WordPress 2.8: What’s new

After six months in preparation, the first beta version of WordPress 2.8 was released on 16 May 2009. Following WordPress 2.7, which focused mainly on the UI, WordPress 2.8 brings changes that are more evenly distributed across all areas. There are big improvements in the user interface, but there is a much larger amount of not immediately obvious improvements in two main areas:

  • Extensibility
  • Optimization/Performance More »

Basic WordPress plugins

UPDATED 2009-06-17

WordPress plugins are like Firefox extensions: there are thousands—literally!—and there is one for everything. If you can think of a way to modify or extend Firefox or WordPress, most likely someone else has already thought about it and made it into an extension or a plugin. More »

Εξελληνισμός του WordPress 2.8

Το WordPress 2.8 προβλέπεται να κυκλοφορήσει κατά τα τέλη Απριλίου. (2009-06-14: Η έκδ. 2.8 κυκλοφόρησε επίσημα στις 10 Ιουνίου 2009.) Έρχεται με βελτιώσεις στα εξωτερικά χαρακτηριστικά και, ακόμα περισσότερο, στην εσωτερική λειτουργία, την ταχύτητα και την ευελιξία. Αυτά θα τα δούμε στην ώρα τους. Στο μεταξύ, ο εξελληνισμός της έκδοσης 2.8 είναι σχεδόν έτοιμος. Αν χρησιμοποιείτε ήδη WP 2.8 σε προέκδοση και θέλετε να βοηθήσετε, είστε καλοδεχούμενοι! More »

Reliable budget hosting from $18.75/year: A quick look at 2 webhosts

Reliable economical webhosting for small websites is hard to find.

Most small websites with low traffic don’t need a dedicated server and cannot justify its expense either. So, it is common practice to host small sites along with other small sites in one server. This practice is called “shared hosting”. In this way, cost is shared and a website can be hosted for only a few dollars or euros per month. However, More »