A new version of wordpress is out, codenamed “Coltrane”. So what’s new ?
- XMLRPC Comments API : nice api to manage comments through xmlrpc
- Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation : use keyboard shortcuts to manage the comments
- Sticky Posts : ability to “stick” a post to homepage
- Theme update api, like we do for plugins : new admin theme
- Dashboard and write box rearranging : ability to decide what you want on homepage
- One-click plugin installs : better plugin handling, easily install plugins through the web interface
- Reply to comments from withing dashboard
- Core updating : auto update feature
- Batch and inline editing
- ….
Good work wordpress team ! I decided to upgrade my wordpress at once. Check out the difference !
Previously (Wordpress 2.6)

New layout (Wordpress 2.7)

Keep up the good work !
I hate reinventing the wheel. That’s why i decided to migrate this blog to wordpress. It takes alot of effort to write your own symfony plugin that holds the functionality of a full stack blogging platform (like wordpress, typepad, blogger …).
The Symfony Story
Initially we started by using the simpleBlogPlugin and modifying it to our needs. Some of the things we added :
- multilanguage support : different posts in english / dutch
- tag cloud : although they did add this in the new version
- author information : links to digg/linkedin profile
- tag / category pages
- some SEO basics (different descriptions/keywords per post/page)
- seperate rss feeds (for tag/description/author pages)
- summary/excerpt support
- …
Then why change to wordpress ?
To keep this all updated with the changing symfony framework takes some time. Adding common features popular blogging platforms offer (comment, askimet integration, image editing, …) is a huge job. Thats why i decided to “migrate” this blog to wordpress.
I did a little hacking here & there to have it support multiple languages, created a custom theme (holding the old digitalbase theme layout) and added some clearly missing core functions.
I’ll do a followup post with the things i changed and some code.
We are currently features on the frontpage of csselite.com.

Csselite.com is an inspirational gallery site that collects a wide range of quality design websites (Flash & CSS). This submission was taken over by some ’sub-sites’ such as mostinspired.com, screenfluent.com and cssartillery.com.

Following up on my previous post. We have been picked up by cssmania.com, causing a huge boost in visitors. Today we are at 1000 unique visitors / +- 3000 pageviews and climbing.

Make sure to vote for us !
Update (17.35) : some other sites like csscreme.com, csscube.net are clearly aggregating cssmania, as they picked up our submission some minutes after.
At Digital Base we try to keep up with the fast expanding IT technologies. The downside is that we need to invest in new material on a regular base and perfectly working desktops are left aside. That's why the following stuff is for sale :
Pentium IV Server
- Price : 180 euro
- Case : Procase 2u
- CPU : Pentium IV 3.0 Ghz
- Memory : 1 GB DDR
- Hard drive : 80 GB 7200 rpm
Buy or bid on Kapaza , Tweedehands or 2dehands
AMD Desktop
- Price : 190 euro
- Case : Antec
- Motherboard : Asrock
- CPU : AMD Athlon XP 2200+
- Memory : 2×512 MB DDR333
- Graphical card : Geforce 3 Ti500 – 64 MB
- Hard drive : Maxtor 160 GB 7200 rpm
- Extra : Floppy, DVDrom, Soundblaster Audigy soundcard
Buy or bid on Kapaza , Tweedehands or 2dehands
Projector
- Model : HP 070
- Price : 300 euro
Buy or bid on Kapaza , Tweedehands or 2dehands
All products are working and in good condition. For more information or an appointment, you can contact us .
We just launched www.blesentres.be
Still alot to be done. But for now this is the online version. I added a few picture, if you want to see more just surf to www.blesentres.be