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What if you could pay for hosting once and never have to worry about it again for the rest of your life? No monthly or yearly bills, no contracts to renew, nothing to worry about except building your websites.
Sound interesting?
Introducing NodeKi: A New WordPress Hosting Company
According to a recent announcement from WordPress, Apple iPhone users with the Camera+ 3.0 photo app can now publish photos directly to their blogs.
You will also need to be running the WordPress app for iOS 2.9.5 or higher.
The goal is ease of use, and it seems it couldn’t get much easier. These are the instructions for posting a photo:
Tap “Add Photo from Camera+,” and your phone switches to the Camera+ app – select a photo to load it into the WordPress app. Add a Title and a Description (both optional), and boom! You’re done.”
At a recent SWSX session titled “Dear Google & Bing: Help Me Rank Better!” Matt Cutts from Google’s Spam Team announced a new algorithm change coming in a matter of weeks/months designed to penalize “over optimized” sites.
A questioner asked if Google was doing anything about the situation where a Mom & Pop website is being outranked by less relevant but more extensively SEO’ed sites.
Here is Matt’s response:
BuddyPress developer Boone Gorges announced today on the BP Development Blog that BuddyPress 1.6 will include some basic privacy options for user profile fields. This new feature will be called “Visibility”. Having some form of profile privacy is one of the most-requested features for BuddyPress and very soon it will be a reality.
Individual users will be able to edit their profile field visibility on a field-by-field basis.
A number of web security companies have recently reported a dramatic increase in attacks on WordPress sites. Approximately 30,000 sites have been infected at last count, with most being based in the U.S.
The goal of the attacks seems to be to distribute rogue antivirus software. According to web security company Websense, “The injection hijacks visitors to the compromised sites and redirects them to rogue AV sites that attempt to trick them into downloading and installing a Trojan onto their computer.”
Big news on the internet this week is that Twitter has acquired Posterous. It’s still unclear what will happen with Posterous Spaces but this acquisition will potentially affect thousands of regular bloggers.
Posterous’ Official Statement:
Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption. We’ll give users ample notice if we make any changes to the service. For users who would like to back up their content or move to another service, we’ll share clear instructions for doing so in the coming weeks.
Many people are using Magento, the robust e-commerce platform, in conjunction with WordPress for the publishing power. James Kemp is a WordPress developer who has created several tools for helping these two open source platforms work together. Awhile back we featured his Magento WordPress Integration plugin which allows you to pull Magento blocks to your WordPress theme.
Kemp has recently released Single Sign-On For Magento And WordPress, a new extension that works from the Magento side to provide a seamless experience between the two.
How does it work?
If you need the ability to update your WordPress site or post blogs on the go, you’ll want to check out Blog Maestro. It is the latest mobile app for WordPress, enabling powerful, multimedia posting on iOS mobile devices. Previously known as Tinydesk, this app has been totally redesigned and updated.
Blog Maestro in a nutshell:
The WordPress theme business is an exciting market and Nordic Themepark is one of the newest players. They aim to deliver clean WordPress themes, custom plugins, and solutions for webshops. They’re starting things off with a bang by releasing their first WordPress theme for free.
Have you ever been working on your WordPress site when suddenly something is broken, something has gone wrong, and you can’t put your finger on exactly what the problem might be? Maybe you were upgrading your version of WordPress or updating your plugins. Maybe you were tinkering around someplace that you knew you shouldn’t have been but now your site is crashed, and it’s probably all your fault. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to press the reset button and get your site back to when it was working?
