- Do you need a premium Wordpress theme?
- sitepoint Podcast #25: wordpress with Matt Mullenweg
- Wordpress gets own URL shortener

Do you need a premium Wordpress theme?
Examiner.com
Before looking at what types of blogs should and shouldn’t use a premium theme let’s first look at what a premium theme offers to bloggers. I believe that a premium theme offers the following features:A slick way to integrate images into the overall presentation of your siteA way to attract users to "Featured" articlesA more visual way to organize your topics or categories; often through the use of colors or various layout schemes. What type of blogs should use a premium Wordpress theme?If your visitors come to your blog because they are looking for interesting thoughts or opinions on a specific subject such as finance investing politics a specific industry etc. then I do not recommend a premium Wordpress theme. Your content is what matters the most in these situations; thus I recommend going the way of a simple free theme. If your blog is more of a news type site or a magazine format (most blogs should not be magazine formats despite what many people believe) then a premium theme may be the way to go. If you need to feature images because you are a photographer or because your images are a prime attraction to visitors then you should also consider a premium theme.

sitepoint Podcast #25: wordpress with Matt Mullenweg
SitePoint
Listen in your BrowserPlay this episode directly in your browser! Just click the orange ?play? button below: AudioPlayer. embed(”pod_audio_1″ {soundFile: “http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.
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Wordpress gets own URL shortener
CNET News
com has launched just exactly this:. When you’re creating a post on the Wordpress.

- Three steps to search engine optimization or SE
- Do you need a premium Wordpress theme?
- WordPress Bible Book Tour

Three steps to search engine optimization or SE
Examiner.com
Stick to content that is very niche oriented and do not spread your net too wide. Make sure you use appropriate tags within the code of your site. The very best way to do this is by using. Within your content always tell your readers what your site is for and don’t make them guess about what it is you want them to do.
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Do you need a premium Wordpress theme?
Examiner.com
Before looking at what types of blogs should and shouldn’t use a premium theme let’s first look at what a premium theme offers to bloggers. I believe that a premium theme offers the following features:A slick way to integrate images into the overall presentation of your siteA way to attract users to "Featured" articlesA more visual way to organize your topics or categories; often through the use of colors or various layout schemes. What type of blogs should use a premium Wordpress theme?If your visitors come to your blog because they are looking for interesting thoughts or opinions on a specific subject such as finance investing politics a specific industry etc. then I do not recommend a premium Wordpress theme. Your content is what matters the most in these situations; thus I recommend going the way of a simple free theme. If your blog is more of a news type site or a magazine format (most blogs should not be magazine formats despite what many people believe) then a premium theme may be the way to go. If you need to feature images because you are a photographer or because your images are a prime attraction to visitors then you should also consider a premium theme.

WordPress Bible Book Tour
Technosailor
Clearly I would love to do such a thing but without tremendous support it is not in the cards. However more recently as I’ve just reached my 50% writing deadline I’ve thought more seriously about going on the road next year after the book goes on sale. (It’s slated currently for Feb 22 2010 and you can pre-order the book now on Amazon for $31.

- Wordpress gets own URL shortener
- Summer News Roundup
- Chicago Website Design Firm Says Wordpress Is A Great Tool To …

Wordpress gets own URL shortener
CNET News
com has launched just exactly this:. When you’re creating a post on the Wordpress.

Summer News Roundup
The UTD Mercury
Convention-3751387. WordCamp is a community-organized event put together by users of WordPress. The events are a forum for everyone from casual WordPress users to core developers to participate share ideas and get to know one another. The event the second of its kind held in the Dallas area had 17 speakers on topics ranging from podcasting to making money off blogs. After hosting last year’s event at the Frisco City Hall council chambers organizer and UTD alumnus John Pozadzides said UTD’s involvement with the event would help promote its reputation as a leader in technology. EPPS dean to retireBrian Berry will be stepping down in 2010 for a new predecessor after four years as dean of the School of Economic Political and Policy Sciences.

