WP 2.0 compatibility

ludo, Tuesday 23 May 2006 16:30:39 PST

Work on WP 2.0 compatibility is mostly completed, and has been already merged to the trunk. You can now test Lightpress with WP 2.x using one of our nightly tarballs.

I have also made substantial changes to the administration interface, simplified the installation process, and made use of some of the WP 2.0 changes to the DB layout to further improve our rendering speed.

New plugins you get in the nightly tarballs:

AltTemplate
used to change one of the default templates in specific contexts, eg change the sidebar when viewing a post details page
ContactForm
add a contact form wherever you might need it (by Iñaki Ecenarro)
PostNavigation
show links to the following/preceding post in the post detail page, like MT (by Iñaki Ecenarro)
PostAdRecursion
show different template snippets every n posts in index pages

Readers' Comments

  1. erik

    great news, you'll get feedback soon!

  2. erik

    i am allover happy with the new version. the installation has become much better and my first lightpress-theme is nearly done :) using lightpress is becoming more fun!

  3. sergi

    I've upgraded to lighpress with WP 2.0 support too.
    I've made a plugin to include gallery 2 support with a random image on the sidebar from a gallery 2 site.

    http://www.maladeta.com/

  4. ludo

    Great! If you want to send me source, I will add it to the svn repository.

  5. Sam

    I've just installed lightpress for the first time, and can't find for the life of me my different pages. It gives me a 404 when I hit "View" on the Manage Pages section. Could someone please help? Besides this, lightpress has been phenominal.

  6. contactsheet.de

    Setting up a Lightpress-Weblog in 5 minutesa short explanation on how to setup a lightpress blog in 5 minutes, ok in 10 minutes. written for people firm with wordpress.