June 24, 2011 Wesley Williams Here’s my update on the World of WordPress….I thought these were interesting and I think you will as well.
Check out the inspiring and detailed story about Bangor Daily News switching to a publishing system powered by WordPress and Google Docs, on Media Bistro. There’s also a screencast which outlines their new editorial workflow and a list of all the plugins you can install to run your own news site with WordPress (emphasis ours):
The Bangor Daily News announced this week that it completed its full transition to open source blogging software, WordPress…
The Bangor Daily News announced this week that it completed its full transition to open source blogging software, WordPress…
ExpanDrive, a program I’ve used for years, allows you to mount FTP, SFTP, or S3 accounts as local drives on your computer on Mac or Windows. They just released their new Windows version, and it’s fast and slick. They support key authentication, which is my must-have feature.
Running a WordPress site on your local machine is a great way to do development. I’ve taken advantage of this to do development while on flights (and yes, I realize that in about 5 years it’s going to seem positively quaint that there used to be flights without Internet access).
Today, I’d like to tackle two common issues when running a WordPress site locally:
Today, I’d like to tackle two common issues when running a WordPress site locally:
Handling differing database connection details
Handling plugins that can’t or shouldn’t run on a localhost
My assumptions:
You have your site in a Git repository
You have a working LAMP/MAMP/WAMP/whatever setup…
Yesterday we learned of a potential security issue related to a few popular WordPress plugins. As a precautionary measure, we have scanned all VaultPress customer sites to check for the affected plugins.
We were able to remotely edit and secure the plugins on the majority of the VaultPress sites that had them installed, and we have notified all the sites we were able to fix that we’ve cleaned the plugins for them…
We were able to remotely edit and secure the plugins on the majority of the VaultPress sites that had them installed, and we have notified all the sites we were able to fix that we’ve cleaned the plugins for them…
WordPress.com was reviewed by Jill Duffy, a Junior Analyst at PCMag, awarding it the Editor’s Choice blogging platform with a score of 4.5 out of 5. Tumblr and Posterous were also reviewed there, receiving a 3 out of 5 and a 3.5 out of five, respectively.Duffy wrapped up the review by advising complete blogging beginners to try out Posterous before WordPress…
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