Today, the company has announced the release of the first ever version of a mobile BlackBerry version of the app in beta form. Other mobile versions of WP were already available on other platforms such as the iPhone since July 22, 2008.
The BB WP app requires BlackBerry OS 4.2.1 or newer, and also requires WordPress version 2.5.1 or newer. It also supports self-hosted WordPress sites.
Automattic has released WordPress 2.8 officially. There are a few major improvements to the new version. 2.8 runs a lot faster and smoother thanks to new styling and scripting. You can now also browse the theme directory and install themes with one simple click. You can now edit plugins with CodePress, an enhanced editor with syntax highlighting, compared to the previous plain text editor. Also, you can now have multiple copies of widgets, and save inactive widget settings.
Bloggers that power their community with WordPress and are BlackBerry owners will be glad to hear that WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg (pictured above) confirmed during his speech at WordCamp in San Francisco that Automattic (the company behind WordPress) would release a native blogging BlackBerry app. It was also noted at the event WordPress 2.8 is coming and version 2.7 is doing well with very few bugs.
He declined to provide any more information relating to features and a possible release date.
A WordPress mobile app was already available since July 22, 2008 for the iPhone. We can likely expect the BlackBerry version to be very similar as well.
IntenseDebate and Disqus are the main two third party commenting systems for Wordpress blogs that add a whole lot more features effortlessly on your part.
Today, IntenseDebate (owned by Automattic, the same company behind Wordpress), has just rolled out new features. Commentators can now easily create their own poll, and embed their own YouTube videos, add smiles, among other features. Read the full story
Here is the most comprehensive list of all the Wordpress plugins you need as of today to maximize the potential of your own blog. For months, I’ve been able to bookmark hundreds of plugins, and now I’ve done all the work for you by sorting the best plugins you only need to truely leverage Wordpress! In no particular order, here they are! Read the full story
Facebook has just introduced its first widget, the Facebook Comment box for Facebook Connect. Now, you can easily add the Facebook Comment system to your own site which offers a great opportunity for you to tap into the Facebook community as users have the option to make their comments appear in their news feed, potentially reaching thousands of people.
There are a number of other services online that offer advanced commenting such as Disqus and IntenseDebate (recently acquired by Automattic (the company the owns Wordpress)). I’ve recently contacted IntenseDebate and they’ve told me there are no current plans to support Facebook Connect. They do currently support OpenID, but I do think the opportunity to tap into the Facebook community is a significant advantage, enough so to ditch all the other services…if you consider the other services such as IntenseDebate, all you are really getting is gravatars, reply to comments, and the comments karma feature which no one really uses anyway.
Now, if you would like to easily get Facebook Connect set up on your WordPress blog, you can easily do it with these simple steps. Read the full story
Microsoft has just announced Oxite, a new open source blogging and content management platform. Microsoft says the platform is not geared towards competing with WordPress or Movable Type. It includes standard features including comments, ping backs, the ability to create posts and pages, user profiles, there is also support to manage multiple blogs on a single site, and a whole lot more. Microsoft says Oxite is more geared towards developers. The source code can be found here.
Microsoft is a big player and can it easily have hundreds of thousands of people using this product that will also open the door for mass development and adoption. It also shouldn’t be too hard for developers to scale plug-ins and apps from WordPress to work with Oxite. We’ll just have to wait and see if Microsoft decides to push this, which they probably should given its potential for mass adoption.
Facebook has just introduced its first widget, the Facebook Comment box
