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BuddyPress Get WordPress Single Install Friendly

BuddyPress is another awesome open source forum project that works great with WordPress MU.
BuddyPress reached version 1.0 last year but it was friendly only with the multi-use version of WordPress – WordPress MU. Those with single installations of WordPress, like myself, were unable to use BuddyPress with the same ease as WPMU users.
With the release [...]

Write Posts On the Go With WordPress for Android

Are you a WordPress blogger with an Android phone like the Motorola Droid, Nexus One or other popular Android powered phones?
You can blog on the go with WordPress app for Android.
WordPress has released version 1.0 of the WordPress app for Android. I am huge fan of the WordPress app for iPhone and the Android app [...]

Power your PHP Web Application with BackPress

WordPress and the new BuddyPress (forum) are couple of immensely popular open source projects in the PHP web applications world.
BackPress is a PHP library of core functionality for web applications that grew out of the WordPress project.
BackPress includes a variety of foundations needed to build a robust, scalable web application as a core library [...]

WordPress 2.9 Is Available for Download

WordPress 2.9 has been in development for a few months and is now available for download.
You can read about WordPress 2.9 new features here.

Some of the cool new features I am excited about are

Global undo/trash feature – no more accidental deleting of post, comments, etc.
Built-in image editor – this is huge for me as I [...]

WordPress Wins Best Overall Open Source CMS Award

PacktPub awards Open Source CMS Awards every year. To my delight, WordPress has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award for the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards.

In the last 4 years, this is the first time WordPress has won this award. Plus, it was named first runner-up in the Best Open Source PHP CMS [...]

WordPress.com Adds GeoLocation Feature

Location awareness is becoming ubiquitous. With iPhone apps like Brightkite & Loopt, web apps like Flickr have embraced geo tagging and ability to search people or pictures by location has been around for a while.
Most recently, Twitter added goetagging to the tweets so you can look up tweets by location.
Now, my favorite open source blogging [...]

Top 10 WordPress 2.9 Features You Should Know

WordPress 2.9 is coming soon and it’s time to see what we can expect from this release.
WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms and is available in a hosted version at WordPress.com and as a free self-hosting version at WordPress.org.
WordPress 2.9 is the next version in the recent updates and I am pretty [...]