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Weberz is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1 of our WordPress Comment Link Manager plugin. The update is primarily a clean up of our code in the plugin, however that has solved a number of issues that users have had with the plugin not working.…

Weberz is pleased to announce the release of our first WordPress plugin, Comment Link Manager. While trying to find solutions to the problems introduced by PageRank sculpting no longer working and the nofollow tag being worthless, we decided to create the comment link manager plugin. The idea was to design a WordPress plugin that allowed admins to disable comment author links until that user has posted an admin specified number of comments. This can help encourage users to comment more by rewarding them with links from your blog.…

Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, announced the official release of WordPress 2.8. According to Matt’s blog post on wordpress.org, the new release has greatly improved the speed of the system due to changes in the way WordPress does styling and scripting. Matt also mentions in his announcement that WP 2.8 has over 180 new features and more then 790 bug fixes.

Some of these new features include:

• Theme Installation & Upgrades – Due to the popularity of the main system and plugin upgrade systems inside the admin panel of WordPress, they decided to add a similar feature

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Update 1/4/2011: The problems described in this article regarding WordPress functionality breaking due to permalink structures have been fixed in version 3.0 and higher. Now the permalink structure suggested by the people mentioned in this article is the best solution for SEO optimized URL’s. However the WordPress Codex, the official WordPress documentation, still suggests that you should start your permalink structure with a number for performance reasons. In most WordPress sites, the performance hit caused using the permalink structure suggested by the SEO experts below would not be large enough to out-weigh the SEO benefits.

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About six to eight months ago I found myself having problems getting enough time out of the day to manage a custom website for Weberz on top of fixing servers, answering support tickets, and generally trying to conduct business on a day to day basis. So I decided to look into making at least one of those jobs easier by converting our website to be managed by a WordPress installation. The general idea was to use WordPress as a CMS system and a blog platform in a single installation of the software. …