WordPress has started bringing WordPress.com features to WordPress.org sites. Jetpack is a new plugin for WordPress.org sites that provides some amazing features. We have decided to start testing out Jetpack on Crenk and it has been great so far. Jetpack is completely and will always be free.
The Jetpack plugin includes:
WordPress 3.1 is here and it contains a lot of great additions, user interface changes and of course bug fixes. The update is not a security update which means that there is no rush to install it directly.
Other noteworthy features are:
Interested users can visit the WordPress Codec for an in depth overview of all the features that have been added, improved or changed in the recent release.
SimplyBiz is a great new free WordPress theme for a business portfolio. The design comes with a professional design, navigation supports dropdown features as well as adding short description to parents menu, has portfolio slider which built on custom post type that wordpress 3.0 comes with, has 3 services panel page, featured video on sidebar and a lot more.
The theme is completely free and can be downloaded now at WPcrunchy.
Cloud hosting is becoming more popular by the day. At the moment we are looking to move Crenk and our other network sites over to the Rackspace Cloud. I had a little bit of trouble moving over WordPress to the Rackspace Cloud Sites, so I went looking to help. Here is a great tutorial on how to install WordPress on the Rackspace Cloud Sites, which really helped!
Click here for the full video tutorial.
Cloud hosting is becoming more popular by the day. At the moment we are looking to move Crenk and our other network sites over to the Rackspace Cloud. I had a little bit of trouble moving over WordPress to the Rackspace Cloud Sites, so I went looking to help. Here is a great tutorial on how to install WordPress on the Rackspace Cloud Sites, which really helped!
Vanadiumitic WordPress Theme is an amazing new magazine type blog theme. Vanadiumitic is a premium theme which features an image slider, dropdown menu, subscription buttons (Twitter, Facebook and RSS), automatic thumbnail resizer, popular posts, featured posts, featured video and a lot more!
Its completely WordPress 3.0 compatible and free to download.
WordPress has just released an update to WordPress 3.0.5. According to the developers, WordPress 3.0.5 is a ” security hardening update for all previous WordPress versions” that fixes two moderate security issues and one information disclosure issue, and adds two security enhancements to the blogging application.
The summary lists the following changes:
WordPress 3.0.5 is available for download at the official WordPress site as well for users who want to install the update manually on their server.
I came across an amazing tutorial on how to create your own custom wordpress theme. This tutorial provides a great step by step guide on creating your very first wordpress theme.
Click here for the full tutorial.
Vandelay designs has put together an amazing list of the top Real Estate wordpress themes. All of these wordpress themes are very high quality and would be perfect for anyone looking to setup their own Real Estate site.
The WP Mobile Detector WordPress plugin lets users view an optimised version of your WordPress theme for standard mobile phones and smartphones.
The WP Mobile Detector plugin also includes an installer that will configure everything automatically. All you have to do is install and activate the plugin.
Included in this plugin is the Jester Mobile, Anakin Mobile, Casper Mobile, Colbalt Mobile, Mojo Mobile, Viper Mobile, and Bluesteel Mobile advanced mobile themes, all featuring the jQuery framework.
The #followfriday Spanish blog compiled a report, using FilterTweeps, about Twitter profiles and people’s URL: Facebook is the preferred URL taking the 28% of Twitter users.
This blog is in charge of analyzing the #FollowFriday (or #FF) recommendations to create this type of reports, in this case combining their Twitter users database (with over 11 million users) with FilterTweeps, a powerful web app for searching users in Twitter.
The results of the URL in Twitter profiles show a preference by users to insert their Facebook home pages, taking the 28% of the total users. The other sites in the list are: Blogspot, 20%; Myspace, 13%; Tumblr, 8.3%; Orkut, 8%; Twitter (why?!), 6%. You can find the entire list here.
