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One of the changes with WPMU I didn’t tell you about a couple of days ago has to do with the themes page. Before when you picked Design in the admin section, there would be a long webpage showing you a every theme that was available to you. That was not a good thing to have a bunch of students in the computer lab loading over a 100 themes previews! Now it’ll show you only 15 at a time, and you’ll have to navigate through the pages to see them all.

Another change is when you choose a theme you want to take a look at, you’ll get a lightbox preview of exactly how your blog will look. It’ll have your title on there will some of your latest posts. At this point, you can either dismiss the preview without changing anything or you can activate the new theme.

Well, I just got done upgrading the Edgemere Blogs website to WordPress MU 2.6. It’s not a huge change, but you’ll see a few changes here and there.

The biggest change I’ve seen is that you can now log-in with the WordPress iPhone app. That’s right I’m typing this from my iPod Touch and boy, is it taking a long time!

A couple of other changes: You’ll now see revisions at the bottom of post pages so you can see your changes and revert to an earlier version if you wish. In Firefox, you’ll see a turbo link in the upper right corner. If you click that, you’ll be prompted to install Google Gears. That’s supposed to speed up the admin side of your blog. It’s not for public computers though, so we won’t be using that in school. I think the photo gallery has been improved as well.

As with any upgrade, let me know if you see anything strange with your site.

Here I show you how to add a photo gallery to your post as I did to this one about my trip to San Antonio. Remember if you want to add one to your blog, go ahead but remember to not put any names in your photo descriptions or have yourself being the primary focus of too many of the photos.

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If you want to answer that specific comment, click the reply link and a box will appear where you can type your response. When you’re done, your comment will appear right below the one you responded to.

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My blog has moved to http://mattson.edgemereroadrunners.com/. I’ll be using this space to be providing updates and instructions on Wordpress. I might also give you some ideas on what you can write about, tell you about some great new entries and it’ll be a convenient place for you to ask questions.

Stay tuned!