Monthly Archives: January 2009

Turn WordPress into a Shopping Site

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Owen

An interesting plugin caught my eye this morning, one called WP E-commerce, a plugin which turns your blog into a fully fledged shopping system, with the ability to sell things straight off your website. Here are the key features: Works … Continue reading →

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WP Super Cache 0.9

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Owen

There’s been a new release of one of the more awesome plugins around: WP Super Cache. In case you’ve never come across it, it gives WordPress a boost by preparing static versions of pages when they are called so that … Continue reading →

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WordPress User Guides

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Owen

I came across a User Guide for WordPress 2.6 today and although we’ve moved on to a new version, it’s the most recent one I can find. Here’s a copy to read if you’re brand new to WordPress. wordpress-26_user_guide_final Now, … Continue reading →

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High Performance WordPress

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Owen

High Performance WordPress View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: wordpress scaling) Interesting slide presentation down at WordPress.tv that talks about performance considerations for WordPress. I think the main message for most people is that if you’re serving less … Continue reading →

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Where are you coming from?

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Owen

Interesting plugin review down at Weblogs Tools Collection about a plugin called Referrer Detector. It welcomes people based on where they are coming from so that you can always give them a warm welcome. Here’s a screenshot of what it … Continue reading →

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Add a TweetRoll to your blog.

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Owen

I’ve created a widget to make installing TweetRoll even easier on a WordPress blog. Here how you can do it: Go to the “Add New” option under plugins and search for TweetRoll: Click Install and Activate the plugin. When you … Continue reading →

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What to look out for in WordPress 2.8

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Owen

I missed this, but recently the WordPress theme held a survey as to what their priorities should be for the next release of WordPress. Their current thought are summarised as: Right now, the lead developers are thinking the top priorities … Continue reading →

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WordPress: 1 million downloads (coming soon)

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Owen

With the festive season in full swing, Christmas lights in everyone’s house, streamers hanging from the chandeliers and left-over bubbly in the fridge, there’s yet another cause for celebration. WordPress 2.7 has almost hit 1 million downloads. I just checked … Continue reading →

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