WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”

December 28, 2011 Leave a Comment

The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard.

WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, and in this third major iteration we’ve added significant polish around the new user experience, navigation, uploading, and imports. Check out this short video that summarizes the things we think you’ll find are the cat’s pajamas:

Introducing WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”

Introducing WordPress 3.3 "Sonny"

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For Users

Experienced users will appreciate the new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, the new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and the new Tumblr importer. We’ve also been thinking a ton about what the WordPress experience is like for people completely new to the software. Version 3.3 has significant improvements there with pointer tips for new features included in each update, a friendly welcome message for first-time users, and revamped help tabs throughout the interface. Finally we’ve improved the dashboard experience on the iPad and other tablets with better touch support.

For Developers

There is a ton of candy for developers as well. I’d recommend starting your exploration with the new editor API, new jQuery version, better ways to hook into the help screens, more performant post-slug-only permalinks, and of course the entire list of improvements on the Codex and in Trac.

Cool New Features

  • New tooltips for newbies (with lots of potential for plugin and theme devs to take advantage of)
  • Drag and drop uploader
  • Hover fly-out menus for navigation
  • Improved toolbar (previously the admin bar)
  • Tumblr importer (yes plz!)
  • Improved co-editing support
  • Revamped help tabs
  • Improved dashboard experience for iPad users
  • New editor API
  • New jQuery version
  • Improved performace on post-name only permalinks (yay!)

You can check out the improvements in detail on the WordPress Codex. And no doubt we’ll be posting about them over the next few weeks.

We’re all excited! Thanks to all of the WordPress crew who put together our favorite piece of open source software.

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10 Best WordPress Plugins for Social Media

November 7, 2011 Leave a Comment

Check out the list!
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Share This

Share This is a really good WordPress plugin that allows choosing the websites you wish to target and then letting your readers vote for you using this plugin. You can even change the colors in order to match your website. The best part is that it also provides tracking reports.

Sociable

Sociable is one of the most popular social media plugin out there. This plugin simply puts buttons to various social bookmarking websites on every single posts of yours so users have the ability of easily submitting and voting for you. Sociable also lets you select the buttons you wish to include.

Antisocial

As the name suggests, this plugin simply adds nofollow tags to the links pointing towards the social media websites. This nofollow tag will keep the link juice on your pages, and this is obviously is better for SEO purposes.

Gregarious

This plugin allows promoting your blog posts on Digg, Reddit and Del.icio.us etc. Many options for customization are also provided.

Notable

Notable is quite similar to Sociable. This one also puts buttons to various social bookmarking websites on your website/blog posts.

Add to Any Bookmark Button

The name says it all. Add to Any Bookmark Button creates a handy bookmark button that lets users bookmark the page with any bookmark manager they want.

Add to Any Bookmark Button

This plugin is slightly different than the others mentioned in this list. It lets users vote for your website/blog posts simply through a drop down menu that lets them select a social media site at which to vote. This keeps less icons on your blog and makes it look neat and clean.

Digg This

Digg is a very popular social media website that has the ability of sending a lot of traffic to your website in a short period of time. So you should definitely place a ‘Digg’ button on your blog posts, which would make it easier for readers to digg it. And this is exactly what this plugin does!

SphinnIt Button

Sphinn is yet another social media website which targets internet marketing and search-related topics. This plugin lets your readers to easily Sphinn your posts.

WP Super Cache

These plugins would increase traffic to your website/blog so you should definitely get a plugin that has the ability of handling that traffic. Here is where WP Super Cache comes to help as it decreases the load on your server by providing the pages without even accessing the database, displaying them as if they were static pages.

Which plugins do you use to optimize your website/blog for social media? Tell us in comments below

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