"Despite the considerable advances that the free software has made in the last years in its «market share» in different fields in informatics, only in a few of this fields free software has the supremacy. One of these is the field of web servers.
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WordPress 2.6 Released
The WordPress team have announced the release of WordPress 2.6, the latest version of the popular open source blogging software.
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Three sitemap generators for WordPress
Some search engine optimization (SEO) experts say sitemaps are important tools for promoting your site, because when a search engine picks up your sitemap, it automatically picks up a link to every page in your site. Not only does the spider crawl those pages, but the sitemap page shows up in search results for keywords on your blog.
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Apostolos Dountsis wrote a social bookmark plugin for Wordpress. I modified the plugin to include FreeSoftwareDaily, and in accordance with the terms of the GPL 3.0 it was licensed under I'm making those changes available. I hope others find a use for this plugin on their wordpress blogs and sites.You can download the mod here
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WordPress secures $29 million in funding
Automattic, the parent company of popular open source blogging platform WordPress, announced this week it received $29 million in funding from four investors who will take a minority stake in the company. Though this isn't the first round of financing for the not quite three-year-old company, it has drawn a lot of notice because one of the investors is the New York Times. It's an unusual pairing of two industries -- blogging and conventional media -- typically thought to be at odds with each other.
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Ministry of Culture adopts Wordpress
Segundo o WebInsider, na última semana o Ministério da Cultura lançou seu novo site totalmente gerenciado com Wordpress. . "Sim, o mesmo gerenciador de conteúdo que gerencia o meu blog, gerencia também um site de grande porte como este Webinsider e ainda o site de um dos ministérios mais importantes do Governo Federal."
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Accordingly with WebInsider, last week the brazilian's Ministry of Culture[1] launched its new website totaly managed with Wordpress. "Yes, the same content manager that runs my weblog manages also a big site like Webinsider and also the website of one of the most important ministries of our Federak Government."
[1] http://www.cultura.gov.br/site/
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Use open source to build your own top-class online presence for nothing, part one
Ok, not really nothing: it’ll cost you $9.99 for a domain name. But once you’ve got that, here’s how to build a dynamic and high-class online presence with free web hosting and the powerful open source blogging and content management system WordPress.
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Five tag management plugins for WordPress 2.3
If you want to experiment with tags on your WordPress site, there's never been a better time. The newest WordPress version, 2.3, offers native tagging support.
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WordPress makes a stand for open source morality
The fledgling blogware success story proves that resisting the advertisers can pay greater dividends
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