I am a big fan of the Articles plugin by Alex King. The plugin has sadly stopped working in the last couple of WordPress versions. I have modified it to work with the current version (2.7), and you can download the modified version below.
You can see the articles plugin in action in my articles page. I still need to find and tag all posts which should be included in the list, but you get the idea.
Just replace the original articles.php with the following file to make it work again.
WordPress 2.7 was recently released, and now even I have made the upgrade! If you follow my blog, you probably know that I just love WordPress (even with the bugs in Safari), and with the 2.7 upgrade it has gotten even better!
The whole admin backend is completely rewritten to among other things make it faster to navigate. The WordPress blog writes the following about the 2.7 version:
The first thing you’ll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we’ve listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version.
Next you’ll begin to notice the new features subtly sprinkled through the new interface: the new dashboard that you can arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top, QuickPress, comment threading, paging, and the ability to reply to comments from your dashboard, the ability to install any plugin directly from WordPress.org with a single click, and sticky posts.
Upgrading to the newest release was easy as ever, since I track the Subversion tree. I just run the “svn switch” command, and presto — Subversion changes the release!
The following video shows more new features in the new admin interface, such as one-click WordPress upgrade and changeable interface.
So go ahead and download WordPress now!
Since I will be gone from the internet for a while, I need something to make the Akismet spam list smaller. Otherwise I will definitely miss something good.
I decided to try Bad Behaviour, which seems to be working. It will be running during the day and if it works as expected, it’s here to stay.
So I have just updated my blog to WordPress 2.6, and it was a very easy transition. Since I’m tracking the Subversion tree, all I have to do is:
svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6/ .
More information on how to trach WordPress using Subversion is available in their documentation.
Everything seems to be working except for is_human(), but since I’m using Akismet for the time being, there is no rush to find a replacement. There seems to be quite a few plugins available in the WordPress plugin directory though, so I have to look through them.
WordPress 2.6 has just been released, bringing lots of new features and polish as usual. The following video from the WordPress website will give you a tour on what has changed.
I have not updated yet, but will be doing it very shortly.
There have been reports on problems with the comment CAPTCHA used on this site, so I have switched it to an image based one. There were problems when using it together with WP Super Cache.
I am now trying out is_human(), so there might be some problems for a couple of hours, as well as some asthetical issues.
I am in the process of updating wordpress to 2.5, which might lead to some interesting errors or other strange things. Hopefully most things will go smoothly though.
It seems that it won’t display the static pages for some reason, but other things seems to be working fine.