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Location is all the rage right now, thanks, in no small part, to the growing popularity of web-enabled mobile devices with GPS features. There are a couple of rather popular location services, like Foursquares and Loopt, Google has Latitude, and even Twitter has integrated location into its service. Not wanting to b... |
13 November 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Independent security researcher Denis Sinegubko has recently stumbled upon a new version of the Gumblar Web botnet that has quite a craving for PHP CMS-driven websites. Mr. Sinegubko has discovered that this latest version (“untested version” as he refers to it) has until now affected more than 300,000 PH... |
5 November 2009
10:36 GMT |
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Google hasn't been so successful on the social front as in other areas that can be tackled with computational power. Still, it's not giving up and it is expanding the functionality of the Google Friend Connect social widget with support for WordPress blogs. The new plugin allows users to authenticate using ... |
23 October 2009
04:58 GMT |
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With everyone quick to jump on the “RSS is dead” bandwagon, WordPress.com decided to give the aging spec a shot at fighting the “real-time” war, which, for now, is being won by Twitter, if only on hype and sheer size. A new feature called RSSCloud has been implemented by the blog-hosting servi... |
8 September 2009
03:28 GMT |
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The web may be a place for a lot of innovation but most of the times it's trends not needs that aid the creation of new products or services. One big trend at the moment is of course Twitter, the microblogging phenomenon that has taken the world, or at least the media, by storm in recent months. Another related ... |
17 August 2009
07:54 GMT |
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A security vulnerability announced yesterday in the WordPress blogging platform has already been dealt with and WordPress 2.8.4, which fixes the hole, has been released. The bug allowed outside attackers to remotely reset the admin reset of a WordPress installation, effectively locking out the users from accessing th... |
12 August 2009
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After the release of the new 2.8.3 security update, WordPress faces a dangerous vulnerability that can lock out blog owners from their admin account. Using the online password reset function, hackers can remotely reset the admin password.This issue was first reported by Laurent Gaffie on August 11 in a mailing l... |
11 August 2009
05:55 GMT |
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With WordPress 2.8 out the door less than two months, minor updates have been coming in steadily, solving small bugs and security vulnerabilities. The latest bug-fixing release, 2.8.3, finalizes some fixes initially introduced in 2.8.1 while also solving some other minor bugs. The new version comes barely two weeks s... |
3 August 2009
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In a blog post from WordPress, blog users have been informed that the 2.0.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 2.0.X editions, the monumental... |
1 August 2009
06:16 GMT |
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The latest major version of the popular blogging platform WordPress was released just a month ago but developers are still fixing bugs and have launched two minor-version updates since then. Wordpress 2.8.2 comes less than two weeks after 2.8.1 and fixes a vulnerability that could be exploited to redirect users from ... |
20 July 2009
03:42 GMT |
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BlackBerry mobile phone users out there have now yet another reason to rejoice, as an Open Source WordPress for Blackberry application has just been released publicly, through it is still in beta stage. According to Raanan Bar-Cohen from WordPress, the app comes from a collaboration with Danais, and it has been devel... |
8 July 2009
09:50 GMT |
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The developers of WordPress, the popular open-source blogging platform, have just announced the release of their latest stable version, WordPress 2.8, codenamed “Baker,” which is now available for download right here. This is an evolutionary release but it does bring a number of new features and updates.... |
11 June 2009
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As the market for online radio is becoming somewhat crowded, albeit not exactly mature, the popular music streaming service Grooveshark has added some social media tools to stay ahead of the pack. The site is now offering a Facebook app as well as a Wordpress plugin and a Tinysong API to make it a lot easier for its ... |
5 June 2009
10:05 GMT |
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Wordrpess has recently launched its latest beta version, 2.8 Beta 2, of the popular blogging platform, which comes with the usual set of new features tweaks and enhancements aimed at making the lives of bloggers using the platform easier. Blogger Clint Maher has made a list of some of the changes that he believes mak... |
1 June 2009
03:39 GMT |
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The Wordpress platform is always updated and added new features but it can't have everything for everyone. While some features may only have a small number of people requesting them, others may not be desired by developers. This is where plug-ins come in. Built by various authors to modify or add to software, so... |
28 May 2009
