The long wait is now over, WordPress have announced via their blog that the new version WordPress 3.0 Beta is now available for download by the public. This is pretty exciting considering that we will also being seeing Drupal 7 some time soon too.
The final version of WordPress 3.0 is due out later in WordPress, but in a move to release early could also be beneficial for WordPress and the community for a number of reasons: Continue reading
As another way to go grow and offer different types of media to keep your blog going. Podcasting is a definite way to add more dynamic content, and now you can with the free, premium quality WordPress Podcasting Plugin.
The project was initially developed by Ronald Heft over at but it is now maintained by TSG. I think that there are currently two really good and free choices when it comes to adding multi-media content to your site, with the TSG podcasting plugin being one and the Blubrry Powerpress Podcast Plugin. Unfortunately it seems that the old podpress plugin that used to be an option isnt really going to be going any further. Continue reading
A few days ago (Sunday 21st march) on the WordPress facebook blog they released this post about the Google Summer of code (GSOC)and WordPress 3.0 sneek peeks. The Official release by WordPress where there are a couple of announcements, but the one of particular interest that was from the GSOC 09 by Daryl Koopersmith, and is called Elastic Themes.
The WordPress elastic themes generator
The generator can best be desribed as, Continue reading
When we were planning on setting up our project management solution we wanted to get something that would meet a number of criteria that we had.
The other day we were talking over a coffee about site security and was it really wise to trust plugins and without a second inspection, or a look at the code.
Now i am sure that many of us have gone and installed a plugin or two without actually looking at the code, but does it really mean we are at risk? I think the undeniable answer is yes, and this is for the very reason of the widespread, and almost unrestricted release of themes and plugins for WordPress. The allure of “free” themes and plugins often leaves the casual blogger or website developer at risk for being exposed by these various sites that offer “free themes”. Continue reading
Often it is the case that you want to get extra functionality when you are coding a WordPress plugin or even adding some enhanced functionality such as grabbing images using Amazon S3‘s storage system or including flickr images with functionality that you may not find available with many other plugins available.
As a result you often end up including a number of different libraries that may include the functionality that you are looking for. However, in the long run what ends up happening is many of the libraries need updating, but because of real mechanism to alert you that an update is needed other than you manually checking. As a result the risk and potential for exposure to security threats greatly increases. Continue reading