Monthly Archive for January, 2010

wordpress updated

Just to let you know: We upgraded the system to the current version of wordpress-mu. If you experience any problems, let us know! Happy blogging otherwise.

There is some new stuff available in your blogs now. Read this post to find out all about it. The most noteworthy should be the easy embedding of videos. Like here:

All you do is take the url and paste it on a separate line. It gets converted into the video automagically. Support so far for:

YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv

slimbox enabled by default

For all the blogs on antira.info, and for that point jogspace.net as well, and that are using either K2 or K2 nightly build, I enabled the slimbox. That is that nifty little javascript that opens images in such a nice way.

The best thing about it: You don’t need to do anything. As soon as you post a link to an image, it is immediately lightbox’ified automagically.

Example:
admin_mourning

Statistics galore

New feature: we added a statistics programme to the services running on antira.info. If you get into your blog, in the dashboard, you find a new entry, WP-Piwik, where you can see all sorts of information about the visitors to your blog.

Initially, there were some problems setting the Plugin up, but I believe they should have been overcome by now.

A quick note on themes

Just to get started, to show that we are actually doing something and to encourage feedback and questions, here a quick note on themes.

So far, we are not really providing a lot of themes, actually it is that old Kubrick that comes bundled with wordpress, and two flavours of K2. We keep it this way so far because we haven’t found other good themes so far, but feel free to point some out to us. We are however looking for easy customization, support of the wp_footer() call and like the idea of custom css files.

Anyway, if you are switching to K2, as stated above, there are two flavours. We have the 1.0.2 stable version, and we also track the nightly builds, that is the bleeding edge version the K2 team provides. You can use either, use the former for stability and the latter for experimentation. Latter might however brake things from time to time. That is the deal with bleeding edge.