Chicago Website Design Firm Says Wordpress Is A Great Tool To …
dBusinessNews Chicago (press release)
A website is the extension of a business or it can also be a part of your individuality depicting who you or your business is. Today websites need to be much more user friendly in order to increase traffic and get more customers. ne of the simplest things to do is to add a CMS or Content Management System into your websitewhich will take care of all the contents being added to the site making it easy to edit later. With the help of a CMS it becomes very easy to launch and maintain a site and keep it updated easily adding photos and new stories as the need presents itself.
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- Bounceweb Introduces Blog Hosting With WordPress Auto Installer
- Posterous + iPhone = Perfect Mobile Platform
- Just another WordPress weblog
- Pointing you dear readers in a new direction
- Is this Michael Vick’s blog?
- Wapple creates mobile site for the Mobile Data Association
- What You Must Do to Your Joomla Drupal Wordpress or HTML Website …

Bounceweb Introduces Blog Hosting With WordPress Auto Installer
Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung)
However most of the best WordPress installers are never offered along with web hosting. However things are very different in the case of bounceweb. “We understand the fact that the people who are looking for web hosting will also require in building their websites. Particularly when it comes to hosting blogs people look for auto installers.

Posterous + iPhone = Perfect Mobile Platform
TheAppleBlog
And so over the years I’ve accumulated my fair share of blogging accounts. I’m very active on Twitter have a WordPress blog a Flickr account Facebook and a rarely-used LiveJournal account. Keeping them all updated is frustrating though. I’ve ended up just posting to WordPress and using the Twittertools plug-in to feed the post to Twitter (which also feeds into Facebook). It’s not elegant but it works. I’ve said before that my iPhone is the.

Just another WordPress weblog
KFG
Multiple items were taken to include: 8 cases of Coors light and 4 cases of Michelob golden light numerous sweatshirts and baseball hats with the logo of the race track and also a stereo system. An item was found on the racetrack that could help identify the suspects (see above photo). If anyone has any information about this incident please contact Detective Jason Hicks at the Clay County Sheriff?s ffice.

Pointing you dear readers in a new direction
Minneapolis Star Tribune
You’ll notice a lot of new things over there including a different picture a different way to comment and a different way to read posts. Basically we’ve kicked the WordPress habit. It was good for us for the better part of three years but it was time for a switch. Don’t fear change! Just follow us over there and earn valuable reading prizes.

Is this Michael Vick’s blog?
ff the Record
com? GlobalGrind is owned by Russell Simmons so it’s not some goofy WordPress blog (like this one). The interesting part of all this is that PFT editor Mike Florio contacted Philadelphia Eagles media relations dude Derek Boyko and Boyko responded that it isn’t Vick’s because he “just asked him.

Wapple creates mobile site for the Mobile Data Association
GoMo News
Through the new Wapple Architect Joomla plug-in MDA web content is now mobile web friendly providing the very best user experience for every existing and future mobile browser. Images are automatically resized and navigation along with the look and feel of the website is appropriately arranged for mobile consumption. In addition the MDA blog which is part of the main website is updated and tailored to mobile through Wapple Architect?s Wordpress plug-in which works in exactly the same way as the one built for Joomla. ?Wapple entered our MDA Awards in 2008 and won their class ? Best Mobile Data Application (Corporate); so when we decided to mobilise our web content it seemed the perfect choice and a fitting tribute to the product? said Martin Ballard director at the MDA. ?ur website currently has 250000 hits a month from 30000 unique visitors and now through Wapple?s technology mobile users will be delivered with optimised and up-to-the-minute mobile friendly web content regardless of the capabilities of their device. ?By using Wapple technology the MDA needn?t worry about its mobile site being search engine friendly; Wapple?s Joomla and Wordpress plug-ins retain all web URLs so that only a single domain needs to be promoted and Google only has to spider a single set of website addresses. ?We are delighted to be working with the MDA to optimise its web content for mobile and it is a great showcase to the mobile industry? said Anne Thomas C at Wapple.
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What You Must Do to Your Joomla Drupal Wordpress or HTML Website …
Free press releases (press release)
The book is broken into 10 easy to understand chapters to help you ensure your website is working at its full potential to drive traffic and business to your website. Scott Eagle Webmaster to hundreds of websites reveals the techniques you need to gain better exposure online and rank higher in search engines. Unlike other SE Books this book is written by a website designer coder and system administrator who deals solely with your website and how to better your keywords and position on Google Yahoo MSN and more! This book is now available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble nline to name a few. We all want our website to be at the top of the search engine when someone types in something similar to our company or service.

