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WordPress

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

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

Having acquired , 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

WordPress icon 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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