Plesk is a powerful hosting automation control panel, used at a large scale in case of Linux hosting services. It has an intuitive graphical user interface and a wide range of options which simplify the administration of a Linux based hosting account. In a similar manner as CPanel, Plesk allows you to automatically install popular PHP / MySQL applications, like WordPress, Joomla and more.
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.
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.
PHP development team has just announced the availability of PHP version 5.3.0. This release comes with major improvements as compared with the previous versions existing in PHP 5.x series. PHP version 5.3.0 has many new features, as well as bug fixes (in this release over 140 bugs were repaired). In the migration guide intended for the users of PHP 5.2.0 who want to upgrade to PHP 5.3.0, there are explained the main differences between versions 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 of PHP.
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:
Qcodo development framework is an environment for truly object oriented PHP coding. This framework is based on PHP 5 and remove the need for tedious hours of work by reducing them to minutes. Therefore prototypes will be rolled out in minutes, while the developers gain more time to refine the application functionality, usability, performance and security. Qcodo framework is capable to support complex projects and in the same time it will amaze you through its lightweight file size and structure.
According to a recent Google study, the web based applications response speed has a great influence over the user experience and can be analysed in correlation with its current features or new elements that could be added in the future. Therefore, the need for speed is obvious in case of all client or server side software, because an optimized time for the application response to a query will result in a better user experience. In order to provide a starting place for the people who need to know the details of the factors which affects web sites performance and how to implement the best strategies and practices to get the maximum possible web applications speed, a new website intended for developers was deployed on code.google.com/speed.
When you need to quickly build a small website, many of the existing free content management systems could have more customization options than needed, and as a consequence they are harder to setup. LightNEasy is a lightweight PHP content management system with a minimum amount of configuration parameters. Practically, without having HTML or PHP knowledge, you are allowed to rapidly deploy a simple website with ten or twenty pages in no time. The pages structure is compliant with the requirements of main SEO principles, therefore the website will be correctly indexed by the search engine spiders.
If you are new to cloud computing, it is a model which delivers the web platforms or software as services, such that anyone having just a modern web browser is able to deploy fast websites and applications, without buying and configure the necessary hardware or software. With more than 100,000 business applications already running on it, Force.com provides a set of tools and applications in the “cloud”, which speed up the development process up to five times and reduce the final product deployment costs with a half, as compared with JAVA or .NET platforms.
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.
After you have built a website, the next step is to show it to the world. Any successful website usually has a high traffic, reflected in a high number of unique visitors daily. In order to begin the creation of your website success, because just publishing it to the web is not enough, you should try to apply in practice the main principles of Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM offers basic strategies to attract more visitors to a website and in the same time to ensure a better website exposure over the Internet.
As an alternative to various software necessary to deploy PHP applications on Windows, Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Web PI 2.0) is a free tool that allows you to automatically download many products in the same time, like IIS, SQL Server Express, .NET Framework, Visual Web Developer, as well as the latest community version of PHP for Windows. Therefore, the user can easily develop and hosting PHP applications on IIS 7.0 with specific components provided through Web PI 2.0.
SPNbabble is a new microblogging platform deployed with Laconica software. It provides services similar with Twitter, Jaiku and Plurk, but SPNbabble is intended primarily for webmasters and site owners. People are allowed to publish short messages of 140 characters over the web. The messages are transmitted directly through the web, RSS feeds or can be automatically published in the same time on Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, Plurk and other popular social networking services.
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