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What’s New in WordPress 3.0?

WordPress – the popular blogging platform – is nearing another major version release, WordPress 3.0.
In fact, Automattic just announced the release of WordPress 3.0 beta 1 and you can download it right now to try it.
But, remember it is not ready for production use!
WordPress 3.0 Features and Changes

WordPress and WordPress MU to be [...]

Would VaultPress Become the Best Paid WordPress Backup Solution?

WordPress.com blog users (free and hosted version) have enjoyed Automattic’s backups and not worry about their content getting lost. But, the self-hosted WordPress blog users have been left to using some custom solution via Plugins like WP DB Backup or custom backup scripts until now.
Automattic has announced a WordPress.com branded solution called VaultPress for private [...]

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 [...]