I had the same error. After some post in supports boards and searches with google, I compared my WP and the WP of a friend of mine. All settings were the same except the PHP version. My friend was using PHP5, I used PHP4. So I changed the PHP version. At it worked!

So try using PHP5. Maybe it helps.

I guess I’ll have to try tech support again, though they don’t usually help.
Thanks for trying. Love the site.

When I enter:
Hostname:mysite.com
Username:name
Password:password

I get this:
“Error: There was an error connecting to the server, Please verify the settings are correct.”

and the hostname has been replaced with this:

Hostname: “mysite.com://www.mysite.com/”

Can anyone tell me what the correct syntax for entering my Hostname is? Or am I making some other mistake?

I log in to the dashboard and can’t see any options to get to anywhere in the admin. Searched high and low and I am sure there is a pane missing on the left hand side.. I can’t find any option to turn this on either.

Simple Tags doesn’t work in 2.7 and so i’ve had to install a new plugin called “Simple Tagging” and yet I can’t find the options for this.

Anyone able to offer any help?

thanks

I never bothered about WP 2.7 until now, always using the actual version and let me surprise about new stuff after upgrading.

But this looks kinda awesome, the dashboard looks great!

Any release date of 2.7 known?

Regards,
Sascha

I don’t think you’ve really looked under the hood at all. Recommend doing that. ;)

It would have been best for everyone if they created an operation architecture that allows one-click install of wordpress sites, central management of sites, central backup/restore, central upgrade, etc. and stuff, central application of site definition, site themes, etc.

So many upgrade versions, and it is difficult to keep up with their pace especially if you have multiple blogs. If it a nightmare whenever they announced a new release. After their major release, expect a number of minor updates pegged as security requirements which leave you no choice.

That said, you could also install SVN on your local computer (Mac has it built in, as do some varieties of Linux). For Windows, you can google for TortoiseSVN), check out a copy, and do an export to a folder. Then upload the contents of that folder as normal.

The details of how to do this specifically are outside of the scope of this article, but googling around on how to use SVN should turn great articles up. It’s well documented and not all that difficult.

Also, Otto does a fantastic job of breaking this stuff down as well.

@Collin – I find it’s not a requirement to be technically strong, but it’s certainly wise and in the best interests of all bloggers to become more technically able. I assume (from personal observation) that the majority of bloggers do not have the technical knowledge to recover their servers from a disaster. In my case, the server OS was damaged during an upgrade (bye bye blog and all the content!) – But I was able to do a complete reinstall, configuration, etc. within a couple of hours. As a side note, I didn’t have backups at the time (which made me look stupid – and it was stupid of me), but thanks to Google, Yahoo and Live I got back 100% of my posts and pages.

@Aaron Brazell – Would you be able to provide a quick example of how to use/support the new theme template tags? Is there a resource I can look at that would help me convert my existing theme (which works on 2.6) to 2.7? I’m not a coder, (I’m a network engineer) but am very strong at editing and manipulating existing code.

One thing I would like to see myself is the dropping of all the social network plugins tat are out there and for wordpress to have them all built in. Problogger just released a way to have twitter id’s as part of your comment field section, this should be part of wordpress in my option. There is too much code work involved for a lot of people to gain from this type of feature (including me)

This all sounds great but what about the image captions being visible? Can we disable them in 2.7? It would be REALLY cool if we could change the settings PER Image.

You can: Just don’t enter a caption unless you want it to appear. Just use alt text instead to get SEO without a caption box.

Tim

He bro, thanks for discussing the upcoming features, layouts and so on. It will take some getting use to but people know how to adjust. I’m looking forward to the release. :)

THIS IS WHY I HATE OPEN SOURCE SO MUCH SOMETIMES.