WordPress Releases 3.0.1, Comes Out with Quick Fix
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It seems like just a few weeks ago WordPress came out with a new version — that’s because it was. It’s been just 43 days since WordPress 3.0 was released, and already the developer has come out with an upgrade.
Late Thursday night, WordPress 3.0.1 starting appearing in bloggers’ dashboards.
WordPress says it’s a small miscellaneous bug fix, but hopefully they fixed the issue when upgrading plugins.
Many bloggers have been complaining for over a month that the new automated upgrade feature for plugins is a bit buggy. The issue appears to cause the entire WordPress installation to stall as the little progress wheel spins. Eventually you have to manually go in and upgrade the plugins you want, as the automated feature just can’t handle it.
The new version seems to remedy that issue. It’s also a very solid release, and you shouldn’t worry about breaking your installation.
Upgrading was painless and easy.
WordPress Feature Can Publish Blog Posts via Phone
Bloggers on the go now have yet another way to publish posts to their WordPress blog — via telephone.
WordPress announced earlier today the ability to post audio to your blog up to six minutes at a time. So, while you can post from your desktop, e-mail, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad and Android, there’s now another way for on-the-go bloggers to literally post from anywhere.
WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg made the announcement on his blog, and even posted a sample audio clip to show how it’s done.
The only downside to this is that it’s only available to bloggers using WordPress.com, and not WordPress.org.
The new feature is available now for free to all bloggers using the WordPress.com platform.
WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” Released
The latest stable version of WordPress 3.0 was released today, bringing to a close the months of beta testing with previous releases.
Among the highlights is the ability to manage multiple blogs running WordPress all within one installation. Another feature is the option to customize your admin username for security reasons.
WordPress also included a new default theme called Twenty Ten, which puts to rest the blue and white theme used as the standard for many years.
The upgrade went smoothly for me, with no headaches whatsoever. Many bloggers sometimes get anxious with performing upgrades, and wait until the weekend, or after hours, but it appears everything is in working order on my end.
And if you really want to know the nitty-gritty — 1,217 bugs were fixed with this latest release.
John Chow Releases Blog Profit Camp
John Chow has released a second eBook all about making money online, and it contains much more information than the first. The best part, of course, is that the book is totally free.
There’s 60 pages of goodness on everything from why bloggers don’t make money and how to differentiate yourself from being a blogger and being an Internet marketer. John also talks about capturing the lead, building a relationship with your customer, earning revenue per lead, buying targeted traffic and creating your very first squeeze page.
Blog Profit Camp shows you how John went from making $0 blogging in 2005 to making over $40,000 per month in just two years. To newcomers in the industry, this may seem far-fetched or exaggerated, but I can assure you John doesn’t fool around.
I’ve been following John online for about five years now and he’s a smart business man, blogger and entrepreneur from Vancouver. He doesn’t B.S. you with long sales pitches and gets right to the point.
Another incentive of downloading Blog Profit Camp is that you’ll automatically be entered to win a free Apple iPad. Can’t complain about that.
Facebook Fixes Privacy Options — Is It Enough?
After being hammered the last several months over the confusing privacy options users were faced with, Facebook decided to simplify things today. The social media giant rolled out new privacy settings which they say are easier to understand. The general census from around the blogosphere is that not much has changed.
Being faced with a revolt from users and threats of accounts being cancelled, Facebook needed to do something and quick. CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a video statement along with a blog post:
Zuckerberg says the company is continually listening to feedback from its users on how to improve the site’s features and privacy settings and will make changes accordingly. This isn’t the latest privacy overhaul, though. A few months ago Facebook changed the way the site handled privacy and made the situation worse for the hundreds of millions people who use it daily.
Hopefully this latest change proves to be an improvement, but for the time being, I’m still trying to figure it out myself.
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