I’m pretty sure most of you are tracking the news on WordPress. I’d like to turn your attention to the WordPress RSSCloud news and the latest worm attack on WordPress powered blogs.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, it is the way your readers subscribe to updates of your blog using clients like Google Reader or Bloglines. I’m pretty sure most of you know what RSS is. And I’m pretty sure most of you know that it takes from minutes to hours for a new post to reach your subscriber through RSS. Well, now it won’t any more. WordPress has announced that those users subscribed to RSS Readers which are using a new feature called RSSCloud (only River2 and LazyFeed for now) will get instant updates. Thus, WordPress becomes a little bit more real time now.
I’m very curios what will come out of this new technology. Will Twitter lose its popularity now? Will there appear new promotional technologies and marketing mixes? Will WordPress gain even bigger popularity now, even with more security breaches and worms threatening your blog?
By the way, have you already updated to the latest WordPress security release? Please do it immediately. And check if you’ve done everything to protect your WordPress blog.
So, what are your thoughts on the latest WordPress news? Do share in the comments below.
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WordPress Latest News
September 8th, 2009WordPress Security Update
August 4th, 2009
As you know WordPress is an open source, this means that it’s constantly developed and innovated. The thing that makes WordPress stand out from other open source blogging platforms is a strong and devoted community. Even when developers miss some bugs the community is always there to point them out, thus helping to make WordPress better and more secure. This is the story behind the new WordPress 2.8.3 security release. Two weeks ago when WordPress security update version 2.8.2 has been released it appeared that some holes were uncovered the WordPress community quickly found the missed places, thus the new improved version is here now. You may have already seen it in your WordPress admin area.
This is the security release thus I strongly recommend you to update your WordPress to protect data and web server better.
You can download WordPress 2.8.3 and upgrade manually or do it automatically from your admin area.
Have you ever faced any problems with your WordPress security? Do share your experience in the comments below.
15 Most Inspiring Uses Of Wordpress As CMS
July 27th, 2009Undoubtedly, Wordpress is known as a powerful blogging platform used by webmasters all over the world. But we should admit that it is capable of providing much more facilities. The point is that due to some modifications and implementation of certain plugins you can turn your Wordpress into fully functional Content Management System. In order for you to see how it looks in the issue and get inspired for your own Wordpress transformations we present you the compilation of the most inspiring designs of Wordpress successfully used as CMS.
1. Weather Pops
Weather Pops imply the set of characters related to weather which are available for licensing. This website possesses eye-catching design and shows how you can build simple but mighty website, including galleries, standard pages and contact forms in your Wordpress site.
2. TP Hire
This rental company website is distinguished by enhanced gallery page which maintains facilities for viewing images in larger size and in a slideshow. Separate attention should be paid to the Events Page as it shows very clearly how you can customize Wordpress pages to fit your individual website requirements.
WordPres 2.8 Baker
June 12th, 2009
As you remember I already announced a new WordPress version 2.8, but it was a beta. Well, science June, 10 you can download a complete WordPres 2.8 Baker. The version is named in honour of the famous vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker.
All the features described in my previous post are still there: improved plugin search and widget user interface, per page option for plugins, more than one gallery at a page etc. The most notable feature of the new WordPress seems to be the ability to browse themes within the Dashboard. This new feature makes changing colours, number of columns and width a fast and easy task. Besides WordPress 2.8 is much faster in work. Generally the new version looks pretty much the same as 2.7 but with some changes here and there. There are 790 reported bugs fixed and over 180 upgrades are listed here.
You can download the new version here.
So, if you’ve already tried the WordPress 2.8 do share your comments below.
WordPress 2.8 Beta
May 21st, 2009
It always amazes me how extremely fast WordPress is innovated and updated, it’s not a wonder that it’s the most popular blogging platform these days. The WordPress version 2.7 is still new and fresh and seems to be released only yesterday, but here we have the version 2.8 all ready. Well, not that ready as it is still a beta version, though I think many of you would still appreciate it.
So, what the new version has for us, the WordPress addicts? Here is a list of the main improvements and innovations of WordPress 2.8 beta:
The Admin icons are improved along with the plugin search and widget user interface. Among new options is a description field for tags and per page option for plugins, besides the new version supports more than one gallery at the same page and there is a great new option of autosaving post/page when pressing Control/Command+S. The new WordPress won’t ask you for confirmation when marking a comment as spam, won’t notify you of your own comments if you are a post author and will allow case-insensitive logins.
The full list of the new and improved features of version 2.8 is here.
This update is great, but still a beta, thus be careful because beta versions usually have many bugs.
So, what version of WordPress are you using?
Revel In Best Flash Animated Wordpress Themes
April 7th, 2009Staying the leading flash website templates provider on the market of web development industry,FlashMint is glad to present its ingenious product - Flash Animated Wordpress Themes for web masters involved in everyday writing.
Flash Animated Wordpress Themes are known to grant the possibility of implementing interactive features within your blog supplementing it with flash animation and 3D.
Among new distinctive features Flash Animated Wordpress Themes contain you will discover support of new plugins which are responsible for more advanced paging navigation, allow you to display site tags via flash movies and 3D animated tag cloud and give more possibilities for email subscription.
Automotive Blog Flash Animated Wordpress Theme
Flash Animated Wordpress Themes are characterized by widget support for different sections of your blog. You may now make use of youtube.com inset displaying featured videos and create a kind of photogallery of the photos attached to your blog. If your blog posts contain photos they will be now displayed on the side panel within “Featured Photos” section which you can manage via Admin Panel. As usual you can add meta keywords and titles for your blog main page and manage blog posts with the help of Admin Panel as well.
Hi-Tech Flash Animated Wordpress Theme
Flash Animated Wordpress Themes comprise contemporary web design technologies and are aimed at web masters of different work experience and capabilities. So if you are involved in everyday writing and want to make your blog the most modern and live source you are welcome to browse ingenious Flash Animated Wordpress Themes offered by Flashmint!
WordPress template tags and a small announcement
March 31st, 2009
Running a blog for a while you eventually come to a desire to change something in your theme. Show tags as well as categories, change the format the date is displayed in, these and alike small changes can easily be done with WordPress tags. A template tag is a php code that tells WordPress to “do” or “get” something, but you do not have to be a coder to use Templates tags.
These tags are extremely simple to use and very well documented at wordpress.org. Basically, if you want your title to be shown put “”, and you will get the task done.
Read carefully the documentation at the link above, it is clearly explained there. The most used template tags are:
- the_title() - outputs the title
- the_permalink - outputs the posts permalink, used with “the_title” usually
- the_content() - displays the post body
- the_category() - displays the categories you put the post in
- the_tags() - shows the tags of the post
- the_author - outputs the name of the post author
- the_author_url - outputs the link to the author’s page, usually used in a link with “the_author”
There are many more of them listed and explained at the wordpress.org. So go ahead and make your blog template more personal.
And in conclusion I have a little announcement here:
WordPress is participating in the Google Summer of Code for the third year in a raw and encourages college students to apply. There are 3 days left for you to roll in, the deadline is April 3, 2009. Check out WordPress Codex GSoC2009 page for more info and FAQ. There also are some projects suggested. To apply go to the Google Summer of Code application site.
So, what tags do you use?
WordPress for iPhone and iPod touch Version 1.2
March 24th, 2009Great news for Apple fans - the new version of WordPress for iPhone and iPod touch is now available at the iTunes App store.
The bugs of the old version have been fixed in this new edition and some more incredible features have been added.
Here are some new features of version 1.2
- Landscape mode.
This great feature enables you to use an extra wide keyboard, you can now easily write the full-length blog post right from your iPod.
- Comment moderation
You are now able to moderate your blog comments without any inconveniences, like constantly logging in. The feature is available only for WordPress.org 2.7+ or WordPress.com blogs
- Editing and creating pages
Well, you are now able to create pages and edit them from your iPhone or iPod touch.
- Photo resizing
Enable the feature and all the images attached to the post won’t be larger than 640×480. Nice feature to save space and time of publishing.
- Link creation help
A nice feature that asks if you want to create a link each time you write something like “www.” or “http”. I found it to be very useful.
You can get yourself the 1.2 version at iTunes App store for free.
So, do you like the new features of WordPress for iPhone?
