How To Write and Publish on Your WordPress Site

Jan 30

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Mobile eCommerce Developments: Magento iPhone Theme

Oct 02

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I’m excited about some promising first steps in the developing mobile eCommerce field, mCommerce. This video shows an early release of an iPhone Optimized Theme for eCommerce sites built with Magento — an open-source eCommerce platform. Because Magento is open-source, I expect to see many improvements in this interface that will ultimately make it as smooth and slick as buying from the iTunes Music Store or the App Store. (Note: The “Tony” in the video is not me, I’m a lot shorter.)

My Favorite CMS Gets a New Release: WordPress 2.6

Jul 14

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I’ve grown fond of WordPress, my wife probably is even a little jealous at all the attention WordPress gets–especially in the middle of the night as I tweak something or other on the dozen or so WordPress-powered websites I manage for my clients.

Check out the newest features in WordPress 2.6. This is quick release shortly after the 2.5 upgrade. A lot of good security features have been added, including HTTPS support for admin, and the ability to move the main content (wp-content) to a user-specified directory.

Some of my favorites:

  • Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
  • Bulk management of plugins.
  • Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
  • Plugin update notification bubble.
  • You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
  • Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.
  • Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
  • You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.

(And my favorite feature is back: “Press It!”– the bookmarklet-powered posting thing-a-ma-jig–is now called Press This! and has been made over with super-human powers.)

Check out the screencast video of the new WordPress 2.6 features:

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