I recently upgrade a blog of mine from Wordpress 2.2 to Wordpress 2.3. My wife and I don't post on the blog much (looking for better ideas on how to utilize the site), but it's great to keep around to test the latest and greatest Wordpress has to offer. In my view, the most important new feature in Wordpress 2.3 is the baseline introduction of tags (also called taxonomy or even categories in other CMS applications).
Jared Ritchey has a few things to say about search engine optimization and WordPress.
Mike Gifford, Open Concept, commented here at CMS Report that his company had just posted a report they did for a client comparing three open source content management systems. His company needed to recommend to their client whether Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal would be a good replacement for their current CMS, Back-End (BE).
A new version of bbPress, the "simple, fast, and elegant" forum application, is available. The new version is 0.8.2 and introduces some new features.
Additional information including download links and install instructions can be found on the original announcement for bbPress 0.8.2.
So you want to write a successful blog? Or perhaps just have a successful Website that people actually visit? Lorelle reminds us just how to make your blog of interest to others.
I have many friends raised within countries which still play by these rules, where you are and do what your father or mother did, and maybe your grandparents before you, not what you want to do. Where apprenticeship programs are the only way into a trade. Where you are tested and found competent for a specific job, not because your heart leads the way.
By golly, I have been so busy the past couple weeks that I didn't even had a chance to check out a beta of Wordpress 2.2. Now it's too late for me because Wordpress 2.2 has been officially released. Not only does this release include over 200 bug fixes, but it also has some new nifty features.
At first I was skeptical that this article was without bias regarding Wordpress.com since it was Matt Mullenweg's own blog that referred me to the story. I was pleased to discover that the author, Jonathan Bailey, helped erased my skepticism in his well written article, Wordpress.com is Virtually Spam Free. The first two paragraphs should get you interested in reading more.
This past week saw updates for both Wordpress and Wordpress MU. While both open source packages are blogging applications they are not quite the same software. Wordpress MU is intended to run up to hundreds of thousands of blogs with a single install of WordPress. Hence the MU in Wordpress MU stands for Multi-User.
A security update is available in both branches of Wordpress as 2.1.3 and 2.0.10.
Last week, Linux.com posted an article titled, Drupal vs. WordPress - Which is better for blogging?
I really can't display every open source project's invitation for college students to apply to Google's Summer of Code. But just like the invitation from Drupal, WordPress would be another one of those projects I wouldn't have minded working on when I was going to college.