I had a member ask a simple question recently, which I answered. And then needed to answer AGAIN – – because of WP 2.5!

It may seem small, but WordPress 2.5 is a radical departure from previous versions – in much the same ways 2.0 changed from 1.5.2

In the above case, I was explaining how to change the themes using the Presentation tab – understandably, he was confused, because in 2.5 it’s Design, not Presentation.

A quick comparison shows more differences in the menu system – and …

The May 2008 Issue of ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’ is ready.

Topics:

What’s New With ActiveBlogging

Painfree WordPress Upgrading Tired of updating your WordPress blog frequently – but worried about security? Then you need these tricks and ‘gotchas’ to make upgrading a one-minute breeze!

How To Blog By Email RIGHT Using WordPress! It sounds like a dream: write an email, hit send, and have it magically appear on your blog from anywhere. But if you’ve tried to set up WordPress ‘blog by email’ then you know the dream can easily turn …

In preparing May’s “The ActiveBlogging Report”, my somewhat short article on posting by email in WordPress has ballooned into the largest in the issue.

Why?

The simple matter is that posting by email is one of those dark corners no one seems to be talking about. Searching the Internet on ‘blog by email’ or ‘posting by email’ (at least with WordPress) provided very little solid information.

However, all that is changed.

The report for May covers not just one, but TWO ways to successfully blog by email – and not …

I take version numbers seriously.

When I see a v6.05 or a v4.03 or something like that, I understand it to be a contract between the developer and the client, “this works, and will remain unchanged until I change the number”.

So of course I had to break my own rule!

A bug came up a few hours after ABTheme 4.06 came out. I had caught the bug before and squished it (an annoying CSS issue in Admin under WP 2.5), with the fix added in 4.06.

Unfortunately, that fix …

It took longer than expected (mainly because of other projects), but version 4.06 of the best Search Engine Optimized theme and plugin package for WordPress is ready.

Although most of the work involved tweaks and bugfixes, there is one biggy – from 4.06 on, the ‘rental’ licenses are now inactivate.

When ActiveBlogging first started off, members could use the plugin free as long as they stayed a member – this was done by plugin code polling ActiveBlogging from time to time.

Now, only permanent keys are available, and from …