Benefits & Dis-Advantages Of WordPress Platform

Posted by Prem on Tuesday, July 3, 2012
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The Benefits Of WordPress As A Website Platform

A WordPress platform is highly recommended for a number or reasons, here are just a few:-
  • A WordPress-based website is SEO friendly and can easily be optimized for the search engines See some of the websites I have built and promoted to the top of Google.
  • The content can easily be added to or edited by the owner from a Control Panel. No separate software or technical knowledge is required. There are videos below showing how easy this ‘Content Management System’ is to use.
  • The functionality of the site can easily be extended by the use of what are termed ‘plugins’. If a new feature is needed on the website then there is probably a plugin that can provided it.
  • The layout and look of a WordPress website is determined by the ‘Theme’. There are many ready-made Themes available and most of them are free. You can very quickly set up a great-looking website in minutes just by installing a Theme.
  • WordPress is being constantly improved and updated with great new features.
  • WordPress offers much better comment management on the back end, and just added comment threading as an option.
  • WordPress only shows real trackbacks, not those annoying fake ones that show up on practically every Blogger post ever since they added their new blogroll widget.

The Disadvantages Of A WordPress Platform

  • If you use too many plugins, they can slow the site down
  • Not easy to format Tables and Graphic Images
  • Can’t be used for Database Driven websites with complex search boxes, e.g. like rightmove.co.uk
  • Because WordPress is being constantly improved and updated with great new features, it is necessary to upgrade on the website periodically. Not a great issue, but the plugins then become out of date and you have to update those also. Not a big issue, but some admin overhead you have to attend to.
Source: mindandmoneymatters.com

What’s Next for Delicious?

Posted by Pankaj Kumar on Thursday, January 6, 2011
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Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We’re genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can’t answer each of your questions individually, we wanted to address what we can at this stage and we promise to keep you posted as future plans get finalized.


Is Delicious being shut down? And should I be worried about my data?

- No, we are not shutting down Delicious. While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive.


What is Yahoo! going to do with Delicious?

- We’re actively thinking about the future of Delicious and we believe there is a home outside the company that would make more sense for the service and our users. We’re in the process of exploring a variety of options and talking to companies right now. And we’ll share our plans with you as soon as we can.


What if I want to get my bookmarks out of Delicious right away?

- As noted above, there’s no reason to panic. We are maintaining Delicious and encourage you to keep using it. That said, we have export options if you so choose. Additionally, many services provide the ability to import Delicious links and tags.

We’ll let you know more as things develop.


Source: blog.delicious.com

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Farewell Delicious: Yahoo’s Shutting Down Many Services!

Posted by Pankaj Kumar
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Instead of creating a shopping list for this season, Yahoo! has created a “chopping” list to shutdown many of its services. There was quite of a buzz around it and finally, they have declared that they are going to shutdown their social bookmarking service Del.iciou.us.

The story does not end their. Yahoo! has decided to chop down many other great service like Altavista, MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Picks which were announced in a presentation posted on twitter. Unfortunately, now the image has been removed from ImageShack. Nevertheless, here’s the image which was posted in TechCrunch.

It’s clearly visible that Delicious is listed under “Sunset” which are going to be shutdown soon. Yahoo! reveals that it’s stated in the part of their organizational streamline to cut off the investment to underperformed or off-strategy services. Well, as far as I know Delicious was a popular social bookmarking site since 2003 which really made a mark of its kind.

This must be really embarrassing for regular Delicious users and it’s sad to see such a great service is going down!

The rumor was quite an issue which aroused many readers’ curiosity and embarrassment due to the fact Delicious was going to shut down. But Yahoo! officially declares that eventhough they fired the Delicious team Delicious will see the light of the world, outside Yahoo! nonetheless. You can read more on their official statement. Very well, Delicious will have to regain its trust it had in its users again.


Source: techhamlet.com

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