- What You Must Do to Your Joomla Drupal Wordpress or HTML Website …
- Just another WordPress weblog
- 5 steps to achieve a “hot” blog
- VAnetworking.com Presents FREE eSeminar: W T WW – TIPS FR …
- Make Your wn URL Shortening Service

What You Must Do to Your Joomla Drupal Wordpress or HTML Website …
Free press releases (press release)
The book is broken into 10 easy to understand chapters to help you ensure your website is working at its full potential to drive traffic and business to your website. Scott Eagle Webmaster to hundreds of websites reveals the techniques you need to gain better exposure online and rank higher in search engines. Unlike other SE Books this book is written by a website designer coder and system administrator who deals solely with your website and how to better your keywords and position on Google Yahoo MSN and more! This book is now available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble nline to name a few. We all want our website to be at the top of the search engine when someone types in something similar to our company or service.
Related from Webdesignmonster: Joomla web design offers businesses with an affordable website …

Just another WordPress weblog
KFG
Multiple items were taken to include: 8 cases of Coors light and 4 cases of Michelob golden light numerous sweatshirts and baseball hats with the logo of the race track and also a stereo system. An item was found on the racetrack that could help identify the suspects (see above photo). If anyone has any information about this incident please contact Detective Jason Hicks at the Clay County Sheriff?s ffice.

5 steps to achieve a “hot” blog
Examiner.com
I’ve already told you how you can create a professional looking blog through email by utilizing Posterous but what if you have the resources and interest in building a more customized permanent outpost on the web? Easy look to WordPress. WordPressWordPress is hands-down the most capable extendable platform for blogging today. The price isn’t bad either – free. You can either host a WordPress site on your own domain (recommended) or utilize WordPress. com’s own hosting solution. You’ll have more flexibility to add the fun plugin’s and widgets to your site if you host it yourself but in a pinch.

VAnetworking.com Presents FREE eSeminar: W T WW – TIPS FR …
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) (Pressemitteilung)
com is pleased to announce a seminar presented by Crystal Pina VAnetworking Presents a FREE eSeminar on: W T WW – TIPS FR WRDPRESS SUCCESSn Wednesday August 19 2009 at 6:00 p. EST Crystal Pina Topic Description Crystal will review some of the major issues that cause WordPress blogs to malfunction and give the audience some tips on how to avoid those problems. She will also review the latest information on.

Make Your wn URL Shortening Service
Lifehacker
There are lots of other options which we’ll get to as well but Yourls is a fairly smart and fast way to get up and running with your own URL shortener. What you’ll needHosted or DIY server space: That space must be running at least PHP 4.

- Twitter WordPress Ning & GoDaddy All Sued In Mistargeted Lawsuit …
- Why can’t local government and open source be friends?
- NiftyClicks: SpotRunnerWordPress Blist Google Insights

Twitter WordPress Ning & GoDaddy All Sued In Mistargeted Lawsuit …
Techdirt
It involves some condo owners and who used Twitter blogs and other websites to apparently accuse the condo board president of a variety of things including “murder bribery extortion illicit payoffs and corruption. ” Assuming those things are untrue it would appear that the guy targeted by all this Daniel Neiditch has a decent defamation claim. However rather than just sue those folks responsible for the message Neiditch’s lawyers appear to have sued pretty much every company that these messages could loosely be associated with including. As Sam Bayard notes in the link it appears that Neiditch’s lawyers appear not to know about Section 230 of the CDA. That’s a pretty big one for your lawyers to miss when filing a lawsuit like this.
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Why can’t local government and open source be friends?
guardian.co.uk
” This is peculiar as Wordpress was available (and as solid as any CMS) in 2005 runs on MySQL and PHP (which are both free products used by some of the largest companies in the world such as airlines and Yahoo). And there are pots of programmers around with MySQL and PHP skills. Even when the project.

NiftyClicks: SpotRunnerWordPress Blist Google Insights
Small Business Computing
It’s also search engine friendly which helps you to get more visitor traffic. You’ll discover lots of WordPress related resources in this section including design templates and numerous handy plugins that extend the features of WordPress.

- NiftyClicks: SpotRunnerWordPress Blist Google Insights
- 99designs.com ffers ne Stop Shop to Get Custom WordPress Themes …
- WebmasterRadio.FM August Programming to Feature New Shows on …
- Pimping my Website with Plugins
- Find a chance to write for money

NiftyClicks: SpotRunnerWordPress Blist Google Insights
Small Business Computing
It’s also search engine friendly which helps you to get more visitor traffic. You’ll discover lots of WordPress related resources in this section including design templates and numerous handy plugins that extend the features of WordPress.

