Wordpress News & Articles

Jesse Gardner of PlasticMind Design (and a serious MT fan) has just put out a punch list detailing why, in his plastic mind, Movable Type 4.0 trumps WordPress 2.3 when it comes to features, the pleasure of ownership and the pains of maintenance.

Run for cover! Kapow Technologies is making a boom in the tech industry with announcements of 50 percent year over year growth, the addition of over 50 new enterprise customers in 2007 so far, and expansion into Japan.

As exciting as this news is, one question remains: Who is Kapow Technologies?

Make the trek out to San Francisco on July 21 and 22 for WordCamp, an indubitable hodgepodge of WordPress users, blogging purists and collabo-hungry enterprise elites, all raring to add new buzz to already unintelligible 2.0-ridden vernacular.

WordPressers, “Getz” over to wordpress.com and prepare to update your favorite blogging engine.

The latest is a big release. On top of many improvements — most notably the inclusion of widgets — version 2.2 counts over 240 bug fixes.

In an attempt to promote the Windows operating system as a deployment target as well as a development environment, Zend and Microsoft have partnered together to include Windows-specific performance enhancements in the release of Zend Core 2.0.

It has been a long five years, but the Roller Weblogger blogging platform has finally graduated from the Apache Incubator and achieved top level status as an Apache project.

Exciting news for all of the WordPressers out there, version 2.1 hit the streets recently and so far, the crowds seem generally pleased. Version 2.1 is a significant upgrade from current stable 2.07. Teaming well, the WordPress community have added a slew of new features bound to improve your blogging experience, and AJAX has been a popular theme. Who knew!

Jan 16 saw the release of Movable Type 3.34, a semi-distant point release which promises to fix some concerning XSS vulnerabilities and more notably delivers accessible scalability derived from the leveraging of FastCGI.

FastCGI, while meaningless to most of you and perhaps a little reminiscent of the late 90’s for the other 2%, handily increases Movable Type (MT) performance by something on the order of 15x. Woot MT geeks! And more to that, the new version is a free update for all legit MT users.

Recently in WebProNews, Gobala Krishnan explains how Wordpress (an open-source blogging tool) can be expanded to function as a more complete Web or Intranet CMS. It’s all a matter of having clear goals and the right plugins, and partnering with the right services, he says.

This might be a viable option for smaller organizations with specific web/intranet content management needs — or an intermediate option for companies already using WordPress on their web sites or intranet, but which are still searching for a broader WCM solution.

One of the most intriguing angles explored is expanding WordPress to serve as a multimedia training site.

The second update to WordPress has been released, and in just a 10 day period. This is no miracle of agile development. Rather, v2.0.7 is a quick hit patch that addresses both security issues arising in some versions of the base PHP platform and an integration issue known as the “FeedBurner Bug”. The update is recommended for anyone running WordPress 2.0.6 or lower.

WordPressors, time to get downloading. Your favorite open source Blogging platform has been updated for the last time before the 2.1 release, according to Matthew Mullenweg.

Hot off the gossip wire: IBM is falling for Drupal. Hmmmm. ECM leader IBM has developed a series of nine tutorials for Open Source CMS Drupal. And as it turns out, Drupal runs rather well on IBM Linux servers while plugged-into IBM’s DB2 Express-C database. The final tutorial covers just exactly how to do that.

Forrester recently surveyed 878 IT decision-makers at North American enterprises. Forty-eight percent represent enterprises with 1,000 to 4,999 employees, and 52% represent companies with 5,000 or more employees.

Per the report, in the context of custom development and integration projects, 56% of the firms interviewed have standardized on the .NET platform, with 44% on J2EE.

Also of interest, spending on CMS technologies was leveling off, however 30% of the firms reported they would increase ERP spending to support compliance requirements.