I’ve recently upgraded my blog to WordPress version 2.71 and did intensive changes to the look and feel. iCouple now portraits a new sleeker, simpler, cleaner, and more elegant Black-White theme, thanks to original free ‘Smoky‘ theme by SkinPress studio. After one week of full attention to both back-end database and font-end GUI plus plugin-compatibility, I must say I’m satisfied with the new theme, knowing the tables and queries behind running just fine enough. Let’s start with the summary on factors that contributed to the newly painted house

Under its scheme of 120 days release cycle, WordPress 2.2 codename ‘Getz‘ is just available for download. This new version is named in honor of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and includes a number of new features with over two hundred bug fixes. Some features are important for developers and bloggers like: Native Widget, Full Atom support, Blogger Importer, Speed optimizations, … Find out more here: 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.2 WordPress 2.2: Three Things Developers Will Like All plugins seem to work fine on my site, except for Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) and Smiley...

WordPress 2.1 codename “Ella” was rolled out yesterday as a major update for WordPress since version 2.0 (Download the new version). Considering about 550 bug fixes and bunch of new things, bloggers should feel excited to update their blogs soon. Amongst the what’s new list of WP 2.1, I found those following features are more than welcome : Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again. New tabbed editor allows users to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post. Completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking Ability to set any...

Sometime ago, I wrote one page about iWeb Resources; and now, as I turn myself to WP, it’s reasonable to sum up what I’m doing and using. This time is about WP Plugins. When it comes to WordPress, everyone knows that WP Plugins are essential to save you from labor jobs, and also to do incredible things for you in case you are not familiar enough with “the terms” . There are thousand of plugins available for WP, far more than I’m aware of. But the choice, of course, is yours. I did use some of plugins in my site for which I thought are useful. Some should be added in...

My site previously was developed using iWeb but I found it’s a pain in the a$$ when trying to integrate new features into it since iWeb code is pure HTML-based. So I decided to change my taste, try new things and see how it works out. There are several choices out there available as free open-sourced if you need a flexible blogging system. I just name a few: WordPress, Joomla!, Movable Type, Blogger, Yahoo 360. For me, I personally hate Yahoo 360 most but it doesn’t matter here (even I have my own 360 Page – never got updated ); and I finally arrived at WordPress, that’s...