99designs.com ffers ne Stop Shop to Get Custom WordPress Themes …
Business Wire (press release) (press release)
Starting at just $369 WordPress users can have a community of over 41000 graphic designers compete to design a custom theme for their WordPress powered site or blog and then select to add a professional coding and installation service that would get their site up and running in just 5 days. To launch a design project for a custom WordPress theme at 99designs. com users simply create a design brief describing their site and design requirements including guidance on colors styles or other elements that they would like to see or avoid. They then set their budget and choose if they would like to add the optional coding and installation service. The design community then begins submitting designs for consideration as the project holder guides the process by providing the designers feedback on their submitted work.

WebmasterRadio.FM August Programming to Feature New Shows on …
PR Web (press release)
5em; margin-left: 0. 5em; line-height: 1. "Inboxed" is a e-mail marketing program recently added to the network that offers best practices for email marketing strategies hosted XY7 and Rapid Response Marketing CE Kevin De Vincenzi Marketing Director Jon Fondy and and email marketing expert Adam Young. The program airs Wednesdays at 5pm Eastern 2pm Pacific. "Search Cowboys" is a program that covers news on search engine marketing social media and other related subjects.
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Pimping my Website with Plugins
Web 2.0 Journal
The world of web development has been blessed by a little friend called a plugin that allows webmaster?s to pimp their websites. A plugin is the webmasters best friend when designing personalized websites via open source (aka free) CMS (content management systems) like WordPress or Joomla. They are many times free or available for low subscriptions or onetime fees. WordPress and Joomla are common open source or free software packages that are available for download and usage via the Internet. These two CMS packages represent a easy to use software program that allows provides the backbone or a website. Both come with fairly basic functionality that can be expanded by searching for and adding any number of plugins.

Find a chance to write for money
Detroit Free Press
You can start a blog. Go to LiveJournal Blogger or WordPress to get started. With enough readers you can add advertising or you can sign up for pay-per-post opportunities.

- WordPress Plan 2.9 Release
- New report from Giovanni Farotto unveiling the secrets of social …
- WordPress 2.9 Multimedia Features Votes Results Are Here
- 100000 users to get Google Wave this fall
- The Little Secret of Web Startups

WordPress Plan 2.9 Release
TechnoFinger
9 ReleaseWordPress Plan 2. 9 ReleaseWordPress the free and open-source content management system have announced that version 2. 9 will focus on media management features. A recent poll on their blog asked users what they would like best to improve the way images video and audio are handled. Let’s face it the way that images have to be managed is a pretty dire system. Plugins like Next Gen Gallery have somewhat improved the way one inserts galleries and slideshows but it ain’t easy to upload and insert a single image.

New report from Giovanni Farotto unveiling the secrets of social …
BigNews.biz (press release)
But their fast evolution allows the growth of multiple possibilities to exploit them. Giovanni Farotto from Blog Auto Poster’s Blog is releasing a new book about the integration tools of two of the most used platforms in this field. Giovanni Farotto said: “As a blogger I understand most of our readers are bloggers themselves and the most used blogging platform is Wordpress. Furthermore since a large part of our traffic comes from Twitter I know they use Twitter too. Blog Auto poster’s Blog publishes good quality content dealing with list building traffic generation strategies and blogging as a whole. Its author has previously released another book teaching the techniques helping to become a blogger without being a professional writer. This new book covers some of the most useful tools for connecting Twitter and Wordpress.
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WordPress 2.9 Multimedia Features Votes Results Are Here
CMSWire
9 cut at some point in July and so they came skidding into home at the last possible minute. ver 3500 WordPress enthusiasts responded to.

100000 users to get Google Wave this fall
CNET News
To be a part of that first run users will have had to have signed up to use the service on Google’s invite page. Along with a hard date on the semi-public beta test Google also highlighted a few developer creations using Wave’s API. Similar tools that let you do that with other social and blogging can be expected as Wave’s API matures.

The Little Secret of Web Startups
Washington Post
You have two basic choices: A paid offering or a free offering (or freemium). If you charge people a penny you?ll turn off the bulk of your visitors. If you offer free services you might grow to be the next YouTube Wordpress or Facebook. Most entrepreneurs are not risk-averse and the dream of being big is just too appealing and the majority of us take the ?free-route?. nce you offer something for free all shades of people will try to benefit from your service. You?d think a service like Sampa with a strong family and baby branding would just repel small business teenagers criminals etc. but that?s not the case at all.

