http://vimeo.com/27287078 intro to manageWP.com take a minute, I think you’ll like what you see.

What Matt sent this AM:

“You’ve probably already seen the notice in your dashboards, so I’ll keep this one short and sweet:
http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/

3.0 is faster, stabler, and more secure, so you can focus on what matters (your audience) and let
the rest fade to the background.

Custom post types, MU merge, menu editor, Twenty Ten theme, over 1,200 bug fixes… there’s so much
to enjoy in this new release, we’re really proud of it. It’s the best WordPress yet, and available
for a limited time for only free ninety nine.

Tell your friends, help them upgrade, write new themes that use the new features, spread the good
word.”

Love,
Matt Mullenweg
http://ma.tt | http://wordpress.org

There are many “Contact Form” plugins available for WordPress, today I installed Contact Form 7 here’s the description from the install page.

“Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.”

Keep in touch, if you know of an alternate contact form that you like better than this one, let us know.

CyStats is a feature-rich statistics plugin integrated in the WordPress admin area. Features are currently:

1. Bounce rate, ignore-by-cookie, ignore-by-ip/post-id/user_agent lists
2. hits, visits for day/week/month/year – human or robots
3. Top refering pages
4. Most read categories and tags
5. Most read, most commented posts
6. Most read feeds, number of feed visits today
7. Internal/external search words
8. Operating systems
9. Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly statistics
10. 404 error requests
11. Browsers/clients/tools/…, w/o. version numbers
12. Template tags for most read posts, user count,…
13. Optional IP-anonymizing
14. Multi language support (currently english, german supported).
15. Optional tracking of admin area visits

I installed from the Plugins menu by searching for CyStats and installing same with a click of my mouse, and applied to the new blog for Route6Tour.com, that now has Happenings posts in their website via a WordPress blog. This stats program will help in that project. I will update this post after I’ve used this new tool some more.

Easy as cake, followed the instructions here http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress and all went as expected. That’s all there is to say, 2.3.2 version has been out over an hour at this writing.

Over the course of 20 days in May and June, the community of Webware.com users voted for its favorite Web applications. These are the results: the top 100 Web apps, 10 in each of 10 categories, determined by Webware readers and the fans of the sites that made the final cut.

About the Webware 100 awards

Rafe’s analysis of the results

There were more than 5,000 nominations for sites to be included in this awards program, which Webware’s editors pruned to a list of 250 finalists. Users then voted on those finalists–there were 489,467 votes cast–to come up with these: The top 100 Webware sites for 2007.

I’m thinking of adding this to this WordPress Blog, to offer up alternate styles to the readers that may not “love the warm golden tones”…since I’ve already met one. David Appleyard – CSS Style Switcher Tutorial