Archive For July, 2009

Hello vBSEO customers and friends,

I am VERY excited to announce that we are having Brian Cummiskey officially join our team, effective today. After years of invaluable contributions to the vBSEO community, and more recently, a short absence from our site, it is my pleasure to welcome him back as an official vBSEO team member.

For those of you not familiarized with him, Brian has been consistently a TOP contributor to our community, providing on-target insight to thousands of new, and existing vBSEO customers on topics related to SEO, forum improvement, and overall community management.

I was planning on doing a formal announcement detailing…

Hello vBSEO customers and friends,

I am VERY excited to announce that we are having Brian Cummiskey officially join our team, effective today. After years of invaluable contributions to the vBSEO community, and more recently, a short absence from our site, it is my pleasure to welcome him back as an official vBSEO team member.

For those of you not familiarized with him, Brian has been consistently a TOP contributor to our community, providing on-target insight to thousands of new, and existing vBSEO customers on topics related to SEO, forum improvement, and overall community management.

I was planning on doing a formal announcement detailing…

I’ve got a new version of Twitter Tools ready to go, but wanted to do a quick release candidate to get some wider testing before doing the general 2.0 release.

This has some new features, including bit.ly support, option to exclude tweeting blog posts in certain categories, hashtags and the ability to customize the tweet prefix on new blog post tweets.

You can download the release candidate here.

Please let me know if you run into any issues with this version, thanks!

Scheduled posts in WordPress are posts that are scheduled to appear at a future time, this feature is widely used as users may write multiple posts at once and may want to pace them out to get better readership.

For example on my personal blog there are multiple authors, so we schedule our posts and leave a two hour or more time gap between posts.

Do you use this feature for your blog? Do let us know by taking part in this short poll.

Poll requires JavaScript, please visit the post to vote Do you schedule posts in WordPress?

It would also be…

Earlier this month, over 3500 of you responded to our survey asking you to help us prioritize some of the media features that had been suggested for the 2.9 release. While the exact features for 2.9 have not been hammered out yet, as we continue to match up developers with features, we wanted to share the survey results and let you know what we’re thinking in terms of approach.

First, the results. The first question, and the only one that was mandatory, asked what single media feature you would choose to include in version 2.9. The top vote-getter was standalone editable…

New Plugins

Posts by Tag

Posts by Tag WordPress Plugin, provides sidebar widgets which can be used to display posts from a specific set of tags in the sidebar. The Plugin caches the posts of each widget separately, and issues database queries only when needed. This will reduce the amount of database queries involved for each page load and will therefore be light on your server.

Better Protected Pages

Improve password protected pages, with full control over CSS, wording and layout.

Image Gallery Reloaded

Automaticaly replaces the default WordPress gallery with a new gallery and slideshow.

Adicon Server

This Wordpress plugin will manage your 16px ads on…

Tasty Kitchen, a site by The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond, has launched a community site on the BuddyPress platform:

Built by the team at Voce Communication, Nick Gernert in a blog post today describes BuddyPress this way:

Not to over-simplify things, but think “Facebook in a Box.”
Groups, Wire posts (think Facebook Wall), activity streams, friend lists and forums are all a part of the platform. These all build from the user system native to WordPress and simply add functions to allow users to interact with each other. Use as many or as few of the capabilities as you like.

The site…

We’ve had a few questions come up in connection with customers trying to run vBulletin on the brand-new PHP 5.3. There are some known issues with PHP 5.3, some of which are related to the new way it handles object references.

These issues have been fixed in development and will be rolled out with the next maintenance release. In the meantime, we recommend not upgrading to PHP 5.3 until 3.8.4 is released.

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vBulletin.com Announcement: Using vBulletin with PHP 5.3
Author: Ray Morgan
Published: 30th July 2009 10:32 PM

We’ve had a few questions come up in connection with customers trying to run vBulletin on the brand-new PHP 5.3. There are some known issues with PHP 5.3, some of which are related to the new way it handles object references.

These issues have been fixed in development and will be rolled out with the next maintenance release. In the meantime, we recommend not upgrading to PHP 5.3 until 3.8.4 is released.

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We’ve had a few questions come up in connection with customers trying to run vBulletin on the brand-new PHP 5.3. There are some known issues with PHP 5.3, some of which are related to the new way it handles object references.

These issues have been fixed in development and will be rolled out with the next maintenance release. In the meantime, we recommend not upgrading to PHP 5.3 until 3.8.4 is released.

We’ve had a few questions come up in connection with customers trying to run vBulletin on the brand-new PHP 5.3. There are some known issues with PHP 5.3, some of which are related to the new way it handles object references.

These issues have been fixed in development and will be rolled out with the next maintenance release. In the meantime, we recommend not upgrading to PHP 5.3 until 3.8.4 is released.

We’ve had a few questions come up in connection with customers trying to run vBulletin on the brand-new PHP 5.3. There are some known issues with PHP 5.3, some of which are related to the new way it handles object references.

These issues have been fixed in development and will be rolled out with the next maintenance release. In the meantime, we recommend not upgrading to PHP 5.3 until 3.8.4 is released.

We’ve had a few questions come up in connection with customers trying to run vBulletin on the brand-new PHP 5.3. There are some known issues with PHP 5.3, some of which are related to the new way it handles object references.

These issues have been fixed in development and will be rolled out with the next maintenance release. In the meantime, we recommend not upgrading to PHP 5.3 until 3.8.4 is released.

We’ve had a few questions come up in connection with customers trying to run vBulletin on the brand-new PHP 5.3. There are some known issues with PHP 5.3, some of which are related to the new way it handles object references.

These issues have been fixed in development and will be rolled out with the next maintenance release. In the meantime, we recommend not upgrading to PHP 5.3 until 3.8.4 is released.