Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area: Tips and Tricks.: Noupe has a nice writeup on mastering WordPress 2.7 Admin and understanding how to use the new features of WordPress 2.7 in your theme. These include 1.1. Enhancing Comment Display – Threading, Paging, etc. 1.2. Make this post sticky 1.3. Post Classes 1.4. wp page menu 1.5. Logout Link 2.1. Keyboard Shortcuts for browsing and moderating comments 2.2. Reply to and Edit comments from Admin Area 2.3. Edit comments from Admin Area 2.4. Allow plugin installations via web interface from Admin Area 2.5. Admin’s new Navigation Menu 2.6. Interesting Dashboard Modules: QuickPress & Recent Drafts 2.7. Quick Edit Option in Admin area 2.8. Auto Close Comments And Trackbacks 2.9. Bulk Edit Posts I wish there were anchors or separate pages to link directly to each piece, but alas they are all lumped together. This is a nice read nonetheless.
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Are your theme’s comments WordPress 2.7 compatible?
Making your theme’s comments compatible with WordPress 2.7 and earlier versions.: If you are a theme designer or author, you need to know that your legacy theme’s comments page will not be compatible with WordPress 2.7 Justin Tadlock has written up a simple (and clean) procedure to make the comments page compatible with WordPress 2.7 and still be backwards compatible with slightly older version of WordPress. While we are on the subject of comments and WordPress 2.7, Otto has also written a detailed post on the new comment enhancements in WordPress 2.7. Judging from the comments and reading through the article, it is a very well written peice and should answer most questions on the new features. [EDIT] As astutely pointed out in the comments, all themes should continue to work fine with original functionality. However to use the newly introduced commenting features of WordPress 2.7, older themes will have […]
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