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Hello all!
After doing a bit of an evaluation on my website, i’ll be working on upgrading the following:
This post is more of a checklist for me to remember what I need to get done, but feel free to check back for the new updates!
Today, WordPress released its latest version of the popular blogging CMS nicknamed “Thelonious” after jazz musician Thelonious Monk. The new release unleashed a new API that can handle more dynamic customization of background images, headers and menu navigation. One of the major additions was the merging of WordPressMU into the latest release. With this integration, many websites can now be created and maintained within one WordPress install.
One of my favorite features is the new built in link shortener service, which allows for me to send out a shortened link of my post within my site backend. I also really enjoy the custom navigation features that can be built into new themes.
Without further adieu, I give to you the video that WordPress released with today’s major update.
Joe Motacek and I safely arrived to Minneapolis on Saturday night, met up with some friends, and had a few nights out on the town. We are currently at Flashbelt and I will be providing blog updates after each day of the conference about the sessions I visited and some of the observations I made during each session.
Edit: Seeing as time is one of the largest constraints, I don’t know how often I will be able to update the blog. One that note, here’s some awesome nuggets that I can share from the conference so far:
Jesse “The Flash Bum” Freeman‘s Presentation Slides
Augmented Reality Workflow
Yesterday’s endnote speech was given by Jared Tarbell, a very inspiring individual, to say the very least. Here’s some of the resources he provided, too.
That’s all for now. Time for Mark Anders’ presentation on Flash Catalyst!
While I was putting together a blog post for my site earlier this week, I noticed that I was unable to switch between the Visual and HTML views while writing the post. Seeing as I use both when writing posts to my site, I was not only confused, but a bit worried that I had somehow damaged my WordPress install.
One of the first things I did was try to do the same work on a different computer. After doing some testing in multiple browsers on the computer I use for writing didn’t solve the problem or show any inconsistencies, I figured that this would be the next logical step. Trying the same methods on my laptop served no solution either, so I knew it was something related to my WordPress install.
I then examined my collection of installed plugins to look through the ones I had recently installed. In order to free up some resources, I decided to install a plugin called Use Google Libraries which allows for me to use the CDN that Google provides for their Google AJAX Libraries API, which is very beneficial to those who use javascript libraries like jQuery and MooTools for their site. After disabling the plugin, this resolved the issue.
For those of you that may not have this plugin installed, a plugin like it may also be responsible for why you can no longer toggle between the views. Also, Google Gears has been known to cause a similar issue with previous versions of WordPress (ver. 2.8).
Right now I currently have the plugin disabled and will be searching for alternatives. Any advice for an alternative would be greatly appreciated!
Happy coding! 
I’m currently in the process of wrapping three majors at UWSP in Computer Information Systems (CIS), Web and Digital Media Development (WDMD), and Philosophy with emphasis in Religious Studies. Right now, I am a VB.NET programmer at Sentry Insurance, Social Media dude for Planet Label, and computer, social media, and web guy at the Stevens Point Brewery.
I specialize in .NET and the Adobe Flash platform, but also love HTML/CSS, JavaScript/AJAX, PHP, and SQL, to name a few. I have an appreciation for the design side of the web, too, and content management systems such as Joomla or Wordpress.
When I am not developing or designing, you can catch me reading about Comparative Religion, Philosophy, Physics, and the occasional fairy tale or two. I also love going to concerts.
