Many people love Wordpress because There are a lot of plugins that can help Wordpress users customize their website to meet their won needs. Cory Miller had published an article and discuss about why he loves Wordpress.

In his Cory’s artile, he mentioned that Google loves Wordpress. Although Wordpress comes with some basic SEO features such as including the ability to use .htaccess to create apparently static URLs called permalinks, blogrolling, and pinging, but the most important thing that you must do is make sure your Wordpress theme is optimized for search engine. You may get a very low ranking if you choose the wrong Wordpress theme.

So, if you are Wordpress theme developer, you need to make sure your themes are optimized for search enigne. Nathan Rice had wrote a series of guide to WordPress theme SEO, which i will like to recommend for all theme developers (It is worth to read even you are not theme developer).

Nathan had divided the series into different topics:

• Generating a sitemap for Google
• Getting your site indexed by Google
• Getting Google to index and follow the right stuff
• Using Keyword-Rich Permalinks
• Optimizing your <title>
• Optimizing your header tags
• Using META descriptions
• Using META keywords
• Keyword Density
• Deep Linking

Few days ago the Wordpress Development Team released Wordpress 2.6.3 to fix the vulnerability found in Snoopy library. Now, they released Wordpress 2.7 Beta 1 for us to try out.

Wordpress 2.7 is bringing a new visual design. Although the design is almost complete, but there are still some glitches in certain browsers. The development team recommend users to use Firefox and Safari for best experience.

The original schedule release date of Wordpress 2.7 is 10th November. But, according to the development team, they are two weeks behind the schedule and may only deliver Wordpress 2.7 at the end of November. Fortunately, they will release a Release Candidate version at 10th November.

While waiting for the final release of Wordpress 2.7, why not we download the beta version and help the development team to discover the bugs or issues?

Download: Wordprss 2.7 Beta 1

Although Wordpress 2.7 will be release soon, but the Wordpress team still continue support and fix Wordpress 2.6’s bugs. They just released Wordpress 2.6.3, which fixed the vulnerability found in Snoopy library. The Snoopy library is being used to fetch feed shown in admin dashboard.

According to the Wordopress team, hacker can use this vulnerability to execute shell command and hack your Wordpress server. Anyway, this is just a small fix. Instead of downloading the full package, you may download these two files and upload to your server:

• wp-includes/class-snoopy.php
• wp-includes/version.php