My Last first semester

I got every single class that I wanted but im still hesitant about my choice of philosophy.

Also im trying out wordpress for iphone app!

I haven’t clicked the update link on my wordpress admin panel yet (I’m waiting for a compatibility check with my plugins) but a lot of the new features are really worth being excited about.

1. Global Trash/ Undo – I actually have mixed feelings about this. I’ve always wanted an undo feature in wordpress but I never thought it could be implemented in the same way as a trash bin. It does go hand-in-hand with the trend of doing everything on the web.
2. Image editor – This is something really big specially if you work with wordpress as much as I do (and if you use it with newspaper/magazine sites the way I use it with the GUIDON and G).
3. Easy Video embedding – This would be a great help to those who like sharing youtube posts a lot but I wonder if the code will be xhtml valid afterwards?

I’ll probably try this out on my offline installation of wordpress tonight before I upgrade any of the wordpress blog installations I have . If you wanna know more about wordpress 2.9 check Wordpress.org.

Recently actually I’ve been noticing a lot of things wrong with WP which I suspect is coming from the rapid growth it has gone through (its not exactly as light weight as it used to take pride in). I’ve been taking a look at other blogging tools to study and I’m seriously thinking of moving from wordpress to another blogging platform, would anyone have any suggestion? Im currently studying up Expression Engine but I would like to learn of a few more.

With what I have seen with Expression Engine, its more versatile when it comes to site design and structure as it doesn’t exactly use the normal header content footer hierarchy that most of us recognize from other blogging software. It is a lot like Textpattern and Moveable type in a sense that you create template and use their codebases. However I find (being used to the header footer thing) that this is what makes it a little bit more difficult as well but it does give you more freedom and it wouldn’t give you too much of a problem I guess.

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As for wordpress, unlike most reviews I actually find designing for it still very easy but it is easy to mess up as well since the php code is completely out in the open. While I was troubleshooting my theme this afternoon I decided to end my misery and create a basic wordpress structure php file with comments so I won’t get lost again when I’m trouble shooting or creating a new theme. It’s completely filled with comments its laughable but I think it might be useful to others out there who are struggling with creating their first theme since Im really trying to make it idiot proof just incase I forget something. I might share it on this blog later on but I gotta clean it up a bit first.