After 3 months plus of the release of WordPress 2.5, today WordPress 2.6 is made available! There are several new features being introduced in this new version and it is recommended for this upgrade because it fixes approximately 194 bugs.
Check out the following short clip for a preview of WordPress 2.6.
Are you a WordPress user? Will you update to WordPress 2.6? Find out more about WordPress 2.6 here.
When you think of starting a blog, you might think of starting it out from Blogger or the free WordPress.com just before you go further on buying a domain and host your own blog with your favorite CMS (Content Management System) / blog software.
Although there are several popular CMS other than WordPress, such as Joomla, Drupal, Movable Type, etc.. WordPress seems to be the most widely used platform in the blogosphere.
That derives a new problem. People tend to get jeolous or start to cultivate mischievious ideas when you are getting popular. WordPress, naturally became the target for hackers. It doesn’t mean that other blogging platforms is far from hackers. WordPress, in this case, has a higher percentage of being targetted by hackers.
Now, a question for you as the title suggested:
How secure in your WordPress blog? (if you are running your blog under Wordrpess)
Did you buy a domain and get your WordPress blog hosted there? It is always a nice idea to also make your computer a local server, and install WordPress in it. I always encourage my blogger friends to have WordPress installed in their local computer.
Why? Because you can easily customize your theme, test out plugins and other features of WordPress, before you upload the whole thing or implement the plugins that you are going to use, to your host. You can see the result almost instantly, as localhost connection is always faster.
If you ask me how do I customize my blog theme, I will tell you that, I have a local server installed in my computer which is not open to public and I can just preview any changes I made easily without disturbing my current online blog theme.
All you need is a web server application, Apache, MySQL database and PhpMyAdmin application. There are several open source all-in-one web server application you can choose from. I would suggest you to use WAMP or XAMPP. [...more]
A week ago, WordPress announced that WordPress 2.5 RC1 is available for download. 4 days ago, another released known as the RC2 has been made available. The WordPress development team is really getting their hands fast on this. Today WordPress 2.5 is finally released to public, the stable version.
I believe a lot of blogs will be mentioning about this, however, I would still like to inform all my readers about the release of WordPress 2.5. A list of plugins have been tested for compatibility with WordPress 2.5. Before updating your WordPress, please make sure that all the plugins that you are currently using is compatible.
I’ll download version 2.5 and install in my local machine and test it out before uploading the new bunch of codes to my host. Are you ready for WordPress 2.5?
The biggest difference between a Blogger (blogspot) and a WordPress blog is the use of custom plugins. These plugins have made WordPress blogs better in terms of functionality. Believe it or not, a lot of WordPress blog owners depend a lot on plugins. If you understand the structure and the codes, you can even make your own WordPress plugin.
How flexible! This additional piece of codes can benefit both you and your readers.
There are a lot of custom ready made WordPress plugins available to feed your needs. Here is a list of 16 great plugins which I think is really useful (however some are optional) for enhancing your WordPress blogs.
[1] Adsense Manager Control and arrange your AdSense & Referral blocks on your WordPress blog. With Widget and inline post support, configurable colours. If you monetize your blog with Google Adsense, this is a good plugin that allow you to add your Google Adsense ads using widget.
[2] Akismet Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments”. By deafault, this plugin is included in every WordPress.org blogware. All you need is the WordPress.com API key to activate this feature. Signup an account in WordPress.com to obtain the API key. Without this plugin, you will receive a lot of spam comments when time pass by.
After 3 months plus of the release of WordPress 2.5, today WordPress 2.6 is made available! There are several new features being introduced in this new version and it is recommended for this upgrade because it fixes approximately 194 bugs.
When you think of starting a blog, you might think of starting it out from 
Did you buy a domain and get your WordPress blog hosted there? It is always a nice idea to also make your computer a local server, and install WordPress in it. I always encourage my blogger friends to have WordPress installed in their local computer.
The biggest difference between a Blogger (blogspot) and a WordPress blog is the use of custom plugins. These plugins have made WordPress blogs better in terms of functionality. Believe it or not, a lot of WordPress blog owners depend a lot on plugins. If you understand the structure and the codes, you can even make your own WordPress plugin.
