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WordPress launches WordPress TV

Automattic, the company behind the blogging platforms wordpress.com and wordpress.org launched a new service today: wordpress.tv.

WordPress TV is meant to become “your visual resource for all things WordPress“. The new platform will share all videos on WordPress insights, skills, hacks and knowledge. Focus lies on both the blogging software wordpress.org and the free bloghost wordpress.com. But there’s also room for interviews, presentations and reports from WordPress related events. From the WordPress.tv blog:

Our goal with WordPress.tv is simple: To make it easy for you to find up-to-date, WordPress-themed video content within a couple of clicks. Without having to wade through spammy promotional videos, out-of-date content, and missing chunks of presentations.

For now WordPress.tv already contains more than 200 movies, but I’m sure the total amount will increase significantly in the weeks to come…

WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” released

As from today WordPress 2.6 is available, almost 1 month ahead of schedule. This version is called WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” after jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and it contains a few new features that have to make WordPress a more powerful Content Management System (CMS):

Check all new features here.

How to make your standard WordPress titles more attractive?

Most WordPress themes have the same, SEO-unfriendly, standard titles. Although the times are changing little by little, a lot of blogs still use those unattractive titles. They don’t look good in the SERP‘s and when you add a post to a social bookmarking site, chances are real those strange looking characters (« and ») will be transformed into something unreadable. Time to make a change…

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Forgot to change the year in your footer?

A new year, a new footer? Even now in february I still see a lot of blogs that haven’t changed the year in their footer (yet). It still reads “© 200x – 2007“. Maybe the owner forgot to change the year or doesn’t know how and where to change it.

Wordpress copyright change year in footer

If you change the code in your footer as follows, you’ll never have to worry about it again.

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How to optimize your WordPress blog for the Search Engines?

Fact 1: WordPress in the best and easiest blogging system in the world.

Fact 2: search engines like Google, Live and Yahoo! really like blogs.

The reason behind the success of blogs in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERP’s) is that they really fit in the way search engines and their algorithms work today.

I’m going to show you how you can get your WordPress blog loved even more by Google and other search engines.

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