New Theme Released: Rainbow Sky V1.0
June 3, 2009 by admin
Filed under Featured Themes
Latest version: 1.0
Release date: 06/03/2009
Tags: two-columns, right sidebar, fixed-width
Widget-ready: Yes
Compatible up to: WP 2.7x
Bing Goes Live With Good Reviews
June 1, 2009 by admin
Filed under Featured Posts
Microsoft launched a preview version of Bing its new “decision” engine this morning. Here are some early web reviews:
TechCrunch reports positive reader comments.
CNET also seems won over by Bing.
While the reviews are mostly positive for Microsoft, they have a lot of ground to make up. Google still controls 64 percent of the search market as of April 2009 compared to Microsoft’s share of 8.2 percent.
WordPress for iPhone
Introducing the only iPhone app that lets you write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.5.1 or higher), users of all experience levels can get going in seconds. Read more…
The Magic of Mystery
May 27, 2009 by admin
Filed under Articles, Featured Posts, Fun Stuff
A great essay by Lost creator J.J. Abrams. Seriously funny story near the end of the article that helps put the immediacy of technology into perspective.
Hint: Sit back and enjoy the ride!
Click here to read J.J. Abrams on the Magic of Mystery.
WordPress As CMS
Ever since the very early releases of WordPress, users have been eager to customize the software to suit their own needs. Indeed one of the more prevalent needs in today’s context is the need for content management, or more specifically, a Content Management System (CMS). With its flexibility and power, WordPress can be customized into a full fledged CMS, and many people are already doing just that.
In computing, a content management system (CMS) is a document centric collaborative application for managing documents and other content. A CMS is often a web application and often it is used as a method of managing web sites and web content.
In plain English, CMS is basically a blog on steroids. It’s also more formal and usually used on bigger websites. There are a few semantic differences as well. For example, in a CMS posts are not called posts but articles and there are many other variations.
Changing WordPress into a CMS involves customizing the Theme and possibly the Administration Panels through the use of coding and WordPress Plugins. While you don’t have to be an expert in XHTML, CSS, or PHP, it doesn’t hurt either.
Click here to learn more about WordPress as a CMS.
Learning WordPress
Start Reading
Before you invest your valuable time and energy into installing WordPress, there are some documents you need to read. WordPress is a great product; it’s easy-to-use, it’s quite powerful, but it isn’t necessarily the right software for everyone. Just like building a house, you have to use the right tool for the right job.
WordCamp San Francisco
May 30, 2009 – Mission Bay Conference Center, UCSF
WordCamp San Francisco is a conference organized by the creators of WordPress for our users and developers. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. The event is open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.
Click here to register or to get more details about event speakers and schedule.
Make Friends With BuddyPress
May 10, 2009 by admin
Filed under Featured Posts
What if there was software with the elegance and extensibility of WordPress but all the features you’ve come to expect from social networks like Facebook? Now there is: check out BuddyPress.
BuddyPress is an official sister project of WordPress. The idea behind it was to see what would happen to the web if it was as easy for anyone to create a social network as it is to create a blog today. Read more…