The News Review:
- Facebook Wordpress.com lead “conversational” media growth: comScore
- MindTouch 2009 collaboration platform released
- Upgraded WordPress Membership Plugin Plus Bundled Hosting Lets …
- Microsoft bundles PHP WordPress other open-source apps into its …
- WordPress users may want to avoid Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 8
- 3 More Plugins To Speedup WordPress
- Top Wordpress Resources to List Your Wordpress Blog & Build Links
Facebook Wordpress.com lead “conversational” media growth: comScore
PRWeek
1 million visitors. Among blogging platforms Blogger. com ranked number one with 10 million visitors a 19% increase over 2007 followed by Wordpress. com with six million visitors a 57% increase.
MindTouch 2009 collaboration platform released
Ars Technica
In the new version the developers have augmented the product’s extensibility in an effort to make it easier to integrate MindTouch with workflows that involve external tools. The new messaging bus can serve as an interoperability bridge between various components in a company’s publishing and collaboration ecosystem. ne example cited by MindTouch is the ability to synchronize data between MindTouch 2009 and a Wordpress blog. The new system also offers a broad assortment of options for sending push notifications when content within the platform is changed. The notifications can be delivered through a number of channels ranging from e-mail to Twitter. The new version also provides a new plugin framework that allows developers to extend the functionality of the PHP-based MindTouch front-end. This can be used to implement specialized content views such as image galleries.
Upgraded WordPress Membership Plugin Plus Bundled Hosting Lets …
TMCnet
com via CMTEX) — Synergy Software Group announced the official launch of WP-Membership version 1. 0 available stand-alone or bundled with a choice of web hosting solutions. With either bundle anyone can have a complete WordPress-based membership site up and running almost instantly. Both bundles also include multiple pre-installed themes.
Microsoft bundles PHP WordPress other open-source apps into its …
The Industry Standard
Most notable are these:PHP – A scripting language for dynamic Web pages with recently improved support on Windows. WordPress – A Web publishing platform that claims to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world. Drupal – The social website platform I use at. Gallery – A Web-based photo gallery application geared toward social sites with built-in support for private and group access to photos. There’s another compelling reason for Microsoft to include some of its perceived competitors into its package: To dispel the notion that Microsoft is trying to block PHP in favor of its own ASP.
WordPress users may want to avoid Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 8
CMS Critic
but others worsened. A prime example is the WordPress dashboard. Those of you who use WordPress will know that there is a theme editor which loads the theme in an editing window for easy editing. Unfortunately IE8 doesn’t seem to think it should be in the middle of the page but rather pushes it under the right sidebar of the dashboard. no matter how maximized the screen is:.
3 More Plugins To Speedup WordPress
Connected Internet
Ensuring all of my plugins were up to date was my first task. I was quite surprised that when I went direct to the plugin author’s page how many were out of date. I’ve decided that relying on WordPress 2. 6+ to tell me that a plugin needs updating isn’t safe as not all authors remember to update their plugins on the WordPress site. Going through this process manually also allowed me to really contemplate whether some plugins I’d installed were really necessary. Deleting a few plugins made a big difference particularly database hogs like Brain’s Latest Comments and I now just use WordPress’s inbuilt tools to display latest comments. I’d advise checking whether you still ‘need’ plugins every month or so.
Top Wordpress Resources to List Your Wordpress Blog & Build Links
Search Engine Journal
And although a good deal of the lists out there can be overwhelming (I’m currently putting together a filtered list of the top blog and RSS directories on the net since the New Media 55 is very outdated) there are some. But what about those which only list Wordpress blogs?Wordpress is the premier blogging technology on the web so if you’re using Wordpress you’re already working smart. If you’re using Wordpress and your blog has an exceptional feel tone or design take full advantage of the opportunities which a business blog powered by Wordpress can bring you by submitting your Wordpress powered blog to these handful of sites which only feature Wordpress blogs.
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