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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Even the upcoming candidate for the most popular blogging platform WordPress should have the version number 2.9, a new release from the 2.8 branch is available: WordPress 2.8.5. It represents a security update, which should be treated as a priority by WordPress blog owners, because WordPress version 2.8.5 provides a fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack, a recent severe security exploit, identified for several numbers of times. (more…)
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
One year ago, in the article “A New Powerful Virus Could Affect Millions of WordPress Blogs“, there was underlined the necessity of performing updates of WordPress sites, especially when critical security issues are fixed in the current software release. The latest version (2.8.2) of the popular blogging platform WordPress was just launched and is ready for free download. WordPress 2.8.2 patches an XSS security vulnerability: due to the fact that the author’s comment URLs were not fully sanitized in version 2.8.1, an attacker could used this security leak in order to redirect you from the administration area to another website.
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
As you may already know, WordPress blogging platform is built with PHP coding language and extracts data for building HTML pages from a MySQL database. The default WordPress installation does not ensure the maximum pages loading speed in case of your blog, especially when it have a high amount of content like images and JavaScript elements, as well as many activated plugins. When an user requests a web page, the number of functions executed on server side and client side implies processes which are resources consuming if certain tweaks are not performed. WP Super Cache plugin provides a good alternative to improve the overall performance of your WordPress blog by generating static HTML pages, therefore minimizing the number of database requests.
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Usually, common WordPress templates do not have included by default a customizable menu that allows the display of categories in the header. You can manually write the code necessary to include a navigation bar at the top of your template or use a simpler alternative provided by PixoPoint WordPress plugin. It will automatically add an accessible, regular or drop-down (SEO friendly) menu to your WordPress blog.
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
According to the Software Freedom Law Center, the WordPress themes, being derivative works of WordPress should be licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License, except CSS and image files (art work). Software Freedom Law Center was performed a comprehensive analysis regarding the interaction between the PHP code, which is GPL and the WordPress template elements “called” through PHP routines and the conclusion is a little bit confusing at first sight:
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
The availability of WordPress version 2.8 was just announced. WordPress 2.8 code named Baker shows many new notable features and improvements of taxonomies, themes, widgets and speed of response. The administrator graphical user interface is similar with WordPress 2.7, but various tweaks were implemented into the newer version of WordPress, such as the possibility to install a theme contained in the theme directory with a single mouse click, right within the dashboard.
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
If you have a website created with the popular WordPress blogging platform and want to deploy a forum within your blog, WP Forum plugin provides the easiest alternative to other complex methods, like the integration of an external phpBB 3 bulletin board. The WP Forum plugin is a simple to use bulletin board and supports BB code, as well as posts moderation. The forum appearance is customizable through skins (three skins are provided by default) that can be changed easily from the WordsPress administration interface.
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
The XML files defining sitemaps contain the website pages URLs with their meta-data and are used by search engine to perform a more intelligent crawling of the website. The search engine spiders (robots) will index the websites content in a better manner based on XML sitemaps, but there is no guarantee that all links existing into the sitemaps will be included into the search engine index. In case of an WordPress blog, the creation of sitemaps can be made automatically with the help of Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator plugin.
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
CformsII is a WordPress plugin that allows you to define any type of form you want to be included into the posts or pages, such as contact forms, tell-a-friend form or an order form. It has an administration interface compatible with the latest version of WordPress bog platform, supporting drag and drop actions for form fields, color, date and time-picker as well as resizable text areas to provide the best user experience.
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
If you already have a website built with WordPress platform, there are available for download a series of free plugins which will simplify the process of creation of an online store alongside with your blog, without the need to make a separate website. The majority of these WordPress plugins are tightly integrated with the rest of the blog, therefore the products can be sold from any existent or new post or page.
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Web 2.0 functionality relays on the interactions between people and websites through the concept of content sharing with users of wide communities. In order to ensure the best users experience and to drive more traffic to an existing website, there is recommended to add social networking and bookmarking features to it. For a website built on the WordPress blogging platform the inclusion of the social networking related elements is relatively simple and can be performed with the help of free ready made plugins.
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
The most requested type of themes for WordPress platform are magazine templates because they can be used and customized for almost any kind of news website. Practically, the WordPress magazine themes have an universal destination, suitable for publishing various content types, like articles, videos or pictures. The next free premium WordPress magazine templates can be downloaded and used for free. Their functionality is easy to modify according to your website needs, as well as ads places alongside the content.
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Another release of the well known blogging platform WordPress is here. This version comes with 68 bugs fixed. You will notice improvements of many WordPress components and their associated functions, such as inline documentation for wp-admin/includes files, tag cloud order priority, emoticons as links in comments, canonical redirect of feeds URL, upgrade or install WordPress 2.7 clean urls defect with magic quotes and other. (related article: How To Add A Flash SlideShow In WordPress)
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