The 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:…
For anyone that's been to the site previously, you should immediately notice a rather massive change in the site's design.
When I stitched together the original site back in June last year, I did what I constantly advise clients against - I didn't look ahead. I, wrongly, assumed that the size of the site wouldn't grow and that setting it on top of a CMS was a waste of time.
* shakes head in sham…
Well, I've officially smashed together my first Joomla 1.5 plugin - autoMetaDescSEO - crappy name, I know.
You can get all the details about the plugin at its "official" homepage, but briefly, the plugin simply takes a set chunk of text from the page's content and slips it into the page's meta description tag.
This was initially created for a site I was working on that had a number of pages, whi…
Well the big news in the open-source CMS community this week is the announcement that Joomla 1.5 is finally stable. It took 2.5 years to get it there, but the wait was well worth it.
Joomla, for those that don't know, is an open-source Content Management System (CMS) used in the construction of dynamic, database driven Web sites. Through the separation of code from design elements, and design ele…
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 cleare…
I'm happy to announce my first ever WordPress plugin - Censortive.
Tired of Internet censorship? Is your site being blocked for having “sensitive” words? Then Censortive is for you. Use this plugin to replace those pesky words with their graphic equivalent, making them invisible to censorship robots.
Check out the official Censortive page for all the details on how it works, how to install it, and…
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…
Google Adsense ads have finally started thinking outside the box and have added the option of having rounded borders for their ad units.
The Inside Adsense blog has reported that now along with choosing the colours and such, you can also pick between three 'styles' of border - traditional square (ya big L7 you), a little bit round (for the timid), and full-on "I'm almost a circle" round. Of cours…
