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Google’s Incorrect WordPress Upgrade Warning

Published June 24, 2011 | By Paul

When using Google’s Webmaster Tools, I saw a message to me, saying

Dear site owner or webmaster of http://mydomain.com/,

Your site appears to be running an older version of WordPress. Google recommends that you update to the latest release. Older or unpatched software may be vulnerable to hacking or malware that can hurt your users. To download the latest release, visit the WordPress download page.

If you have any additional questions about why you are receiving this message, Google has provided more background information in a blog post about this subject.

Best wishes,

Google Search Quality Team

I rushed to check my WordPress version, it is already WordPress 3.1.3, the latest official release.  And the Google message date is June 18th, 2011. I do appreciate Google’s effort in helping us to secure our sites, but this time, it is a false alarm. We just hope that they figure out what went wrong in their checking system.

I was guessing that it could be my caching system, but I check Google cached copy of my site on June 16th, 2011, the source code already reveals that we were using WordPress 3.1.3. This reminds me that we may need to hide the

meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 3.1.3″

in our header.

Another thing I found is that I didn’t get the upgrade warming message for other three WordPress sites but my other one site got the same incorrect warming about the upgrade.

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WordPress Theme Updates

Published June 13, 2011 | By Paul

Envisioned WordPress Theme Download | WordPress Themes – Free …

Envisioned is a beautiful and powerful portfolio theme that enables you to easily create professional, multi-media galleries. Envisioned has the most powerful gallery features of any of our themes, allowing you to …

Publish Date: 06/12/2011 1:57

http://www.newwordpresstheme.net/2011/06/wp-themes/internet/envisioned-wordpress-theme-download.html

WordPress – Nuance – Powerful Modern WordPress Theme – ThemeForest

Nuance is a theme that we've made with in mind to keep it simple and flexible as possible. Like our other themes, it contains the amazing Content Composer so you can create professional pages…

Publish Date: 06/12/2011 9:31

http://themeforest.net/item/nuance-powerful-modern-wordpress-theme/287250

WordPress – TouchSense – Multipurpose WordPress Theme – ThemeForest

TouchSense is a WordPress theme carefully designed and coded to fit any corporate website or a stylish blog. Lots of shortcodes, skins, galleries and even a custom image slider built specially for …

Publish Date: 06/09/2011 13:32

http://themeforest.net/item/touchsense-multipurpose-wordpress-theme/273403

Spirit-Stream WordPress Theme | TemplatePanic.com

Spirit-Stream WordPress Theme. Featuring modern jQuery Powered Sliding Gallery, and theme options page. Compatible for WordPress 3.1. Documentation about how to use this theme included in the zip file. …

Publish Date: 06/06/2011 19:16

http://www.templatepanic.com/articles/spirit-stream-wordpress-theme

Do you wish that you can show your own portfolio nicely on your sites, check these out:

10 Most Incredible Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes

Want a theme for your portfolio website and wouldn't mind sparing a few bucks? Have a look at these Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes!

Publish Date: 06/12/2011 0:56

http://allyouneedislists.com/design/web-design/10-most-incredible-premium-wordpress-portfolio-themes/

WordPress + BuddyPress can hep you build great social network online community with great traffic. Web 2.0 is still the trend.

Make Your WordPress Theme Compatible with BuddyPress Using the …

The BuddyPress Template Pack plugin has been downloaded over 85000 times since its release in February of 2010. In case you've never used it.

Publish Date: 05/30/2011 6:00

http://wpmu.org/make-your-wordpress-theme-compatible-with-buddypress-using-the-updated-bp-template-pack/

5 best buddypress themes with widget ready and plugin …

Now a day's Buddypress is becoming more popular so, I am presenting a collection of 5 best buddypress theme which are widget-ready with drop-down menus, grid-based layout samples, plugin integration and shortcodes for your footer.

Publish Date: 03/20/2011 20:18

http://itinfoz.com/5-best-buddypress-themes/1190

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WordPress for Dummies Download

Published June 5, 2011 | By Paul

WordPress for Dummies is a highly recommended book for WordPress beginners. Wouldn’t be nice if you can download and start reading it right away?

Yes, you can. Here’s a few options you have:

You may also download WordPress for Dummies Cheat-sheets here.

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WordPress For Dummies, 4th Ed.

Published June 5, 2011 | By Paul

Being an senior Web developer, I still love Dummies books when I want to show my clients or students how easy to learn things with these books. Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s WordPress for Dummies are so great that people are expecting her new WordPress for Dummies 4th Edition to come on October 18, 2011. Previous editions of this guide have sold more than 85,000 copies, and interest in blogging continues to explode. If you don’t want to miss it, you can pre-order it now

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softaculous vs fantastico

Published May 31, 2011 | By Paul

For WordPress users, beginners or advanced, they love the easy installation of WordPress, which may be completed from the hosting control panel, such as cPanel offered by Arvixe.

I had been enjoying the great web application installation services from Fantastico until I found Softaculous also available from the ControlPanel.

