Wpdesigner.com Sold to:

Several months ago I had known that Small Potato want to sell WpDesigner.com. I miss it until I read Blogohblog’s post “WPdesigner.com going down the Drain?“. It’s really interesting to know how the selling progress and sold to whom.

Small Potato (previous owner) sells the domain in Sitepoint Marketplace, auction listed on March 12, 2008. And domain wpdesigner.com sold for $66,000.00 to some Polish guy, Pawel Ciszewski, currently reside in Miami Beach, FL. Here’s short information about Pawel Ciszewski:

I’m an online entrepreneur who actively pursues many differenet internet ventures and actively acquire sites that I feel are valuable resources to the Internet and will be profitable long term.

But there’re no significant update and a something new that handled by Pawel Ciszewski (the new owner of wpdesigner.com). Since the last post (March 28, 2008), until now there is no other posts related to Wordpress theme or Wordpress tutorial, there is just a post about announcement to introduce the new owner. So is he a right buyer?, we’ll see later.

But this transaction is really meaningful that the new owner is caring in all about Wordpress such as theme and tutorial. He will keep the blog posts and blog designs as good as they where by Small Potato.

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Over 7 days the Wordpress 2.5 is running on. It so far is no problem and even it become faster and easier. I just need to take about two days to learn and adapt with the Wordpress 2.5.

Here’s short information about Wordpress 2.5 that you can find at Wordpress development blog:

WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.

I am happy and satisfied in using Wordpress 2.5. A lot of change doesn’t make me getting troubles to develop themes and use plugins. Currently I am not use Wordpress 2.5 yet on this blog, but I used it on my other blog. Download Wordpress 2.5 here.

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March 26, 2008 the second Wordpress 2.5 release candidate released; Wordpress 2.5 RC2. At the Wordpress development blog, Matt updates a bit more of a peek with a short screencast covering the new dashboard and uploader and Release Candidate 2.

I just hear a couple blog posting about Wordpress 2.5 change: EasyWordpress and WeblogToolsCollection, and I guess it will be hard to use Wordpress 2.5. I will get troubles with the theme and plugin compatibility. So I should re-customize many theme and plugin sections.

But I have tried Wordpress 2.5 RC1 and use it in my localhost. The result is not such as what I guess. The new Wordpress version is really give you a sophisticated and ease such as: a customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load.

And how about theme and plugin compatibility?!. Don’t worry about these, because Wordpress doesn’t really change anything core about themes, just added new optional capabilities like Gravatars.

And plugins that work with the admin may require updating to take advantage of the new, cleaner UI in WordPress 2.5. Just deactivate your plugins before upgrading for 2.5 and let the built-in updater notify and give you one-click upgrades to plugins you have installed, assuming the developer is cool and has updated their code for 2.5 already.

The Wordpress 2.5 plugin compatibility community has started to keep a list of which plugins work great and which don’t. It’s worth looking at, so you will get more advantage of the new version.

Ready to take a taste of the new Wordpress?!, just download the Wordpress 2.5-RC2 and try it.

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Below is a list of my favorite wordpress plugin. I think its can be a consideration for you to optimize your wordpress hosted blog. And there are no one of wordpress hosted blogs that not using any wordpress plugin. Of course, you, me and all other bloggers are using several wordpress plugins to optimize their blog.

But using a lot of Wp plugin is not always good. What you need is only use or install any necessary plugin. You should know first your need. What is your blog for, what is blog requirement, what is your blog facility.

I had picked only necessary Wp plugin with many trial and error. And I think the list below is good enough and capable to accommodate what I need to run my blog well.

1. Adman
Integrate the ads code such as Adsense, Bidvertiser, and also your own ads code between your blog post.

2. Spam Karma
Block spam comments

3. All in one seo pack
Optimize your blog to make it SEO friendly and SEO optimized including: title, meta description and meta keyword.

4. aLinks
Organize keyphrases to make that certain keyphrases automatic add url on your blog posts or pages, both internal and external url.

5. Sociable
To give ease to submit your blog post to several bookmark sites such as delicious, digg, stumbleupon, simpy, google bookmark, netscape, reddit, etc.

6. Similar post
Display several articles/blog posts that related to current article.

7. Google sitemap generator
Generate your blog sitemap automatically.

8. Popularity Contest
Popularity statistic of your blog posts or pages.

List above is my first choice, or my primary plugin. I also use another Wp plugins and they are as my secondary choice. As follows:

9. Anti Spam Image
Functioned as verification to ascertain that user comments are submitted by human. Or its usually called CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart).

10. Gravatar
Display commentator image or photo.

11. Subscribe to comment
To give an option to visitors that their can subscribe to the next comments.

12. Top commentators
Displaying the visitor nickname at most commented.

13. WordPress Navigation Tool (NAVT)
Organize your blog page navigation.

14. DoFollow
Remove “nofollow” tag in the commentator web/blog url.

I had using these plugin to make my blog runing well. With my best choice, I am really satisfied using these plugins.

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