Daily Archives: Tuesday, 31 January 2006

WordPress 2.0.1 Released

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For those who have been wait­ing, WordPress 2.0.1 has just been released. This ver­sion has seen a month of bug fix­ing (over 100 bugs squashed), the major­ity being issues with the admin­is­tra­tion screens and their beha­viour. There were some pretty detailed dis­cus­sions on the developer and test­ing mail­ing lists to resolve some of these issues.
Alas, the WYSIWYG post editor is still not access­ible to key­board only users, so if you can only use a key­board and not a mouse make sure to turn it off.
If you want to mark up your posts semantic­ally you might want to turn it off too. With this new “Visu­ally rich editor”, if you want to quote some­body, you need to think “indent”, and if you want to stop quot­ing them, think “outdent”.

The all singing new media uploader, which is right on the edit page where it should be, at least seems to work bet­ter now… but only if you can use a mouse. If you are unable to use a mouse, you will be unable to upload images and other media to your blog. Even with the fancy editor turned off. You are unable to per­form this task. I know it wasn’t very friendly in the last ver­sion, but it did work, you were able to upload images, and copy and paste their tags into your post. You can no longer do that — it does not work.

I’m sorry to harp on about this but remov­ing basic func­tion­al­ity, even if it were for a small num­ber of people (which it is not — a large num­ber of people have trouble using a mouse with pre­ci­sion, if at all), is still a step back­wards in my book.

Half A Million

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Wow! My vis­itor count, which has been run­ning since April 2003, has just popped over 500,000. That’s half a mil­lion vis­it­ors to my little old web site! I can hardly believe it.

I’m see­ing over 40,000 unique vis­it­ors per month now. The daily aver­age is over 1300, with a notice­able dip at week­ends. Most of those vis­it­ors, 62%, are still using Inter­net Explorer, but an encour­aging 31% are using Moz­illa or Fire­fox in some form or another. On the OS front, 74% are on Win­dows XP, 9% on Win­dows 2000, with Mac OS X run­ning a poor third at 6.5%.

As I usu­ally do, I’ll point out that these are real vis­it­ors to all parts of this domain apart from the Gal­lery, which has a sep­ar­ate counter.

My page count, which counts any requests for blog pages includ­ing from web crawl­ers and bots, is quite close to 5 million.

My top two refer­rers are both Google (.com and .co.uk), with the third place con­vin­cingly held by the WordPress Codex. Google, in vari­ous geo­graphic fla­vours, holds 25 places in my top 50 refer­rers! Other search engines hold another 7 places. In terms of num­bers Google far out­ranks all other refer­rers in the top 50 — 130,000 versus 52,000.

Another inter­est­ing high rank­ing refer­rer is blogging.typepad.com, almost cer­tainly this list of WordPress themes, which, along with the third place appear­ance of the Codex, prob­ably the Codex Theme List, tells me that a lot of people are look­ing for 3 column WordPress themes.