App Store for iPhone has been launched as promised in Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote and we have already seen blogging apps like TypePad blogging tool, courtesy of Six Apart. What about wordpress? When will it get it’s own native iPhone app running on a iPhone? Pretty soon. WordPress has also posted a video demonstrating its very own iPhone blogging tool, which supports WordPress.com blogs and self-hosted WordPress.org blogs which are running version 2.5.1 or later. Below is the video showing the app in action.
You can visit the official home page for WordPress iPhone Application at iphone.wordpress.net. The application will allow you to write a post, edit posts which are published already, change the privacy settings, and select the category for the post. What’s more? It will also let you upload images directly from your iphone camera or library. It’s not that you can’t blog from iPhone currently. All you have to do is point your safari browser to your blog’s admin panel, but it will not give you a good user experience and this application is hopefully going to provide a better ,more seamless experience and greater flexibility. The app will also support multiple blogs. This app is going to be released soon, so keep on checking the iPhone App Store and inform us if you get any more info.
There is surely no doubt that WordPress MU rocks. For Wordpress MU fans, there is a good news. WordPress MU 2.6 beta 1 is now available. The beta has got many new features and some security fixes. WordPress MU now includes post revisioning, gears support for faster loading, theme previews, better SSL support and much much more. Taking the name into question, why is the version named 2.6 rather than just 1.6? Folks at Automattic say that they have named this version as 2.6 rather than 1.6 in order to eliminate confusion between versions. Minor MU versions will probably append a letter to the version.
WordPress 2.5’s admin design is very cool. It’s light weight, stylish, contains no much images therefore loads fast.What if you want to make your blog design similar to your WP’s admin panel and turn Wordpress Admin 2.5 inside out. I have found something that would do is. Well, it is a lightweight theme called Word Press’d from blog2life which is just made to give your blog a feel and flexibility of WP’s admin panel. Ofcourse this theme will not make just blog exactly look like the admin panel, but it would make your blog somewhat similar to the WP’s admin panel. The theme covers WP Admin 2.5 as close as while keeping quick load time in mind.
Features:
The theme has got eye catching Latest Post box with quick loading light template. The theme is fully compatible on Wordpress 2.5+. The comments allow a gravatar image of size 32 x 32 of the user with each comment. When I first looked at the theme, I confused it for a wordpress admin panel. Red and blue colors blend very well. Everything is made just to look like the admin panel and the theme is free under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Deed, which means you will be able to edit and make changes to the theme legally as long as the creator’s link remains in the footer. Surely blog2life deserves that link for the wonderful work they have done. There are many things to say about this theme, but the post will get too long, so experience the theme yourself by clicking here or download the theme from here.
Did you ever wished to have a additional layer of security whilst logging in to your WordPress blog? How about using your mobile phone to login? Yup, and I have found something that will do it. It’s PhoneFactor. Some might have heard this name. What this does is when you log in to your WordPress blog while the PhoneFactor is enabled, you will receive a call on your phone. All you have to do is pick up the phone and press hash (#) and voila, you are logged on. Incase you are not able to pick up the phone, the login attempt fails.
It means that if anyone wants to break into your admin panel, they will need the user name, password and your phone! Basically, PhoneFactor was not made for Wordpress in specific. Crowd Favorite worked with the huge team of PhoneFactor team to build this integration on their API layer and created a wordpress plugin which will do all the magic.You can sign up for PhoneFactor right from your admin panel. This means you will not have to leave your admin panel just for the sake of getting a user name and password. The plugin also have features such as “white listing” IP’s such you don’t have to pass through PhoneFactor authentication if you’re logging in from your home computer.
You can go to the plugin page and download it right from there or just clickhere to download directly.
We all know why is wordpress is a magic CMS. Infact, wordpress blogs are more powerful than a normal traditional website. Well, the first reason is blogs are indexed easily by search engines than other websites and also blogs get more traffic than a traditional new website. So what is the reason behind it? The reason behind it is blog’s ability to ping.
So exactly, what happens when a blog pings? Answer is simple. When a blog pings, there are many processes which take place which helps in getting your blog indexed by search engines quickly and as a result, it helps in bringing you traffic from search engines and some other services which accept pings. So when you add a new post, your blog quickly pings these services, in fact inform blog directories and other sites that you have added a new article. You get lots of benefits by pinging services. Some of them even give one way link. All of us use WordPress’s pinging system by default if you are running a wordpress blog, but did you know you can also get yourself banned by those directories which give you lots of benefits, only because you are using the pinging service the wrong way? So what’s wrong in using the wordpress’s pinging service? Well, the pinging system which you are currently using has lot of flaws. Read the full story
Wordpress admin area is cool and it is also redesigned in the new versions of wordpress. But, you can make it look even better than the current one. What about drop down menus. It would be great for you if you were working on a slow internet connection and have to wait for minutes to load a page. So do you want be able
to reach any admin page in one click instead of, for example, if you want to manage pages, you have to click the manage option and then go to the sub menu named posts. You can do that just by installing a simple plugin called Worpdress Admin Drop Down on your wordpress installation. It not only makes your admin experience better, but also give a great look to your admin panel. It also hides the various admin menus that are splattered all over the place in WordPress 2.5.
Download the plugin here and view the demo here. Alternatively also visit the plugin page.
Installation Instruction (Only for beginners)
1. Download the plugin from the above mentioned link
2. Unzip the file
3. Upload the file to wp-content/plugin folder
4. Go to the plugin menu in your wordpress admin panel
5. Activate the plugin named “Admin Drop Down Menu”
6. See the plugin in action.
A few months back, a friend of mine who is also a blogger was taking to me and seemed a bit worried because some unknown blogger had copied his whole post, including the image. Well, since the image was hosted on his server, the blogger was hotlinking the image, which is also called as bandwidth theft and bandwidth doesn’t come for cheap. Some times it happens with most of us and according to me there will be no bloggers who would like to see their images being hotlink in other spam blogs, forums etc.
As the saying goes, there is a solution for every question (except some). There are two ways of blocking your image from being hotlinked.
Complex Way: You can simply edit .htaccess file, but some of us cannot do that. Simpler Way plugin. Well, Lim Dul of Bahn-spass wrote a plugin for Wordpress that helps prevent image hotlinking. All: It would be good if you could just stop your images from being hotlinked by activating a you have to do is activate the plugin. By default an image that is displayed in the right will be displayed to the person who is viewing your hotlinked image, and anyways, you can change it anytime by following simple steps.
about using your mobile phone to login? Yup, and I have found something that will do it. It’s PhoneFactor. Some might have heard this name. What this does is when you log in to your WordPress blog while the PhoneFactor is enabled, you will receive a call on your phone. All you have to do is pick up the phone and press hash (#) and voila, you are logged on. Incase you are not able to pick up the phone, the login attempt fails.
Wordpress admin area is cool and it is also redesigned in the new versions of wordpress. But, you can make it look even better than the current one. What about drop down menus. It would be great for you if you were working on a slow internet connection and have to wait for minutes to load a page. So do you want be able
