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WordPress 3.0 RC3
WP 3.0 RC3 is now available for download.
WordPress 3.0 RC is now available for download. Custom menus and multi-site are all done.
According to today’s update on Version 3.0 Project Schedule, RC is expected on May 25 while final release is due to June.
The upcoming 3.0 version of WordPress will be featuring a sleek interface to arrange the menus in a drag & way interface. There were some mockups posted on the ticket for this feature. Let’s take a look at them.
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Need to include scripts or css only on certain posts? check the techniques used by Mikoder and Beerplanet, for both a single post and a collection of posts.
WordPress 2.9 “Carmen” has finally been released and is available for inmediate download. The list of additions is quite impressive, might be the largest update to WP so far.
WordPress 2.9 Release Candidate 1 is out. The blog announcement states that the final version will be out before sunday.

Although there are specific softwares for social networks, WordPress MU, the multi user version of WordPress, has the potential to be transformed into a social platform. WordPress MU is what powers the WordPress.com blogs, handling millions of blogs so you can get an idea of its power. But WPMU doesn’t offer the social network functionality out of the box.
Enter BuddyPress, the social network plugin for WordPress. We will learn how to setup BuddyPress on top of WordPress MU. Read more
eCommerce is not new. It is now one of the most important applications of internet along with e-mail, e-learning, chat and social networks. However, in the last few years a whole new world started in eCommerce CMS. New contenders like Magento challenge the long time champion osCommerce and even a medium CMS like WordPress and a hardcore CMS like Plone have their eCommerce plugin.
The following list doesn’t attempt to be perfect neither showcase the best CMS. It is merely a review of the most popular eCommerce specific CMS out there, both open source and paid ones. In the end, there’s a list of eCommerce plugins for some generic CMS like WordPress, Drupal or Plone. Read more