WordPress 3.2: What I like most!

First watch the official video for WordPress 3.2 to see the main highlights about the new release.

My Personal Favorite Features:

1. The new Full Screen Write mode lets you focus on what you want to write and not worry about anything else, really cool!
2. The Dashboard has a nicer and cleaner look now
3. The ultra-fast automatic updates is really a breeze, as now WordPress overwrites only the new or changed files, a long awaited feature.
4. The New 2011 default theme is a lot nicer and has some cool features that you will enjoy and can get you started in no time with a new site that looks good.

Well, those are my top 4 favourites, What’s yours?

Share you thoughts and impressions about it with us.

WordPress 3.2 Be careful before you upgrade!

I’ve just been notified that WordPress 3.2 is ready to be installed and as I am always happy to upgrade to the latest versions, a word of caution is important this time as the release notes state that WordPress now only supports PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0

So, you need to make sure your server supports those before upgrading.

How can I be sure?

• Log into your hosting account’s control panel and see which versions your site supports
• Or, ask your hosting support about which versions are installed.
• Or, better install a plugin called Health Check, which does the homework for you and gives you a message as to whether your server supports the latest release of WordPress or not. Simply install and activate and it does the check for you automatically.

So, be safe better than sorry.

I will prepare a video walk-through to cover the new features in WP 3.2 soon.

As for me, I’ve used the plugin, and it proved that I am good to go which made me upgrade and things ran smoothly.

Hope it works for you too.

How do you deal with designer disappointment?

As a designer I sometimes get very disappointed for a number of reasons:

• I work hard on a project and the clients hates it completely!
• I sometimes can’t find inspiration to start on a big project.
• Sometimes looking at great work of others gives me the thought that” I will never be that good!”
• I might work very hard on a project to find that it’s getting very little appreciation by visitors.

So many reasons, but in the end I find myself unable to work or produce something good, and I really don’t know how to deal with such cases.

What about you, do you ever face this situation and if so how to you manage to overcome it?

I’d love to hear from you new and creative ways that you use personally to tackle this roadblock and get back on track again.