In the latest build of WordPress you can get a look at the new widget management in WordPress 2.5, view large version.

Instead of the current widget system, where you drag the widgets from a "pool" to your sidebar, you know add the widgets using the list of gray boxes in the left hand side of the page. The widget then appears under "current widgets" where you can use drag and drop to change the order of the widgets.

This means that you, apparently, can add as many copies of a certain type of widget as you please. I'm not sure how this works on themes with multiple sidebars, however…

WordPress 2.5 is currently set for release on March 24th.

The Danish WordPress project has now been given a subsite at the official WordPress.org: da.wordpress.org.

I still think that most Danish users will end up on wordpress.dk (because of Google Rank and the forum which stays there) but none the less it's great with an official site. This means a lot to the WordPress DK project and shows that it's not just some guys who are translating for fun (and might stop doing it some day) but that WordPress DK is a serious project, that the Danish users can count on.

The official subsite also features a blog, meaning that there are two WordPress DK blogs. As I've written in a comment at WordPress DK I suggest the following:

• The da.wordpress.org blog is about new releases with more in depth posts on what's new, known issues and such
• The wordpress.dk blog (where I contribute) will be for everything else: tips, hints, suggestions etc. The wordpress.dk blog will also feature shorter posts on new versions with links to the more thorough da.wordpress.org post.

This will, the way I see it, make it easier for both posters/contributors and end users to get a good overview on where to find what.

Anyways, congrats to René!

The reason is that there are too many corrections to be made, and therefore WP 2.4 could not be ready until March. The next WordPress release will be 2.5, which is set to be out on March 24th.

A Google blog search shows that WPAssist also has a post on this.

As I pointed out a moment ago, Ultimate Tag Warrior had to go — after a tip from mister WordPress.dk, René.

One of the reasons was, that categories kept showing up in my WordPress administration even though I had deleted them and I got some nasty errors saying that certain categories did not exist.

So I removed the Ultimate Tag Warrior — who's ultimate now eh? ;-) — and deleted the categories and now it's working.

The integrated tagging structure in WordPress seems to be working like a glove. It's totally anarchy and I can't manage the tags anywhere. Guess that's how it has to be with tags ;-)

Happy upgrading to those of you who haven't yet made the jump!

Update:
If you're planning on using the tag structure in WordPress 2.3 then this is a must read! If you know where to look you're done in no time.

A part of my project is to create a new website for Nadsat which I have chosen to be, of course, powered by WordPress.

As I've included a search that also searches in pages in WordPress (by using Dan Cameron's Search Everything plugin) since WordPress doesn't do this by default, I got an idea:

Why not have some sort of recognition to save people to some time when they're searching for information on the site? Let's say that someone searches Nadsat.dk for "effekten", which is a collective throwing parties at Nadsat, why not save them time by telling them where they can read more about Effekten (Danish for "the effect")?

So here's what you do. You take the code provided below and use it somewhere in you Search Results page (found in WordPress admin ==> Presentation ==> Theme Editor) and you're set :-)

Okay, so here we go. Remember that "$s" is the search query and we'll be using this in this classic elseif PHP code. Also note that if you want to write a quotation mark in PHP you write \". Let's get to the code:


<? if ($s == "x") {
echo "You searched for x. Blah blah blah <a href=\"http://www.test.com/test\">click this link</a>";
} elseif ($s == "y") {
echo "You searched for y. Blah blah blah and so on";
} elseif ($s == "z") {
echo "You searched for z and probably get it by now";
} else {
echo "Your search query \"" . $s . "\" wasn't recognized";
} ?>


This is just basic PHP, no WordPress-only in there :)

*** UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE ***

I just realized that the code above is case sensitive. With the code below a search for "Effekten" will be converted to "effekten" as would "effeKten", "eFfEkTeN" and… you get the picture :-)


<? if (strtolower($s) == "x") {
echo "You searched for x. Blah blah blah <a href=\"http://www.test.com/test\">click this link</a>";
} elseif (strtolower($s) == "y") {
echo "You searched for y. Blah blah blah and so on";
} elseif (strtolower($s) == "z") {
echo "You searched for z and probably get it by now";
} else {
echo "Your search query \"" . $s . "\" wasn't recognized";
} ?>


More info @ Meetup.com.

Then create your own plugin.

Here's a guide on how to write your own plugins for WordPress.

I haven't had the time to check it out yet, but it sounds like a sure read :-)

I've updated my blog, and everything went smooth. I:

1. Uploaded the new files and replaced the old WordPress files with the new ones
2. Went to %blog address%/wp-admin/upgrade.php.
3. Wondered that there was so little to do :-)

Oh, and our local hero René has one again done a fantastic job and translated WordPress 2.2 into Danish. Very nice!

I'm very happy with it, but something kept irritating me. In the search results, you can't browse back to see entries prior to the 10 results listed on page one. The same things happens, when you're viewing a certain category/tag. Basically: The "previous entries" and "next entries" are missing at the bottom.

I found out, that this relates to the "rolling archives" feature, that deploys a vertical scrolling bar where you can flip through the pages. This bar doesn't show up in search results or in category pages. But I like the rolling archives feature, so I want both. But how?

Simple:

In your WordPress admin section go to Presentation –> Theme Editor –> theloop.php

Find the following (it's near the bottom of the file):

<?php /* Insert Paged Navigation */ if (!is_single() && get_option('k2rollingarchives') != 1) { include (TEMPLATEPATH.'/navigation.php'); } ?>

This tells WordPress to show "navigation.php" (which holds the "previous entires" and "next entires" links) to be displayed IF you're NOT looking at a single page/post AND the "k2rollingarchives" isn't set — that's what "!= 1" means. "!=" 1 basically means "different from one" – aka "not set" in PHP language.

So, just delete the following and you're set to go:

&& get_option('k2rollingarchives') != 1

Now you have the rolling archives at you front page AND the links at the bottom to previous and next entries. With this on you also ensure that Opera Mini users can view your site :-)