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Here is a quick update about my previous post “Free Shipping of WordPress Olive Green T-Shirts“. The PayPal “Buy Now” link was giving error and it has been fixed now.

You can pay the t-shirt cost (£9.50) to my PayPal account (paypal AT liewcf DOT com) using the following “Buy Now” button, then tell me either for Men/Ladies, Size, and your Address. I will bear all the shipping cost (International + Malaysia).

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Also, I extend the deal to 4th August 2008 (Monday).

In June 2008, WordPress Shop revealed the new WordPress Olive Green Tees to replace the nearly run out red wordpress t-shirts.

As a WordPress blogger, I definitely get one for £9.50. Additionally, I have to pay for the shipping (£5.90) + insurance & tracking (£3.50). It is not wise to buy only 1 item per order.

If you would like to order a WordPress Olive Tee too. I have a suggestion to save you a few bucks on shipping cost.

Free shipping of WordPress Olive Tees for Malaysians

Here is the deal. I will order the WordPress Olive Green Tees on your behalf in bulk. Once I received the t-shirts in Malaysia, I will deliver them to your Malaysia address using POS Malaysia’s registered mail.

You only need to pay the t-shirt cost (£9.50) to my PayPal account using the following “Buy Now” button, then tell me either for Men/Ladies, Size, and your Address.

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In short, I will bear the fees of: WordPress Shop shipping + insurance + POS Malaysia shipping. Great, right?
The WordPress Olive Tees are in very limited stock now. In order to cut the delay, I will close this deal after 3rd 4th August 2008. In case the tees are sold out, you will be refunded.

Why do I offer free shipping?

Well, because I want to save you a few bucks.
I don’t mind to pay a few more pounds and do some extra works for you. It is great to meet another WordPress bloggers who are wearing same tee!

Update: Fix PayPal “Buy Now” button. Extended the deal to 4th August 2008.

WordPress 2.6 has been released (download)The new version of WordPress includes some new features and improvements, such as post revisions, posting bookmarklet, theme preview and as well as support of Google Gears.

WordPress did a video tour of WordPress 2.6 to help you understand the new features:

What’s new in WordPress 2.6?

Post revisions — ever miss the editing records of your blog post? WordPress 2.6 now included the wiki-like tracking for blog edits. It allows you to view who made what changes when to any post or page through a super-easy interface.

Blogging bookmarklet — drag the “Press This” bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmark bar. Then, whenever you see something interesting to blog about, just click on the bookmarklet. It will load a minimized version of WordPress editor which allows to blog different content: text, photo, quote, and video, instantly. It is very much like the Tumblr and allows you to create a tumbleblog-like mini blog site.

Google Gears — WordPress 2.6 supports Google Gears to preload WordPress javascripts and CSS files to boost the loading speed to a few seconds faster. Supported web browsers are Firefox and Internet Explorer. You need to active Gears for each computer and each browser, their copies are standalone.

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WordPress 2.5 has been released at March 29. 2008. Many bloggers had install it as soon as it has been released. However, there are many negative feedback and bugs discovered. At the same time, WordPress.org also changed a new look.

I upgraded two WordPress blogs to version 2.5 after its release. The upgrade process is smooth and problem-free. Themes and plugins are working fine. Generally, it works great but with some errors/bugs.

Missing Visual Editor

WordPress 2.5 has a nice Visual Editor but it does not work if your web server has compression enabled (yes, for mine).

The editor area does not display the beautiful buttons of Visual Editor even you have it enabled at WordPress User Profile. Clicking the “HTML” tag does not have any response because it is already “HTML” mode even the “Visual” tag appears selected.

By right, the Visual Editor should looks like following screenshot:

Luckily, I found the solution on WordPress Support Forum. All you need to do is disable the visual editor (TinyMCE) compression setting by editing the “tiny_mce_config.php” file. Or, you can easily install the small plugin called “Testing TinyMCE” to fix the problem.

Thanks to azzaozz for the solution!

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WordPress 2.5 RC2 has been released yesterday. It is the prior version of the final WordPress 2.5. Matt, the WordPress founder, recorded a screencast to demo the new features.

The most significant changes of version 2.5 is on the admin panel. The layout has been redesigned and use a lot of AJAX for faster response, and it is cleaner now.

The “Write Post” page has been polished a lot. WordPress 2.5 now use Flash uploader and support galleries. Matt done his gallery page using WordPress 2.5. It looks great!

Most WordPress themes that work on WordPress 2.3 will work fine on version 2.5, because there are not many changes on the theme core. WordPRess plugin that work with the admin panel may require updates though.

Please keep in mind that WordPress 2.5 RC2 is NOT the final version. It may still contain bugs to be fixed in the final version. However, if you interested to try, you can download RC2 now (backup! backup!).

“WordPress For Dummies”