WordPress is finally now available after going through the RC4. This is an exciting news because this version brings some useful new features and large amount of bug fixes from the previous release. Notable new features include significantly faster way of linking to your older stories in the articles. A new revamped and cleaner dashboard interface. And for the developers new Post Formats support among many other enhancements. A highlight of all the new features in the latest version of the WordPress ...

We bloggers and webmasters all know and use Google Analytics for the vital statistics tracking of our websites. And no wonder that so many websites use it as the primary tool for traffic logging and analytics because it is THE most powerful free web analytics tool available. But now it is going to have some competition from the open source world because Piwik has released a web analytics tool that supports many of the features of Google Analytics and because it is open-source these features can ...

There are literally hundreds of plugins available for the WordPress users to customize every aspect of their blogs. This is the essence of having such a large community following that is always there to built plugins on new ideas and enhance the existing ones. This is the luxury of extensive customization afforded by WordPress and is the reason that WordPress is the most popular CMS although simpler and less featured than some of it’s competitors. But having such a large repository of plugins ...

PHP Speedy is a script that claims to decrease the page loading times for you website and hence give your readers a better experience. It achieves this by automatically joining appropriate files together and compressing before downloading to the web browser hence reducing the time required to download the files and display the web page. The author of the script has also setup a preview page with the PHP Speedy optimizations and an other page without these optimization for you to experience the difference ...

For the last couple of days I have searched and explored at least hundred different WordPress themes for a friend who required a theme for his Tech blog. Unfortunately most of the themes I came across had caused troubles in one way or the other. Some had trouble with the commonly used plugins, while others had a coding style that was very difficult to modify or customize to particular needs and still others were simply looking very cheap. In the end I found only a handful of themes that I really ...

Recently when I started blogging I was looking for a decent blog editor that could support all the essential features that are required to be productive when writing a blog post but without being intrusive. I tried the WordPress integrated editor but was not comfortable with it. So I decided to look for an alternative on the Internet. I decided to try out the Windows Live Writer 2008 after seeing many good reviews about it. I must say that I was impressed with the overall feature-set, in particular ...