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This is a maintenance release that fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that also affected version 3.3.

Always stay up to date with WordPress as releases like this include security updates and if they issued a release it is important.

Click Here to download the latest version or update automatically through your dashboard.

Give them what they are looking for right on your front page.  Some visitor that come to your website will stop at the Home Page unless you give them the reason to click farther.  If you have a Blog Home page make sure your list of  “Posts” are on your sidebar and the list should show more than the number of articles displayed on your front page.  If you display 5 articles on your front page then list 10 or more.  Also Categories and Tags are good to display in the sudebar so visitors can sort articles by Category and Tags or Keywords.  If your site is setup with a fixed front page rather than a blog page then make sure you have easy to see links to the other pages that you want people to view.  Make sure its right in front of their eyes and make sure your most important things are towards the top.

According to wordpress.org, “The latest and greatest version of WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard.”

A lot of development goes towards security and it is always a good idea to upgrade to the latest version for that fact alone.  PLUS! There’s the new dashboard layout and admin functionality that make this an extra nice upgrade.

It’s Almost Here.

WordPress is just about ready to release their latest version 3.3 which has just passed the beta stage and advanced to Release Candidate 1.  This says that an official release is just around the corner.  So get ready to enjoy the nice new features this new version brings.

http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/wordpress-3-3-release-candidate-1/

Easier Uploading with File Type Detection

Instead of needing to click on a specific upload icon based on your file type, now there’s just one. Once your file is uploaded, the appropriate fields will be displayed for entering information based on the file type.

Drag-and-Drop Media Uploader

Adding photos or other files to posts and pages also got easier. You can now Drag files from your desktop and drop them into the uploader. Add one file at a time, or many at once.

More File Formats

They’ve added the rar and 7z file formats to the list of allowed file types in the uploader.

WordPress 3.3 will be out soon so here’s a look at the new admin sidebar functionality.

Flyout Menus

The Dashboard Sidebar will take on a new look.

It speeds up navigating the dashboard and reduces repetitive clicking with new flyout sub-menus. The sidebar stays put. As you hover over each main menu item in your dashboard navigation, the submenus will pop out, providing single-click access to any dashboard screen.  Nice!!

New beta version released.  WordPress has released version 3.3 beta 3 and it is available for use for those that like to stay on the cutting edge.  There are no additional features being added at this time and the current mission is to address any bugs that may be left before they release an official version 3.3.   So it looks like we will all move to version 3.3 very soon.

http://wordpress.org/news/2011/11/wordpress-3-3-beta-3-available/

Find more using extended search terms in Google Search.  You can test them by copying the bold text into the search box on Google.

• intitle:software will provide you all the websites that contain the word “software” in their name.
• allintitle:software for Windows will offer all websites that contain the entire expression in their name.
• link:news.softpedia.com will present you all the sites that contain a link to news.softpedia.com.
• related:news.softpedia.com shows you the sites that are similar with news.softpedia.com.
• info:www.softpedia.com displays some interesting information about www.softpedia.com.
• location:romania provides all the sites that corresponds with the text you typed located in Romania.
• movie:softpedia will present movie related information about softpedia.
• weather:Bucharest, Romania displays the current forecast for Bucharest, Romania.
• phonebook: Softpedia Team will offer Softpedia Team’s telephone number, if it is included in US white page listings.
• site:gdscomp.com will show you all pages indexed from this site.

How would you like to have your own Online Magazine or news site.  You can have one for your community, your family, your club or even your business.  You can have different contributors or authors and post news, information and other articles to attract and entertain visitors. You can have different sections with similar topics, photos, videos, polls, slideshows and more.   With WordPress we can make this happen for you and its not that difficult to maintain and keep updated.  Contact us today and we’ll get you online in no time at all.

A new beta release of the latest and greatest WordPress is now available. WordPress 3.3 is now up to a beta 2 version and it looks like we are getting close to a new official version very soon. Dashboard improvements are nice along with performance enhancements.  Here’s the latest.

• Updated the Blue theme
• Fixed IE7 and RTL support
• Improved flyout menu styling and fixed several glitches
• Finished the Pointers implementation
• Landed the dashboard Welcome box for new installs
• Improved contextual help styling
• Tweaked the admin bar a little more
• Fixed a bunch of bugs

The dashboard change is very nice.  The sidebar pop outs are a nice change over expanding and collapsing boxes.  Look for a new version release very soon.

http://wordpress.org/news/2011/10/wordpress-3-3-beta-2/

I got to visit Bermuda last week.  What a beautiful place.  Especially a beach called Horseshoe Bay.  I don’t often get to take pictures of such awesome scenery so I just wanted to post a few.  Pretty cool! Check out these pictures.

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Firefox has just released another new version. Firefox 7 is out only six weeks after version 6. Version 7 is suppose to use much less memory and therefore may not crash as often when you have quite a few tabs open (like me) or leave it open for long periods of time. Go ahead and update Firefox to the new Firefox 7.

Read more about it here on webmonkey  or just go download it here…

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/

For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields. The reason is that these are text fields, and by using them at the beginning of your permalink structure it takes more time for WordPress to distinguish your Post URLs from Page URLs (which always use the text “page slug” as the URL), and to compensate, WordPress stores a lot of extra information in its database (so much that sites with lots of Pages have experienced difficulties). So, it is best to have at least two path segments in your post’s permalink structure such as

/%year%/%post_name%/

or even 

/%post_id%/%post_name%/ .

Some people don’t like any date reference so

/%post_id%/%post_name%/ works well in that case.

So the next big Social Networking Platform is suppose to be Google+ and so far people seem to like it.  It’s Google’s hope that it will overtake Facebook for serious social networking.  It shows a lot of promise with it’s new way of grouping contacts and sharing with only those you want to share with.  It also ties you into many other Google services that far surpass what Facebook has to offer.  I like it more and more.  Facebook is fun.  Google+ seems to be more serious and informative.  If nothing else it is a great addition to the social networking world.  I found this great article about using Google+ that kind of wraps it all up.  Check out this Complete Guide To Google+ from Mashable.

Using the Widget Context Plugin

Giving your WordPress website different different sidebar widgets for different sections is easy enough to do using a plugin called “Widget Context“.  Once you install this plugin you get some extra functionality in your dashboard’s widget menu.  When you put any widget into your sidebar you can choose what sections of you website this widget will show up on.  It can be displayed on your home page, blog page, single posts, single pages, search page, archive page and more. 

You can also use negative logic and hide that particular widget from certain sections.  Whatever works best for your design.  Here’s a look at the functionality block that gets added to your widget settings.  Just select where you want or don’t want that widget displayed, save, and your all set.