Wordpress 2.8.3 upgrade or downgrade of 2.8.2?

I was so impressed with the latest 2.8.2 that I had to tell the world Wordpress 2.8.2 is a masterpiece. So I just clicked on the 2.8.3 version upgrade and I did not realize and good change. Now I realize some bad changes. I want to delete a plugin and wordpress tells me that it was deleted but it’s still there. Even from FTP I’m not able to delete the plugin directory. Some plugins are deactivate and when I want to activate them Wordpress tells me that the plugin files are not found, so I want to delete the plugin but Wordpress keeps telling me that the plugin files are not found. I go to my FTP client and want to delete the plugin which I cannot. Somone plz?

Wordpress 2.8.2 is a masterpiece

Not only the look but the user experience have been improved with the 2.7 version, and version 2.8 fixed most of the usability problems. I’m totally excited that I can add themes as they are zipped by uploading them just as I do with plugins. So I don’t need to bug my FTP client… Plugin installation and update became just a second in spite of the previously experienced several minutes. Some updates also failed and popped some error. I could try several times I could not delete a plugin or update, delete, deactivate etc. Now, it really became superfast and that takes away some of my headaches. Actually I can use everything very easily and WordPress became an even more handy CMS blog system. If I could change one thing, that would be the “Visit site” to replace uncerline with none, it’s so ugly when you have a nice button and it become underlined. Wordpress rocks!

What are the WordPress subscriber benefits

Sorry for my late posting again, I had to move once again, ISP change etc. Days lasted I went through all my emails, packed out, packed in, cable out, cable in, horrible. Anyway, I’m back and that’s a good news. And you folks are awesome. You still read my articles and I realised some more subscribers to my not finished blog that gives me a push to write. Still, I was really wondering… Why on earth is good to be a subscriber, not to the RSS feed but to a WP blog.

So this is what I did, I signed up myself under barnabasnagy as a guest-subscriber and tried to look around what can I get there. Actually, I’ve set up 2 subscriber accounts already weeks ago and the only thing I found there is nude wordpress. FULL ARTICLE +

LinkedIn rechecked: a good Business Social Media site

I found my profile again on LinkedIn work well to be expanded for a broader Business Venture tool. After my Twitter trial I got some invitations so therefore I got caught on LinkedIn and on my for-months-not-updated profile to update…

So overall, I liked what I saw, I found some new tools they implemented on the site like WordPress blog badge, Poll, Twitter Buzz etc – great tools. I joined some groups as well for the expectatinon to extend my business realtions.

Next to this I was keen on finding this little LinkedIn badge that I saw on several sites but have not found among the LinkedIn tool library. Bad on them! They should harness a bit more the Open Source internet. So after a short search I googled on this:  http://wp.gdragon.info/plugins/gd-linkedin-badge/ – and now you can will see on my site that tiny shiny icon on the right.

Are you Linked In? Let’s connect, here is my profile: link

Marketing trends for 2009 from CES

I wanted so much to write about my marketing and advertising ideas and now I heard some from Greg Douglas. So here I’m to say aspirational and boundle marketing is key factor in this year and the years to come.

How about buying an 8mbs internet service and getting 300 minutes for free for inland phone calls if you buy a phone from the ISP? Sound great, we have such. Shortly after I heard the company selling the same 8mbs service for half price and with an additional printer. I’m bad we didn’t wait a bit longer that would have been a better choice. We needed internet connection ASAP so we FULL ARTICLE +

Some design news from me – plugins and such garbage

I have just tried out sweetcorn, All in One SEO Pack, SEO Smart Links, WP-Cumulus and they do nothing. I’m not a freebee in WordPress but I really could not make them work. Sure, sweetcorn is not a wp plugin and I did not try to use it as such. The other’s are and I find no sense in using them. Just to let know you. So I deleted them. The other plugin that basically bugs me is HelloDolly. Why is it included in Wordpress by default? What sense does it make? So I deleted hellodolly because I found the plugin directory…

Now, I’m trying some snaphot plugin and just a minute… They do nothing, I activated them and refreshed the site but nothing. FULL ARTICLE +

Wordpress 2.7 is not bad

By the way I wanted to drop some lines about the latest WordPress upgrade. First time I installed it I felt I’m using a platform I’ve never used. I felt chaos, the buttons looked ugly, some still do. So then I downgraded, I had to find the old version at oldapps.com… No matter, I gave it another chance when I launched barnabasnagy.net and installed the newest stable version 2.7 and after a while I started liking it. But really it’s not as bad as it seemed, I had to switch to blue scheme from the default gray and it was already better. FULL ARTICLE +

I am an abuser of Tip’d

I got a nice email from a Tip’d moderator:

Hello,

This is a friendly warning from your Tipd moderator that your submissions about Zemanta have no value and do not relate to business or finance. Please keep your submissions on topic.

We reserve the right to terminate any accounts that continually use the social news site to promote their own blog with off-topic content. Please note that we will block barnabasnagy.com completely from our system and terminate your account if the submission pattern continues.

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The best 8 thing pick for ‘08

It seems to be a trend to pick your 8 thing you really liked in 2008. So here is my pick.

My 8 words most used:

1. aztadurva (a hungarian expression literally “such tough”)
2. such stuff
3. yeah
4. no
5. online
6. internet
7. business
8. sick

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Zemanta a way to build backlinks

It was not a long time I started this site and praised the advantages of Zemanta plugin for WordPress, I realized some early backlinks from sources I’ve never though to have link to me. It was namely, the blog of Ben Bleikamp a blogger and user interface mastermind, user experience expert who inspired me in ways lot more than others. I simply liked his style of writing, his unique approach to design and marketing. So I kept an eye on his blog, well, not spent as much time as I’d love to… so he had a big impact on me even though I don’t agree with some of his applications: like the Thesis WP theme FULL ARTICLE +

Zemanta, the plugin I really like

It’s just been a while I heard of zemanta, and since I tried it out I stick to it. Zemanta really makes blogging easier with it’s recommended tags, links, and pics. I love it. You just wrap around your article, refresh the console or let it refresh itself and there you go. Lots of interesting and contextual free media that you can use to decorate and make your article more comprehensive and interesting. Just as I’m typing, a new bunch of images came up so I’ll put one here in order to dress the post up. It’s a lots of fun and time saver. Try it out, it’s free. FULL ARTICLE +