It’s quite remarkable! AGP’s three weeks in a row!!
This week’s show is a bit different in that we’ve scrapped our regular show format to take a moment to interview our musically-inclined geeky guest, Chopper Newt from The Lizards From Afar.
Sit back and have a listen. Its a pretty interesting interview, and a nice break from our regular show format.
Old News? Yea, kinda. I forgot to actually hit the publish button on this post a few days back…
For those of you who’ve been following the development of the next iteration of WordPress you already know that 2.7 Beta 1 was released last Friday night.
WP 2.7 features some really great refinements to the admin panel which not only make it more useful, they also serve as the building blocks for the next few generations of WordPress.
I’ve been messing around with 2.7 for the last month or so on my WP sandbox and it’s been very interesting to watch the evolution of the menuing system.
I’ll be drawing up a full review for the AGP blog which I’ll post once the full release happens.
Though it’s still in a very early Beta stage, WordPress 2.7 is set to impress many of the WordPress community who’ve been less than impressed by recent editions of the software.
A bit of background…
Earlier this year, Automattic released version 2.5 which provided a substantial redesign to the administrative back-end of WordPress. For the most part 2.5 looked really nice, but when people started to use it, that’s when the griping really began.
Version 2.6 was already being roadmapped at the time, so there weren’t many major changes to the admin interface when 2.6.x versions were released. Other features were included, but the admin interface remained pretty much unchanged.
Enter WP 2.7…
WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 remakes the entire admin section, and in rather dramatic fashion. The dashboard has for the most part been completely rethought. The movable sections which disappeared in the 2.5.x release have made a triumphant comeback, and for the most part this release of WordPress is the most customizable version that has ever been released.
Gone are the “Web 1.5″ style menus along the top. They’ve been replaced by a really slick set of cascading menus along the left-side panel. Now this may seem like a drastic change in UI design. Well you’re right, it is.
Here’s a quick screenshot of WP 2.7′s new admin panel. If you want to try out the beta, you can grab it from the WordPress.org website.
Keep your eyes posted here for a more detailed review of WordPress 2.7 once the final release is made public.
This past Friday I joined Jeffro for another episode of WordPress Weekly. This week we had the good fortune to interview Automattic’s usability maven Jane Wells.
Jane is one of the minds behind some of the dramatic new changes to the admin interface for WordPress 2.7. Recently Jane also posted a poll and a survey to garner some feedback on the new WordPress Beta that was released on Halowe’en night.
Give this week’s show a listen and check out some of the great answers to the questions that we came up with.
Geeks. Aussie Geeks.
The long awaited seventh installment of the Aussie Geek Podcast is released. This should be the last time I edit and post-produce a show for a while. I have enjoyed it, and learned a whole lot about podcast post-production, and even about this show that I’ve been a part of for the last 18 months.
This week on the show we covered some economics including Yahoo! layoffs, iPhone sales and the effects of the tech slowdown on startups in Europe.
We also touched on an app to moderate WordPress comments from your desktop and a graphics package to create stunning high dynamic range (HDR) images which works on all platforms.
At the end of the show we’ve got the first in a series of musical appearances by the Lizards from Afar, and the show closes out with a blooper segment that’s sure to make Dave retalliate in episode 8.
Go have a listen to the Aussie Geek Podcast #007 :: Armchair Economists. Better yet subscribe to the show in iTunes or directly via the show feed.
Well the one week deadline to try and get the site ranked in Google has come and gone, and not to anyone’s surprise the site still doesn’t carry a PageRank. But, not to fear, I’ll be continuing to write content for the site reviewing everything from software to hardware in hopes of landing the odd paid gig some time in the future.
If you’re interested in some background you can check out the original post I wrote explaining the experiment. The key lesson with all of this however is that Content is King (or at very least a Duke) and you need to respect that above pretty much all else if you ever expect to get ranked.