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WordPress 3.0 Upgrade

The new WordPress 3.0 was finally released to the public this weekend. I have gone ahead and upgraded this site to the new version. I will be working on some upgrades to my plugins to utilize some of the new 3.0 features.

WP 3.0 brings a lot of new features to the table and it is going to take some time under the hood for me to learn where I can tweak the plugins to benefit. There will be a more thorough review of WP 3.0 forthcoming after I’ve spent some more time working with it.

Chris Pederick’s Web Developer browser plugin now available for Google Chrome!

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This is one of those posts that was a draft and sat around for far too long, so it’ s not totally new news.

If you are a web developer and you use Firefox, then you probably are aware of Chris Pederick’s Web Developer extension. Well, now that plugin is also available for Google Chrome. I have been experimenting with Chrome, and I do like it, but I also miss a lot of the plugins that I have come to rely on. Web Developer is one of those tools in my browser that has come to be indispensable, so I was very happy to be able to add it to Chrome as well.

Get it here!

Review: okayblog.net

By Chad Butler 1 Comment

Want a Free Blog, but not sure where to start. okayblog.net is a place where you can get a Free Blog. It is brought to you by thoughts.com (see my review of thoughts.com) and is powered by WordPress (WordPress MU to be specific – a multi user version of WP).

By using the WP MU platform, okayblog.net is able to offer users the familiar WP interface as well as popular themes. They currently offer more than 60 popular WP Themes for you to choose from.

Some of the plug-ins available to users are WP-Postratings, Sitemap Generator, and Google Analytics.

One downside to this site is that it doesn’t currently seem to be an active community. Most of the blogs I looked at during the review hadn’t been updated in quite some time. However, that could work to a new blogger’s advantage since updated blogs are posted on the home page.

Your blog will be listed in the blog directory and your recent posts will show up on the home page. Additionally, there is a set of links to “Most Popular Blogs” on the front page.

An upside is that they offer users the ability to put Google AdSense ads on their blogs. Not all free blog providers do this, so if you are looking for a free hosted blog that you can monetize with AdSense, okayblog.net might be for you.

This post is a paid review for ReviewMe.com.

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