As many of you know, WordPress is no longer just a tool for blogging. It’s a great solution to use as a Content Management System. If you’re a webmaster who wants all of the easy of use of WordPress and control abilities, but require a CMS solution, WordPress is a great option.

When you want to use WordPress as a CMS, navigate to SETTINGS->READING. Select the option to have your front page display a static page. This will be your “home page”. Now select a page to be your “posts” page.

All in One SEO Pack now supports multiple methods of utilizing the CMS features in WordPress. Whether you use a PHP custom page template for your home and/or static page, a custom loop, or any other method, All in One SEO Pack now supports all of these configurations and customizations.

For your posts page, All in One SEO Pack now has an option to control the keywords shown. You can either set the keywords manually in the page editor in the All in One SEO Pack section

or else you can use the new Dynamic Keyword Generator now built into All in One SEO Pack.

With this option, all the keywords (and optionally tags as well) of whichever posts are currently showing on the posts page, well be automatically used as META keywords on your page for posts.

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We’ll now be providing support for All in One SEO Pack, WP Security Scan, and SMS Text Message on our new Support Forums.  This can also be a place to discuss general WordPress topics, SEO issues, etc.  We feel that this will provide an even higher level of support to the users of our plugins, so that everyone can benefit from each others’ questions and answers.  Registration is currently free.  I look forward to seeing you there!

Make sure you’re up to date with the latest version of All in One SEO Pack.  Lately we’ve added some bug fixes, security updates, performance enhancements, and support for CMS-style WordPress installations.  Thanks to Jared Ritchey for working with us on this issue.  Be sure to check out their plugins as well.

One major feature of interest is that you’ll now be able to use the built-in functionality with WordPress to have a static home page and an alternate posts page (settings->reading).  

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Senior WordPress Developer, Michael Torbert, was interviewed by Jeff Chandler, host of the official WordPress Podcast, WordPress Weekly.

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At 10:53 Eastern Standard Time, the All in One SEO Pack was downloaded for the one millionth time.  

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Most Popular WordPress Plugins

If you check out wordpress.org/extend/plugins, you’ll notice that one popular plugin is missing.
According to deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin, the home of CForms, they’ve removed the plugin for licensing reasons.

The plugin’s creator, Oliver, doesn’t want his plugin to be GPL-compatible, a requirement of officially hosted WordPress plugins (and technically a requirement of all plugins to GNU-GPL software). According to his website, development has likely ended.

On the one hand, the repository is now rid of a non-GPL compatible plugin, which is mandated by Matt Mullenweg, as it should be. On the other hand, this is an extremely popular plugin, and is very powerful, so the community may be at a loss.

There are several other contact form plugins, and of course you can just right your own. However, this was by far, the easiest for non-technical users to operate, and the most flexible.

What do you think?  Should someone take over the development or create a fork so that the community still has this plugin available and further development/support will happen?

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It’s almost that time again, the next release of WordPress is almost out.  WordPress 2.6 may be released on Monday.  The new version will be packed with features, such as better management for your media library, Press This fixes, post revisions history, theme preview, category unions intersections, plugin update notification improvements, and more.  Unfortunately for developers and users, many other things have changed which will provide more than a few potential headaches.  

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Most of my blogs entries are geared towards past, present, and future clients, do-it-yourself website builders, and other such readers. However, this time I’m writing for a different audience: my fellow developers.

I’ve found that one of the most irksome issues in maintaining a blog is that I can generally keep up with the blog or else I can develop custom web sites and web applications, but it’s difficult to do both.

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So you think you know the IT industry? Check out some of the very funny and interesting definitions of the various designations of the people related to the IT jobs. Please don’t take the definitions too seriously. These definitions are just for fun and have absolutely nothing to do with the professional world.

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