WordPress 2.6.1 is out. A maintenance release but for many including myself, it’s the time to move up to 2.6 altogether.
As I look back the past few weeks of testing 2.6 on several blogs, I’m delighted to say it’s been a wonderfully smooth experience. Unlike the upgrade to WordPress 2.5, my sites did not experience much trouble when using WordPress 2.6. I deployed 2.6 on several websites and found it was a breeze to work with. It played well with my themes too. Plugins did not break down. Tonight I’ll be upgrading all my sites running WordPress to 2.6.1 and I hope I won’t run into any problems.
… or perhaps entries posted in the last 48 hours? Ever wanted to put a small image label next to your post telling readers “Hey, this post is barely 2 days old. It’s new!”
Of course, putting a new post label is nothing new. But again, this tiny feature does not come with default WordPress. Luckily with just one or two lines of PHP code, you can modify your WordPress theme to label your new entries automatically.
The following code sample shows how you can label your posts with a tiny image ‘new.gif’ if your post is less than 2 days old. Within your latest entries Loop, we’ll put the ‘new.gif’ image label right new to your post title:
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