WordPress Visual / WYSIWYG Editor is Now Passable

September 3rd, 2006 I just had quite some experience using WordPress 2.x's new WYSIWYG editor based on Tiny MCE, while publishing documentation for 3 column Anaconda Theme for WordPress. Two word summary of WYSIWYG editor: it sucks.

May 5th, 2006 Many of my posts have multiple pages. WordPress today doesn't provide a visible way to add multiple pages to your (single) article / post.

January 24th, 2007 WordPress, a popular blogging software, has released version 2.1 with many exciting features and over 550 bug fixes. The key features are: Autosaving of posts - It has incorporated the features of tw_autosave plugin in the core.

July 13th, 2005 What features would you like in your dream blogging software? Let me know your thoughts. Here's what comes to my mind: Commenting with: WYSIWYG with shortcuts and buttons and spell checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion) Strong Spam Protection through: Blacklist Trackback Moderation (Should Trackback even be there?) Keyword (regex) moderation IP Banning Referrer Bouncer Rule based spam checking Full support for RSS 2.0 & Atom 0.3, Pingback protocols Offline Blogging support through MT and Blogger protocols Multi-blog-multi-author SERP optimized Update: Blogging with: WYSIWYG Editor with special tags enabled and spell-checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion).

September 11th, 2007 I have tried several HTML Editors over the years. One of the earliest WYSIWYG HTML editor I used was Netscape Gold / Composer, which was quite basic but probably the only one at that time (1995).

January 18th, 2007 I finally took the plunge and upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.0.7, the latest sparkling version of WordPress (till 2.1 comes out later this month). I am happy to say that the upgrade was uneventful for once and things looked fine after sanity checks.

November 30th, 2005 Most of the changes in WordPress 2.0 are internal. However you will notice improved admin interface and some nifty features and some pain.

June 1st, 2006 WordPress 2.03 has been released. Here are the list of files changed in WordPress 2.03 in comparison with WordPress 2.02 for those planning on selective upgrade: wp-admin/admin-db.php wp-admin/admin-functions.php wp-admin/admin.php wp-admin/cat-js.php wp-admin/categories.php wp-admin/edit-comments.php wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php wp-admin/edit-form-ajax-cat.php wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php wp-admin/edit-link-form.php wp-admin/edit-page-form.php wp-admin/edit-pages.php wp-admin/edit.php wp-admin/import/mt.php wp-admin/inline-uploading.php wp-admin/link-categories.php wp-admin/link-import.php wp-admin/link-manager.php wp-admin/list-manipulation-js.php wp-admin/list-manipulation.php wp-admin/moderation.php wp-admin/options-discussion.php wp-admin/options-general.php wp-admin/options-misc.php wp-admin/options-permalink.php wp-admin/options-reading.php wp-admin/options-writing.php wp-admin/options.php wp-admin/page-new.php wp-admin/plugin-editor.php wp-admin/plugins.php wp-admin/post.php wp-admin/profile-update.php wp-admin/profile.php wp-admin/templates.php wp-admin/theme-editor.php wp-admin/themes.php wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php wp-admin/upgrade.php wp-admin/user-edit.php wp-admin/users.php wp-comments-post.php wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php wp-content/plugins/wp-db-backup.php wp-includes/cache.php wp-includes/capabilities.php wp-includes/classes.php wp-includes/comment-functions.php wp-includes/default-filters.php wp-includes/functions-compat.php wp-includes/functions-formatting.php wp-includes/functions-post.php wp-includes/functions.php wp-includes/kses.php wp-includes/links.php wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php wp-includes/registration-functions.php wp-includes/template-functions-general.php wp-includes/template-functions-links.php wp-includes/vars.php wp-includes/version.php wp-login.php Note: The files are hyperlinked to WordPress trunk source codebase.

May 13th, 2005 Note: My WordPress database name is wordpress. I will use it in the example below.

September 13th, 2005 Google has put up an interesting audio-visual presentation (read Flash) explaining how to use and troubleshoot AdSense in your webpages. After completing the demo you should be able to: Locate the ad code in your account Copy and paste your ad code Determine where to paste the ad code Implement the ad code using two different types of WYSIWYG software Editors using a code view feature Editors using a HTML insert function Troubleshoot additional problems Find answers to frequently asked questions Experience it here.

June 8th, 2008 Traditionally WordPress is backed up by backing the database and the files separately, if required. WordPress 2.5.1 introduces a much simpler way to backup the database in xml format on your desktop.

July 12th, 2005 I have started a page dedicated to WordPress users only. Here you will find links to latest WordPress plugins, news, information, tips, how-to and guidelines.

July 28th, 2008 Yahoo Pipes and Google Mashup Editor both allows you to create mashups with RSS feeds. The following is a brief comparative review.

June 1st, 2006 The new features / fixes are: Small performance enhancements Movable Type / Typepad importer fix Enclosure (podcasting) fix Bugtraq reported issue & backporting of security enhancements from 2.1 (nonces) Misc. fixes etc....

September 3rd, 2006 Single quotes are a royal pain when using WordPress to post your code. WordPress, in its infinite wisdom, does some really bad things to it.