Upgrades

WordPress 3.3.1 will be rolled out to all customers from Monday 9th January 2012. No downtime is required.

Easier Uploading

File Type Detection

We’ve streamlined things! Instead of needing to click on a specific upload icon based on your file type, now there’s just one. Once your file is uploaded, the appropriate fields will be displayed for entering information based on the file type.

Drag-and-Drop Media Uploader

Adding photos or other files to posts and pages just got easier. Drag files from your desktop and drop them into the uploader. Add one file at a time, or many at once.

More File Formats

We’ve added the rar and 7z file formats to the list of allowed file types in the uploader.

Dashboard Design

Flyout Menus

Speed up navigating the dashboard and reduce repetitive clicking with our new flyout submenus. As you hover over each main menu item in your dashboard navigation, the submenus will magically appear, providing single-click access to any dashboard screen.

Header + Admin Bar = Toolbar

To save space and increase efficiency, we’ve combined the admin bar and the old Dashboard header into one persistent toolbar. Hovering over the toolbar items will reveal submenus when available for quick access.

Responsive Design

Certain dashboard screens have been updated to look better at various sizes, including improved iPad/tablet support.

Help Tabs

The Help tabs located in the upper corner of the dashboard screens below your name have gotten a facelift. Help content is broken into smaller sections for easier access, with links to relevant documentation and the support forums always visible.

Feels Like the First Time

New Feature Pointers

When we add new features, move navigation, or do anything else with the dashboard that might throw you for a loop when you update your WordPress site, we’ll let you know about it with new feature pointers explaining the change.

Post-update Changelog

This screen! From now on when you update WordPress, you’ll be brought to this screen — also accessible any time from the W logo in the corner of the toolbar — to get an overview of what’s changed.

Dashboard Welcome

The dashboard home screen will have a Welcome area that displays when a new WordPress installation is accessed for the first time, prompting the site owner to complete various setup tasks. Once dismissed, this welcome can be accessed via the dashboard home screen options tab.

Content Tools

Better Co-Editing

Have you ever gone to edit a post after someone else has finished with it, only to get an alert that tells you the other person is still editing the post? From now on, you’ll only get that alert if another person is still on the editing screen — no more time lag.

Tumblr Importer

Want to import content from Tumblr to WordPress? No problem! Go to Tools ? Import to get the new Tumblr Importer, which maps your Tumblog posts to the matching WordPress post formats. Tip: Choose a theme designed to display post formats to get the greatest benefit from the importer.

Widget Improvements

Changing themes often requires widget re-configuration based on the number and position of sidebars. Now if you change back to a previous theme, the widgets will automatically go back to how you had them arranged in that theme. Note: if you’ve added new widgets since the switch, you’ll need to rescue them from the Inactive Widgets area.

Select the Media Library or the Media Upload button within a wordpress page or post to upload images as normal.

Two options are provided:

• Drag and Drop – Literall start dragging and dropping images
• Select files – Click to select. This will open a window onto your local computer and you select and upload the required images.

Adding A Gallery

If  multiple images are uploaded at once, then wordpress will automatically insert them as gallery within your wordpress post or page.

Instead of clicking on each menu bar to view submenus, just  let your mouse hover over the menu item providing single-click access to any dashboard screen. Thus speeding  up navigating the dashboard and reduce repetitive clicking.

Admin Menu Toolbar

The Dashboard Admin menu has been added as a toolbar. Making it quicker and easier to navigate round your dashboard,  edit and preview changes to pages and posts.

Use  free website that allow you to shrink your images and make them web friendly.

• ShrinkPictures
• Smush It
• Image Optimizer
• GIFBot
• Web Resizer
• Dynamic Drive Image Optimizer
• Online Image Compression
• iResize
• PunyPng

Please read the following article that provides more detailed information Top 10 Free Online Tools to Reduce Image Size for Web

Great places for stock photos to include in your website:

Free Photos

Stock.XCHNG - Wellsites favourite!

Morguefile – another good site

Photos to pay for

iStock

Resizing Images for the Web

There are many photo software that allow you to Save Your Image for the Web:

• Photoshop
• Picasso

Or you can use free website that allow you to shrink your images and make them web friendly.

• ShrinkPictures
• Smush It
• Image Optimizer
• GIFBot
• Web Resizer
• Dynamic Drive Image Optimizer
• Online Image Compression
• iResize
• PunyPng

Please read the following article that provides more detailed information Top 10 Free Online Tools to Reduce Image Size for Web

Alternate Text field within each image is used by both Visually Impaired Browsers and by Search Engines.   So added rich descriptive text to help boost your SEO Ratings.

All Blogs/wordpress posts  are published in chronological order. Ie the latest blog is displayed first.

By changing the date and time of a blog, you can change the order that articles are published/displayed.

You can also set future dates on blogs. Therefore a published blog WILL NOT be displayed until that date.

The simplest way to change the date, is through the Quick Edit Menu.

• Select Delete

Please note: Deleting a category DOES NOT delete articles that have been assigned to it.

Step 1. Enter you address into Google Maps
The url for Google Maps is http://maps.google.com

Step2. Click on link in the top right hand corner to generate the code.

Select All the code below “Paste HTML to embed into website”. Copy.
Please note, you can also customise your map. If you click on the “Customise and preview” button, you can decide whether you wish to have a small, medium or large image. The code will be generated at the bottom of the window. Again Select All and Copy.
Open the relevant wordpress page or post.

Place your cursor to where you wish the Map to be displayed. Paste.

Switch to Back to Visual Mode. The map will be displayed. Save the page/post

Google Map

View Larger Map

To eliminate this, use the “paste-from-word” icon .

• Copy the content from your word document as normal.
• Click on within your wordpress page/post
• Paste the contents within teh pop-up window.

• Click on “Insert”.
• Done.