WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” available
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The much awaited WordPress 3.0 has been released and is faster, stabler, and more secure. New improvements the to popular blogging platform include Custom post types, MU merge, menu editor, Twenty Ten theme, over 1,200 bug fixes. A note of caution before you upgrade your WordPress installation. Because 3.0 is a major release, some changes [...]
WordPress 3.0: What to Expect – Updating Themes
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With 2 Betas released earlier this month, a final and working release of WordPress 3.0 is on track for sometime soon this month. As with most major release, WP3.0 will bring quite a few changes which might have a few compatibility issues with plugins and themes.
Multiple WordPress Sites:
Version 3 of the popular blogging platform will [...]
Blog Building: 3 Essential Plugins for Every Self-Hosted WordPress Site
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I have always maintained that WordPress is the best blogging platform be it your blog is hosted on wordpress.com or you have a self-hosted WordPress site. One of the reasons WordPress has become the preferred platform for both personal weblogs and corporate sites has to be the number of plugins and developers supporting the software. [...]
Blog Building: Optimized Web Images with Smush.it
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Using images in posts can make your blog more appealing to your readers. The only disadvantage with all your other banner ads running is large files can slow down the loading of your blog quite drastically. To get around that, there are a number of applications online that can ‘squash’ the size of your images. [...]
Blog Building: WordPress Means Business
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For those who are not already in the know, WordPress 3.0, Beta 1 is now available for download. WordPress is the most popular, most supported and most developed open-source blogging platform available. In terms of plugins and themes developed specifically for WordPress, these are the numbers as of 03, April 2010.
9,008 plugins, 83,343,791 downloads, and [...]
Blog Building: How to Configure W3 Total Cache to Work with WPtouch for WordPress
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In my earlier post My Pocket Web: Is Your Site Mobile Ready? – WPtouch for WordPress, I mentioned getting WPtouch to work with W3 Total Cache was frustrating at first but well worth the struggle once up and running. What I failed to share was how I finally managed to get it working after many [...]
My Pocket Web: Is Your Site Mobile Ready? – WPtouch for WordPress
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One quick question. How mobile is your site? Sure it is mobile enough that you do not need to carry it around. As long as you have a WiFi, EDGE, 3G connection, it should not be that difficult to visit your site is it? Well, think again.
Although most of us still surf the web today [...]
WordPress Plugins: W3 Total Cache v0.8.5.2 Upgrade Available
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W3 Total Cache just released a new upgrade of the powerful WordPress caching plugin. Included in the upgrade, is a rearrangement and better layout to the W3TC user interface in your WordPress Dashboard. It definitely looks more organized and hopefully less daunting to new users. If you are new or need some help in setting [...]
Socialize This: How social is your site?
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I have been thinking about this in recent months and the truth is nimopress is not very social. What I meant is it is not easy for readers to drop by and leave a decent comment. By decent, I mean not SPAM.
The truth is nimopress.com is new and all I have done so far is [...]
Follow nimopress, fresh off the press
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I will probably not be posting any articles over the weekend as I realised I have a fair bit of maintainance required on my sites. In the meantime, I just wanted to post a quick update to let everyone know following nimopress is now easier. You can easily follow nimopress on any of your favorite [...]
WordPress Plugins: Earth Hour
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For one, this plugin is not going to speed up, tune, tweak or do anything similar to your site. It might make yours an Ecologically Responsible Blog (ERB). Basically, the Earth Hour plugin by the same guys who brought you WPTouch for WordPress will turn off your site during Earth Hour. In the meantime, there [...]
Blog Building: How To Dramatically Speed Up Your WordPress Site with W3 Total Cache
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Awhile back, I wrote about 4 of the best caching plugins for WordPress. Sorry folks, if you are not using WordPress, this is not for you. Else, you should be publishing your site via WordPress. Anyways, of the 4 I featured, I settled for the one that I felt was the most robust and had [...]
