While WeblogToolsCollection.com focuses on all things WordPress, it’s healthy to get out of the house every once in awhile to see what else is going on in the world. In this instance, the world is Open-Source Content Management Systems. Water and Stone which is a digital agency has released their annual open source CMS market share survey for 2010. This survey was comprised of 5,000 participants with more than 2,800 completing the full questionnaire. The report contains a look at various metrics and trends for 20 different content management systems. While the results of the survey are not definitive, there are some interesting trends specifically with WordPress that I wanted to share. Water and Stone used Amazon.com to determine who has the largest number of books in print, which systems have been the subject of publishing activity in the last 12 months, and which systems are currently the subject of […]
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Archive for 2010
New plugins Bloggers Circle is similar to a traditional writers circle, but with a work-flow optimized for bloggers. Bloggers can earn points by reviewing other bloggers’ drafts, and spend those points asking other bloggers to review theirs. Floating Widgets makes it easy to add a widgetized area right above or beside your main content regardless of which theme you are using. You can have full control of where and how your widgets are displayed without having to edit your theme at all. Updated plugins Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames. Movies allows you to use simple functions in your theme to display videos you have attached to Posts/Pages/Custom Post Types in your Media Library. The video player uses the MediaElement (by default, or VideoJS – […]
[Continue Reading...]Paul Maloney of WPZine.com has a pretty good question: Is there a point anymore to using the WordPress ping lists? Paul’s experience mirrors my own in that I’ve not been able to calculate a decrease or increase in site traffic thanks to using sites such as Ping-O-Matic. At one point, I removed all of the sites I used to Ping because I was told that if you ping a website too much, it would ban the domain. At the time, I was also told that each time you update a post after it’s been published, a new ping is sent to the ping list. Without knowing it, I could have been sending way too many pings than what was needed but after I removed the ping list, I didn’t notice any decline in traffic. There was a time when pinging specific websites after new content had been published would allow […]
[Continue Reading...]So, you’ve just moved your WordPress blog following the official instructions, but what about all of your internal links and images? Even though you may have changed your main URL during the move process, your internal links and images will remain unchanged, leaving images broken and internal links pointing toward the old domain or directory. Sure, you could manually edit every single post or page, but there are other ways. The easy way is to use a plugin called Velvet Blues Update URLs. It’s a very simply plugin. You just enter your old URL, then enter your new URL, and this plugin take cares of the rest. I know, it almost seems too easy, but in this case it really is just that easy. Of course, if you want to make it a little bit more difficult, we sure can. What if Velvet Blues Update URLs disappears and you’re left […]
[Continue Reading...]jQuery Mobile is perfect for those who want to make a good looking and easy to read version of their blog and guarantees an optimal ease of reading on mobile devices such as the iPhone, Blackberries or Android. (designed for use with a plugin like WP Mobile Detector) OpenBook is a “magazine” theme with nice features such as column display, news slider and drop-down menu. Red Christmas is a holiday, minimalistic two-column, fixed-width, widget-ready, and seo optimized red theme. Snippet is a Thematic child theme. It is simple, clean, and perfect for developers who want to show some code.
[Continue Reading...]It seems like just last month when we were celebrating Andrew Nacin’s first full year of WordPress contributions. Like any good athlete with a solid year under his belt, Andrew Nacin has just been acquired, by Matt Mullenweg himself. Nacin now has his dream job. He will be working alongside Otto Wood as a Tech Ninja at Mullenweg’s Audrey Capital. His job? To continue his work as a WordPress core developer on a full-time basis and also contribute to the WordPress.org site, bbPress, BuddyPress, and GlotPress. Nacin has certainly made an impact during his rise through the WordPress community, and we wish him the best in his new adventure. The future of WordPress certainly feels more secure than ever before.
[Continue Reading...]One of the biggest problems facing users of WordPress today especially when it comes to themes is malware. I’ve seen my fair share of websites using themes whose functions.php file contains base64 encrypted code that when decrypted, shows spam links. However, there also a number of themes that have code within them that installs malware onto the web server. After Chip Bennett, one of the Theme Team Reviewers noticed at least one of his themes were being made available on a website that claimed to have free WordPress themes, he discovered that something was not right. All of the themes available on the website contained some sort of malware that would be installed onto the users site once enabled. Otto does a great job going in-depth and explaining exactly how this particular piece of theme malware works. Most of the explanation is over my head but it gives you a […]
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Ad Injection allows you to inject any kind of adverts into the existing content of your pages, without you having to change your existing pages. CleanAdmin is a clean and relaxing custom admin style. Updated plugins Akismet filters out your comment and track-back spam for you, so you can focus on more important things. All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code (meta tags). CleanCodeNZ Exclude Page hides pages from navigation or other purposes using custom fields. DukaPress is an open source and free to use e-commerce platform. DynamicWP Contact Form adds a collapsable AJAX contact form to the side of your site. Facebook Members enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website. Ultimate Taxonomy Manager is an easy to use taxonomy manager with a great UI.
[Continue Reading...]Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider both whom are in attendance for the LeWeb 10 conference were recently interviewed by TechCrunch reporter, Alexia Tsotsis. The interview doesn’t go into much detail but we do get a glimpse as to how things are going for Automattic as a company. WordPress.com is getting about 300 million unique pageviews a month from 30 million publishers that make up 10% of the websites on the web. In terms of revenue, Automattic is breaking even but as a company, they make a little under $1 million per month with all services combined. TechCrunch figures that this equates to $10 million a year. Perhaps it’s just me but if that is correct, that number seems pretty low considering how large WordPress.com is. However, the best part of the interview comes down to the final question regarding any potential exit potential for the company. Their response: “Our goal’s […]
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