WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system (CMS). And in 2011 WordPress has dominated the landscape of blogging. There are a number of reasons why WordPress is so good quality coding, highly customizable, works well for SEO, friendly user interface, and a lot more.

Wordpress Plugins

Media is also incorporated artistically and effortlessly by thousands of different WordPress themes around the internet, and SEO comes just as easily. One very popular feature of WordPress is its rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install. Let’s take a look at the top 5 best SEO plugins for WordPress this year.

1. Google XML Sitemaps

Google XML Sitemaps a must have for getting your domains indexed and crawled. One of the primary ways to get your site indexed and hitting the SERPs quickly is to send in a sitemap for Google, Yahoo, and Bing. This allows the search engine to have dedicated mapping of your domain, allowing the bots to spider your URL structure more accurately and leaving no chance for missed content. Also, you’ll be able to see which of your pages/posts are being indexed and are ranking for various keywords much sooner.

2. WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache is plugin utility that creates a cache for faster loading times. This is another important aspect of on-page SEO that many websites fail at, load times. Google, Yahoo, and Bing are concerned with how fast or slow a website loading time is. If a site is taking 10+ seconds or more for the average visitor, than many users are not going to be able to access the pages/posts effectively. Having your webpages cached will greatly reduce the loading time and get your around the 1-3 second mark, adding more trust/authority to your site for clean coding and quality CSS.

3. CBNet Ping Optimizer

CBNet Ping Optimizer is very simple pinging tool. The main focus of this plugin is to regulate the pings for only new content that you release, this way your are not spamming the search engines every time you make 10 or 20 post edits. But, CBNet Ping Optimizer is excellent for utilizing the best leverage any website has for Google SEO, unique content. When you post really quality content to your blog/website, your going to want to notify the search engines to send their robots to come check out your new url and it’s content. The pinger can be turned off if you do not want to ping a new domain or site before content creation and then turned on for automatic mode, which will only ping your new posts/pages. Very useful and really helps get your site indexed much faster.

4. SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart Links interlinking between pages on keywords. This plugin creates interlinking between your pages/posts and keywords throughout your website. Having your domain interlinked properly will greatly increase your indexing speed of newly created content and share the page rank nicely between your most popular pages. I highly recommend using a inter-linking plugin of some sort and SEO smart links is what I choose to use. You can also set it for more or less linking per page, linking on specific keywords AND pointing the links to specific pages/posts. Very customizable and you can really build a quality architecture for your website.

5. All in One SEO Pack

All in One SEO Pack constantly updated & very reliable plugin. All in one SEO pack is by far the most useful search engine optimization plugin for any WordPress installation. You will use this plugin with any theme to help you customize your meta html easily and quickly. The plugin will give you a shortcut menu to edit various meta tags on every post, page, and for your home domain, including the title, description, image tags, and keywords. This will help you provide a basic foundation for your on-page SEO efforts, loading times and sitemaps will come from your other SEO plugins listed lower down.

Whole of the above plugins are on the Top 5 SEO Plugins ranks this year. All of you must have on your website. Hopefully this helps.

WordPress 3.1.1 released with many bugs fixes included

• Security hardening to media uploads (r17569)
• Prevent potential PHP crashes caused by complex hyperlinks (#16892)
• Correct minor XSS flaw on database upgrade screens (r17583)
• Fixed 26 tickets. A breakdown of bug fixes by component can be found on Trac.

If you want updated only selected files that has been changed, you can replace your WordPress old files with the newest one on this files

wp-includes/admin-bar.php
wp-includes/taxonomy.php
wp-includes/post.php
wp-includes/version.php
wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce.js
wp-includes/js/tinymce/wp-tinymce.js.gz
wp-includes/functions.php
wp-includes/query.php
wp-includes/link-template.php
wp-includes/wp-db.php
wp-includes/formatting.php
wp-includes/rewrite.php
wp-includes/canonical.php
wp-includes/css/admin-bar.css
wp-includes/css/admin-bar.dev.css
wp-includes/script-loader.php
wp-includes/meta.php
readme.html
wp-admin/network.php
wp-admin/includes/class-wp-ms-sites-list-table.php
wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php
wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader.php
wp-admin/includes/update-core.php
wp-admin/includes/media.php
wp-admin/media-upload.php
wp-admin/network/settings.php
wp-admin/network/admin.php
wp-admin/upgrade.php
wp-admin/user/admin.php

You can download and upgrade your WordPress 3.1.1 via Auto Upgrade method or download on http://wordpress.org/latest.zip or http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Jetpack WP Plugin by Automattic

Automattic give another useful plugin again. If you are self-hosted WordPress blogs, you will happy hear it.

Jetpack supercharges your self‑hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

So, you didn’t need to be worries if some features didn’t available on your self-hosted WordPress blog. Using Jetpack WordPress plugin, you can use some great features that available on WordPress.com for free on your WordPress powered blog.