Socialize This: Simple Facebook Connect, WordPress Plugin
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In the last article for the blog building series, we looked at auto-syndication of content to 3 main services namely OnlyWire, Ping.fm and Twitterfeed. Inevitably within the mix, Facebook is one of the targeted social network. Be it you decide to use all 3 syndicators or just one, you should be able to target Facebook [...]
Blog Building: How to Auto-Syndicate Your Content to Readers – OnlyWire, Ping.fm and Twitterfeed – Pt. 2
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This is a continuation to the last post yesterday on Blog Building – How to Auto-Syndicate Your Content to Readers – Ping.fm and Twitterfeed – Pt. 1
Stage D – OnlyWire (Push+)
OnlyWire is another auto-syndicating service pretty much like Ping.fm. The difference between the 2 are:
OnlyWire is able to Pull & Push at the same time.
OnlyWire requires a plugin installed [...]
WordPress Release: WordPress Update 2.9.2
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WordPress just released a minor update to the popular blog publishing platform to fixed a security bug. It would seem that trashed post can be seen by other logged in users. Depending on how sensitive the issue is to you or whether your site involves having registered users, you might want to upgrade to WordPress [...]
Blog Building: How to Auto-Syndicate Your Content to Readers – Ping.fm and Twitterfeed – Pt. 1
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Social bookmarking and networking has been around for sometime. The whole idea behind it is the syndication of your site content to the various services available. While Digg and Reddit continue to be the mainstream syndication targets, Facebook and Twitter have become extremely popular services due to the user interaction.
In syndication of content, reader syndication [...]
WordPress Release: WordPress 2.9.1 Update
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For those of you like me who have jumped on the recent WordPress 2.9 release, the 2.9.1 update might be what you are looking forward to. 2.9 brought some new features to WordPress self-hosted blogs and evidently, some bugs as well.
For the patient and more cautious WordPress brethren who had held back on the first [...]
WordPress Plugins: WP-Optimize
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If you are looking around for a plugin to optimize your WordPress blog, WP-Optimize is a pretty sweet one that will do the job nicely and a few extras.
WordPress is a rather lean blogging platform as is. Until we start installing all sorts of plugins and adding new JavaScript. Be warned that WP-Optimize won’t do [...]
Blog Building: Integrating WordPress with Facebook and Twitter
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For awhile now, I have tried to figure out the best way to leverage on WordPress and Facebook.
I now have a few blogs that I administer and would like posts that I published show up on Facebook as well. There are many WordPress plugins available that will do that very easily.
In fact, without the use [...]
WordPress Plugins: Wibiya Toolbar
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About 3 weeks back, I posted an article on a beta toolbar by wibiya. At that stage, the toolbar was at a test stage and only available via invitation. In order to get the toolbar for your blog, you needed to register and request for an invitation coupon code. Depending on circumstances, you would usually [...]
WordPress Bug: WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1
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I am assuming most folks would have upgraded to WP Release 2.9 by now. The new release had a few nice little trick but somehow created a bug. That would explain why I had 4 ‘scheduled’ posts reporting ‘missed schedule’ over the past 4 days. Oh well, the only fix is either to wait for [...]
WordPress Plugins: Best of 4 Caching Plugins
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WordPress on it’s own is pretty robust and loads really fast. The only possible scenarios where your WordPress site get really slow are:
Overloaded with plugins and javascripts
Inefficient CSS stylesheets in your template making calls
Something broken on your WordPress code.
Of the 3 above, the first 2 tends to be the most common reasons for a slow [...]
Blog Building: Site Branding – iPhone custom bookmark icons and favicons
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Here is one small tip often overlooked by webmasters and bloggers, “think branding”.
No, we are not talking about big marketing budgets and PR events. Of course, if you had the budget for that, by all means. Yet for the small time blogger (myself inclusive) your online branding could mean the difference between return visits or [...]
WordPress: WordPress 2.9 Released
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I’m supprised the full released followed RC1 in just 2 days. I’m definitely not complaining here. Most notable new features that will come in very useful for me at least will be image editor, batch plugin upload and video embeds. Very sweet new features. The trash thing should have happened long ago. Still, I am [...]
