Google Analytics for WordPress Plugin Review

Anyone who is serious about setting up a website on the internet needs to know about Google Analytics. Google Analytics, as you may know, is a service that allows you to monitor the traffic that comes to your website. The service allows you to pull all sorts of useful statistical information about your visitors, sources of traffic, keywords and conversions for the latter Google Analytics can also integrate into other Google services such as Adwords useful for monitoring your PPC campaigns, anyway, I am sure you can see how powerful this service can be. Google Analytics gets all this information by providing a snippet of code that you place on each page of your site.

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Twenty Ten Theme Gets Updated To 1.1

You many have noticed that there has been a recent update to the Twenty Ten theme. Isn’t it wonderful how theme developers can push updates to their user base? So why is there a update and what is the difference? Well to be honest the changes are minor there are some tweaks to the CSS style sheet code as well as some tweaks to the main code.

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100 Million Plugin Downloads and WordPress 3.0 Reaches 3 Million.

On the first of July it has been reported that WordPress.org’s plugins directory reached its 100 million download milestone. Over the last several years there have been over 10,000 plugins added to the directory, every one of them GPL compatible and free to use, enhancing and adding new features to your WordPress blog. This is what makes the WordPress community so great and why I have always wanted to be apart of it.

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PHP 4 and MySQL 4 WordPress Support To Be Phased Out.

Latest news is that is that WordPress 3.1 will be the last version of WordPress to support PHP4 and MySQL 4. Therefore, WordPress 3.2 which due in first half of 2011 will raise the bar to PHP 5.2. PHP 5.2 is a newer version of the popular language that WordPress is written in and offers many enhancements over previous versions including earlier realises of PHP 5. MySQL is the popular database system used by WordPress to store posts and settings.

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