05:37 GMT |
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The official website of the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown doesn't give credit for the Wordpress theme used by its makers, as Anthony Baggett, a former web designer, claims on his blog. The man, who lives in Mississippi, has created several themes for Wordpress pages, under the Creative Commons 3.0 license,... |
20 August 2008
10:41 GMT |
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WordPress is the first Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. The highly anticipated app is now available for free download through Apple's iTunes App Store."With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.5.1 or hig... |
22 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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WYSIWYG editor allows the separation of content creation from website layout building. In case of WordPress content management system, the default WYSIWYG editor does not provide the opportunity to edit and create HTML tables in a visual manner.When it is required to introduce or format a table in a post or a static... |
26 June 2008
11:49 GMT |
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The strength of passwords, as well as their encryption mechanism, is crucial for the security of database driven applications. If you own a website constructed on a ready-made content management system architecture, the back-end administration password will always be protected by using a certain type of encryption m... |
26 May 2008
11:17 GMT |
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Blogs and social networks are two of the most popular technologies nowadays, having an impressive yet continuously growing number of users. People like blogging because they're usually free and because they are able to write their own articles without too much effort. On the other hand, social networks connect c... |
16 April 2008
16:46 GMT |
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There are many people that work hard to have their website indexed by Google or other search engine. Many of the existing SEO (search engine optimization) related articles present various solutions to solve this problem and to improve the indexed website pages rank value. If you apply the methods described in theory... |
10 April 2008
12:43 GMT |
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The blog platforms development is a general priority due to the rapid evolution of all Internet technologies. The most active blogging project is represented by WordPress. A new release of WordPress blogging platform (WordPress version 2.5RC1) comes with notable changes as compared with the major features, performan... |
19 March 2008
11:54 GMT |
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Blogs were inaccessible for about 5 to 15 minutes in the 4 days that have passed since Saturday, when the attack started. Automattic, the company that maintains WordPress.com, was knee deep in the work laid before them by hackers all throughout this period and managed to restore most of the service's original fu... |
20 February 2008
10:53 GMT |
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The news that Matt Mullenweg announced yesterday made every WordPress blogger's day a better one. The upgrade is huge and it comes with absolutely no cost. The interesting part is that it might also come off as a Picasa competitor because of the bigger space available for uploading pictures. Of course, there... |
22 January 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Vietnam is that kind of country that struggles to regulate the content appearing on the residents' blogs, although we all know it's pretty difficult to do such a thing. But according to AFP, the Deputy Information and Communications Minister, Do Quy Doan, aims to reduce the amount of subversive and sexually... |
28 December 2007
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Blogging is what people do when they have nothing to do but they have an idea, they put it down in an as-creative-as-can be manner on their page. It could be some news or reviewing a service or just plain writing off the top of their heads something that they'd thought in the lunch break or had dreamt during th... |
13 December 2007
10:45 GMT |
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On the Internet there are many free services that provide web hosting accounts to anyone having a valid email address. But usually these web hosting services impose some limitations that will determine certain server side applications not to work at their full parameters. Concerning free web hosting services that pr... |
10 December 2007
17:17 GMT |
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Wordpress application is a content management system widely used at this moment for blogging or other purposes. It can be extended through plugins which are available for free download. When your website has a heavy web traffic, the MySQL database will support multiple queries which at a given moment will determine ... |
20 November 2007
13:56 GMT |
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A great feature that you will need is the integration of PHPMyAdmin in to your Wordpress Admin Panel. WP-phpMyAdmin gives you access to your databases from the Administration Panel, so you won't need to keep open another window. Some of the PHPMyAdmin features were removed or changed slightly for things to work ... |
26 September 2007
11:27 GMT |
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If you own a big blog, with lots of categories and many posts, you should try to optimize your Administration Panel using a few plugins that will make your work easier. In today's article I will present to you the plugins that I consider that are the best for you. The thing you hate the most is when you encounte... |
