Free Content Management System (CMS)

Pulse is a great CMS designed to easily define blocks of your website that can be edited online using a web interface. Simply copy the Pulse folder into a directory on your website and you’re done with installation, no need for databases or complicated installation procedures. Then it’s a matter of logging in via the web and you can edit all those blocks on your site that you have defined as editable. Great for creating sites that can be edited or update later on by anyone, with no need for them to have any technical know-how. Update to the pro version for multiple photo galleries, integrated blogs and more.

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Worpress 3.0 is Here

With over 1200 bug fixes (they had that many?) and new features, Wordpress 3.o looks to be a nice upgrade. Perhaps the most exciting new feature is that you can run an unlimited number of blogs from one Worpdress Instalation (well they say 10 Million, so maybe there is a limit).

You can now add custom backgrounds, headers and Custom menus (Which you can re-organize by dragging and dropping) to your WordPress Blog all without editing your theme file. You can even place these custom menus and sub-menus in a sidebar widget.

They’ve also added the ability to create custom post types such as a products, Contacts, Newsletters etc.

as well as; Taxonomies (groupings of posts or links; “Link Category” is an example of a taxonomy)

There is a Bulk updater, for among other things, updating multiple plugins at once

and a New Default theme “Twenty Ten” which incorporates all the new features.

If you updated recently you will already know that WordPress can always be updated automatically at the touch of button from your Dashboard. If you don’t use WordPress yet, now is a great time to start. Oh yes, and as always, it’s Free!

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Quick and Easy Poll Creation

With Micropol it’s easy to set up and publish quick simple polls, for free. Then you can log in to the site to check or share the results.

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Wordpress ecommerce Plugin

GetShopped.org offers a free Wordpress plug-in which will enable you to run a full featured Wordpress powered store. Includes many functions found in the top ecommerce packages including shipping calculator, sell digital downloads, easy checkout, easy integration with PayPal, Google Checkout and many other Payment Gateways. Great for running a full featured ecommerce store but worth looking into even if you just want to sell a few t-shirts on your blog.

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Free Wordpress Magazine Templates

Guidesigner.com has a nice collection of 26 free Wordpress magazine templates
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Get a Free Blog Instantly

Yes, you can get free Blogs at Wordpress or Blogger but there’s surely no faster way to get a free blog than Posterous and it requires no setup whatsoever. Simply Email your post, with whatever attachment you want to include in the post (image, video, music) and they will email you the link to your new posterous blog address. Keep emailing them and the new posts will be added to your blog. The resulting blog even looks pretty decent.
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New Feature for Wordpress 2.9

Wordpress 2.9 will have a built in image editor that will allow you to crop, resize, and rotate images from your blog editor.
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WordPress Cheat Sheets & Checklists

Tons of useful links for Wordpress bloggers.
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