I really had a hard time deactivating all my plugins(this problem has been solved with the new feature “Deactivate All Plugins”), but this is a must and I wasn’t going to risk of my blog for saving couple of minutes and you really don’t need to do that…why?
Well let Tan from Blogopreneur tells you why. What you can learn from Tan’s mistake is really simple…and Tan outlines it by two words…Follow The Instructions!
Also you may want to see if your plugin/s is compatible with the new WP release, this would saves you time trying it your self!

One last note, this is a major release and you need to delete most of your previous WordPress installation files!
Good luck with your upgrade.

document.write('<input type="button" id="ed_spell" class="ed_button" onclick="edSpell(edCanvas);" title="Dictionary lookup" value="lookup" />');
document.write('<input type="button" id="ed_close" class="ed_button" onclick="edCloseAllTags();" title="Close all open tags" value="Close Tags" />');

Now:

document.write('<input type="button" id="ed_spell" class="ed_button" onclick="edSpell(edCanvas);" title="' + quicktagsL10n.dictionaryLookup + '" value="' + quicktagsL10n.lookup + '" />');
document.write('<input type="button" id="ed_close" class="ed_button" onclick="edCloseAllTags();" title="' + quicktagsL10n.closeAllOpenTags + '" value="' + quicktagsL10n.closeTags + '" />');

The quicktagsL10n array is now holding the old values(Internationalization purpose), but somehow the plugin fails to understand it so one DIV is kept open all the time which cause the break in the theme!

So what I did is just telling the edToolbar() function(that contain the DIV) what does this object(quicktagsL10n) represent!
Note: I was going to ask Owen Winkler the writer of this great plugin to update his plugin but I couldn’t find a way to contact him and I believe he’s now busy with the new open source project.
Download: Comment Quicktag Plugin

Removing scripts on our site would mean removing Google Coop Search, Google Adsense ads, Feedburner site ads, Blogads, Mybloglog traffic stats, Mybloglog community code, Polls, Sitemeter, Kontera, Google Analytics…

As you can see this is a small list of what would you lose in this day, but is this everything?!
A very important note that Pchere mentioned “between lines!” :

Adsense, Kontera and Feedburner codes can be easily removed, paying Blogads advertisers would be unhappy (and it violates advertising terms of service) if I removed the javascript ad code for a day.

Which is very critical. Don’t think that advertisers are paying you to participate in such events!
So before participating in the Scriptless Day which is on July the 7th, by the way, think again and read carefully your AD provider terms of service!

And until alex upgrade his plugin (again!), please edit this file wp-table/js/wptable-button.php and on line 12, change it to:
$wpconfig = realpath("../../../../wp-config.php");
Now your “wp-Table Browser” Button will work fine and no more “Could not found wp-config.php. Error in path :” will appear.(at least not for the wrong reason!)

• WordPress Widgets - allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity.
• Full Atom support.
• A new Blogger importer - After the update of Google`s free blog hosting software “Blogger”, some modification to the Import section was needed.
• Infinite comment stream - After the great import of the AJAX to WP 2.1 a small update at the Edit Comments page has been added.
• We now protect you from activating a plugin or editing a file that will break your blog. I think I read this in the Ideas Forum, and by the way…WOW
• Core plugin and filter speed optimizations should make everything feel a bit more snappy and lighter on your server.
• We’ve added a hook for WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari.

In addition:

there were also dozens of UI and accessibility improvements, ranging from more concise wording around options and links to things like a view and preview link above the content box when you’re editing a post or page.

Also lots of improvements were done “under the hood” which will help WP developers more and more.

Funny thing that I was attending to write an article about why WP team didn’t release a new version yet. Anyway and as usual…a small “Thank You” for these guys is the least thing we can do/say!

• Check out Alexa’s new design, if you didn’t yet
• Now, you can download YouTube videos directly with sizlopedia new service.
• Seems that Google starts to treat www and non-www the same way.
• Another quick links list from DailyBlogTips.

How To Backup Your Blog Content?

Backing up your blog content is an easy work, especially if you are a WordPress user. As the WordPress Team provide you a step-by-step tutorial of how to backup your DB.

You can also do this by using the wp-db-backup Plugin, this plugin was un-bundled from the newest wordpress release, I think the reason is WXR file that the new WP version can create.

What is the WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) file?

It`s an XML(more) file that contains your posts, comments, custom fields, and categories.
It`s first found to move your content to another blog, but hey…it can be used as backup obviously.
To create a WXR file just enter your admin panel, Click on the Manage Tab -> Export.
And importing the file is also an easy work and the steps of doing this can be found in the XML file itself:

1. Log into that blog as an administrator.
2. Go to Manage: Import in the blog’s admin panels.
3. Choose “WordPress” from the list.
4. Upload this file using the form provided on that page.
5. You will first be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
6. WordPress will then import each of the posts, comments, and categories contained in this file into your blog.

And that`s it, guys.

For this, and to encourage more people to comment on my blogs, I’ve installed Show Top Commentators plugin, so that the top 5 weekly commentators will be rewarded by a free backlink to their sites. This would be the case in this PR4 blog and my PR5 soccer blog too!

It`s a great opportunity especially for new webmasters and new sites as it`s a great way to get indexed by google.

So, What do you have to say?

Today, I saw a lot of people talking about PR changes so I checked the PR for my two blogs this one and the soccer blog, and I couldn’t believe my eyes!
This blog went from PR3 to PR4, I really think it should be more like PR5, anyway what was really weird my other blog`s ranking, check the page rank yourself…….well yes it`s now PR5! Kinda cool right?!
Well, yes but it`s also weird, as I have only 6 posts and the last one was on 5 April!
with almost three back links I think Google is just kidding me, when I was not working to improve my PR I got PR3, and now when I tried to improve it..it raises by 1 :s
I don’t know what`s wrong, I think Google just don’t like my blog(this one specifically:)).

Anyway, I should take the advantage of this update and do some work on my other blog and also try to improve this blog`s PR so it gets PR6 next PR update.
But the REAL question to the SE experts is….how did my new blog get a PR5?!

I`m so happy for a lot of reasons. One I saw my parents, two, my new computer parts arrived with them
I’ve ordered four parts from NewEgg 20 days ago to KSA. And my parents brought them to me here in Lebanon. I bought:

1. AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2.0GHz Socket AM2
2. CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2
3. MSI K9N Diamond Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard
4. EVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI

I got a cheap CPU and by this way I was able to buy 2GB of RAM!
Also I`m waiting the new CPU generation to get one after 8 months maybe. The performance is fantastic, and there`re a BIG difference between this PC and my old PIII

And things even get better!!
After 4 months of struggling I got indexed finally!

As you can see, a lot of pages are supplementals but it`s better than not being indexed!

Now I have a lot of work to get my articles into the main Google index and some Keywords to work on. And if I got a PR6 it can’t be better!