Sep 08 2009

Word-Ex-Press

Classified in: Wordpress,Wordpress themepaomic at 5:06 pm

Word-Ex-Press is a blog entirely devoted to studies on WordPress and its development.

It hosts a collection of resources dealing with the popular GPL blog-management system, including tutorials, tricks and hacks, plugins and themes reviews, development studies, and videos. An entire section of the blog regards the search engine optimization with WordPress.

The authors of Word-Ex-Press are also WordPress developers and theme designers, and published some plugins and themes on the official WordPress repository.

The blog is entirely written in english and is a very good resource for WordPress users and for everybody wants to take a first look to this very easy-to-use and seo-friendly platform.

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Jul 19 2008

Run for the Hills – it’s WordPress 2.6…

Classified in: Wordpressje at 12:06 pm

Step aside, Nicole Kidman. You too, Angelina Jolie. ‘Cos Mama WordPress has just given birth to a bouncing baby boy. Weighing in at 2.6 lbs, mother and baby are doing fine.

Baby WordPress better watch its back, though, ‘cos I’m sure Mama WP’s gotten herself all knocked up again and 2.7’s on its merry little way.

No shame, woman. No shame.

One word. Contraception. (or will hackers do the job just as well?)

As I’ve mentioned briefly in a previous post or two, I’m really not one to thirst for new technology. My breath doesn’t depend on it. I like to let new versions stew in some vinegar for a while before I try it (if I ever do). In the meantime, I’m quite happy to see other people offer up their souls at the guinea-pig altar. I’ll even line the bottom of the New-Version-X mountain with loads of pink pillows when they jump off.

I find the constant WP updates a pain, like a kid that has to constantly move from town to town and reacquaint himself with new schools, new friends, new bullies, etc. every 6 months or so. Always the new kid on the block.

The new features WordPress offers are helpful but it makes me wonder why they didn’t think of (and act on) some of these in the first place. For example, everyone and their chihuahua knows that the new word-count feature should have been in place since the year 1907. If you’d given me a ton of Lego, I would have built that feature myself.

If you do plan on upgrading to 2.6 (or is it 2.7? I get so very confused these days), I shall pray for you. If you see a slight glow round your keyboard, that’s my prayer taking effect.

Have a good weekend, my friend, with or without WordPress.

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Mar 18 2008

WordPress 2.5…

Classified in: Technology news,Wordpresspaomic at 12:12 pm

A new version of WordPress is going to be available soon. A release candite is already available, but I’m going to wait for the final release before installing it here. Nice new features are presented, such as multi image upload (I needed it bad!) or built-in galleries. Hope to see a stable version soon!

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Jan 28 2008

Diggita on Sociable

Classified in: Wordpresspaomic at 9:26 pm

Should you need an Italian digg-like website, and you use the sociable plugin for wordpress, you can add it to the social list by adding these lines to socaible.php file:

‘DiggIta’ => Array(
‘favicon’ => ‘diggita.png’,
‘url’ => ‘http://www.diggita.it/submit.php?url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE’,
),

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