26 September 2007
11:04 GMT |
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Implementing Google Adsense in your blog can get you extra money. Google AdSense matches ads to your site's content and you earn money whenever your visitors click on them. Adsense lets you customize the ads template to match with your blog template. If you want to really make money from your blog, you must know... |
22 September 2007
06:55 GMT |
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Sometimes you may need to change the working directory of Wordpress within your server. The good news is that you don`t have to reinstall Wordpress. If the database and URL remains the same, you will have to copy only the files and the database. If you change the database name or the username, you must run again wp-c... |
21 September 2007
11:17 GMT |
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If you want to be contacted, to list what visitors have to say about your blog, you have two possibilities: a contact form or a form mailer. The difference between them is that the form mailer will send the opinion to your email address and you don`t have to go to the blog to see the opinions of your visitors.The sol... |
21 September 2007
10:21 GMT |
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What is a Podcast? A podcast is a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. This is almost the same thing as RSS. At RSS the user reads the feeds on his computer, for podcasts he will use ... |
20 September 2007
11:27 GMT |
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Everybody wants to have a blog that works smoothly and without problems. For that you will have to do some cleaning in your Wordpress blog. The most important job is to make sure that you have the latest version of Wordpress, because with every version Wordpress adds lots of features and patches security holes. In Da... |
20 September 2007
10:27 GMT |
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Besides writing good articles, there is another way to make users come back to your blog: use interesting plugins, plugins that will make the navigation easier. If you are a new user of Wordpress, finding the perfect plugin for your blog is very difficult. So I will present in this article a few plugins that your blo... |
19 September 2007
11:19 GMT |
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Why should you optimize your blog? Optimizing it will increase the blog's rankings on regular search engines and on search engines for blogs and RSS. It will also increase traffic from more locations such as social networks and social bookmarking sites. If you want to optimize your blog for search engines, you s... |
19 September 2007
10:27 GMT |
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If you want to change the theme, do it from Presentation menu. By default, you will find only 2 themes, but you can download more from the wordpress website. If you don't like the themes from the producer's website, create your personal theme using Theme Editor. Also, from Presentation menu you can also man... |
18 September 2007
11:52 GMT |
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Yesterday, I wrote an introduction to blogs and I explained how to install Wordpress on your webserver. Now I will show you how to work with the admin panel. After you've installed Wordpress, the setup automatically generated a password and I told you to write it. To change the admin password, login to the admin... |
18 September 2007
11:45 GMT |
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If you want to post your journal online, you can choose one of the several free services provided by Google(Blogpot), Wordpress, Blog.com etc, or you can install a blog script on your webserver. If you don't know how to install a blog on your webserver, I'll explain you how to do it. For starters, let'... |
17 September 2007
11:03 GMT |
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Nowadays everybody talks about blogs. Everybody wants to have a blog. But what is it? 'Blog' is the short form of weblog. A blog is an online journal or diary, where everybody makes public their thoughts, comments, and philosophies, updated frequently and normally reflecting the views of the blog's cre... |
17 September 2007
10:11 GMT |
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Surely, a lot of you people have heard of WordPress, and some of you just might be using it, but for those of you who don't know, it's a blog publishing system, written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. Best thing about it is that it's free!A certain part of WordPress is vulnerable, and I'm ... |
22 August 2007
10:29 GMT |
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WordPress, one of the most popular blog platforms on the Internet, is now promoting Google's Apps as the easiest solution to get the email straight on your blog. This move is at least interesting because WordPress is often regarded as the main competitor for Google's Blogger, a blog service that owns one o... |
31 May 2007
04:27 GMT |
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Mobile web developer Andy Moore has partnered with AdMob, the mobile Internet advertising marketplace, to launch a free plug-in for the blogging tool WordPress. The new plug-in will enable the global WordPress community to quickly go mobile and also generate income from advertising via AdMob. WordPress is a popular o... |
27 April 2007
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