http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog A blog about webdesign, PHP, development and IT Mon, 10 May 2010 16:16:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We decided to take some time to "pimp" this blog. We still have a long "todo" list, this is just the start... A quick before & after :) Before New & Improved A quick list of what we did: integrated search box on top recent posts & comments on top added links to search bar updated general layout ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/pimpin-this-blog/ 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, ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/wordpress-coltrane-upgraded-to-27/ As you may have read we migrated this blog to a wordpress one. Yeahyeah, we are not officially wordpressified. My impression of the core The default wordpress core holds alot of use'eable functions, but it took me a while to figure out how the thing worked. You need to know that wordpress ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/wordpress-seperate-rss-feed-for-category-author-tag/ 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 ... http://www.digitalbase.eu/blog/blog-moved-to-wordpress/