WordPress is one of most hardworking development community with unique work environment. After the quick security update, they have released much awaited WordPress 3.1 version which is having new features like Post Formats support, Clean and streamlined editor panel, admin bar at the top of each post (for admin and users) and refreshed blue color scheme.
I was trying to upgrade to WordPress 3.0.2 and initially the automatic upgrade failed. Then I upgarded it manually using FTP. It was successful. The dashboard said that ‘You are using WordPress 3.0.2’. But the issue was I was still getting the message on the top of all the admin screens that ‘An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – please attempt the update again now.’
Google Account is one destination for achieving different things on web. You use Google Account to check Gmail, Manage Adsense and Analytics, access Webmaster Central etc. If you are not able to access your Google account, then it becomes really important that whether your account’s Password Recovery Options was up-to-date. Because now you are going to recover your password and that can be done in couple of ways.
Yahoo and Facebook has completed a deal where Yahoo users can check their Facebook news feed, updates on Yahoo homepage as well. This will definitely help Yahoo in increasing the reach of their products as well as help those 600 million social networking site’s visitors to connect their Yahoo accounts with Facebook. People can share updates and stuff from Yahoo homepage as well.
Wordpress plugins are like extension to the current Wordpress platform and they add value to the system. Anyone can create and upload his/her own plugin on Wordpress directory thru SVN server of Wordpress. Here is the step by step tutorial to upload own newly created plugin or updates on Wordpress SVN server. You can treat this post as a tutorial for very simple way to use Subversion (Version Control System) on Wordpress.
Google updated the PageRank for domains on this weekend and lot many webmasters are pretty happy with their performance. Once again we got good news from Google that our both blogs are now PageRank #5. Yes, Internet Techies (www.clickonf5.org) and Blogern (www.blogern.com) are now PR #5. Before this April PR update, both sites were PR #4.
Wordpress Team is working on the new version i.e. 3.0 and as per the roadmap of releases, Wordpress 3.0 is expected to release in May 2010. Current version i.e. Wordpress 2.9 added cool features like image editing and video embed thru link and now Wordpress 3.0 is coming up with lot many new features. We already talked about the merge of Wordpress and Wordpress MU (Multiple Users) system code. And there are lot many other new features expected to come with 3.0.
Wordpress has released version 2.9.2 with a simple update for those who has open their blog registration for everyone and having untrusted users. If your blog is having untrusted logged in users then they can play with he “Trash” posts written by other authors as well. FYI, Trash feature came in Wordpress 2.9 to keep the deleted posts for time being and then you can permanently delete them from your blog. But as reported by some Wordpress developers, every logged in user is having unwanted access to trash posts even written by other authors.
Good News for Webmasters as Google has updated the page rank today. Your favorite technology blog “Internet Techies” is now Page Rank #4. Last time we updated you about the Page Rank update from Google in the month of October (to be exact 30’th Oct).
Sanjeev Mishra is a computer geek and co-founder of Internet Techies, a technology blog with 1000+ how-to articles to provide helpful tips on Software and Web Applications..read more.
