Finally long awaited version 3.0 of Wordpress has been released. This version has got 1,217 bug fixes, so upgrading to Wordpress 3.0 is must must. Get ready to upgrade to Wordpress 3.0 as this is a major update so you have to prepare for the update before actually trying it on your live site. Major new features of this upgrades are the new default theme “Twenty Ten“.  Wordpress MU is now part of Wordpress, so now you can run off multiple sites from your single Wordpress install. One feature that will going to be very useful for Wo.

WP Super Cache 0.9.9.2 has been released, this is the biggest release because it support Wordpress 3.0 which will be coming out very soon. So now the users will not have to wait for WP Super Cache to be Wordpress 3.0 compatible, it already works with it. The other major features being added to this release are: Better support for mobile plugins. Cache preloading to cache every post of the blog. Cache tester to test if home page of the blog has been cached. The only glitch which only affects huge blogs (specially those with more then 32K post.

Facebook recently launched a web wide Like button which allows everyone to add Like buttons on every page of their site. With in hours of launching everyone started adding buttons on their site. The bloggers who use Wordpress platform for blogging didn’t stay behind in the race, they also started adding the button on their blog and very soon the button started appearing on thousands of blogs. Let me tell you how can you add the Facebook Like button on you Wordpress Blog with in 5 minutes, without any extra plugin. Goto the your Wordpress.

Have you been keeping post revisions for all your posts. You might have been storing post revisions for posts that you don’t touch anymore. There is no point storing post revisions if you are not making any changes to the post. Post revisions serve as a backup if you mistakenly change something in your post and then you have to revert back. But its very rare that you have something on posts older then 2-3 months. Also in my last post I showed how you can completely disable revisions, so if you had it enabled you might still have those ol.

Stats, stats, stats!!! Every blogger love their stats, specially if the graph is moving up. You might already be using Google Analytics to track visitors on your blog. From where they are coming, what articles they are reading. But won’t it be great if you knew what user clicked on adsense ad? On what page a visitor clicked on adsense ad? How they came to your site? With the tracking information in front of you, you can optimize your web site for your visitors to increase conversions. I won’t be teaching Analytics here in detail, b.

Wordpress being most popular blogging platform has been used by hundreds of thousands of bloggers. As we all know that Wordpress is an Open Source software that is in continuous development. With every release numerous new features are added to the platform. Not every new feature is suitable for everyone and this is what is good about Wordpress. You can disable most if not all of the functionalities or features that does not suite you. Post revisions is a feature that was added in Wordpress with version 2.6, it is useful for most of the blogge.

Securing wordpress installation is the first thing that I do after installing wordpress. There are many security measures I take but changing default administrator username is the very basic and important security measure that people often forget about. Here I am listing down the steps that are required to change the username. Goto Users->Authors & Users to verify that you or your partner (if you have one) haven’t already change the default admin username. You should see admin listed under the Username. Now to change the userna.

Have you ever setup a wordpress blog? What are the common features a blog should have? If you have ever setup a wordpress blog then you must know that you have to add plugins to add extra functionality or features. I wish that following 5 features should become part of Wordpress Code. Anti Spam Stats Subscribe to Comments XML Sitemaps Similar Posts Lets see what plugins are available for these features. I will be listing top 2 or 3 at most, not all the plugins for every feature. Let me know if I miss one of your favorites. Anti Spam Anti Spa.

Its been almost a month since I last posted on my blog. First of all I should sorry all of you out there for not being able to updated the blog specially I want to sorry to those who were expecting me to post more posts specially about wordpress. I had been quite busy with some stuff and hence couldn’t update the blog, and I am really sorry for that. I hope I will be able to keep with the pace of changing technology and post useful stuff as soon as I have any. If you ask any blogger they will say a blog should be updated once a week exce.

Don’t you like to have regular readers on your blog? Don’t you want the readers that give feedback? that add value to your blog posts by providing quality comments? Have you ever tried to figure out how to convert your blog visitor to a regular reader? How to convince them to subscribe to your blog? As in the earlier post I talked about how to increase your blog traffic. But it would be injustice to not talk about converting that traffic into regular readers. Below are few wordpress plugins that can help you in getting more convers.