WordPress has upgraded & released it’s WordPress 3.0 beta 2 from earlier WordPress Beta 1 version with 2 improvements.

• Revised menu user interface
• Changes to the WordPress exporter and importer to make it more flexible

It would take a while for stable version of WordPress 3.0. The new WordPress 3.0 will let you manage many WordPress blog from single WordPress dashboard. In nutshell WordPress 3.0 is WordPress Multi User compatible. If you would like to try out WordPress beta version prior  to stable release you can use WordPress beta tester plugin.

Read more about WordPress 3.0 Beta 2 from official page.

Download the WordPress 3.0 Beta 2 now!

Dwonload : WordPress beta tester plugin

                          

WordPress 3.0 beta has been launched and released for public testing. WordPress 3.0 is having much better features than earlier version , with merger of WordPress and WordPress MU (multi-user).

Here are few new features of WordPress 3.0 :

• New Default theme Twenty Ten, including the custom background and header options.
• Custom Background Image support
• Changing your own Username & Password
• Custom post types : It’s really easy to add new types.
• Easily manage multiple blogs via single Dashboard as WordPress and WordPress MU have merged

There are many more features which makes WordPress 3.0 worth installing. You can read more about WordPress 3.0 from it’s official page.

This is an early beta. This means there are a few things still finishing. Testers can use the wp-testers mailing list to discuss bugs encounterd.

Download : WordPress 3.0 Beta 1

Download : Beta tester plugin.

                          

Facebook is catching up fast, after dominance of social networking sites like Orkut and Twitter in India. Here is a way to integrate your website or blog with Facebook. Bloggers have welcomed the integration of Social media in their blogs which promotes and make their blog’s presence felt over Social networks.

You can Import WordPress Blog Posts in Facebook through the Facebook notes application.
To activate this function in the new Facebook interface, this is what you need to do:

1.Navigate to Application settings in Account  option in Menubar

2.Click on the Notes link and then click on ‘Import a Blog’ link

3.Enter the RSS feed url of the blog which you want to import into Facebook.

4.Confirm the Import of your blog.

Now every post of the blog you entered there would be imported in Notes in Facebook.

                          

Ever seen blogs with a lot of social sharing features including Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Stumble etc. These definitely increases popularity of the blog post related as well attracts a lot of traffic to your blog. A lot of sharing features can be integrated into blog post altogether using a plugin for WordPress blog called Light Social.

This is a super lightweight plugin to insert a set of social share links at the bottom of each post, focused on technical blogs. With this plugin you don’t have options to configure. Simply activate or deactivate to show or not the bookmark social links.

This is the list of used social sites:

• Digg
• Reddit
• StumbleUpon
• Yahoo Buzz
• DZone ,
• Facebook
• Viadeo
• Delicious
• DotNetKicks
• DotNetShoutout
• LinkedIn
• Technorati
• Twitter
• Google Buzz (aka. Google Rea
• der)
• Faves
• Mister Wong

The plugin is implemented using the most simplistic html code to ensure fast load and minimal impact on your blog.

Works with IE6 and HTML feed (atom, rss) readers. Handles selective placement and position of the links.

Download : http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/light-social.1.13.zip

• Version: 1.13
• Requires WordPress Version: 2.9 or higher
• Plugin Homepage