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Upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1

Steve Looi — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:15:29 +0000

This site was upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1 without any problem. It took me about 15 minutes to complete the entire upgrade process, which included downloading the latest source file and backup the existing files.

I noticed the admin layout was different from the previous version 2.6 that I had. It took me a while to familiarize with the new layout.

Several plugins had newer version. I upgraded them with the upgrade automatically feature. Everything is working as it is suppose to be. What a relieve!

WordPress Releases Version 2.5

Steve Looi — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:31:39 +0000

WordPress 2.5 was released over the weekend. It was the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community.

The latest version offers a cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard, dashboard widgets, multi-file uploading with progress bar, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, salted passwords with strength meter, cookie encryption, media library, concurrent post editing protection, search posts and pages

You can read about an overview of the features with screenshots or view a 4-minute screencast of the new interface.

You can also jump straight to the upgrade and download information.

Upgraded to WordPress 2.3

Steve Looi — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:09:15 +0000

I managed to upgrade my blog to WordPress 2.3 without much complication. I even dared to perform the upgrade before doing a backup of the database, which is strictly not recommended to do so. There was a slight compatibility issue with the plug-in I installed since the previous version. Other than that, everything went smoothly.

The built-in tagging feature is pretty useful, but there is no tags management feature. Luckily, I found the Tag Managing Thing plug-in that allows me to edit and delete the tags.

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Securing WordPress Admin Access With SSL

Steve Looi — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:30:43 +0000

WordPress 2 still doesn’t have the feature to support HTTPS access to the admin area when the rest of the blog is accessed in HTTP. I don’t feel comfortable to access the admin area in unencrypted connections. I believed many people using WordPress also had the same thought with me.

Fortunately, there was a smart guy out there managed to create a WordPress plugin that secured the access to the admin area. The plugin is called Admin-SSL. The plugin supports both shared and private SSL certificates.

Wordpress Translator Plug-In

Steve Looi — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:06:21 +0000

I added a web page translator plug-in to this site. It has the ability to translate your web page to thirteen different languages. Pretty cool, huh!

It is called Global Translator by N2H.

You have the option to use either the Babel Fish or the Google Translation Engine. It comes with a built-in cache system in order to reduce the connection to the translation engine every time a page is loaded.

The permalinks in the translated web pages are search engine optimized by adding the language code to the beginning of all your URI.