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One of the most important plugins on this blog is helping to post code snippets in the various tutorials I publish.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work with the latest WordPress 2.5 version. Since Matt was one of the developers of the plugin… we can just hope that soon there will be an …

Everybody is talking about the coming WP 2.5 (version 2.4 is skipped). A few weeks ago I started to take a closer look at the nightly builds.

The biggest change (at least on the surface) happened in the admin panel which has been completely reorganized. At the time of the transition from 1.5 to 2.x the basic layout of the dashboard and admin panels didn’t change radically; it was more about getting colours and some “ajaxification”.

This time the changes are big. And I don’t refer to the colours (which you can restore anyway, if the dark blue makes you happier!). It is about the organizing principle behind it and how it translates into buttons, panels and subpanels. I don’t understand why some users are complaining about it. It is cleaner, more logical and easy to use. Yes, you will have to spend a few minutes to learn the new layout and/or the name of the new buttons (new name of some buttons?) - but it’s worth.

Just minutes ago I checked the SVN and the current version WP 2.5-RC2 (release candidate 2). Which means we are getting closer and closer to the final. And Matt just posted a screencast about some new features in the WP dev blog.

Since last night suddenly the ig-syntax-hilite plugin stopped working properly on this blog. If activated a lot of pages (in the wp-admin and on the frontend as well) go blank…

I don’t have the time right now to troubleshoot, so I had to disable it, which means the tutorials showing code …

As you can see this is not a big site. I don’t post regularly (unfortunate but true…). My visitors mainly ask additional questions regarding my tutorials, eventually, request more help. Till recently I have never had any bad, offensive comment made intentionally. Of course, there alwasy is the normal level …

Hey, you, the newest WordPress user! Did you also fall in the 5 minutes trap and now desperately seeking help?

The famous 5 minutes install has almost become the trademark of WordPress. Actually, despite the many failed installations, it is true! If you are not doing anything stupid, WP can …

I had to upgrade this blog anyway - so I decided to create a new theme for it. Till recently this blog was running on the 2.0.x “legacy” branch of WordPress but I wanted to use some of the new features of the other branch. While I was working on …

Last night I did an upgrade for an old client of mine. I have to praise the WordPress developers: the whole process went on very smoothly and almost without a glitch.
I know, doing an upgrade shouldn’t be something worth to mention but in this case even I was a little …

I just published my previous posts earlier, and after doing it I went to check my mail. Suddenly in my inbox there were three fresh messages - all telling me about new Pingbacks on my new post (Two level menus Part 2).

The post was so fresh that barely anybody could …

A while back I promised to write the second part of the Two level menus article. Today Susan reminded me about it, so here we go: Part 2 - styling and highlighting the two level menu.

In the examples I will refer to the same demo installation as …

A while ago there was a thread in the WP forum about something called CSS Zoom and how to apply it to WordPress blogs. It works like you can see on my demo blog.

I have to admit I have never heard about the CSS Zoom before and don’t …