Bloggers Buzz

blogHelper has released a new WordPress plugin, Most Popular Categories by Posts that displays a list of the most popular categories in a particular time period based on the number of poss assigned to your categories.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, plugins, WordPress, categories,

After all the hype of being able to use WordPress as a CMS, blogHelper has posted 5 Reasons Not to Use WordPress As a CMS:

Im not saying WP cant work great as a more web site-ish CMS (Im devoting a whole series on Using WP as a CMS after all!), nor am I trying to be a wet blanket, but there are a few things you really should consider before taking the plunge.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, WordPress, blog design,

Episode 5 of the WordPress Podcast has “gone to air” and covered the following:

* WordPress 2.0 has been downloaded over 1 million times!
* WordPress.com turns one year-old.
* Technorati’s state of the blogosphere.
* Interview with Jason Van Orden, host of GothamCast, Internet-based Business Mastery and the Podcasting Underground, and author of Promoting Your Podcast. Mentioned in the interview:
o How to Podcast Tutorial
o Tee Morris‘ Podcasting for Dummies companion podcast
o PodPress plug-in
o FeedBurner plug-in
o Podcast411
o The Daily Source Code

For more information and how to download run (don’t walk!) over to the WordPress Podcast

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, podcasts,WordPress,

Lussumo Documation has a guide to integrating WordPress with the Open Soure Vanilla discussion forum available here.

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From the team at Performancing comes the news that the MySpace Blog Editor Released:

After a huge effort on our lead Firefox dev, Jed’s part, and a great deal of discussion with some fantastic MySpace folks, we’re proud to finally announce the release of The MySpace Blog Editor, which you can download and install from Mozilla. There’s even a a great screencast to walk you through the install process.

As far as I’m aware, Performancing is the only blog editor to support MySpace.

The MySpace Editor REQUIRES Performancing Firefox 1.3, our open source, multi platform blog editor for Firefox.

For all the details visit Performancing.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, myspace,firefox, blog editors, blogging tools,

(Found via ProBlogger) Rachel of cre8d design blog has recorded an impressive Wordpress tutorial video covering all the basics of setting your WordPress Site up in the WordPress Quickstart Screencast Tutorial (1)

1. Installing a free FTP program and connecting to your website
2. Creating a database for Wordpress.
3. Installing Wordpress.
4. Configuring Wordpress settings.
5. Setting up permalinks.
6. Writing and editing a post.
7. Uploading images.
8. Creating a blog roll (list of links).
9. Setting up an about page.
10. Installing a plugin.
11. Setting up a contact page with a contact form.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, WordPress,screencasts, tutorials,

Building on from the earlier WordPress as a Content Management System, Bloghelper has started a new series How to Use WordPress for a Portfolio Site. Covered in this part are:

• Thumbnail listing of projects in reverse chronological order, a.k.a. Recent Projects
• Individual project pages with larger picture(s)
• Categorical listing of projects

A demo version is also available to view the portfolio concept first hand.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, WordPress,portfolio,

In response to feedback Blogger has updated on issues and questions in relation to the new Blogger Beta. Issues addressed include Migration, Login trouble and more features.

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