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Today I finally updated WordPress from 2.7 to 2.8! WordPress 2.8 is said to focus on performance this time, and it doesn’t really add many features, but it does fix a lot of bugs from older versions (more than 700 of them — scary, right?). That said, WordPress 2.8 does still come with some new features (though, as I mentioned above, not many). As for the interface, it might give you the illusion that… the update was just a version number change = =, because this update keeps the same 2.7 admin interface with no obvious changes. That’s roughly all I have to say. Next, let me walk you through a few of the main new features in WordPress 2.8. WordPress 2.8 Information Official site http://wordpress.org/ Core program http://wordpress.org/latest.zip Chinese language pack http://wordpress.kirin-lin.idv.tw/news/wordpress28zhtw ...

I’m sure you’ve often seen a guestbook plugin in the sidebar of other people’s blogs and wanted one for yourself, right? Today I’m introducing Cbox, one of the best free guestbook services on the web. Cbox is excellent in many ways, but the maximum number of comments is 100, so you have to delete old comments regularly. Its anti-spam is also weak, so it’s easy for advertising comments to flood it. = = Even so, Cbox has some advantages, such as letting you use emoticons. Below, I’ll show you how to sign up for Cbox. URL: http://www.cbox.ws/ Go to the Cbox homepage and click Sign up. ...

Recently I noticed that my popularity suddenly went up. Do you know why? It’s because this blog has been added to the Google search engine. So now you can find this blog when you search on Google! That brought in quite a lot of traffic XD I never expected anyone to come visit, given how bad my SEO is……… P.S. This post now ranks above the original creator’s post = =

Today……………… It’s a very special day Because????????? Today the results of the blog contest are finally coming out! I’m really looking forward to seeing my ranking Because this is the first contest I’ve entered since elementary and middle school And it’s my first time in a national-level contest, and I made it to the finals :) If I win a prize, that would be awesome xD But the Ministry of Education clearly said the results would be announced today ...

How do you schedule a post in WordPress? Do you need a plugin? Actually, no — WordPress has a built-in scheduled posting feature, but it is hidden so cleverly that very few people ever find it. I only learned about it after seeing it on someone else’s blog. So how do you use scheduled posting? Follow the tutorial below and you are guaranteed to get it. If anything is unclear, feel free to ask me in the comments. ...

Last time we finished setting up WP, and the system gave you a set of account credentials. The only problem is that the password is really hard to remember, and the username is adm, which is easy to guess — that’s a real security risk for your blog. So now let’s show you how to change your username & password. Changing the username Log in to your web host’s control panel and click phpMyAdmin. ...

Today I’d like to introduce a package for building blogs — WordPress. It’s a program that lets you set up a blog very easily. It’s written in PHP. In the future, this site will publish more related tutorials. Its latest version right now is 2.7.1. One of my favorite features is its heavy use of Ajax. You don’t have to reload the page every time you organize it. It also supports a lot of plugins and themes. So you don’t have to figure out how to lay out your interface yourself. For people who don’t know CSS, this is a real blessing. Also, it’s an open-source package. That means if there’s anything inside it you’re not happy with, you can modify it yourself. In effect, it gives me a great place to practice web programming. Here are some things to note when setting up WP. If you want to set it up on your own host, you just need to install AppServ. But if you want to put it on a web hosting space, you first have to make sure the provider offering the space provides PHP and MySQL services. Without these services, you can’t set it up at all. ...

I’ve been using Firefox lately, so I hadn’t noticed that this blog has problems when it’s opened in Internet Explorer. For example, page script errors, or the sidebar sinking to the bottom, and so on. To give other visitors a better environment, I’d like readers who run into these problems to report them here. The report format is as follows: Operating system: Screen resolution: Computer type: (laptop or desktop) Time: (when the problem occurred) ...