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WordPress 2.0 Released
cyberchucktx writes "Version 2.0 of the Wordpress open source blogging software has now been released." From the post: "In the past if you were linking to a number of posts or pinging a lot of update services, your posting time could appear to slow to a crawl even though everything was instantly done on the backend. We've modified how this works now so posting should be near-instantaneous, like everything else in WordPress."
Yeah, it would be great if PHP had some PostgreSQL functions.
there's more than one way to do me.
I upgraded to 2.0 when they first released it a few days ago, and am thoroughly impressed with it. Sure, I'd appreciate a spellchecker (fixed with a plugin), but nothing is perfect.
My one gripe with it, though, is it's new rich text editor - TinyMCE. For some reason it refuses to load and throws an error when attempting to do so. I've documented this on my blog.
I worked around this problem by, in the Admin area, going to Users, and deselecting the "Use the visual rich editor when writing" check box.
Its all fun and games until someone loses an eye... then its just fun.
You might want to check out typo, an open source blog developed in Ruby on Rails. From the overview: "Supported databases: Mysql, Sqlite, and PostgreSQL"
Not only are you using an ancient version of WordPress, you are using one that has some serious security issues. You need to invest in making it work.
I have gotten WordPress 1.5 to work on Windows before just fine, even with Apache running in Windows.
Haven't tried it with version 2.0, but that is due to me moving to OS X and not bothering to boot up the Windows laptop to give it a shot...
WordPress MU is multi-user version of the famous WordPress blogging application. It is ideal for people wanting to offer a hosted version of WordPress
http://mu.wordpress.org/
Or you could read the F.A.
"Improved Abstraction — We've eliminated almost all direct SQL queries from the code and moved them to functions and classes that make the entire program more consistent."
granted, no clue why they didn't eliminate all direct queries alltogether ("almost?" what you do you mean, "almost"?) but it's a damn good start towards db independence. a basic blog engine shouldn't be using any non-standard SQL calls anyway so support for Postgres should be easy at this point.
emphasis on should, though. The glass is half empty in my world.
Oh dear. You ARE a bit behind the times. Wamp or XAMPP will both run WP just fine.
They're referring to the WYSIWYG editor they've introduced for writing entries. I assume it requires support of the designMode attribute. There's a little more here, if you're interested.
2.0 works in windows (on XAMPP), I tried it before moving my blog to it. It's quite nice, I love the "real" preview.
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