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Wordpress 2.9 Adds Image Editing Tools

Service providers blogging platform, WordPress present the latest edition of wordpress blog. Wordpress 2.9 the most newer platform, allow the writers to have a virtual world in order to enjoy the latest features on their blog.

Many improvements made to pamper WordPress users in exploring in every homepage, one of the most prominent feature in Wordpress 2.9 platform is the ability to edit pictures. Through this feature users can insert images, as well as the ability to change the standard.

“Through these features, users can crop, edit, rotate, filp, and resize according to their need. I’m sure 99 percent of bloggers will be easier to use these new tools, because this feature is not as complex and complete as photosop,” explained founder of WordPress Matt Mullenweg , from Softpedia, Monday (21/12/2009).

Other features presented in this Wordpress is, feature ‘undo’ in writing. Thus, users who have made the elimination of writing, but want to undo original writing could use the feature ‘undo’. In addition, the feature ‘trash’ was also introduced in this new platform, the feature ‘trash’ the user can remove it while writing that she wanted. Then, at any time to pick it up again can still be done.

“WordPress 2.9 is continuously developing and for informational purposes only 3.0 platform comes with a plan to work together through football club Manchester United, in order to give MU Themes on WordPress blog,” said Matt.

Blogging Software To Store Ideas For Future Blog Articles

As a blogger you sometimes come upon an idea or website that you find interesting but do not want to write about right at that moment. Maybe you have already posted your daily quota on your blog or you want to wait until the time is right for that blog post. That leads to a slight problem for the blogger as the information somehow need to be recorded so that the website, product or idea does not get lost.

Remembering might work for a few ideas or someone with a photographic memory but most bloggers need to write down their ideas and findings somehow. Some simply bookmark the pages but that leaves the ideas behind because they obviously cannot be bookmarked.

Others use a text editor to post the ideas and websites. That’s an option but not a very sophisticated one. Last but not least there are note taking applications online and for the computer desktop. More »

Speed Up Wordpress With Better Permalink Rewrite Code

A new Wordpress blog uses an unoptimized url structure that uses numbers instead of the actual article titles. The so called permalinks need to be changed to switch from the number system to a system that is better readable for visitors and favored by the search engines. It is for instance possible to use urls that display the category and page title as the url, to mix in dates, numerics or custom information.

The most important rule for search engine optimization is to use the page title in the url. Everything else is optional and up to the user’s liking.

Wordpress generates an .htaccess file when the permalinks are changed that contains the rewrite directives. It sometimes happens that the file cannot be created or written which would then mean that the user would need to create and edit the htaccess file manually.
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Complete database administration package MySQL Workbench

Recently I covered the MySQL GUI tool MySQL Administrator (see the article “Create a database with MySQL Administrator“). However, this tool was just given the official EOL (End of Life) announcement by the MySQL dev team. Although this is sad news for a tool that had recently become my standard for working with databases, this death knoll has lead me to another, even better, tool MySQL Workbench.

MySQL Workbench replaces all of the MySQL GUI tools, adds numerous power-user features, and wraps them up into a tool that any DBA (data base administrator) will be drooling over. More »

Wordpress 2.9 Released

The Wordpress developers have released version 2.9 of their popular blogging script Wordpress which can be downloaded from the official Wordpress website. Users who have configured automatic updates can also upgrade to the new version of Wordpress from within their blogs. It is however recommended to backup the files and database before initiating the update. More »

Wordpress 2.8.6 Security Update Released

Wordpress have just released their latest  security update for their blogging platform Wordpress which is version 2.8.6.

This release fixes two vulnerabilities that are only relevant for multi-author blogs as they can only be exploited by registered, logged in users with posting rights. More »