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WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platforms out there, can now run on SQL Server and SQL Azure thanks to a new patch made available via OmniTI. And if you’re interested in making the switch (or starting from scratch), there’s a new resource for you available from Wordpress.Visitmix.com…

In preparation for WordCamp Seattle, Windows Live Writer developer Brandon Turner created three new plugins designed to work specifically with WordPress blogs. The first plugin lets you easily change the title and tagline of your blog (by default, it reads “Just another Wordpress.com weblog”).…

Welcome to Episode #1. In this episode watch Cannon PI, and his sidekick "Jim" as they help two developers get their web developer platform setup and ready to go with the applications they need using the Web Platform Installer. PS: There is a reference to "The Wizard of OZ" in…

Tim Heuer recently released a new blog plugin for WordPress users: Silverlight for WordPress. With this plugin, you can easily place Silverlight content within a post. He decided to create this plugin, when, after searching the official WordPress directory, the only plugin he could find was one…

WordPress just got some new competition from the recently revealed MIX Labs project called Oxite. The software is an open source, standards compliant, and extensible content management platform designed to run anything from a small personal blog to a big business web site. Did we say open source?…

A new Wordpress plugin lets bloggers easily insert Virtual Earth maps onto any Wordpress blog. Using the plugin is easy - you just install it to your plugins folder as you would any other, but the best part is that the plugin is compatible with Windows Live Writer! When you use Live Writer to post…

I just keep finding great plugins for Windows Live Writer! I recently moved my blog to WordPress and wanted to find out if WLW could support tags instead of just categories. As it turned out, the support to post tags is not enabled by default, so there are some things that have to be done in order…

In the world of the blog, search juice is the drink of the Gods. Anyone's web presence is most easily measured by the history and persistence of one's search results. Now the squad at Automattic made it that much easier to start down the road to juicy Web supremacy.Now one of the most favored places…