WordPress 2.7 is available for download. The update packs a number of new features that any current or new WordPress user will welcome with open arms.
WordPress Upgrader
WordPress 2.6 already offered immediate plugin updates directly from within the admin Dashboard. 2.7 adds a little more convenience by providing that same functionality PLUS core – WordPress upgrades – updates.
The WordPress Upgrader will give you the option of downloading, installing, and upgrading to the latest WordPress version from your Administration Panel.
Rest assured that the added functionality is for convenience purposes. Automatic updates are initiated by a site admin and are not done automatically behind the scenes.
Significant Dashboard updates
This latest update will take some getting used – navigation, shortcuts, and controls. Fortunately, most of the primary functions are available front and center (less digging through menus).
Sticky posts
Somewhere between normal posts and excerpts / asides. WordPress 2.7 provides a new editor option which allows users the option to "stick" post(s) to your front page. Great for featuring and protecting content that you do not want pushed off of the front.
Grid Focus WordPress theme update
A long overdue update for the Grid Focus theme originally released in May 2007. Grid Focus is WordPress 2.6 / 7+ compatible. If you want the threaded comments feature enabled, please update to WP 2.7 before installing. Save any personal modifications you may have made to the theme before updating (most of the code was re-written and cleaned up). More details, a summary, and demo of the update can be found on the download page.
Will you be updating your other themes as well for 2.7 – or just GridFocus for now?
I will probably do an official update for The Unstandard. I know there are a few variants that have been modified and are being redistributed. If I update anything else beyond that, it will probably be October Special. I’m dropping support for the older V2, Foliage, and Foliage Mod releases.
Sad to see support for Foliage Mod go. That was one of my favourite WordPress themes.
Looking good. Interested to see the full benefits of the upgrade for my own site. The dashboard certainly looks an improvement, I’ll be able to do away with my Lighter Menus plugin!
Hi Derek,
Found a small bug on the demo site.. On Firefox 3 with Adblocker installed the 3rd column falls under the 2nd column.. But if disable adblocker, both the columns fall correctly under the adsense ad, as you expected..
Looks like a minor bug with the CSS..
Cheers
I’ve tested Firefox 3 on both OS X and Windows with Adblock Plus enabled / disabled. Do you have a screenshot? What OS are you using? Any other extensions that modify the page after loading?
Here are some screenshots.. I’m using Vista on Firefox 3.0.4.. And there is no other extension that messes up with the page after loading..
With adblocker disabled : http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/5273/withoutadblockergk2.png
With adblocker enabled : http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/7116/withadblockerrp4.png
I hope that helps.. FYI it renders perfectly on Safari and Chrome..
Are you using the plain Adblock (you specify rules), or Adblock Plus (rules are collected automatically via subscription)? I’m not sure if it will make a difference but I wanted to rule out causes. I’ve tested in both Firefox 2 & Firefox 3 in XP / Vista with the extension enabled and can no repro the problem. Note that I am testing these environments via VMware.
Are any other users seeing the same issue with columns shifting if Adblock is enabled?
Looking forward to your October Special Update. Love that theme
do you happen to have any problems with the Visual Editor? coz I do and I hope I can find some answer. on WP forums, no one answered to my q, so… I hope maybe you have some idea.
I don’t actually use the visual editor. Unless things have changed, the last time I tested it I noticed it added a lot of extraneous markup to posts. I’m interested to hear what issues the visual editor is having.
I just did a fresh install of 2.7, and can’t get the Links widget to show up when using Grid Focus. Any thoughts?
The only reason I can think of the Links widget not working is because it wasn’t properly saved. Does the widget not work correctly in any of the columns?
Something else is awry–the Links widget isn’t showing up in any themes… I’ll dig around elsewhere.
Sorry for the trouble, and thanks for the awesome theme!
Hi Derek, thanks for this nice theme!
I’ve a problem with the sidebar, and it is strange
When I click on the posts’ title (permalink), I dont see the middle side bar. You may check that out here – http://whatshappen.in/ How come the middle sidebar could display well on the home page but not in single post mode? Can you please advice?
