Want to know how WordPress traffic measures up to Blogger, Moveable Type, and Typepad? Google Trends gives you a loose idea of how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages. You can compare WordPress with other blogging platforms and their traffic [...]
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by Joe
OK, so everybody is always talking about how WordPress is no longer a simple blogging platform but a true CMS. This is true, WordPress can be put to use for a wide variety of websites, whether it be a local community website or, especially with the help of WPMUdev.org, a fully-fledged social networking arena. However, [...]
WordPress 3.0 makes custom post types much more approachable than ever before. What previously required extensive hacks to accomplish can now be done directly within the WordPress dashboard. Check out Easy Post Types, an exciting new plugin that allows you to create custom post types on the fly and manage custom fields and categories for [...]
In case you missed it over the weekend, an early Beta version of WordPress 3.0 is now ready for download. Yes, that includes the merge of WordPress and WPMU. Many of you have been waiting for this and now you can get it set up and start testing so you’re ready to go when it’s [...]
I’d like to introduce you to a handy tool that will allow you to fine-tune the display of content in the widgetized areas of your WordPress theme. If you’ve ever been frustrated by the limitations of pages and posts with the same inflexible sidebar, this plugin is for you. It will help you to build [...]
One of the most exciting features coming in WordPress 3.0 is custom post types, which will vastly expand WordPress’ CMS capabilities. You can be one of the first users to pounce on this functionality by setting up a WordPress 3.0 test site and installing the new Custom Post Type UI plugin. Prior to WordPress 3.0 [...]
WPMU.org recently had the pleasure of looking in on the PURE project with Yves Hierneaux who agreed to answer a few questions about its use of WPMU. We were particularly interested in the launch of PURE, because it successfully leverages the WPMU platform as a project documentation site. If you have a similar use for [...]
by James
Big day on the releases over at WPMU DEV Premium today, three brand new themes that we hope are gonna offer you, and your users, some pretty cool stuff! WPMU Triden WPMU Dixie WPMU Nelo (my favorite) They are, specifically, themes that embrace two fundamental concepts important for WPMU, first up they are massively, massively [...]
by admin
Featplug is a plugin that can mine your WordPress -even WordPress MU-, (or any other Blog/CMS/Forum software’s) posts and generates ‘featured content’ section for your blog using the posts and images. Features: Image caching (once a image is re-sized & rendered by plugin, it’s cached for future hits which saves lots of performance) Template support [...]
by James
Just quickly, as a short interlude from the plugin contest, some theme news. We’ve heard that quite a lot of people liked the Edublogs homepage theme (and why not, it took a heck of a while to build!) so , we decided to make it available on WPMU DEV Premium. A couple of years ago [...]
