If you’re a heavy WordPress developer like me, you might find that you need to create a new installation for each site that requires a strange structure or specific posts, instead of using your uniform local test WordPress installation. Cue WordPress Mu. WordPress Multi User is a platform created by the geniuses at Automattic that is basically a WordPress installation that allows multiple blogs to run using the same software
I have read quite a few books from PacktPub as they have range of books on Open Source Content Management Systems a subject I am very passionate about. The also have many books on other technologies including many on open source software. I use WordPress at work for clients and for my own personal blogs so was very interested when asked to review a new WordPress book from PacktPub ‘WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook‘.
I will be reading the book over the next couple of weeks and trying some of the advise in the book on my own blogs. I will post the full review on my blog once completed
In this years pre training videos for the The 30 Day Challenge the browser of choice is Google Chrome (previous years have used Flock and Firefox). This year Gurubob goes through which Google Chrome extensions they will be using to help with Search Engine Optimisation. Whether you are interested in the 30 day challenge or not its a great list of extensions when looking at SEO.
The training video is below and the links to the extensions below that.
This extension auto-detects RSS feeds on the page you are reading and upon finding one will display an RSS icon in the Omnibox, allowing you to click on it to preview the feed content and subscribe.
Google Global is an extension that allows you to see how Google search results appear in different countries, regions and cities. Google global has default countries set and allows you to add customized locations so you can see how search results appear in the exact location that you require. Excellent for SEO/Marketing companies who work with clients in different regions
This extension displays country or region name, Geo, Google PageRank, Alexa Rank and WOT info for the websites you're visiting. recommended in the 30 day challenge 2010.
SeoQuake is a SEO extension (toolbar) for Google Chrome, it shows PageRank, Alexa and tons of SEO parameters, also works in SERP. Recommended in 20 day Challenge 2010
The abbreviation "MAMP" stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X!
MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it PowerBook or iMac. Like similar packages from the Windows- and Linux-world, MAMP comes free of charge.
The reason that millions of users worldwide choose to use Ubuntu over other operating system is its ease of use. The clue is in the name, with ‘Ubuntu’ meaning ‘humanity towards others’ and also the name of a South African ideology. It was designed to be user-friendly, and there are a whole range of apps available, often to download for free, which make it even more so. You can tailor Ubuntu to suit your web development and design needs, but there are hundreds and hundreds of apps to choose from, many of which prove services difficult to differentiate between. So, like a web development app filter, we’ve saved you some time and selected the best 12 Ubuntu apps out there.
Linking Buzz to Twitter will make your buzz automatically be sent to Twitter and will include a link back to your buzz, which means that all your Twitter followers can enjoy all photos, videos etc without having to follow you on Buzz. Messages can be longer than 140 characters as your followers can just hit the link to read the rest.
Fotobook is a WordPress plugin that will link to your Facebook account and import all of your photo albums into a page on your WordPress installation. It makes use of Facebook's API so importing your photos is a breeze
Smart Youtube is a WordPress Youtube plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists into your post, comments and in your RSS feed. The plugin is designed to be small and fast and not use any external resources.
This plugin integrates your WordPress blog with your Twitter account allowing you to send new blog posts to Twitter as a tweet and and vice versa. Cross-promotion of a blog posts to Twitter is fairly common and can be automatically achieved with Twitter Tools. You can also create digests that consolidate all of your tweets. Also, the plugin is entirely pluggable and can be extended just like WordPress itself.
Lifestream is a plugin built on top of the WordPress platform. It allows you to effortlessly integrate your social network activity across the web with your blog.
Facestream a Buddypress facebook intergration plugin.
With this plugin you can synchronize your activity stream and your facebook items. Also you can send a facebook update upon forum topic creation and topic reply.
Tweetstream a Buddypress twitter intergration plugin. With this plugin you can synchronize your activity stream and your tweets. Also you can send a tweet upon forum topic creation and topic reply.
I have read quite a few books from