As you may know, Twitter has a new authentication method that lets you use third party Twitter applications and WordPress plugins without them storing your password. The move to OAuth will mean increased security and a better user experience overall. Applications won’t store your Twitter username and password, and if…
I would like to add something to my earlier article How to enable WordPress Multisite 3.0. If you are upgrading from WordPress MU (WPMU) to WordPress 3.0.x Multisite make sure to check your HTACCESS file. There have been many reports of broken images on Multisite installations after upgrading from WordPress MU. If you notice…
TypePad AntiSpam Plugin for WordPress is a great tool to fight comment spamming, a big problem in Today’s 2.0 Internet Model. As you may know, Akismet is another great plugin and I use it on WpThemesPlanet. It blocks most of the spam comments. However, it is always interesting to have…
One of the most important reasons people give for not upgrading to the latest version of WordPress is fear that their WP plugins won’t be compatible with the last update of WP. As part of the continuing efforts to make WordPress core, plugin, and theme upgrades as painless as possible,…
The guys at WordPress have been working hard for the last months on the new features that will be available in WordPress 2.9. They are looking for people to help beta test the new features and finding out any possible bugs. There are many different ways in which you can…
A Sitemap is a very important page of every Blog, whose function is to inform the Search Engines about all the URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that shows all the URLs for a site and is updated every time you create a new article. This allows search engines to spider the site more intelligently and better. To create a Sitemap for your Wordpress Blog, you will need the XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress.
You can download it here. This Wordpress plugin will create a compliant sitemap in the format supported by most Search Engines, including the most popular ones, Google, Yahoo and Bing. Like I said above, Sitemaps are very useful because they give valuable information to the search engines.
I just read a new article in the WordPress Blog that talks about improving plugins by using a changelog file. The WordPress team added a new feature to the plugin directory to allow developers to include a changelog with their project. The changelog informs us what changes have been made in each…
