I successfully made the update to Wordpress 2.1 and everything seems to be working like a charm. (Except that my browser will not reflect some of the sidebar changes I made… something to do with the caching system of WP which makes the page quicker to load?)
Even the WYSIWYG Editor looks good now and maybe (just maybe!) I can stop working directly in HTML…

Since WP are not very quick when it get to making new buttons to display on a blog page, I made one myself.

WP 2.1 Download button
100px x 100px

<a href="http://wordpress.org/download/" title="DownloadWordpress2.1" target="_top"><img src="http://www.YOURURI.com/wp21button_100x100.png" name="WP2.1download" alt="WP2.1download" height="100" width="100" /></a>

WP 2.1 Download button
120px x 120px

<a href="http://wordpress.org/download/" title="DownloadWordpress2.1" target="_top"><img src="http://www.YOURURI.com/wp21button_120x120.png" name="WP2.1download" alt="WP 2.1 download" height="120" width="120" /></a>

 

WP 2.1 Download button
140px x 140px
<a href="http://wordpress.org/download/" title="DownloadWordpress2.1" target="_top"><img src="http://www.YOURURI.com/wp21button_140x140.png" name="WP2.1download" alt="WP 2.1 download" height="140" width="140" /></a>

If you would like to include this button yourself, all you have to do is the following:

  1. Right-click on the WP button of your liking. Choose “Save picture…” and save the picture to the root folder of your Wordpress blog. Upload to your server root (http://example.com => where all your wp-admin etc. folders are for those that have WP in a different subfolder.)
  2. Copy the code according to the button you chose
  3. Paste the code into the template (sidebar.php, index.php etc.) of your theme where you would like your button to appear.
  4. Change YOURURI to the URI of your blog.
  5. Save and upload the themplate file to your server.
  6. DONE.