cms

Time to upgrade your Wordpress installations. Need help? Let me know. Just FTP a backup to your pc, and backup the MySQL database, then hit the upgrade automatically button in the Wordpress Dashboard and you’re away. Be patient while it ticks along. So, what’s new?
According the the official Wordpress.org blog, these are the highlights:

Certain themes [...]

Wordpress, the most popular open source blogging platform, has just introduced its new piece of software, BuddyPress. Wordpress describes BuddyPress as a sister to Wordpress, although it actually requires the WPMU (Wordpress Multi-user) version of Wordpres to run. The idea is that website owners can easily build their own social networking sites. Rather than just [...]

I decided the other day to try out Joomla, as there are a couple of modules which I think may be useful for a couple of my portal sites. However, so far I have found Joomla! to be a little problematic. I have installed Drupal on several sites now, and always with no problems at [...]

The much loved Digg-style CMS, Pligg, has announced that it is for sale. Many website owners have installed the Pligg CMS to build web communities, to share stories and videos. As the Pligg code is currently open source, meaning that everyone is free to download it, and tinker with it, to make their own perfect [...]

I have recently been playing around with Drupal, which is a free open source content management system. At first glance Drupal looks rather complicated, as there are many standard modules, even more optional modules that are developed by other users, plus a vast array of configuration settings, all of which make Drupal very customisable, but [...]

There are so many open source CMS (content management systems) around these day, that a web designer no longer needs to build their own. However, building your own will have some advantages. Open source CMS’s include the likes of Joomla/Mambo, Drupal, Smarty and Pligg to name but a few. Wordpress now also have a WPMU [...]