Upgrading To WordPress 2.7.1

Wizzer — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:21:27 +0000

When you log in to your WordPress admin area today at the top of the page you’ll see:

WordPress 2.7.1 is available! Please Update Now

Easy enough to deal with you’d think.

Just click the Please Update Now link and then the Upgrade Automatically button.

Or so you’d think.

I tried – saw it was unpacking.

Man, that thing must have been on a long holiday the amount of unpacking that seemed to be going on!

And then I strated to wonder. It clearly wasn’t doing anything.

After some deep thinking – yes I can do that sometimes – I realised that the WP Automatic Upgrade plugin I have installed and still activated must be causing a conflict.

Deactivating the old plugin did the trick and the WordPress 2.7 automatic upgrade that’s part of WordPress now did it’s job.

This time it was clearly just an overnight visit!

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Building Twitter With TweetSuite

Wizzer — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:30:14 +0000

One of the members at blogging beginners – Mark from Insomnia Cures – introduced me to TweetSuite a few days ago.

I’ve checked so many Twitter related plugins and tools lately I thought this might be just “another” idea.

But, in fact I was pleasantly surprised. I can see some real value in this one.

There is a WordPress plugin – that always gets me onside!

Once uploaded and activated you can position the Tweet icon to the left or right of every post you make. Automatically the plugin adds a footnote to every post you make suggesting “be the first to Tweet this post”.

As soon as a visitor Tweets the post – either the icon at the top or link at the bottom of the post, their Twitter icon shows up below the post – try it – click the link at the foot of this post and see what happens. There – you now have a link to your Twitter account.

And now my reservations.

The plugin installs a number of widgets which you can add to your sidebar(s) to show your latest Tweets, Most Tweeted, Favourite Tweets etc. The widgets don’t work too well with the Mandigo theme. Each Tweet that shows up manages to attract the bullet point icon (in my case the blue arrow) and looks really bad. I haven’t looked into why this is yet – I probably won’t in fact because I already use Tweet My Blog which provides much the same information.

I’m happy to have my hat put on straight if I’m missing a point here – so do let me know if you know different.

I think it’s a great plugin though even if you don’t use the widgets (simpl;y don’t add them to your sidebar). You can download it at TweetSuite.

Here’s a screen shot of the backlink to my Twitter link I got in seconds. – I captured that screenshot with Jing by the way – remenber I told you about that a few days ago.

Imagine if all sites were using TweetSuite – how long would it take to create a massive following?

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