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Wordpress 2.6 Final Version is out! Grab it

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Wordpress 2.6 is out

Wordpress 2.6 is out !!

Wordpress 2.6 Final is released!

This release has fixed lot of bugs and has come up with a lot of new and good features. If you are using Wordpress, i advice you to upgrade it to Wordpress 2.6 now.

Here are the few features that i immediately noticed after i upgraded wordpress to 2.6 version:

  • Theme preview — Theme preview functionality would allow you to see what a new theme would look like on your blog before you activate it.
  • WordPress Auto-Upgrade — There’s been some early progress on incorporating auto-upgrade for WordPress itself into version 2.6.
  • Google Gears support — Now integrated into the WordPress, this feature will allow Google Gears users to experience a faster admin interface, and possibly manage their WordPress blogs while offline (how cool would that be).
  • Plug-in page — You can see a bubble on the top of Plug-ins link. It lets you know the number of plug-in updates available without actually going to the page.
    Bubbles on top of Plug-ins

    Bubbles on top of Plug-ins

  • Identicons — In WordPress 2.6 you’ll have the ability to select a default Gravatar for those who don’t have one.
  • Post Revisions — Wiki-style revisions management for blog posts: a cool new power-feature, just announced on the WordPress Development Updates blog.
  • Image Captioning — As pointed out by Michael, The WordPress image on the top left of this post has an image caption, a built-in feature from the going-to-be-final-WordPress 2.6!

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Easy File Uploading in Wordpress – WP Easy Uploader Plugin

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Chris Jean has come up with a wonderful plugin WP Easy Uploader. It is a very useful wordpress plugin which can upload plugins, themes and any other files quickly and easily from Wordpress admin panel. You no longer have to upload the files using web File manager or from an FTP client.

I discovered this plugin from this Real Themes Blog.

Plugin features – I liked :

  • You can install any theme or plugin directly from a URL and you don’t need to download it before uploading to your server
  • Easily upload plugins directly to the plugins directory and theme files directly to the themes directory.
  • Select to have archives automatically extracted to their destination. This means that plugins and themes will be taken care of for you, but it also means that you can zip up a large set of files and upload them quickly into a folder on your site. Currently zip, tar, gz, tar.gz, tgz, and tar.bz2 archives are supported.

I think this is one of the Must Have Wordpress Plugins. Let me know what do you think of this plugin??

Below are my other posts related to Wordpress plugins:

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Give Reward to commentators – Use ‘NoFollow Free’ WP Plugin

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

In one of my previous post, i mentioned about CommentLuv Plugin which pulls the title of the commentators blogs latest post and places its link just below the comment.

Well the above plugin is rewarding/benefitting the commentator because, i am helping in giving some traffic and providing backlinks. But the backlink will be useful only if it is “NoFollow Free”.

What is nofollow?
nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring in the first place.

Read more on this here.
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Planning to change Wordpress Theme?

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

You want to give a new look to your wordpress blog.

What do you usually do?

  • Search for Wordpress Themes. After finding a correct one of your choice and then change the theme.
  • OR

  • Try changing the current Theme itself.

After that you may start making some changes or tweaking the theme. But, because of that changes, your blog may break and your blog visitors may see a buggy blog.

To avoid the above scenario, You can use “Admin Theme Preview” Wordpress plugin.

Before you read the rest of the post. I would like to thank Michael, this is the link were i discovered this plugin.

How does this plugin help you?
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Get more comments and visitors by using CommentLuv Plugin

Monday, May 26th, 2008

CommentLuv Wordpress Plugin

I have just now discovered a very useful plugin for Wordpress. It is called CommentLuv Plugin.

You can also read my previous post Best (must have) Wordpress Plugins to find out more interesting Wordpress Plugins.

How does this plugin get you more comments and visitors?

After you leave a comment on a blog that has CommentLuv plugin installed, CommentLuv will try to detect the latest post from your blog and then present a link to the post at the bottom of the comment. It’s a nice way to repay those readers who leave a comment.

I discovered this plugin and found in action here. You can see my comment and also my last post link here

After you install this plugin, you will notice a new check box with following text:

Enable CommentLuv which will try and get your last blog post, please be patient while it finds it for you

CommentLuv Plugin will give you some of the below Benefits :

  • You will get a link to your latest blog post
  • More visitors will be willing to leave a comment :) as they will get a link of their latest blog post

Now that you know the benefits of this plugin, why not Download CommentLuv and get more interaction with your visitors!

Click below to download the plugin
commentluv here

UPDATE : CommentLuv Plugin is now Ajaxed – AjaxedCommentLuv has more exciting features

If you find this post useful. Try leaving a comment and check whether you blog last post is appearing or not

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