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The folks at WordPress have released version 3.0 RC1.  This means they are one step closer to an official release of the newest version.  3.0 has some new features that people have been asking for and it all looks good.  We are already running it on our other website www.gdscomp.net and have had no problems.  So get ready cause here it comes!

Here’s the official word…

http://wordpress.org/development/2010/05/wordpress-3-0-release-candidate/

A New Theme created with Artisteer 2.4 with a couple added features!

This is a more Page Oriented Theme with a verticle menu to show your Pages. The menu expands when clicked to show sub pages.

The Date is built in to the top of the sidebar.

I have also included support for the Breadcrumb Navigation Plugin to show a page trail at the top of Pages. The plugin is included in the archive and needs to be uploaded to your plugins folder.

Nice professional look with tan and orange colors.

Footer is editable from the dashboard and you can add your own text and links.

If your looking to build a website for your business, club or association this theme will give you a nice looking and easy to navigate site.

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WordPress 3.0 Coming Soon!

We are getting closer to a new official WordPress 3.0.  The second beta version is now available for anyone that likes to stay on the cutting edge.

Lots of new features coming including customizable menus and the merge with WordPress MU.  You can always read more about it at www.wordpress.org!

Spider or crawler robots that access your website are using your bandwidth.  Just like the real visitors that browse your site.

So, in the case of WordPress, they are also causing php calls to be made increasing your site’s CPU load and memory use.  This is all normal except when you see certain bots hitting your site a few hundred times a day.  In this case you may need to deny them access using your robots.txt file.  Hopefully they will follow the rules and leave you alone.  If they don’t you may need to ban them by IP address.  Try your robots.txt file first though and see what happens.  It usually works.

Here’s an example of  a robots.txt file disallowing access to a crawler.  Your robots.txt file should be in your website’s root directory and it is just a text file with something similar to the following.

#this one blocks all from the cgi-bin folder
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/

#this one blocks MJ12bot from all folders
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

#this one blocks Yandex
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

# This one keeps all robots out.
# User-agent: *
# Disallow: /

If you have a WordPress site, using a plugin like StatPress Reloaded will give you a list of spiders that are visiting your site and you can see how often they are crawling and what impact they have.

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