WordPress Wins Overall Best Open Source CMS for 2009

By Jason | Published: November 25, 2009

A couple of snippets from a recent WordPress.org blog post.

“WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for us, as it is the first time we’ve won this award, and it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more than 23,000 votes across five categories…

Every day thousands of new people are embracing WordPress to power not just their blogs but entire sites and communities without compromising on usability or scalability (as would be the case with a legacy CMS). Every member of the WordPress community, from core developer to beginning user, should be proud to be part of this momentum: congratulations to us all!”

It’s great to see WordPress and the awesome team at Automattic getting some well deserved recognition for providing such a brilliant product. If you haven’t tried WordPress yet – scoot on over to wordpress.com to get up and running with your own free hosted version in next to no time.

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Using RSS feeds on your WordPress site.

By Jason | Published: July 24, 2009

We were recently asked to provide a high level guide on using WordPress RSS feeds from a user point of view (what they are, what you need and how to use them etc.) so we thought we’d tidy it up and share for everyone… Read More »

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Cforms and Ad-minister Widgets for WordPress 2.8

By Jason | Published: July 11, 2009

With the release of WordPress 2.8 and the new widgets api many plugins have needed to be updated to work with the new widget interface -  unfortunately it’s just the way it is.

Some plugin developers haven’t had the chance to catch up just yet – for example we have found that both the Ad-minister and cformsII plugins have a few issues when creating widgets in 2.8.

So… to help everyone out that uses these plugins (ourselves included) we have thrown together a couple of very simple widgets  as temporary fixes until new versions of the plugins are released.

Please note: There is nothing fancy about these widgets, they are just temporary fixes and have no warranty or support what-so-ever and are only compatible with WordPress 2.8.x

Ad-minister Widget

administerThis plugin adds an additional widget called “Ad-minister Widget” that lets you select (from a drop down list) the ad position that you would like to display.

As it is using the new API you can use as many of the widgets as you want. Please make sure you have ad-minister already installed and ads created before using the widget.

Works with Ad-minister 0.6

To install: unzip and copy the downloaded php file into your plugins directory and activate through the WordPress plugin interface.

Download here: Ad-minister Widget (882)

cformsII Widget

cforms(fs)This plugin adds an additional widget called “cforms2 (fs)” that lets you enter a title for the widget and the number/id of the form you would like to display.

Please make sure you have cforms installed and forms created before using the widget.

Works with cformsII 10.5.2.

To install: unzip and copy the downloaded php file into your plugins directory and activate through the WordPress plugin interface.

Download here: cformsII Widget (365)

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WordPress 2.8 Released

By Jason | Published: June 11, 2009

WordPress 2.8 has now been released! The major improvements include:

  • 2.8 is way faster to use
  • You can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click
  • CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor
  • Completely redesigned widgets interface
  • New Screen Options on every page

Overall there are over 180 new features.

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Google Trends – WordPress

By Jason | Published: May 17, 2009

Google Trends is an easy way to see how often certain topics have been searched on Google over time. I thought it might be interesting to see how searches for ‘wordpress’ from Australia have trended over time (and compare this to other CMS alternatives Joomla and Drupal).

wordpress googletrends

Searches for ‘wordpress’ have been steadily increasing over the last 4 years and over the last few months appear to have exceeded searches for ‘joomla’. I expect that this trend will continue as awareness of and interest in wordpress as a CMS grows.

Interesting to see that Tassie is the top ranking state for searches for ‘wordpress’ (this is based on the ratio of searches for ‘wordpress’ coming from the state divided by total Google searches coming from the same state, rather than total search volume).

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