If you spend any time in your WordPress site, you may have noticed that version 3.2 is available for an update.
If your website uses a slideshow/slider, this update will probably break it. Right after testing the new version on our Focus Web Works site, I upgraded one of our clients. The first thing we noticed (after the cool new look for the dashboard) was that her slideshow stopped working.
I’ve since done quite a bit of research and discovered that most slideshow/slider plugins are not working.
One more thing… It turns out that the WordPress developers group has decided to sunset Internet Explorer 6.0. This means that you should avoid upgrading if a large portion of your clients use IE 6.
If either of these situations are a concern for you, we recommend that you wait on that upgrade or at least contact us about your options.
I built this for a presentation last week, but I’ve had lots of requests to see it again. This is a demonstration of how a web site is built using WordPress.
WordPress has been updated again. This time with some interesting new features.
Really there are two keys that will make managing you site easier.
1. Vastly easier linking within a site
2. A handy administrator bar to speed navigation while updating a site
There are also hundreds of minor improvements under the hood, but item 1 and 2 above are the ones that will help you out every day.
New intra site link example
I found a nice explanation of how to use the new linking feature here. Basically when you are editing a page or a post, you can easily highlight a word or picture, click on link and then search your own site for a post or a page to link to. Click! and you’re done.
The other helpful addition is an administrator bar that stays at the top of the screen while working on your site. This is really handy when you are reviewing the pages of your site and you want to jump in and edit a page, or just straight to the dashboard, or even review comments left on your site.
I might note that the Admin bar seems to have redraw issues with Google chrome. It draws the bar on the screen multiple times.
If you wish for introductory help with WordPress help, here are some helpful videos and online help documents. Note: we just added help with adding images. Not everyone wants to look for help on this feature
If you would like to see help on other topics, please notify info@focusww.com
Focus Web Works is committed to empowering customers. With that in mind, I am very excited to share our latest service innovation: A whole site full of dedicated training videos to help you be more productive on your own schedule and at your own pace.
As if that isn’t enough, I am also working on a series of other tutorials to help with specific tasks in the cpanel file manager and using WordPress. So don’t forget to check back often
