OMG, Wordpress 2.6?
I read my comments and found link back from here and here. OMG, Wordpress 2.6? I’m so curious, I hope Mark and the team will not skip the version for minor changes on 2.5, and then go directly to version 2.6. I may assume that 2.5 version have some minor bugs on it and need to be patched.
On my personal opinion, this 2.5 version is a rock solid version. For my daily use, this version is really stable. I don’t need any version or any features anymore. Just speed it up, AJAX’ed everything 
(oh my, this could enrich the UI and user experience).
I hope Wordpress follow the GNOME based releases, slowly but sure and it is a 6 month basis release. That’s why GNOME software is rock solid Desktop Enviroment (oh, no offence for KDE users :D) so Wordpress too.
(/me wink to Drupal developers)
Wordpress 2.5 review, an UI comparison with Drupal
One word to describe this release: “excellent”. I love the User Interface (UI) administration theme, the tone color, layout and a touch of AJAX on some functions, for example editing permalink.
The UI design is almost similar with Drupal style: some item can be collapsed or expanded to save some rooms. So when using this release, my behaviour is similar when using Drupal website.
I hope the Drupal developers can use this new Wordpress UI design for Drupal administration theme. I know that we can define one theme for administration theme on 5.x releases. I found version 6.x did too but I wish Drupal will create a dedicated theme special for administration section like Wordpress or Joomla did.
The similar administration theme for every release will help people to get used to use the UI. What about Drupal version 7.x?
Since I upgraded my Wordpress to 2.5
Since I upgraded my Wordpress to 2.5, some odds happening on my site. No, no this is not because of the wonderful administration theme (you know what, I love the layout and UI design for this new administration theme!).
This is because the gravatar is not properly displayed in exact dimension. I have inspected the functions.php on my modified prologue theme, and found nothing but headache.
So I think the get_gravatar function might be placed somewhere on the code since this version has supported the gravatar. With a wonderful “grep” command, I found get_gravatar function on wp-includes/pluggable.php.
Hmm, the function has a different arguments with the prologue theme function, so I decided to use the wordpress one. I must edit those theme scripts one by one to adopt the new get_avatar function.
Here it is, my new modified prologue theme that support wordpress 2.5
New plugin “Random Quran” released
Today I release Random Quran plugin for Wordpress. This is a simple plugin with widget to fetch random Al-Quran ayat.
You can donwload here. Just unpack it then read INSTALL.txt file for how to install. Currently only on Bahasa Indonesia language. If you have a database contains Al-Quran translations in English please let me know.
Howto add jQuery functionality on your Wordpress theme
Wordpress now include jQuery for Javasript library. Drupal has this library started from version 5.
In this short tutorial I will show you an example how to add jQuery functionality on your Wordpress theme. The possibilities are endless, the limit is only on your creativity ;).
We take a “Archieves” on sidebar for example. We know that sometimes with numerous posts, archive list will be long. Sometimes this is annoying. You want to just display the Archieves title, when someone click, the content will be expanded.
Let’s begin:
- Open your theme file, especially your header theme file (header.php) then add this syntax to load jQuery library:
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js"></script> - Then add this code:
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery('#archives ul').css('display','none');
jQuery('#archives h2').css('text-decoration','underline');
jQuery('#archives h2').click(function() {
jQuery('#archives ul').fadeIn('slow');
});
});
</script>
See at point 2, jQuery(document).ready(function() {}); is a function to check if the whole page is loaded, if it’s fully loaded, the following script will be executed.
Set all list hidden: jQuery('#archives ul').css('display','none');
Add some underline format on Archieve title: jQuery('#archives h2').css('text-decoration','underline');
When title is clicked, the list will be displayed with fade in effect
jQuery('#archives h2').click(function() {
jQuery('#archives ul').fadeIn('slow');
});
Try it!
