WordPress Rambling
August 5, 2008 | Written by annliu | Filed Under Newsletter
Greatings all,
Do you know how many people out there are using WordPress? A state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. It is a mature and stable product.
Here are the simple stats:
1. More than 3.7 million people use the free hosted version at WordPress.com
2. More than 2.3 million people use the self hosted version at WordPress.org (version 2.3 stats)
Sum up them together is 6 million, huh! Read more
Become a WordPress Expert
August 2, 2008 | Written by annliu | Filed Under Membership
If you are working with WordPress, you may experience it can be stressful at times, especially when you want it to be much more than just a blog. However, with a little guidance, anyone can master the skills and know-how to fully utilize WordPress and other blogging tools.
If you want to add “Blog Power” to your business model, but struggle to get past the “geek stuff”. I strongly recommend Alex Sysoeff ’s Expert WordPress tutorial, it can help you overcome the struggle.
He makes it as easy as 1-2-3 for bloggers to setup their own search engine optimized blog. These are easy to follow and understand, even by absolute newcomers to blogging. Read more
Revolution Magazine 3.0 Version Released
May 16, 2008 | Written by annliu | Filed Under Web Design
Brain Gardner, developer of the Revolution Themes has released the latest Revolution Magazine 3.0 Theme,
Here are some of the changes that have been included:
* All 3 sidebar areas are widget-ready
* Theme options page inside WP dashboard
* Comments section coded for Gravatars
* Google AdSense integration in between posts and comments
* Section, Archive, Blog page templates
You can Go Here and view the live demo of the theme in action.
Very nice upgrade 
WordPress Version 2.5
April 20, 2008 | Written by annliu | Filed Under Alert & Opinion & News
After spent two weeks vacation in China, finally I get back - I feel so good be back to my own place
There are more than 3,000 emails sit in my inbox and waiting for me to clean … Huh!!
After got those stuff sort out, the first thing I did is upgraded my site to wordpress version 2.5. WP 2.5 was officially released on March 29th, in that time, I wasn’t brave enough to test the beta version because the new Wordpress 2.5 release hasn’t shows up in Fantastico, and I don’t want to screw up the things by using manual installation. So I wait until now it shows up.
It only take me few second do the upgrade through cPanel and Fantastico that hosted by Kiosk, and have never had a problem. Read more
Top 10 Wordpress CMS Plugins that You Need
March 14, 2008 | Written by annliu | Filed Under Alert & Opinion & News
The experiences of a professional design firm put together this Top 10 Wordpress CMS Plugins that will help you create a full CMS out of a WordPress blog.
According to the professional design firm, it says:
For moderately sized sites (including simple e-Commerce sites), WordPress does a pretty good job as a CMS, making it easy to maintain your site, and update your content. Of course, it does this best with the help of a good theme, and some great plugins.
The strength of WordPress is the community of developers who have already done almost anything you can think of with it. Here are the best plugins we’ve run across, the ones we install for nearly all of our client’s sites.
I have used a few of these plugins myself on my blog, I like the flexibility those plugins have, also the specialty with WordPress’ versatility and extensibility - they make a phenomenal combination.
