic Moon and LunaDream (and if possible, Drache too) so that they run from one single WordPress installation and be able to customize them individually. In short, what some calls ‘multiblog’. But to do it by WordPress MU sounds like using Thor’s hammer for a tiny nail, and possibility quite restrictive, so I’m checking out some of the hacks/plugins for this.
Nerdaphernalia and WP-Hive are looking pretty good right now.
If I’m going to do this, then I’ll probably have to do it by the end of October, way before 2.7 is out, because NaNoWriMo will have started by then and I want to devote my attention to writing that instead of worrying about this.
