Just using something called ‘QuickPress’ which allows you to quickly send a post to your blog as soon as you log into the Wordpress admin pages.. it has no fancy features, just a window for you to type and post to your blog instantly.. I do like this little feature as it’s a bit like twitter.. a no nonsense easy and simple interface to put something quick on your blog.
The other feature I’ve noticed (and installed) is something called Gears which is meant to speed up your blog by downloading the files to your machine so that when you’re working on your blog, the files are from your machine and not online which should speed things up. I don’t understand it completely but I have installed it.. this blog isn’t particularly slow anyhow so I’ve not noticed any real speed increases.
Anyway, that’s a quick update for me with regards to some of the new features so far in Wordpress 7
I’ve done it, I’ve upgraded the blog to version 7.0 of Wordpress and once again, it was completely painless! Well done to the Wordpress guys! It is simply a case of copying over the existing Wordpress files with the new ones, going to the WP-ADMIN page and there is a button to press to upgrade your database and there you are.. it’s upgraded.
The whole things looks nice too.. a lot more features have been put in.. however, it’s still so new to me and I’ve not had a chance to explore and play with it but the admin pages do look different to before and it took me a little while to get around.. It is still intuitive and so far, I’m dead pleased.
I have been running my version of Wordpress 2.3.3 for ages now and even when the new 2.5.1 version came out, I didn’t upgrade it. However, I thought it was due time to upgrade to the latest version now that 2.6 is out. I was most worried that the way my blog would look may change and I would spend an age trying to bring it back.
I backed up 22 megs of my blog and then performed the upgrade. It’s is a very simple process, you just drag the new WordPress version over the existing and it just updates the files which have changed.. the whole process takes about 5 mins. The next time you log into your admin pages, you get a note that the database needs upgrading.. you just click ok and it does it automatically.
The admin pages do look different and takes some getting used to.
However, my blog looks exactly the same to visitors.. in fact, I guess most people if I didn’t tell them wouldn’t even know that the blog has been updated at all.
Look at the video below for some features of the new 2.6 version:
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