by James McGrath
Last week WordPress released ‘Thelonius’ or WordPress 3.0, the latest version of their popular CMS.
There are a number of new features and upgrades in this version of WordPress that make this blogging platform even more powerful and usable that previous versions.
Here are the highlights:
- WordPress and WordPress MU have merged, allowing the management of multiple sites (called Multisite) from one WordPress installation.
- New default theme “Twenty Ten” takes full advantage of the current features of WordPress.
- New custom menu management feature, allows creation of custom menus combining posts, pages, categories, tags, and links for use in theme menus or widgets.
- Custom header and background APIs.
- Contextual help text accessed under the Help tab of every screen in the WordPress administration.
- Ability to set the admin username and password during installation.
- Bulk updating of themes with an automatic maintenance mode during the process.
- Support for shortlinks.
- Improved Custom post types and custom taxonomies including hierarchical (category-style) support. (Try the Custom Post Type UI or GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools plugins to see the possibilities.)
- A lighter admin color scheme to increase accessibility and put the focus more squarely on your content.
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by Jen Pennington and James McGrath
We’ve been quietly experimenting on some really amazing new sites including our own. Our work over the last six months is more focused on creating great custom designs using WordPress blog technology to allow our customers access to their content. It’s not just for blogs. That’s right, we’re teaching our clients how to make updates and we proudly admit it. (more…)
Sometimes a browser’s font settings can affect how a page looks. Rhizome tries to use optimal font size for your site but we cannot predict and code for every individuals browser settings.
The font settings in Apple’s Safari browser, in particular can cause formatting issues if not set correctly. If you are having issues in Safari please follow the instructions below. They should help.
- Click on Safari in the top tool bar
- Click on Preferences
- Go to Advanced
- Make sure that the “Never use font sizes smaller than” is unchecked
by James McGrath
Often we’ll make changes to a Web site but clients can’t see these changes. It’s because computers temporarily “remember” what they see and hold those images in something called a “cache.” In order to see the “new and improved” Web site, you have to clear your computer’s cache. (more…)
Often, Rhizome will design a site that seems to float in a background of color or a pattern that contains a confined area for text and design elements. This is called a Floating Site. Floating sites tend to be perfect for “brochure-ware” sites or sites that convey information in a brochure-like manner, online. Rhizome’s site is a perfect example of a Floating site.
An Expanding or Expand/Collapse site allows users to expand or collapse the corners of their browsers and shifts the way text can be viewed on screen. Often developed for customers who have a great deal of content or product to be sold online.
