Packt is pleased to announce WordPress 3 Cookbook , a new book that covers over 100 recipes to help users to develop their WordPress site.
Cracked open the newest WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate. Liked what I saw and wrote up a quick review. You can read the entire piece on OpenSourceCMS.pro:
WordPress 3.1 is getting closer; the new version is now in Release Candidate 4. While there were some fairly significant changes during the RC staging of this release, we feel that what is in the present RC is likely representative of the final production release. That means it’s time for us to take a first peek under the hood and find out what’s new in WordPress 3.1. Though 3.1 is only a minor version release, there are several noteworthy enhancements.
Posted a "how to" piece on using the WordPress 3 installer on OpenSourceCMS.pro. Here's the teaser, click the read more to view the full article on that site:
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Perhaps no system out there is easier to set up than the WordPress CMS. They say it’s a “5 minute” process, and they are not far from wrong. That said, if this is your first time to install one of these products, there are a few things you should be aware of. In this article, I take you for a quick stroll through the WordPress automatic installer, with lots of screenshots to show you what you can expect.
10 December 2010 - water&stone has released the 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Report. PHP-based systems WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal continue to dominate the web content management space. But, while the Big Three remain unchanged from last year, the Report concludes that WordPress has re-taken the overall lead from Joomla!.
This post is one of my favorite kinds of articles: That is, those that arise from real world experiences. A good friend of mine recently moved his personal site over to WordPress. At about the same time I had reason to build a couple of promotional microsites on WordPress. As a result of these two projects I had time to refresh my knowledge of WordPress plugins - and in the process I found some really useful items I’d like to share with you all.
In addition to must-have classics like Akismet or the All in One SEO Pack, I discovered a number of newer extensions that address common real world problems. I took the best of the bunch, added it into the list of plugins that make up our standard WordPress deployment, and put together this short article.
If you have incredibly useful favorites that are not on this list, please use the comment form at the bottom of this post to share your experiences.
Without further adieu, I present to you, my dear readers, a list of incredibly useful WordPress plugins:
