Best Web Hosting

[List Updated] There are more than hundreds of thousands of web hosts available, which allow individuals and organizations to provide their own website accessible via the World Wide Web.

They provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center.

According to WordPress these are the best web hosts

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Selfhosted Blog Platforms

In addition to Hosted Blog Platforms, there is also the other type of blog platform – Selfhosted Blog Platforms – , which is hosted under your own domain/URL.

Selfhosted blog platforms are ideal if you want more control or flexibility with your blogging. They can be configured to look and to be adapted into configurations that are limited only by your imagination.

There are some other

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WP 2.9 “Carmen” Released!

WordPress has announced the immediate availability of WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen”, which’s named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae. These are some of the cool things about the new version:

Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you

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Wordpress Featured Widgets

[List Updated] Of all free hosted blog platforms I have known WordPress.com is definitely my favorite. WordPress.com a WordPress MU-powered weblog hosting provider that provides free basic and original features, including some featured widgets.

Depending on your needs, you can also choose for some paid options for some features such as a CSS editor, domain mapping and storage upgrades.

WordPress.com featured widgets include:

Blog Subscriptions

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WordPress 2.8.6 Released!

WordPress 2.8.6 has been released. WP 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.  If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.

WordPress have been working on trying to make WordPress as secure as possible and they have identified a number of security changes to make all your sites as

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OS Forum Solutions

[List Updated] So far I have mentioend some interesting open source and software for Blogs, CMS and eCommerse.

If you want to have an internet forum or message board for your online discussion site then you should consider this list of forum’s open sources and softwares:

Vanilla  is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able, pluggable discussion forum for the web. Vanilla is ideal for custom

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Download Free WP 2.8.4

WordPress 2.8.4 has been released and is available in two formats. WordPress 2.8.4 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. Some highlights are:

Dashboard memory usage is reduced.  Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page. The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade. A problem

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Free WP 2.8 – Baker

WordPress has released the latest and greatest version of WordPress called WP 2.8 – Baker (named after Chet baker). Some new improvements include themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed.

Major highlights of WP 2.8 – Baker are: New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors Browse the theme directory and install themes

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LinkedIn – WordPress App

So, you have a blog with WordPress and you have a profile on LinkedIn. Now you are wondering if and how to connect your WordPress blog with your LinkedIn profile!?! The WordPress Application is juist the right app for you.

This WordPress app allows you to connect and stay connected

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Free WP 2.8 Beta 2

[Post Updated] WordPress 2.8 Beta 2 has been released! It is time for WordPress testers and early adopters to download WordPress 2.8 Beta 2, test the new features, and of course to file some bugs.

Remember, it’s a beta release so whatever you do, do not try it on your

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