Wordpress 2.5 has come out of Release Candidate testing and is now available for general consumption. The biggest feature of the release is a completely overhauled Administration interface.
I had a change to play around with the release candidate and the new interface is certainly a step in the right direction; I especially like the new colour scheme. Also, the media manager has been cleaned up quite a bit, and tinyMCE seems quite a bit faster.
If you visit pcworld.ie right now, you’ll get an invalid hostname error.
If you visit www.pcworld.ie right now (notice the difference), you’ll see a crap ‘coming soon’ page.
If you visited either pcworld.ie or www.pcworld.ie a year ago, you would have gotten a functional online store.
If you visit either pcworld.co.uk or www.pcworld.co.uk right now, you get a very attractive online store.
Two points here:
Welcome to my blog! It’s still under construction, in particular the theme; I’m new to Wordpress theming and so am still learning all the function calls and best practices. It’s remarkably easy though, and quite fun. A great resource is the official documentation found at codex.wordpress.org if you’re interested in coding a theme.
The XHTML and CSS is taken almost verbatim from a site I designed for my father (paulmulligan.com), with some minor changes to the sidebar and symantics (primarily to integrate nicely with Wordpress’ use of lists for everything.) The last I checked the markup was valid XHTML, but that could have changed; if you notice anything funny going on email me.
Anyway, enjoy the site; leave comments and all that jazz.