Thanks in advance!
–Naren Ubi
Never mind, problem resolved
My fault, forgot to explore the primary-post sidebar which was empty 
Thanks for your thoughts on providing a separate sidebar for singleposts…!!
Thats exactly the same trap I fell into. Now I long for the days of draggable widgets and multiple sidebars on the admin page. Got a lot of txt to C&P about the place :S
Thanks Derek, this theme is addicting. I’m loving the new threaded comment function. Thanks for this.
Great job with the changes! The serif font really makes it look different.
I noticed, on IE (office PC) the footer navigation not showing main page, it crashes
on single entry. Not on my Mac. Strange.
What’s causing this?
Hi, how do I display author names along with blog posts? There are more than 2 authors for my blog, and it is a bit difficult to know the names of the authors without that being displayed!?! Can you please help Derek?
I will have a string of code up shortly on the demo site that you can reference.As requested – displaying the author name for a post.Thanks much Derek! That was very helpful. However, I just followed your instructions, tweaked the stylesheet, and inserted the author name alongside the date and comments. You may have a look http://whatshappen.in/
There is one more help that I may ask
How to link the author name to all his posts? I think that will be good and complete! Thanks in advance!!
As far as I know there is nothing baked into WordPress that will link an authors name to all of their posts. You’ll need to make use of a plugin for that. I’ve used the Posts by Author plugin before. Not sure if it is 2.7 ready.
Great, thanks!
Just wanted to ask you one thing, not directly related to this Grid focus theme. The ‘Syndicate’ drop down menu is your own creation? or are you using a WP plugin? Looks impressive !!
The RSS options drop down is a simple unordered list using jQuery to animate the hide / show on mouseover.
what type of plugin that you use for “reply” ??
thank u…
Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 then enable threaded comments in Settings > Discussion.
really???? thanks a lot Derek~!!!
hi Derek, sorry. I want to ask u something.
How to enlarge the gravatar at the comment section?
I had enlarge the gravatar at legacy.comment.com from 16 – 30 but it seems like no changes after that..
The theme is currently resizing the avatar via CSS. Check style.css at line 452 – img.avatar.
I noticed, on IE (office PC) the footer navigation is not showing my blog’s main page & it crashes
on single entry page but not on my Mac. Strange.
Do you know, what’s causing this?
What version of IE are you using? There must be a script you are running on your site that is causing the issue. A clean install runs as expected in IE6 / IE7. I tried loading your site in IE6 & IE7 and it errored out before opening the home page. Try testing by removing scripts / disabling plugins one at a time?
Thanks Derek, I am using IE6 in my office. I am leaving the IE upgrade to the tech guy – and I too, thought it’s the plugin I am using that causes the error.
Many thanks again.
hi Derek..
i’m again..
wanna ask u this…
what do you meant by this? 12/05/08 = Dec, 05., 2008 or May, 12, 2008 ??
Sorry, I meant December 5th, 2008.
Thanks for a great theme, but I have an issue with images not aligning. Check this for examle: http://www.edits.no/2008/11/crate-digging-pa-ringstrøms/
Here the image is set to align left, but the text still displays as it was set to no alignement. Is there an easy way to fix this?
I didn’t use the alignleft class for images in posts. The stylesheet is using the floatleft or floatright classes for floating images. You’ll need to add alignleft & alignright to the stylesheet yourself.
Hi Derek,
thanks for this wonderful theme! I love love it (and use it
)! This clear style is the right for my eyes 
.
Also I will update my WordPress next time, I hope without problems.
Kind Regards,
Sven
Hello Derek,
I am interesting in posting comments on pages but the it seems that it is not working, I can see the post in the blog section but it does not work on pages. Please let me know how can this be done.
Thanks,
Love your theme!
Sincerely,
Carlos
Carlos, if you want to add comments to pages, simply open page.php and add the code below immediately before the <?php endwhile; endif; ?>.
Dear Derek,
I want to thank you for your prompt response!!!!!!
It works!!
Sincerely,
CR