Currently 8 features has available on Jetpack WordPress plugin. You can download Jetpack plugin on this site

There are so many team involved on this WordPress 3.1 released. You can check the details on the Matt Mullenweg post on WordPress.org News

This is some feature highlight on WordPres 3.1

• Streamlined Writing Interface – new users of WordPress will find the write screen much less cluttered than before, as more of the options are hidden by default. You can click on Screen Options in the top right to bring them back.
• Post Formats – meta information that can be used by themes to customize presentation of a post. Read more in the article Post Formats.
• Network Admin – move Super Admin menus and related pages out of the regular admin and into a new Network Admin screen.
• Internal Linking – click a button for an internal link and it allows you to search for a post or browse a list of existing content and select it for inclusion.
• Admin Bar – contains various links to useful admin screens. By default, the admin bar is displayed when a user is logged in and visiting the site and is not displayed in admin screens for single blog installs. For multisite installs, the admin bar is displayed both when visiting the site and in the admin screens.
• List-type Admin Screens – sortable columns for list-type screens and better pagination.
• Exporter/Importer Overhaul – many under the hood changes including adding author information, better handling for taxonomies and terms, and proper support for navigation menus.
• Custom Content Type Improvements – allows developers to generate archive pages, and have better menu and capability controls. Read more in the article Post Types.
• Advanced Queries – allows developers to query multiple taxonomies and custom fields.
• Refreshed Blue Admin Color Scheme – puts the focus more squarely on your content.

You can learn more details on WordPress 3.1 Codex, it’s a time to update into WordPress 3.1 Download WordPress 3.1 from WordPress.org

This is one of them …

Many people as end user or web developer forget and maybe it is not necessary to look up when we’re creating some website or wordpress themes. Maybe after read this articles you will be inspired to create a nice and creatives 404 page.

Is your blog or website or your themes already has a nice and creatives 404 error page like this ??

So, come on and share in this articles your 404 error.

Okay, I will explain the new changes in WordPress 3.0 as end users. The first is the color display on the Dashboard and Updates the previous version is still entered in the Tools menu.

Wordpress 2.9.2 Dashboard

wordpress 3.0 Dashboard

The second is the replacement name on post Thumbnails to be Featured Image. In the function I thought the same, but technically I have not get explanation. Maybe next time I will be described in writing specifically about this.

Third, changes in appearance Appearance themes. Previous Add New Themes in the Appearance menu, now entered into the themes by providing a new tab Install Themes. So, there are additional menu that serves to regulate navigation. Based on experience, navigation settings is very important when we develop themes in WordPress.

Wordpress 3.0 Manage Themes

Wordpress 3.0 Menu

Well, it’s really look very interesting right, and if you’re installing this beta version you will found customize admin password when the the first time install like this picture below Plus the front page Screenshot.

Wordpress 3.0 Install

Wordpress 3.0 frontpage

]]> http://www.jauhari.net/wordpress-30-beta-tester-1/feed 2 http://www.jauhari.net/wordpress-2-9-2-released http://www.jauhari.net/wordpress-2-9-2-released#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:49:40 +0000 Andi Eko http://www.jauhari.net/?p=2013 Read More →]]> I’ve just upgrade my personal blog into WordPress 2.9.2 this morning. There are some critical issue update beside vulnerability bug fixed. I think it’s very useful when the website has many writer content like this blog for example. The critical issue is WordPress fixing Trash facility that already launch in previous version WordPress 2.9.

At the first released of Trash facility all user can see the trash even that was not their own trash post. So, it might could be deleted by other user or something else to do. Beside this trash problem there are other bug fixed that will decrease the security problems and make this WordPress CMS more powerful.

So, by upgrading into WordPress 2.9.2 we can manage our blog/website become better and better. I hope Jauhari will upgrade this blog soon.

Some Features that you got on WordPress 2.9

1. Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete.
2. Built-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who’s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements.
3. Batch plugin update and compatibility checking, which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we’re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.
4. Easier video embeds that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).

The Code Name for WordPress 2.9 is Carmen, You can check about WordPress 2.9 released on WordPress.org blog

This day I got email message, that we can download WordPress 2.9-RC1 and test it, so if you are themes developer or plugin developer, you should tried WordPress 2.9-RC1 and test all of your plugins or themes, and you can made it more suitable for this version.

This is some new features that added on WordPress 2.9 that make me happy

• Online Image Editing
• Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
• Add a title to the Home link output by wp_page_menu()
• Admin copy improvements
• Added ‘excerpt_more’ filter to wp_trim_excerpt() function, which allow developers to change excerpt ‘[...]‘ more string
• Add ‘smilies_src’ filter so plugins can better add smilies
• Allow _wp_get_comment_list() to handle custom comment types
• Release Video script

And many more new features. You can download WordPress 2.9-RC1

Get ready and happy playing with WordPress 2.9 ;)

Pictures got from here

If you know about posting articles automatically using feed wordpress or other wordpress plugins, so I will present to you a new technology called WP Robot. It’s a  premium plugin that might be interesting to have for your blogs.

For the first time I saw this feature from WPRobot.net, I think it’s similar like  feed wordpress plus some additional modification for any posts that do not exactly match the original any posts.

In fact all of that right and many other additional and particularly if you use your blog as a business to obtain dollars from the internet as an internet marketer.

Why, because WP Robot equipped with a module that supports some of the affiliate that is already famous amazon, ebay, clickbank article and some banks to fill the rather blog without having to write your own articles about the theme you have in the affiliate.

WP Robot equipped with several language translation from google and youtube and as a complement to your article.

How to use this is easy, we just set some part of the article plugin per day or per hour. Then on the Percentage of how many ads – every article, and so forth. I think that is quite feasible as a plugin and the premium can be made so that the consideration for purchase to facilitate your to  explore more about internet marketing without having to busy by writing articles on your blog, especially if you have more than one blog. Have a nice try WP Robot plugins.