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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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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Monday, May 11th, 2009
YouTube is a great source of video content for any website or blog. Every video published on YouTube website has an automatically generated HTML code, which can be copied and pasted into an existing website page in order to include and republish a certain video. If you want to create a full featured PHP video blog or website, there are available many libraries to simplify the YouTube video republishing process. A free library to display YouTube video galleries automatically in WordPress blog posts, pages or sidebar is TubePress.
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
There are many situations when you need to have a different layout for a certain page in a WordPress blog from various reasons. For example, a banner does not fit to the layout offered by the default page template or you just want to remove a sidebar because an iframe does not appear correctly. The solution for these issues is simpler than you might think: WordPress platform supports more pages templates with different layouts, that can be selected while a new page is edited or created from the administration area.
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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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Monday, April 6th, 2009
flShow Carousel is a well known Flash image gallery which allows you to present photos with a carousel like effect. In case of a ready made content management system, like WordPress blogging platform, the manual installation and configuration of image galleries with flShow Carousel could be a complex task for beginners.
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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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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
For beginners webmasters who need to build templates without knowing HTML or CSS, Artisteer Windows based software provides the necessary tools to automate the web design related tasks. Artisteer allows you to instantly create professionally looking layouts for any website and themes for popular content management systems like Joomla!, Drupal or WordPress, only with a few mouse clicks.
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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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Monday, March 16th, 2009
Facebook Connect, the popular Facebook Platform extension which allows you to build social networks on any website, was made available for Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Now, you will be able to communicate with your friends from within Facebook Connect enabled applications contained in Apple’s App Store. (Related Articles: Useful Plugins For Adding Social Networking Features To Your WordPress Blog, Facebook Connect Makes Easier The Comments Posting on Lifehacker)
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
By allowing your website or blog visitors to express their opinions about an article or an information published inside the web pages, you gain more fresh content and an increased traffic. A commenting system will encourage the on-site communication at the users level, leading to better values of bounce rates, because visitors will stay longer and will view more pages. With a different functionality than the one corresponding to the commonly used commenting systems, IntenseDebate comes with innovative features that will change the traditional online commenting experience.
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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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