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The Week In Tweets 2009-01-03

Dave Konig — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:59:59 +0000

Cereal News: Special K™ Packs a Crunch With New Snack Crackers http://twurl.nl/av84p8 #
Cereal News: Honeycomb http://twurl.nl/2xdzrs #
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Cereal News: Twin Cities Groups Receive Half-a-Million Dollars in General Mills Grants to Shore Up P.. http://twurl.nl/rjzxg2 #
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The Week In Tweets 2008-12-27

Dave Konig — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:59:59 +0000

Cereal News: iFood Assistant For iPhone From Kraft http://twurl.nl/xg4rw2 #
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Cereal News: The Gift http://twurl.nl/66tynr #
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Cereal News: Cereal Aids Japanese Teens Keep Virginity http://snipurl.com/95jul #
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The Week In Tweets 2008-12-20

Dave Konig — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:59:59 +0000

A beautiful sunny day… a nice start to the week… #
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Cereal News: General Mills Reports Strong Growth In Fiscal 2009 Second Quarter http://twurl.nl/2560b5 #
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Dave Konig — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:30:14 +0000

Update: This is now complete. Thanks for your patience.

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Dave Konig — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:30:14 +0000

The Indic transliteration feature is currently having intermittent problems and we are working to resolve them as quickly as possible.

Update 1:23am: The Indic transliteration feature is now working. Thanks for bearing with us while we resolved these issues.

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Dave Konig — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:30:14 +0000

Blogger will be unavailable Thursday (9/25) at 4:00PM PDT for about 10 minutes for maintenance.

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The Week In Tweets 2008-12-13

Dave Konig — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:59:59 +0000

Cloudy weather out here today #
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Retweeting @mashable: The Blogger’s Choice winners…now with logos! Much better. http://tinyurl.com/5lemmr #
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Just another rainy day… #
There is a huge ball of fire in the sky!!!! Could it be??? Yes! The sun!!! #
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WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane”

Dave Konig — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:46:25 +0000

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. (Download it now, or read on for more.)

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.

Digging in further you might notice that every screen is customizable. Let’s say you never care about author on your post listings — just click “Screen Options” and uncheck it and it’s instantly gone from the page. The same for any module on the dashboard or write screen. If your screen is narrow and the menu is taking up too much horizontal room, click the arrow to minimize it to be icon-only, and then go to the write page and drag and drop everything from the right column into the main one, so your posting area is full-screen. (For example I like hiding everything except categories, tags, and publish. I put categories and tags on the right, and publish under the post box.)

For a visual introduction to what 2.7 is, check out this video (available in HD, and full screen):

It’s all about you. It’s the next generation of WordPress, which is why we’ve bestowed it with the honor of being named for John Coltrane. And you can download it today.

Last, but certainly not least, this may be the last time you ever have to manually upgrade WordPress again. We heard how tired you were of doing upgrades for yourself and your friends, so now WordPress includes a built-in upgrade that will automatically notify you of new releases, and when you’re ready it will download them, install them, and upgrade your blog with a single click.

(As with any interface change it may take a little bit of time to acclimate yourself but soon you’ll find yourself whizzing through the screens. Even people who have hated it at first tell us after a few days they wonder how they got by before.)

The Story Behind 2.7

The real reason Coltrane is such a huge leap forward is because the community was so involved with every step of the process. Over 150 people contributed code directly to the release, our highest ever, with many tens of thousands more participating in the polls, surveys, tests, mailing lists, and other feedback mechanisms the WordPress dev team used in putting this release together.

For some of the back story in the development of 2.7, check out these blog posts (thanks to WeblogToolsCollection for the list):

This was interesting to us, a blogging software release we actually blogged about, but the process was hugely informative. Prior to its release today Crazyhorse and 2.7 had been tested by tens of thousands of people on their blogs, hundreds of thousands of you count .com. The volume of feedback was so high that we decided to push back the release date a month to take time to incorporate it all and do more revisions based on what you guys said.

For those of you wondering why we didn’t call this release 3.0, it’s because we abhor version number inflation. 3.0 will just be the next release after 2.9. The major features in new point releases approach also works well for products like OS X, with huge changes between a 10.3 and 10.4.

The Future

Those of you following along at home might have noticed this was our second major redesign of WordPress this year. Whoa nelly! While that wasn’t ideal, and I especially sympathize with those of you creating books or tutorials around WordPress, there’s good news. The changes to WordPress in 2.5 and 2.7 were necessary for us to break free of much of the legacy cruft and interface bloat that had built up over the years (gradually) and more importantly provide us with a UI framework and interface language we can use at the foundation to build tomorrow’s WordPress on, to express ideas we haven’t been able to before. So at the end of 2009 I expect, interface-wise, WordPress to look largely the same as it does now.

