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WordPress joins the list of OpenID supporters

Tim March 7th, 2007

WordPress joins the list of OpenID supporters with their WordPress.com hosted publishing platform. 37Signals will also offer OpenID in their next application, Highrise.

WordPress 2.1 Part 3 of 3 | Customizing and Extending WordPress

Tim February 24th, 2007

This post is part of a series:
WordPress 2.1 Part 1 of 3 | Installing from scratch
WordPress 2.1 Part 2 of 3 | Digging into the Administration Panel
Wordpress 2.1 Part 3 of 3 | Customizing and Extending WordPress

It’s the time you’ve all been waiting for (all 3 of you). The final edition in our series on WordPress 2.1. We’ve gone through a complete installation from scratch, worked out all the details of administrating our blog, and today we will start adding in themes and customizing both the user interface and admin panel with plugins and widgets. If you thought WordPress was looking good before wait till you see the shiny coat of paint we’re coatin’ on it now.
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WordPress 2.1 Part 2 of 3 | Digging into the Administration Panel

Tim February 23rd, 2007

This post is part of a series:
WordPress 2.1 Part 1 of 3 | Installing from scratch
Wordpress 2.1 Part 2 of 3 | Digging into the Administration Panel
WordPress 2.1 Part 3 of 3 | Customizing and Extending WordPress

Well well well, nice to have you back. If you’ve been tuning into our programming here at DemoMarks you would know that we’ve got a 3 part Demo of WordPress 2.1 going on. Yesterday we covered Installation of WordPress from Scratch. Today we are tackling the Admin interface of WordPress. From writing and managing posts and pages to plugins, links, and presentational elements, the administration panel has a lot of functionality built into a pretty clean and simple package. Let’s take it for a test drive.
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WordPress 2.1 Part 1 of 3 | Installing from scratch

Tim February 21st, 2007

This post is part of a series:
Wordpress 2.1 Part 1 of 3 | Installing from scratch
WordPress 2.1 Part 2 of 3 | Digging into the Administration Panel
WordPress 2.1 Part 3 of 3 | Customizing and Extending WordPress

To kick off our reviews here at DemoMarks I’ve decided to take WordPress 2.1 for a test drive. WordPress is a blogging platform developed by Matt Mullenweg that has continually gained in popularity for the wide array of plugins and themes, large community base, and ability to customize every aspect. Many web developers are choosing WordPress as a content management system for client websites and, as you may have already noticed, DemoMarks is built on WordPress.

While installation is far from difficult, users who have no web hosting have the option of using WordPress.com’s integrated blogging platform that cuts out the middleman and allows anyone to sign up for a blog with hosting provided by WordPress. However, this demo will cover the installation of WordPress on your own hosting service. Part 2 will cover navigation of the administration panel and Part 3 with explore the customization options available to you using WordPress to make your blog unique.
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