Selectively Accurate » wordpress http://blog.xtego.com Because when I'm wrong, it's intentional Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:50:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 New Theme http://blog.xtego.com/index.php/2009/05/24/new-theme/ http://blog.xtego.com/index.php/2009/05/24/new-theme/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 12:01:09 +0000 Curtis http://blog.xtego.com/?p=510 It’s time once again for a new look on the blog.xtego.com.  I discovered the iNove wordpress theme about a month ago when I adopted it for the primary theme for my other blog: xtgo.net.  I very much liked it and I decided to use it here as well.  I realize that it is a fairly popular theme for wordpress, and I usually don’t like to conform to the world.  (That’s both Biblcal (Romans 12:2) and awesome, by the way.)  It’s the reason I set my alarm to 6:27 AM rather than 6:30 AM like the normal person would.  Anyway…. iNove is one of the most popular themes for wordpress on the interweb, but I’m keeping it for a while while banking on the fact that most people have never seen it before… who am I kidding, no one reads my blog.  :)

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It reminds me of the switch from Windows XP to Vista.  Remember how amazed we were at how good Vista looked?  The difference here is that the new version of wordpress doesn’t suck… at all.  And Vista, well, did (suck) (a lot) (more than I expected).  Anyway, if you’re a fellow blogger and you are still using wordpress version 2 point anything other smaller than 7, it’s time to upgrade, my friend.    Added in version 2.7 is support for Gears.  (Correction:  One of my readers pointed out that support for Gears was added in version 2.6 (thanks kenny)). I know very little about Gears at this point, but you can bet I will be doing some research.  All I know is that Gears is another Google enterprise, that makes web-based applications (such as the wp-admin panel) much faster by caching parts of those applications locally.  The result?  A wordpress admin panel that not only looks fantastic, but also has significant speed improvements over previous versions.

Any questions or comments… well, you know what to do.

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