What Is New In WordPress 2.6?

What Is New In WordPress 2.6?

Of all forms of marketing available these days, from radio jingles, to commercials on the television, the world is increasingly switching to blogging to publicize information about self or their company. Blogging has gained popularity with individuals and businesses for being an easy platform to provide information over the internet. One reason why blogging software have become popular is because of its ease of use for new users. Most of blog software are easy to customize, run on all platforms as long as minimum requirement of scripting language and database is available & supported; and are fairly easy to install with few clicks!

After trying few other blog software, I have finally settled with WordPress now and what makes it my favourite software for blogging is that is is easiest to use. WP development team has kept pace with changes in technology, recent being introduction of sitemaps and now the latest change: WordPress 2.6 has been launched today with a host of new options that are certainly going to make your life easy. You may now post and edit your blogs even when you are offline.

What makes WordPress better than the rest? WordPress offers a WYSIWYG editor and AJAX-powered controls. UI if fairly attractive and easy to use, so you can update and manage your posts with user friendly and intuitive interface. Templates to change look and feel allow you to customize your blog and skin it the way you want, while third party plugins give you freedom to add, edit and modify new features on your blog.

Here is a quick view of the changes

• More than 190 bugs fixed.
• A new edit-tracking system introcduced. You can quickly review who made what changes to a post and when.
• You can revert to older versions of a post.
• v2.6 Offers a "Press This" bookmarklet to add to your browser. One click will extract the most relevant information from the page you're viewing and send it to your WordPress blog.
• The most exciting addition though, is WordPress 2.6's support for Google Gears. A "Turbo" button resides in the upper right-hand corner of the WordPress administrative interface. What does Turbo help you with, you may ask? Well, you can now cache the most important files of the WordPress management console to your local hard drive, allowing you to keep blogging even when you've temporarily lost network connectivity.

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Which software do you use for your blog? Have you tried the new features in WordPress? Do you feel WordPress is indeed better than the rest when you compare blog software? Do share your views and inputs and feel free to post your comments!!!

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How many posts per page does your blog have?

Internet is flooded with blogs, so much so that one estimate puts total count of blogs existing is way ahead of total domain names registered (which is in billions) .
Recently I was trying to figure out what is the best number in terms of posts that your blog should have to attract visitors; ensure retaining interest while they are on your blog, and then, what should you have in your blog to get them coming back to your blog regularly. Is content the only thing that readers look for? Does presentation or look and feel of your blog have any impact on your readership?

If you own a blog what is the number of posts per page that you feel is right? Is it 10 blog posts per page or should you have only one per page? To figure out this question LifeHacker which typically used to have 20 posts per page opened up a poll to get views from readers on what they felt should be the right combination. The results from public voting are

1. 26.3% want 5 to 10 posts / page
2. 16.2% want 10 to 15 posts /page
3. 24.8% want 15 to 20 posts / page
4. 12.6% voted to have 20 - 30 posts / page
5. Remaining really didn't have a clue and wanted more than 30 posts / page

Do you think that the number of posts per page you display on your blog is important?
In my opinion, you should limit the display of post per page on your blog to 5 to 6 posts only. Typical RSS feeds have a default of 5, and it would be good to ensure that your latest 5 posts are available through RSS feeds and thus match posts per page with RSS feed. That doesn't work in your favour though since limiting the number of posts on one's main page can reduce the number of posts indexed by blog search engines.
However you write the blogs for human readers not spiders -- AND all your blog posts do get indexed, if not same day, at least over a period of time so I feel you can ignore the factor of blog search indexing for a while and focus on "What does an average reader expect from you on your blog?"

If you have too many posts per page, you tend to lose readership as the page may seem to be full of text and words and just by landing on such a page, reader may actually be afraid to start reading. Whereas if you have a page with few posts, it will look a lot cleaner and more focused on the topic that you cover. Use of attractive titles, at least 5 posts per page, and teasers to link to other pages and lengthy posts.

Topic that you cover in your blog is also a reason why it should go to a new page. Consider talking about global warming in one post and wonders of new SUV that you recommend to buy in the same page may dilute the message you wish to deliver about global warming. It would be much better for you to club posts with similar or related topics on a page, instead of going after numbers. This would automatically reduce posts per page (unless you write only on one or few topics)

Do you like scrolling? Well, I don't and I know for sure there is a silent majority on the internet which really doesn't enjoy scrolling up and down. The lesser the posts, lesser requirements for scrolling and winning the readers approval for your blog.

Does your page take forever to load? Lesser posts per page indicates less work on your web server to churn out pages and lesser time for data to travel on the network. All this translates to faster display of your blog post. Isn't that one of the biggest factors to decide which website is better compared to others. Do you close browser window when the hour glass rotates for an hour before it starts with images and posts? Few posts per page would mean less time for page to get displayed and that is always a plus on the internet.

In all, I read multiple blogs everyday but I hardly spend time on blogs that have long loading time, have just too many things on one page, are full of posts that should typically be categorized and placed in suitable pages instead of dumping posts in one page. So if you are a seasoned blogger or a new one looking for the magic number I hope you would consider the points mentioned in this post and limit your posts per page to a reasonable number that does justice to your writing and gets you sustained readership.

KISS - Keep It Short n Sweet !!

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