March 29th, 2008 by Dougal
If you already run WordPress, then you’ve probably seen the other announcements in your Dashboard about the release of WordPress 2.5. There are plenty of details in the Development Blog posting, so I won’t rehash the feature list here. I’ll just point out a few important details.
First of all, in my post about Release Candidate 1, I mentioned that I had problems with the plugin updater. Since that time, I have been able to upgrade complex plugins with out a problem. I didn’t do extensive testing, but I feel like this is probably safer now. Other folks on the wp-testers mailing list have reported observed improvements similar to mine.
Next, I’ll point out that since the introduction of the WYSIWYG editor back in version 2.0, I have always stuck to the “Code” editor. And on top of that, I have disabled the auto-formatting (wptexturize and wpautop) filters. I’ve always entered every bit of HTML within my posts by hand. Starting with version 2.5, I’m going to relax my grip and hand the reigns back over to the system. I’ve disabled my “untexturize” plugin, and switched to the “Visual” editor as my default. The Visual editor should be just fine for most of the posts that I write. And on those occassions when I need to do something advanced (like <code>, <ins> or <del> tags, my standard “pull-quote” div for images, etc), I can seamlessly switch to the HTML view and back, without worrying about the Visual editor messing with my manual edits later.
And for those of you who might wonder, but haven’t seen it mentioned, the new improvements will be filtering into WordPress.com and the WordPress-MU codebase very soon.
ShareThis
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
March 28th, 2008 by roy spencer
REPRINTED FROM PRESS RELEASE
TDT3D‘s ancient and Medieval Asian historical architecture contest has been announced.
Like the historical reconstitutions of Angkor city, Matsumoto castle, Hiroshima castle, and Tandrok monastery, entrants must...
Posted in 3D, Game Videos, Concept Art | Comments Off
March 28th, 2008 by Ryan
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.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
March 27th, 2008 by ImagineFX | Team Blog
The final content from issue 21 has made its way onto the website. We present the top ten fantasy art poses in
this workshop, art tips from Henning Ludvigsen in
this workshop, and a review of ZBrush 3 which you can find by clicking
here.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
March 27th, 2008 by ImagineFX | Team Blog
The free online version of Photoshop has now gone live. It's called Adobe Photoshop Express, and is rather basic (for example there's no layer support). Hopefully it will help introduce a whole new generation to digital painting.
Click here to get started!
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
March 25th, 2008 by Richard Hill
What‘s in issue 103 of 3D World: in stores in the UK now
To order a copy online, click the cover thumbnail below
Click the thumbnail to order your copy online
IN THE MAGAZINE
Tame the elements
Over four tutorials, we help you...
Posted in 3D, Game Videos, Concept Art | Comments Off
March 22nd, 2008 by roy spencer
NewTek has announced LightWave v9.5. This free update will include a wealth of character animation tools, and new capabilities including a complete hair and fur solution, improved global illumination, rendering and workflow.
The update also benefits from...
Posted in 3D, Game Videos, Concept Art | Comments Off
March 20th, 2008 by Jim Thacker
Send us a rendered portrait, and you win a high-end ATI FireGL graphics card, then see your work used in AMD's 2008 marketing materials!
AMD , manufacturer of the high-end professional ATI FireGL graphics cards, has a long tradition of using 3D...
Posted in 3D, Game Videos, Concept Art | Comments Off
March 19th, 2008 by ImagineFX | Team Blog
Two new workshops from issue 21 grace the website this week. We have a brilliant custom brush guide by Marta Dahlig
right here, and an illustration workshop by Nick Harris
here. Enjoy!
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
