The latest version of WordPress 2.8 is now available for download. Wordpress 2.8 features improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies and overall speed.

Wordpress 2.8 feels and looks a lot like Wordpress 2.7 with some minor tweaks. However, once you dig in you’ll begin to appreciate the changes. For example, Wordpress 2.8 is a lot faster to use in the admin backend. Also, you can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme from your admin screen, with just one click!

Wordpress 2.8 also features a re-designed widgets interface to do things like; edit widgets on the fly, have multiple copies of the same widget, drag and drop widgets between sidebars, and save inactive widgets so you don’t lose all their settings.

I recommend everyone upgrade their Wordpress installations to this latest version. The speeded up admin area makes it all worthwhile!

Download Wordpress 2.8

You can download the latest version of Wordpress here.

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The dfBlog wordpress theme is rated no.1 of the “Featured Themes” in WordPress Themes Site at the moment. It is a fixed width, two column theme with a right sidebar and is standards compliant. The dfBlog theme is compatible with the latest WordPress 2.7 and uses valid CSS & HTML.

There are up to sixteen style combinations available with four colors (default, blue, pink and white) which are configurable from the Theme options page.

Supported languages: English, Spanish & Italian.

Features

• Current version: 1.1.0 (20090424)
• WordPress 2.7 compatible
• Valid CSS & HTML code
• Languages: EN, ES & IT
• Widget supported
• Support for PNG images with transparency
• Sixteen style combinations

Theme options

• Header Style (Default- Blue – Pink – White)
• Background Style (Default- Blue – Pink – White)
• Logo type (as image or text)
• Label of the first menu item
• Subscribe to Feed visibility (show, hide)

Download dfBlog from WordPress Site here

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Compositio is a new two column theme, made to for those who want to feature a lot of their content in the front page. The theme features a unique light blue design. The theme has random square shapes in the background and a really nice graphical layout.

Theme Features

A nice feature of this theme is the logo changer. You can use the default WordPress setting (“blog name”) or you can use your own logo. To use your own logo you must upload it to the root folder of the Compositio theme and name it logo.png. You can also use the PSD Logo Template in the source folder of Compositio Theme. (Image limitations: Not more than 590px/85px).

To activate the logo option go to: Administration Panel > Appearance > Logo Options, and select logo type.

Other Features

The theme is widget ready and the CSS is customized for the default widgets to match the site style.

The theme does not require plugins as they are already integrated into functions.php, so there is no need to install them. The only plugin you need to install manually is FlickrRSS (included in the theme folder).

Download

To download the theme (.zip-package) please visit the Compositio theme page.

To view the Compositio theme in action you can view the demo here.

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Wordpress 2.7.1 is now available for downlad. This version is a maintenance release and fixes a number of minor issues that were found within Wordpress 2.7. You can automatically upgrade from 2.7 to 2.7.1 from within your Wordpress 2.7 Admin panel via the Tools/Upgrade menu, or you can download the package and do the upgrade manually.

So while this is just a maintenance release, it is not necessary to update immediately as no major security issues are involved. However, if you like to keep fully up to date with Wordpress it is a good idea to do so.

It is easier that ever to update Wordpress by using the admin panel feature.

Download WordPress 2.7.1.

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Fluid Blue WordPress Theme is a simple and graphics free theme that would make a great foundation for building up your blog and creating the look and feel that you want, from the very start. It is a fluid width, two column theme with a right sidebar as default. The srinig.com website, features a downloadable file which will convert the theme to a left sidebar if you wanted to.

The Fluid Blue theme also supports sidebar widgets, tags and gravatars. Another great feature is that this new 1.7 version of the theme now supports nested comments and comments paging which is only available if you are using the latest WordPress version 2.7.

Download

To download the latest version of Fluid Blue WordPress Theme, please visit here.

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It’s official, the latest and greatest version of Wordpress, the insanely popular and easy to use blogging platform, is finally released! This is version 2.7 and its most immediate benefit is the new, clean user interface design and many other new features under the hood.

Wordpress.org, the creators behind the open source software, have assured us that almost every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in Wordpress 2.7 than in any other previous version. The Wordpress team have really listened to user feedback on this one and have thought deeply about the design. The result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster.

To read more about this new 2.7 release, visit the Wordpress Development blog.

To download the latest Wordpress 2.7 please visit this link.

Have fun,

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The latest version of WordPress has just been released. It is Wordpress Version 2.6.3 and it is now available for download at Wordpress.org.

It is a minor bug-fix release, after it was discovered there is a vulnerability in the Snoopy library of the Wordpress 2.6.2 version. It seems to be a low-risk vulnerability, however the Wordpress team have decided to release an update, while we anxiously await the soon to be released Wordpress 2.7.

The Quick Fix

If you don’t want to download the whole release just to get the security fix, you can download the following two files and copy them over to your 2.6.2 installation.

• wp-includes/class-snoopy.php
• wp-includes/version.php

Wordpress Download

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Having trouble figuring out how to edit comments in the latest WordPress versions? This is problem that I recently came across in the newer 2.5/2.6 versions of Wordpress. Basically, it’s not immediately obvious where you have to click in the Admin Panel/Comments section to actually edit a particular comment.

The trick is to click on the Name
of the commenter. That’s it!

It’s easy once you know how, lol. It will be easy to find because if you hold your mouse over the name of the commenter, a label will show ‘ Edit Comment’. BTW, it is also possible to click on the avatar image as well to edit the comment.

It’s probably not very intuitive of Wordpress to do it this way and I believe the next major versions will revert back to a more straight-forward method of editing comments.

I hope so, anyway.

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Matt of Wordpress.org has just announced that Version 2.6 of WordPress is now available for download, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6, codenamed “Tyner” (named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner), contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful Content Management System (CMS).

With 2.6 you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are lots of other improvements to the features introduced in the previous version 2.5. To see all the new features visit Matt’s post on WordPress.org’s Development Blog.

You can download this new 2.6 version of WordPress from the Wordpress.org download site.

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Una is Dino Latoga’s first free public release WordPress theme. It is a fantastic new 2 column theme which is divided to give the sidebar a lot more room for you to use. It’s a great looking theme and the proportions of this theme make it a nice theme to view on a widescreen monitor.

The front page shows the latest post with an accompanying large graphic image which helps attract readers more than the usual large text titles. Below the latest post is a list of the 3 other recent posts with each post accompanied by a thumbnail image. Also, the comments and trackbacks are divided to produce a clean and organized look.

According to Dino; “this theme was inspired by a lot of great blogs out there like Web Designer Wall, Matt Brett, Avalonstar and 5 Thirty One to mention a few “.

Installation

Upload to your wp-content/themes folder as normal. But, before you activate this theme you must go to Settings > Miscellaneous and enter the following values for the Thumbnail size. Width=195, Height=155. And also make sure the “Crop thumbnail…” box is checked

Required Plugins

• The Twitter Tools plugin. Install and activate and configure.
• The Advanced Excerpt plugin . Install and activate. Go to the settings and set the Excerpt length to 25 and uncheck the img

Download

The theme has been safely tested on WordPress 2.5 and WordPress 2.5.1. The live demo for the theme is currently being used on Dino’s Blog. You will be able to see the Una theme in action there. Unfortunately Sidebar Widgets is not supported with this version of the Una Theme, but it more than makes up for it with the sidebar’s great usability.

Visit Dino’s Blog to download Una WordPress Theme version 1.0

Well worth a look !

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