Posts Tagged With: cms
· July 16, 2008 at 5:33 am · Web Development
Thus far I have to say that WordPress 2.6 looks like a pretty awesome upgrade. Just did a few upgrades myself, but haven’t had time yet to play with everything that is new…
I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.
Also here are some of the improvements, updates and upgrades:
- Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
- Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
- Bulk management of plugins.
- A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
- Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
- Plugin update notification bubble.
- Customizable default avatars.
- You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.
- Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
- Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
- You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
- Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.
- Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
- You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
- A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
- Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
- Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.
You can read more (and watch a video tour) from WordPress.org about it here:
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/
You can download WordPress 2.6 here:
http://wordpress.org/download/
Also looks like somebody has already found the easter egg in it too.
For those of you using cPanel/Fantastico to manage your install and upgrades, the upgrade for you might not come for a couple of more weeks. Are you excited about WordPress 2.6 yet?
· April 10, 2008 at 5:50 am · Online Tools, Web Hosting
The main problem with content management systems (or sometimes referred to as CMS) is that many people find them complicated, too technical and way over their head. If your searching for an “every man” way of managing your content take a look at CushyCMS. A hosted CMS solution.
Hosted by them and edited on their servers, you can quickly create your content, with no worry about installing software or learning any programming languages. They say that your final product will be a standards compliant (and search engine friendly) masterpiece that can not be beat.
CushyCMS promises to be the easiest way to get a web site up in no time at all. I do have to say it is an interesting idea (and I wish them all the best). Curious to see how many people will turn to these types of solutions over your normal web hosting account and Joomla install for example?
· September 19, 2007 at 7:16 am · Popular Posts, Web Development
No doubt that WordPress is the king of the hill when it comes to content management these days. It seems like in a lot of people’s eyes they can do no wrong. There have to a few other choices out there though right?
Now don’t get me wrong, I am totally happy with Wordpress - but, there are several cool alternatives that might be worth checking out for your next web project.
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· March 14, 2007 at 7:39 am · Online Tools
I like to tinker and play with scripts and services Online. When it comes to doing this with Web sites, my best friend at the moment is WordPress. That wonderful little CMS can be used to create just about anything.
You are not limited to just creating a blog by any means. Using some good plugins and imagination you can even create a static Web site from the dynamic guts of this content publisher.
Got this E-mail from a reader of this Web site that wants to know how I did just that with my official Web site MitchKeeler.com and Hosting Hoopla.
Hi Mitch, I love all of your Web sites and I subscribe to them all. I was wondering how you got WordPress to work on your main Web site? I can’t seem to figure it out myself but I would love to use WordPress as less of a blog and more of an easy way to manage my own bio and resume Web site. Any help would be appreciated.
Well I have to say I have no real “pretty” way of getting this done. A lot of the links back and forth through the Web pages I had to edit by hand in the code for the WordPress “style” I am using. So that gets navigation out of the way.
The hardest part was figuring out how to show a regular static Web page as the main index instead of a listing of blogs. Once you do that, you can create all your other Web pages by going to “Write” and then “Write Pages” inside of WordPress.
Filosofo Home-Page Control is the WordPress plugin you need if you want to set one of these created pages inside of WordPress as your main index. Just drop that into your plugins folder, activate it and pick the one you want to use. It doesn’t get anymore simple than that.
Now mix all of that with the Edit N Place plugin and now you don’t even have to login to WordPress to do edits to your existing pages under your Web site either.