That said, we couldn’t be more excited about the future with regards to features. Now that we’ve cleared out more basic things, we are looking forward in the coming year to really tackling media handling including audio and video, better tools for plugin and theme developers, widgets, theme updates, more integrated and contextual help, and easier integration with projects like BuddyPress and bbPress.

Thank Yous

We would like to take a moment to thank the following WordPress.org users for being a part of 2.7: Verena Segert, Ben Dunkle, 082net, _ck_, Aaron Brazell, Aaron Campbell, Aaron Harp, aaron_guitar, abackstrom, Alex Rabe, Alex Shiels, anderswc, andr, Andrew Ozz, andy, Andy Peatling, Austin Matzko, axelseaa, bendalton, Benedict Eastaugh, Betsy Kimak, Björn Wijers, bobrik, brianwhite, bubel, Byrne Reese, caesarsgrunt, capripot, Casey Bisson, Charles E. Frees-Melvin, Chris Johnston, codestyling, corischlegel, count_0, Daniel Jalkut, Daniel Torreblanca, David McFarlane, dbuser123, Demetris Kikizas, Dion Hulse, docwhat, Donncha O Caoimh, Doug Stewart, Dougal Campbell, dsader, dtsn, dwc, g30rg3x, guillep2k, Hailin Wu, Hans Engel, Jacob Santos, Jamie Rumbelow, Jan Brasna, Jane Wells, Jean-LucfromBrussels, Jennifer Hodgdon, Jeremy Clarke, Jérémie Bresson, jick, Joe Taiabjee, John Blackbourn, John Conners, John Lamansky, johnhennmacc, Joost de Valk, Joseph Scott, kashani, Kim Parsell, Lloyd Budd, Lutz Schröer, Malaiac, Mark Jaquith, Mark Steel, Matt Freedman, Matt Mullenweg, Matt Thomas, matthewh84, mattyrob, mcs_trekkie, Michael Adams, Michael Hampton, MichaelH, mictasm, Mike Schinkel, msi08, msw0418, mtekk, Nick Momrik, Nikolay Bachiyski, Noel Jackson, Otto, Ozh, paddya, paul, pedrop, pishmishy, Po0ky, RanYanivHartstein, raychampagne, rdworth, reinkim, rickoman, rm53, rnt, Robert Accettura, roganty, Ryan Boren, Ryan McCue, Sam Bauers, Sam_a, schiller, Scott Houst, sekundek, Shane, Simek, Simon Wheatley, sivel, st_falcon, stefano, strider72, tai, takayukister, techcookies, Terragg, thinlight, tott, Trevor Fitzgerald, tschai, Txanny, Valiallah (Mani) Monajjemi, Viper007Bond, Vladimir Kolesnikov, wasp, wet, wfrantz, x11tech, xknown, xorax, ydekproductions, yoavf, yonosoytu, yoshi, zedlander

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The Week In Tweets 2008-12-06

Dave Konig — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:59:59 +0000

ESB lighting scheme for tonight: http://tinyurl.com/687zo8 #
Disney burying racist stereotype characters from Fantasia http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/disneycharacterthatnever … #
Disney burying racist stereotype characters from Fantasia http://snurl.com/714gj #
@matthewbennett That would probably be @problogger … he showed some fantastic stats here http://snurl.com/717hc in reply to matthewbennett #
Retweeting @Amy2boys: Do you have an etsy shop you love? Would you share? Please help me! http://tinyurl.com/5rednl #
Pownce is no more… http://tinyurl.com/59mqds #
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Just finished Nathan’s Famous Cheese Fries… excellent choice for lunch #
The sun is setting on yet another day… #
Retweeting @garyvee: OK so CBS Early Show tomorrow is from 8-9 AM EST for sure for now Wine segment, set your TiVo its national BABY! #
Tonight I’m sure it’ll be off the hook with the tree lighting with Britney Spears http://twurl.nl/z0hslf #
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It’s another cloudy day… I hope this isn’t a sign to come for the next 4 months… I may go batty #
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Snowing in the city… #
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The Week In Tweets 2008-11-29

Dave Konig — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:59:59 +0000

It’s a bit cold and wet today #
Great way to find high quality photos for your blog posts: http://tinyurl.com/6nljly #
@tamalanwar That’s a great article… thanks for sharing it in reply to tamalanwar #
Retweeting @tamalanwar: has published a new article: Build your own blogging test lab, develop innovative ideas http://ping.fm/UrC75 #
Trying to decide what to have for lunch before eating breakfast is generally a bad idea… #
Important report about the age of tires on your car: http://tinyurl.com/5m5af9 #
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Personal Blogger Blogging Tutorials And Tips

The Week In Tweets 2009-01-03

The Week In Tweets 2008-12-27

The Week In Tweets 2008-12-20

The Week In Tweets 2008-12-13

WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane”

The Story Behind 2.7

The Future

Thank Yous

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