While going through the upgrade of WordPress 2.6 to 2.7, I noticed that someone had linked to one of our article and when I followed the link, I came across this post that was titled “6 things you didn’t know wordpress could be“. I loved the article as it showed that how WordPress can be put under various uses even though it started off as blogging software and is primarily used as the same.
I’ve always backed Arne’s Google Sitemap generator plugin and the reasons are pretty obvious, it’s one of the only XML sitemap generator that follows the guidelines of Sitemaps.org, an noble idea to build standard sitemaps and is supported by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. However, it is highly criticized because of the high memory usage.
I’m planning to start an information website soon and for the first time I’m looking for a solution other than WordPress. It’s not that I’ve lost faith in the power of WordPress, it’s just that WordPress generates dynamic pages and I’m looking for a solution that will generate static content.
Few days back, I’d mentioned that how Google is going to migrate my Feedburner account and will link it to the Google Account. They have done that now and now it is a bit more convenient for me to access the feeds as I just have to open feedburner.google.com and it gives me the report of the feeds as I’m logged in other Google services.
Gravatar, the global avatar service which was acquired by Automattic will now be a core feature in Invision Power Board forum software. The software will have this feature in it’s upcoming version 3 and here’s what IPB has to say about -
My friend Kyle has written an interesting article where he suggests that 5 plugins should be part of WordPress as default option. Well, I have to say that this is a wonderful thought because no CMS is perfect and WordPress as a CMS also needs to add features. The list which has been mentioned by Kyle is -
We’ve seen all A-list bloggers using Aweber for creating the mailing lists and that they are using the javascript pop-up boxes to display the signup information button for the first time visitor, so as to increase the signup rate. However, there are few who don’t like that at all. Anyway, I also want to increase the signup for my newsletter (not aweber one, I use the feedburner’s default service) and was thinking of a non-obtrusive way of displaying the signup box and here’s what I did!