- wordpress Declares 2.0.X Editions as Deprecated wordpress …
- The Little Secret of Web Startups
- 100000 users to get Google Wave this fall
- Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories Memes and Moments (1-Aug-2009)
- Bid Farewell WordPress 2.0.x is Dead and Buried
- Security experts’ sites hacked on eve of Black Hat conference
- WordPress Gets Wicked Blog from Your BlackBerry

wordpress Declares 2.0.X Editions as Deprecated wordpress …
Softpedia
X branch has been declared deprecated and no more security updates will be available from now on. Even if WordPress officially committed to sustaining security improvements and porting many modern features in the 2.

The Little Secret of Web Startups
Washington Post
You have two basic choices: A paid offering or a free offering (or freemium). If you charge people a penny you?ll turn off the bulk of your visitors. If you offer free services you might grow to be the next YouTube Wordpress or Facebook. Most entrepreneurs are not risk-averse and the dream of being big is just too appealing and the majority of us take the ?free-route?. nce you offer something for free all shades of people will try to benefit from your service. You?d think a service like Sampa with a strong family and baby branding would just repel small business teenagers criminals etc. but that?s not the case at all.

100000 users to get Google Wave this fall
CNET News
To be a part of that first run users will have had to have signed up to use the service on Google’s invite page. Along with a hard date on the semi-public beta test Google also highlighted a few developer creations using Wave’s API. Similar tools that let you do that with other social and blogging can be expected as Wave’s API matures.

Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories Memes and Moments (1-Aug-2009)
CMSWire
Highlights of the Week. 9 Multimedia Features Votes Results Are Here.

Bid Farewell WordPress 2.0.x is Dead and Buried
CMSWire
Jaquith's comment is in reference to the recent decision to axe the 2. x legacy branch even though it was was.

Security experts’ sites hacked on eve of Black Hat conference
CNET News
html” >one of the first hackers to be prosecuted for computer crimes; and the PerlMunks programmer community among others. A long treatise was posted to Kaminsky’s Web site with the data and criticisms accusing the victims of hyping security threats to advance their careers and lacking security expertise. It’s unclear how the sites were breached but several of the blogs attacked were running on WordPress and there were allusions to vulnerabilities in the software. “It’s just drama” Kaminsky said when asked to comment. “If there was anything technically interesting to discuss cool. But I hope that my dating life was interesting” said Kaminsky who was preparing for an afternoon presentation on problems with X. 509 an encryption standard for public key infrastructure.
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WordPress Gets Wicked Blog from Your BlackBerry
CMSWire
Since the announcement of the native application a few similar offerings from competitors have come out of the woodwork. Wicked an application from a company called.

- The Little Secret of Web Startups
- WordPress 2.0.x is no longer supported
- Bid Farewell WordPress 2.0.x is Dead and Buried
- WordPress retires 2.0.x legacy branch
- WordPress Gets Wicked Blog from Your BlackBerry
- 100000 users to get Google Wave this fall

The Little Secret of Web Startups
Washington Post
You have two basic choices: A paid offering or a free offering (or freemium). If you charge people a penny you?ll turn off the bulk of your visitors. If you offer free services you might grow to be the next YouTube Wordpress or Facebook. Most entrepreneurs are not risk-averse and the dream of being big is just too appealing and the majority of us take the ?free-route?. nce you offer something for free all shades of people will try to benefit from your service. You?d think a service like Sampa with a strong family and baby branding would just repel small business teenagers criminals etc. but that?s not the case at all.

WordPress 2.0.x is no longer supported
TechWhack
However it has become way too complicated for them to support the users on the earlier versions. A lot has changed since then. WordPress is already on version 2. Mark Jaquith said in a blog post:Many of the security improvements to the new versions of WordPress in the last couple of years were complete reworks of how various systems were handled. Porting those changes to the 2.

Bid Farewell WordPress 2.0.x is Dead and Buried
CMSWire
Jaquith's comment is in reference to the recent decision to axe the 2. x legacy branch even though it was was.

WordPress retires 2.0.x legacy branch
Global Gold Internet Services
The organisation had originally committed to maintain the 2. x legacy branch which was first launched in 2005 until the start of 2010. However the decision to introduce reworked security improvements to newer versions of WordPress have meant it has become increasingly difficult to maintain the branch without creating new bugs.

WordPress Gets Wicked Blog from Your BlackBerry
CMSWire
Since the announcement of the native application a few similar offerings from competitors have come out of the woodwork. Wicked an application from a company called.

100000 users to get Google Wave this fall
CNET News
To be a part of that first run users will have had to have signed up to use the service on Google’s invite page. Along with a hard date on the semi-public beta test Google also highlighted a few developer creations using Wave’s API. Similar tools that let you do that with other social and blogging can be expected as Wave’s API matures.
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