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.
If you are looking for a convenient and unobtrusive audio player for your web pages, Yahoo! Media Player provides a lightweight and fast solution for your visitors to listen various audio files without leaving the current page or load Windows Media Player. (more…)
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…)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alongside the new Google Webmaster Tools graphical user interface, a new useful feature was also launched: Change of Address. It allows you to notify Google when a website is moved from one domain to another, also permitting a faster update of the Google index. As a consequence, Google will update its index to reflect the changes of a website URL. The changes will stay in effect for 180 days, while in this period of time, the pages will be indexed with their new URLs.
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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