Weight Loss Demystified

Happy Birthday Bekki!

Wow! 12 already!

Hope you have a great day.

Lots of love

Gramps, Nan, and Jamie
xoxox

WordPress 2.5 uses a new password hashing scheme. Plain-old MD5 hashes are no longer used. If you share your users table with other applications or with other WordPress blogs that won’t be upgrading to 2.5 all at once, you’ll probably want to continue using MD5 hashes rather than the new hashes. We’ve created a plugin to accommodate this. With the plugin, your 2.5 blog will continue to use MD5 hashes. You should install and activate this plugin immediately after upgrading to 2.5. Users that login prior to installation of the plugin will get the new hashes, but after the plugin is active those users will be moved back to MD5 upon their next log in. If you ever want to move to the new hashes, just deactivate the plugin.

If you want to use a hash other than MD5, the plugin demonstrates how easy it is to change how passwords are hashed. Use the MD5 plugin as a template for creating your own hashing plugin.

Release Candidate 1 of WordPress 2.5 is finally here. We’ve already received a lot of feedback. If you have comments regarding the new admin design, shoot an email to 2.5-feedback@wordpress.org. I’m collating feedback and making a list of most frequent suggestions. We’ll use this feedback to guide the final round of UI work.

Weblog Tools Collection provides the low down on the new admin color scheme selector in WordPress 2.5, and Ozh demonstrates how to create your own custom color scheme. Much of the discussion surrounding UI changes dwells on colors. Debates over shades of blue can go on endlessly. So, we’re including two different color schemes for the new admin and allowing custom color styling. The default color scheme will be our new “Fresh” look featuring light shades of blue. A “Classic” look is also available for those who like the darker blues seen in previous versions of WP. If neither of these suit your tastes, you can provide your own color stylesheet.

I figured it would be nice to start a new year on this blog on Pi Day. So happy new year, two months and a myriad of unposted posts late!
So hi again, my three visitors. How does it feel to read me saying “hi again” every six months or so?

Hope it all goes swimmingly!

Lots of love,

Gramps, Nan and Jamie
xoxoxox

Weblog Tools Collection has documented the get_avatar() function present in WordPress 2.5 so that I don’t have to. Big thanks. I can scrap the avatar post I haven’t got around to writing and instead answer some of the questions that popped up in the comments to the WTC post.

Gravatar is the service used by default. get_avatar() is completely pluggable, however, so any service can be used. get_avatar() is built-in so that themes will have some fixed API on which they can rely, regardless of whatever avatar service is being used behind-the-scenes.

In addition to accepting an email address or user ID, get_avatar() accepts an entire comment object. This is a convenience for using get_avatar() in the comments loop.

The avatar support in 2.5 does not attempt to add avatars into your existing themes. Themes must be written to use get_avatar(). Dynamic addition of avatars is left to plugins.

Avatars are displayed in several places in the admin. They will show up when managing comments, for example.

Display of avatars can be completely turned off via a preference. When turned off, no attempt is made to connect to an avatar service.

michel v — intraordinaire.com posted a photo:

(“Blague” means joke.)
Spotted in my street. Paris, february 2008.