WordPress 2.7 was officially released yesterday. There are a number of pretty dramatic (yet exciting) changes on the admin side. Here are my favorites:

Upgrading becomes much easier
Threaded comments, and better comment layout in general
New admin look makes navigation quicker
Compatible with mu

This was really just a test post to make sure mu still works. I performed [...]

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Look up – directly above this text. See it? That’s one of mu’s newest features. I decided that as a gesture of convenience, mu will now create a short link anytime you publish a post. Since it usually already does it anyway, I decided to make it automatic and give you the chance to display [...]

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This morning I was alerted (by @trutter) of a WordPress plugin that greatly improves the UI experience for iPhone and iPod Touch users called WPTouch. When a user hits your blog with a user agent resembling that of these two devices, WPTouch takes over and transforms your blog into something that fits with Apple’s look [...]

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mu is clipping right along now, and I’m trying to trim it down so I’m not relying on third party APIs. The reason I’m doing this is so I can avoid problems that I had with Plurk Updater. The only requirements mu will have are the cURL and XML-RPC packages for PHP. [...]

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I’ve been working on mu for the past few days and have it running pretty well. It’s been pushing out updates to my social networks on each post I’ve made for the past 3 or 4 days, so I’m convinced that part of it works. Here’s a set of features that mu will [...]

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I recently created a plugin to send an update to your Plurk account (Plurk Updater). It was at that point that I decided that I really needed a plugin that allowed me to specify on a post-by-post basis if I actually wanted to send the update to either Plurk or Twitter. Thus, mu [...]

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