With Arvixe Hosting service, you can find both Softaculous and Fantastico are listed side by side in the “Software/Services” section:

softaculous fantastico side by side

softaculous fantastico side by side

Both Fantastico and Softaculous are great in offering quick installation of popular software (web application) with simple steps (Fantastico makes the installation into 3 steps while Softaculous requires only one, thus few clicks.): blog, cms, shopping carts (online stores), ERP, and educational Software. Both of them create the needed database and install the software automatically for you. However, it seems that with 200 auto installation scripts (premium license that Arvixe bought), Softaculous, the new comer, is winning more users. According to a Cpanel user forum poll, over 85% of users prefer Softaculous over Fantastico.

One of their users said

Softaculous is good forWHMCS and Magento users as well as hosting provider becasue both scripts are present in Softaculous and easy to install as compared to manual installation.

The e-commerce web applications from Fantastico only include three: “CubeCart, OS Commerce, and Zencart” while with the premium Softaculous that Arvixe hosting offer, you have 13 choices, including the above three and OpenCart, PrestaShop, phpShop, Magento, WHMCS, CubeCart, AccountLab Plus, PHP Point Of Sale, TheHostingTool, TomatoCart. (Even the free version of Softaculous has 10 more scripts than the paid version of Fantastico, which has only 50 scripts.)

For WordPress users,  the installation of WordPress offered by Softaculous are so up to date: see our WordPress news on WordPress 3.1.3. It makes Fantastico’s WordPress installation a bit outdated. One good thing about Softaculous WordPress Installation is that it offers you different language versions of WordPress, which is not found with Fantastico.

It seems that it takes a lot more efforts for Fantastico to catch up with Softaculous. Otherwise, Fantastico may lose more and more market to Softaculous.

I was frustrated a few times when the installation is missing for some popular Web application by the Fantastico auto installer. Way to go, Softaculous!

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WordPress & HookPress

Published May 26, 2011 | By Paul

Mitcho created a great WordPress plugin and a video tutorial on WordPress.tv.

The great features of HookPress were well explained clearly by Mitcho, the HookPress author.

With HookPress on WordPress, you can

  • create Post webhooks
  • create push notification (it supports both actions…)
  • create filters

The bottom line is that you can extend WordPress without PHP

Here’s the video:

Mitcho is a MIT Linguistics PhD student. He has another “must-have” WordPress called “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin”, also popular among WordPress users. Way to go, Mitcho!

To install HookPress, just go to “Add New” Plugins menu in your backend (Dashboard), and search for “HookPress”, then you can have it automatically downloaded and installed with a couple of clicks. If your hosting server does not allow you to do that, you may go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hookpress/ to download and install it.

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WordPress 3.1.3

Published May 26, 2011 | By Paul

A new WordPress version 3.1.3 , a minor upgrade, was released yesterday (5/25/2011). Great job WordPress team. Keep up the good work. Thank you!

WordPress 3.1.3 was released on May 25th, and on May 31, when I tried to have a new installation of WordPress with Softaculous ( free service offered with Arvixe Hosting ), WordPress version 3.1.3 was already available! Meanwhile Fantastico’s WordPress is still giving you online version 3.1 (Of course WordPress upgrade is easy with Arvixe Hosting server, but still that is extra clicks and some new WordPress users may not be aware of the necessity of upgrading to 3.1.3 in timely manner.

The bottom line is Softaculous WordPress auto installation is now more updated, easier and faster (one step compared to Fantastico three steps). Also it offers installation backup which Fantatico does not have.

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WordPress 3.2

Published May 25, 2011 | By Paul

As WordPress developers, we need to prepare for WordPress 3.2 even it is still beta 1 and not recommended to run on a production web site as of this writing. WordPress 3.1 was official released on Feb. 23rd, 2011 and we heard that WordPress 3.2 release will be in June, 2011.

We need to know that the minimum system requirements for WordPress 3.2 will be: PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.  This has to be considered if you plan to upgrade and you still have some plugins or themes that are not compatible with these version of PHP and MySQL.

The PHP version of  Arvixe hosting server is higher than 5.2.9  and MySQL is higher than 5.0.9. So there should be no problem you want to transfer to their hosting service and upgrade to WordPress 3.2. If you need help in transferring your WordPress site to Arvixe, you may contact us before you sign up your hosting service and we can lead you through the whole process.

As the beta release notes remind us: “Theme and plugin authors, if you haven’t been following the 3.2 development cycle, please start now so that you can update your themes and plugins to be compatible with the newest version of WordPress.”

As WordPress users, you also need to prepare yourself if you plan to have someone to help you to upgrade to WordPress 3.2 because Internet Explorer 6 will no longer be supported for the Admin. There will be an Admin GUI refresh, but that will not be a major redesign so you may still find your way around.

Great things being expected from WordPress 3.2: 1) Improved performance will make your WordPress site much faster. 2) A new default theme called Twenty Eleven, based on the popular Duster theme with rotating header images and more. 3)Distraction-free Writing

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WordPress 3.2 Full Screen Editing

Published May 24, 2011 | By Paul

If you can’t wait to see the WordPress3.2 Full Screen “Distraction-free Writing” mode, the above video just shows you that for your curiosity. We also show you the most ignored but useful features of “Kitchen Sink” and spell checking language options, which has been available for quite some time, even in previous WordPress versions. It is useful for people who want color text or change some text to heading 1 to heading 5, etc.

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