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WordPress

Automattic’s PollDaddy site makes post ratings easier than ever — without plugins

August 9, 2009

Automattic, the company behind the blogging platform WordPress, among other great tools, such as bbPress and Akismet, has helped bloggers and others using WordPress for site management, make gathering article feedback a little easier.

Having acquired PollDaddy, Automattic has added features to the polling setup, including a new rating widget that can be added to most any site or blog — not just WordPress-powered sites.

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Time for WordPress plugin developers to take note of changes

August 8, 2008

WordPress 2.6 is the current stable version of the popular blogging software, although WordPress 2.6.1 beta 1 is available for download and testing.

Like with all tech development, plans must be made ahead of time for changes, whether it’s for a new operating system, new kernel in Linux/Unix, or changes to online software, such as WordPress or even a Webmail interface. With development, though, comes testing, trials, and of course, changes. Yes, I said that ominous word that many simply hate: change.

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cForms plugin for WordPress just got better

September 12, 2007

After three days of email exchanges, Oliver sent me an alpha version of cForms 5.4. Alpha versions of development — pre-beta releases. Betas are basically “stable” products that are being considered for release. I’ve been alpha- and beta-testing for almost 20 years, so I backed up my database, installed and activated cForms 5.4 alpha, and went to work.

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WP-DBManager to the rescue

September 1, 2007

I’ve been running WP-DBManager 2.11 for a few months now, and for the most part, it sat in the background, doing, I suppose, what it was supposed to do on its own. Yes, like anyone who has been down the proverbial road of having to do backups, reinstalls, and disaster recovery, I know enough to check up on things, especially automated processes, such as WP-DBmanager, to be sure everything is working as it should. Each time I checked, it looked as though all systems were a GO!, as NASA would say.

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Sadish’s WordPress theme naming content is over

August 20, 2007

When Sadish closed the competition, which he said drew more responses than he anticipated — 31 posts offering up 78 suggested names — was started on August 11, he said he would announce the winner today, Monday, August 21. He kept his word.

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Use blog software to maintain non-blog sites?

July 1, 2007

Are blogging packages, such as WordPress, TypeP…

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