CMSWire in partnership with Water And Stone has released their 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share report. The report is free if you care to dive in and look at look at the results which were comprised of over 1,000 respondents. I don’t think anyone will be surprised to know that the top three systems represented in the survey are Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. However, unlike last year, all three switched top metrics with Joomla taking the popularity prize. However, WordPress dominated the brand strength category. According to CMSWire, they think that having two projects with the same name contributed a large part to the branding strength of WordPress. WordPress.com the free hosting service enables users to get their feet wet encouraging them later on to take the plunge to self install WordPress. To veterans in the WordPress community, this branding is a nightmare but it’s obviously had a positive […]
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Archive for 2009
WordPress 2.8.5 has officially been tagged and is now available for download. If you don’t see the upgrade nags in your administration panel already, give it a few hours and upgrade when it becomes available. This release has been dubbed a security hardening release meaning, more preventive measures have been taken to secure WordPress. Worthy of note though is an issue that was addressed dealing with a trackback spam denial of service attack which was discussed on the WP-Hackers mailing list the other day. This exploit takes advantage of the WP-Trackback.php file which would exhaust a servers resources when used. This has specifically been addressed in 2.8.5. Thanks goes out to Steve Fortuna for releasing a fix to this 0 day exploit. The release also contains a few bug fixes as well.
[Continue Reading...]The WordPress.com has announced that mobile friendly themes will be turned on by default for all WordPress.com blogs. Blogs will be displayed using 2 themes, based on the type of phone used for browsing.
[Continue Reading...]wpFolio Two column, widget ready theme available in five colors twitter feed, Jquery featured carousel and a help document. Modern Style Two column theme with an options page and two 125×125 banner ads in the sidebar ready for use accompanied by social networking icons. WordPress Debug Theme This is a theme with a difference. This theme will help you debut your blog in case there is a problem. NOTE: This is not for live sites. Blue Steel The Blue Steel WP theme, spruced corporate style for a WP powered site with the brandnew revamped Blue Steel WordPress Theme theme, featuring a two column fixed layout, third and spiced up version of the Blue Steel 3.17 WordPress Theme, enabled with flickr support, pagenavi support, frontpage slider, options panel, related posts and recent comments are built into the theme. Are you a theme author? If so, read how you can submit your […]
[Continue Reading...]Back in August, I asked the following question: Why Is Gravatar Still Not Mainstream?. You folks supplied a wealth of answers to the question but many of the answers suggested something along the lines of making it easier to obtain a Gravatar through registration if they didn’t have one. While I’ve yet to see news on such an integration, there is a plugin that has been developed by Milan Dinic called Gravatar Signup Encouragement which enables you to encourage Gravatar registration to anyone who is not a registered member on your WordPress powered site. Message can be shown to: unregistered commenters when they leave text input field for e-mail address registered commenters to whom their registered e-mail address is checked registered users on their profile page, to whom their registered e-mail address is checked users who fill registration form when they leave text input field for e-mail address You can […]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Community Links Feed Community Links Feed plugin for WordPress allows your blog or website’s community users to submit their favorite links to your website. Upon submission, the community links appear in the Dashboard where the administrator can approve or reject them as appropriate. Once approved, the community links feed appears in a customizable sidebar widget. Admiyn Juitter This plugin will show in your posts pages what the people are talking about the “Search Object” at current time in the twitter and will update the page in a interval of time that you can specify; See that my plugin offer to you the option to choose what use as a “Search Object”, the option supported are “Author Name”, “Post’s Category”, “Post’s Tags” or “Post’s Title”, this stuff is very useful because there are a lot of kinds of usage of the WordPress, and each type requires different options. Instant […]
[Continue Reading...]Outside of the WordPress.org theme repository and the GPL commercial theme vendors, there are few spots where you can download a variety of themes which do not contain some sort of sponsorship or encrypted code. One site still cranking out great, quality free themes is Themelab run by Leland. However, in most of the theme release posts that are published on WeblogToolsCollection.com, the theme has to be downloaded from the authors website. We do not install and test every theme mentioned in these release posts. However, if you are worried about downloading a theme that contains malicious code or obfuscated code, this somewhat new tool called Theme Authenticity Checker may help you out. The Theme Authenticity Checker is a plugin that scans all of the files for all installed themes looking for links, malicious code, etc. Not all obfuscated code is bad but generally, it is not placed in a […]
[Continue Reading...]TypographyWP v2 An improved version of Typography with more options and cleaner sidebars. Available in five colors schemes. Adsense ready Three column adsense ready theme with ready ad-blocks in the sidebar. Serious Blogger 2 columns light, widget ready wordpress theme. This theme entirely compatible with wordpress version 2.8 Minali Two column, widget ready, with support for threaded comments
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