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VaultPress Review

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October 28th, 2010
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There are many ways to backup WordPress, but none as easy and thorough as VaultPress. VaultPress is one of the newest Automattic projects and is definitely a powerhouse in its field. One of the many things that sets VaultPress apart from the rest is its set it and forget it ease of use. Simply install the VaultPress plugin and watch as it begins to analyze and backup your database, plugins, themes, and uploads. After the first backup is complete, VaultPress will update your backup whenever a change is made, even for something as trivial as adjusting a setting. The result is a series of up to the minute full backups ready to be restored as soon as you need them. In contrast, iDrive is VaultPress’ closest competitor. Though iDrive’s service starts free, you’re only allotted 2GB before a paid upgrade is required, and the backups are only generated once every […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/27

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October 27th, 2010
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New plugins Commenters lets you display images of persons who added comments to your blog posts. Content by Permission adds a couple shortcodes where you can specify what permission is required to view the content. Feedfabrik allows you to print your blog as a PDF or real book via Feedfabrik. Hikari Krumo is a port of the Krumo debugging too. Hikari Tools Framework is a development framework with tools to be used by other plugins, so that they don’t need to duplicate the same code over and over again. In Their Language detects the user’s browser language preferences and attempts to switch your site/blog to that language. Plugin Dependencies is a meta-plugin that enables regular plugins to define which other plugins they need to function properly. Updated plugins nrelate Related Content analyzes your website content and displays other related posts from your website.

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Google Finally Updates FeedBurner

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October 26th, 2010
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After over three years since its acquisition, Google has finally launched a major upgrade to FeedBurner with an emphasis on real-time stats. The new interface provides real time stats for clicks, views, and podcast downloads, which means you can start seeing what content is drawing traffic from feed readers, Twitter, and other syndicated sources as it happens. The interface can be accessed by clicking the “Try out the NEW (beta) version!” link at the top of your FeedBurner account page.  According to the launch article, “The best way to see these real time features is to publish a new post and then switch to the ‘Last two hours’ view to begin seeing updates.” At this time, the new interface is primarily for the showcasing the new real-time stats.  All other account actions will still need to be done from the old interface. What’s your take on the new FeedBurner upgrade? […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 10/25

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My Engine is a simple orange, grey, and white theme with an engine background. Prototype is a specialized parent theme with multiple nav menus, several widget areas, and per-post layouts, allowing anyone from designers to users to quickly creates beautiful sites. Travelofe is a very clean and sleek travel theme.

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Blog Action Day 2010 Wrap Up

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October 24th, 2010
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On this year’s Blog Action Day, over 5,700 blogs from 143 countries reached an estimated 41,231,000 readers regarding the world’s various water problems. Several popular blogs contributed this year, including The White House Blog and The Official Google Blog, and feel free to stop by our post for a great way to share your fundraising goals with your readers. Despite the broad reach of this year’s Blog Action Day it was a rather steep decline from the over 31,000 blogs that participated last year regarding climate change. We’ll let you know as soon as voting begins for next year’s Blog Action Day topic, and hopefully we’ll wind up with a topic that more bloggers are passionate about. If you published a post for this year’s Blog Action Day, kudos to you for participating, and please feel free to share it with us.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/23

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October 23rd, 2010
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New plugins MultiTags displays correct tags when calling a tag-page with more than one tag. Register IP – Multiste helps you fight back against spam, troll, and sock puppet accounts by logging the IP address used at the time of creation. WooTumblog allows you to create a tumblr style blog. WP README Parser displays a WordPress plugin’s README file in XHTML format, for embedding in a post or page. Updated plugins BuddyPress allows you to build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. Facebook Like for Tags allows you to automatically share to Facebook when posting new articles with specific tags or categories. Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu makes all admin links available in a neat horizontal drop down menu. Ultimate Post Type Manager is an easy to use custom post type manager. WordPress Twitter Forums […]

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BuddyPress 1.2.6 Released

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October 22nd, 2010
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The latest version of BuddyPress, WordPress’ powerful “social network in a box” plugin, has been released. This long-awaited update improves compatibility with WordPress 3.0, adds some minor tweaks to the base theme, and resolves 91 issues! Now that Paul Gibbs and Boone Gorges have joined the team, the next major release is on track for the end of 2010. BuddyPress has been rapidly building its user base since 1.0 was released in April of 2009. Have you built something with BuddyPress? If so, we’d love to hear about it!

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WordPress Theme Releases for 10/21

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Atom is a new WordPress theme framework. Back My Book is a clean, well designed theme that has the key features every author needs. Fazio is a grey/blue theme which supports almost all of WordPress 3’s new features.

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Automattic is now a Domain Registrar

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October 20th, 2010
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Automattic recently appeared on ICANN’s list of accredited registrars as ID #1531, meaning that the company is now a full-fledged accredited domain registrar. WordPress.com is one of Automattic’s most popular services, and domain mapping is one of their most popular upgrades, so this is potentially yet another game-changing move for the company. According to Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg, Automattic will continue to partner with GoDaddy until they have finished building tools to take advantage of their new registrar status over the next few months.

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