Journalized Theme 2 Beta 2

I have released a minor update to my Journalized Theme version 2. This fixes issue where is didn’t save your options. Some people have reported this problem. Having found and fixed the bug, I cannot understand how it ever worked, unless WordPress’ get_settings() function has changed.
I have also included a fix for the slashes problem in the column headers, and a couple of minor cleanups. You can get it from here: journalized-theme-2.0-Beta-2.tar.gz or journalized-theme-2.0-Beta-2.zip .
The main page to leave comments about this is the Journalized Theme Version 2 page.

Remember this is still beta code. It is a minor update to the previous release. I have a lot more code written, but it is not complete or tested yet.

Update: I’ve put together a readme file listing the changes I made.

Updating To WordPress 2.0.5 Problems?

Hmmm… I upgraded to WP 2.0.5 today (yes I know I’m late) and it appears to have marked some old posts as new. Hence they may well appear in the Dashboard.

I haven’t done anything to prompt this other than upgrade. I’m not sure what has caused this, but I think one or two other people had similar problems. Sorry for the confusion.

Update: I just thought of something I did change.
I changed the blog description: I changed “not quite so daily thoughts” to be “not-quite-so-daily thoughts”. I wonder whether that is enough to trigger the problem with the software at WordPress Planet?

WordPress 2.0.1 Released

For those who have been waiting, WordPress 2.0.1 has just been released. This version has seen a month of bug fixing (over 100 bugs squashed), the majority being issues with the administration screens and their behaviour. There were some pretty detailed discussions on the developer and testing mailing lists to resolve some of these issues.
Alas, the WYSIWYG post editor is still not accessible to keyboard only users, so if you can only use a keyboard and not a mouse make sure to turn it off.
If you want to mark up your posts semantically you might want to turn it off too. With this new “Visually rich editor”, if you want to quote somebody, you need to think “indent”, and if you want to stop quoting them, think “outdent”.

The all singing new media uploader, which is right on the edit page where it should be, at least seems to work better now… but only if you can use a mouse. If you are unable to use a mouse, you will be unable to upload images and other media to your blog. Even with the fancy editor turned off. You are unable to perform this task. I know it wasn’t very friendly in the last version, but it did work, you were able to upload images, and copy and paste their tags into your post. You can no longer do that — it does not work.

I’m sorry to harp on about this but removing basic functionality, even if it were for a small number of people (which it is not — a large number of people have trouble using a mouse with precision, if at all), is still a step backwards in my book.

WordPress is Three Years Old

Wow, WordPress is a mere three years old today. It seems like it’s been going a lot longer, but the birth of what turned into WordPress was three years ago today.

Matt,
If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing. I’m sure there are one or two others in the community who would be too. Perhaps a post to the B2 forum, suggesting a fork would be a good starting point.

Comment by mike — Saturday January 25, 2003 @ 3:58 pm

For a three-year-old its doing very well. It’s got a great team behind it, a massive community, a lot of big name endorsements, a book
(well a third of a book), or two, and a great future ahead.

Many happy returns!

New Journalized Theme Beta

There is a new beta release of my Journalized theme for WordPress: Version 2.0 Beta 1.

There a few things different about this new version:

  • All previous ‘skins’ (Blue, Sand, Winter) combined together
  • Three new skins + more to come
  • A new administration interface to configure the theme.
  • All known browser bugs addressed
  • Support for plugins
  • Compatible with WordPress versions 1.5.x and 2.0.x
  • Lots more to come

See the theme page for details. Please download it and give it a try.