Technology Bites

When WordPress was released it was hard to think of using it for shopping platform or selling things from blog. But now WordPress has improved so much that every hour a new plugin for WordPress is released which extends its wings to most of the platforms. Here are 10 handy WordPress plugins for e-commerce. 1.  WP [...]

Caching is a technique that can improve the performance of your web page by transparently storing data such that future requests for that data can be served faster. Caching your WordPress blog can effectively optimize the performance of your blog even during high traffic peaks. When caching is enabled on your blog, only the first [...]

Google Buzz, is a trending way to share information with your friends on the web. With the craze for Google Buzz, many applications, utilities, and plugins are being developed. If your blog is based on WordPress, to help you quickly and easily integrate Google Buzz, following are a selection of some of the best Google [...]

Following are some of the best WordPress related Firefox extensions which make blogging much easier for you. These extensions enable you to install themes and plug-ins, upload images, publish posts and more! right from your browser.

The folks at WordPress.com launched a URL shortening service for all WordPress.com users. They acquired Wp.me domain name for the same and now each and every post of WordPress.com will carry a short URL.

WordPress 2.8 Final version is released to the public. 2.8 version brings lot of improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies and overall speed according to WordPress blog. Visually it looks the same as previous version 2.7 but you will see some changes like code editor and others.

BuddyPress is a set of plugins for Wordpres mu, those will transform the multi user wordpress into a social network. BuddyPress is under development for quite some time, yesterday version 1.0 is out, like WordPress it is released under GPL.

While browsing the web these days, you would rarely come across any website with just plain text on it. Flat text – nothing else. Well, that was Web 1.0 , we now live in the Web 2.0 age, surfing not only just text, but audio, video, presentations, files, movies and what not! If you have [...]

If you want convert and move one platform to other now there is a better way to import and convert blogs between different publishing platforms. Google has released python libraries and runnable scripts to convert and export blogs between formats like Blogger, Live Journal, Movable Type and WordPress. WordPress provides excellent exporting options but not [...]

WordPress 2.7 final version released today which brings complete new admin interface. The most important features are drag and drop dashboard elements, quickpress for posting quick posts, threaded comments, paging and the ability to reply to comments from the dashboard, sticky posts and plugins can be downloaded from wordpress.org with a single click. I have [...]

WordPress 2.6.5 is released today and it security issue and three other bugs. Users are advised to upgrade immediately to 2.6.5 version as it fixes an important security issue. The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested [...]

WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 is released for testing today. This release brings completely redesigned wordpress admin area, the design doesn’t resemble previous designs of wordpress admin. Some may like this and some may not, everything is looking pretty much rounded. There are some useful features implemented in this redesign.

Microsoft released a beta tool called “Microsoft Web Platform Installer” this week that lets you install popular open source applications like Drupal and WordPress among others. I think this is a companion tool for Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta released on Sep 30th 2008.

WordPress.com parent company Automattic today announced the acquisition of PollDaddy.com. PollDaddy is quite popular in its niche and many blogs use their service for adding polls to their blogs.

Automattic, the company behind wordpress acquired IntenseDebate, one of the comment enhancement systems. IntenseDebate launched last year with features like ratings, comment threading, OpenID support etc. IntenseDebate provides community features likevoting, reputation, profiles, reply by email among others. Automattic says that InteseDebate will stay as an independent service, much like Akismet Automattic’s other product. In [...]

WPtouch is a wordpress plugin that shows a iPhone optimized theme when opened on iPhone or iPod touch. The plugin formats your blog wordpress blog with an iPhone application-style theme, it only shows up when opened through an iPhone. Install the plugin as any other wordpress plugin, after installation go to settings and Wo Touch [...]

Grunge design is gaining popularity among designers, this is becoming a trend in web designing and so in wordpress themes. At the moment there are not many free wordpress themes in grungy style, but with the popularity of the design we may see more in the near future. Grunge designs usually contains dirty, rugged, irregular, [...]

WP125 is a plugin for managing 125×125 ads on your WordPress blog. If you are selling 125 ads yourself for your blog this plugin will help you to manage and track those ads effectively. Download the plugin and install, once installed it will add a “Ads” menu to the wordpress admin, from here you can [...]

WordPress for iPhone App is now available from iPhone App store as promised earlier. WordPress for iPhone app works with both wordpress.com blogs and self hosted wordpress blogs. “You can write posts, upload photos and edit your wordpress blogs from your iPhone or iPod Touch.” You need to be running WordPress 2.5.1 version or higher [...]

WordPress 2.6 is released with some awesome features and with some bug fixes. WordPress now supports version tracking, you can track the changes made to a post or page like wikipedia or version control system. This feature is important for multi author blogs, you can track the changes made by others. Another important feature added [...]