Posts Tagged ‘Blogging

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” Released

And doesn’t it look fantastic.

WordPress 3.0 has some features that have been in high demand for some time, and that theme developers have had to muddle their way around when using WordPress as a project’s CMS. Namely:

  • Custom backgrounds & headers (no more custom fields and php wizardry needed)
  • Shortlinks (our tweets thank you)
  • Menus (I can’t tell you how exited I am to retire the rather massive PHP function I use to do this now)
  • Custom Post types

Advice when choosing a social media consultant

I recently stumbled upon Stuart Bruce’s “Top ten ways not to choose a social media consultant“. Bruce offers some solid advice for anyone looking to hire a consultant, advisor, or otherwise “expert” in the social media field.

My favourites:

  • They describe themselves as an expert. This space is so new and changing so rapidly it’s impossible to be an expert, at Wolfstar we only claim to be ahead of the curve.
  • The first thing they talk about isn’t

WordPress 2.5: The Next Generation

Wordpress 2.5 DashboardThe latest release of WordPress has just hit the net, offering some significant design changes and a boatload of new features. As mentioned in my previous post on the site upgrade, I’ve been using WordPress 2.5 RC since its release mid-March. The first release candidate went to RC2 and on to a stable version in just two short weeks – that’s damn impressive. Some of the key new features include:

  • Dashboard Widgets: allowing you to customize the (until now)

Google, Alexa and Technorati Chomp My Bit

The blogsphere is abuzz with Google’s recent PageRank recalculations. The “slaps” and “pats” are controversial because big blogs (Problogger.net, Engadget.com, Johnchow.com, and many many more) have seen their PR jump around more than an Asian boy band.

The reason for the heated discussion that has come out of this is that Google is “punishing” sites that sell links, under the idea that such sales of links is designed to give the buyers unearned authority …

Finally, native WordPress tagging

I am, admittedly, quite lax on keeping up with the latest version of things. So, it was with a bit of surprise that I happened to notice I had fallen behind on my WordPress version.

Partly due to it’s comparably solid track record, WordPress is usually the last of my open source softwares to get updated. However, when I heard the WP crew finally incorporated native tagging into the code, I cleared my schedule as it was time for an …

Freed Burner – Feedburner Pro Features for Free!

Burning Questions, FeedBurner‘s official blog, sheds the exciting news that two services that were previously reserved for paying customers only are now absolutely free for all FeedBurner users.

FeedBurner Stats PRO

This feature lets you closely analyze the number of people who are viewing or clicking individual content times. I’m quite keen on this, as the basic stats only give you a rough idea of the number of people accessing your RSS feed, this will greatly increase …

Revenue Sharing: Web $2.00

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Web 2.0 and what’s next.

Largely this was on my mind because I’ve been trying to come up with a good way to start my run as a writer here at Intelligent Drone. The other day, while elbow deep in PHP setting up a collaborative blog with a revenue sharing model, it hit me… revenue sharing is the next big thing.

Of course, it’s nothing new, but neither were forums, comments or …