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What’s Next For WordPress?

Justin Wright — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:58:58 +0000

Now that WordPress 3.0 has been released, many people are wondering what to expect next. Here’s a great video that touches base on some of the things we can expect from WordPress in the near future:

WordPress for Android Now Available

Justin Wright — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:31:48 +0000

WordPress is now available for Android powered devices. That way you can upload new posts and manage your blog or website even while you are away from your computer. Best of all, it is free for download.

Here’s a video with a brief overview of all the features:

A Few Upcoming WordCamps

Justin Wright — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:46:46 +0000

As many of you know, we love WordCamps. They are a great place to learn new things about WordPress and get a glimpse of what’s happening on the development side. Plus they’re a great venue to meet local bloggers, developers, and WordPress fanatics.

Here’s some details about a few upcoming WordCamps:

WordCamp Boston

January 23
Boston, Massachusetts

WordCamp Indonesia

January 30
Jakarta, Indonesia

WordCamp Greece

January 30
Greece

WordCamp Miami

February 20
Miami, FL

WordCamp Fukuoka

February 27
Fukuoka, Japan

To see more details along with a list of all the upcoming WordCamps, check out the official WordCamp website.

WordPress 2.9.1 Has Been Released

Justin Wright — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:54:27 +0000

If you didn’t noticed, the guys over at WordPress released version 2.9.1 yesterday. It contains a few small fixes, as well as fixed the scheduling issue that a lot of people were having. We’re glad to see that this one of the problems they fixed, as we’ve heard from a few people that they were having issues scheduling their blog posts.

If you haven’t updated your WordPress website yet, we highly recommend doing it as soon as possible. Just go to the tools section and choose upgrade.

New Crash Course Affiliate Program

Justin Wright — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:50:37 +0000

If you haven’t noticed, we have relaunched our WordPress Crash Course and now offer two different packages. One of them is the online course while the other one includes a 3 disc DVD set. So far, we’ve had a lot of success with the course and hope to see it continue.

One of our customers emailed us asking if they could promote the course in exchange for a commission. Unfortunately, we did not have an affiliate program setup when we launched the course. However, we have since decided that it would be a great idea to add one.

Our New Affiliate Program

We’ve gone ahead and listed our online WordPress Crash Course in the Clickbank marketplace. Now you can promote our course on your website or blog. We’ll pay you a 40% commission every time you make a sale through your affiliate link.

To become an affiliate, you need to head over to Clickbank and sign up for a free account.

Once you create your account, all you need to do is send traffic to the following link:

http://YOURID.one1000.hop.clickbank.net

Make sure to replace “YOURID” in the link above with YOUR ClickBank Username!

Free Banners

We’ve also put together some banner ads that you can use for free on any of your websites. To access the banners and get more information, please check out our affiliates page.

We look forward to bringing you on as an affiliate!

WordPress Version 2.8.5 Released

Justin Wright — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:38:31 +0000

If you haven’t done so yet, make sure to upgrade your WordPress installation(s) to version 2.8.5. The latest version was released yesterday and has a handful of security fixes. A few worth noting from the WordPress development blog include:

A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.

As always, it’s important to upgrade as soon as possible to give yourself the best protection against attacks and hackers. So make it a goal today to get all of your blogs/websites upgraded to the newest version!

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WooThemes Loves Boobs

Justin Wright — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:58:09 +0000

In case you didn’t know, the month of October is International Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So everyone should help do their part to raise awareness, whether it’s through blogging, walking, or anything else you can think up. The more people that help, the more people will become aware of this deadly disease.

I’m also pleased to announce that the people over at WooThemes are running a new campaign this month entitled “We Love Boobs.”

They will be donating 20% of total sales of any of their business themes and 100% of their total sales of two of their new themes to a local breast cancer charity.

It’s great to see people from the WordPress community helping raise awareness. It really shows how nice of community we have going on and it’s what I enjoy most about using WordPress.

So if you’ve been thinking about purchasing a premium WordPress theme, now is the time to do it! Head on over to WooThemes and check out their business themes.

New WordPress Crash Course

Justin Wright — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:20:47 +0000

After a few months of debating, we’ve finally decided to launch a WordPress Crash Course!

So what’s included? We’ve put together 17 high quality videos showing you how to use the WordPress platform. The course covers everything from the dashboard all the way up to managing your content.

The course is broken down into 10 different sections. That way each video is short enough to watch in a few minutes. Plus we wanted each video to only cover a certain topic. That way you can easily skim through and find the one you want to watch at any time.

What’s Covered In The Course?

Here’s a quick look at the various sections:

Introduction
Content
Categories and Tags
Media
Blog Appearance
Widgets
WordPress Plugins
Search Engine Optimization
User Accounts
WordPress Settings

As you can see, we’ve covered each of the sections that make up the WordPress platform.

Two Pricing Options

We’ve also launched two different packages. One of them includes online only access to the course while the other one includes a 3 disc DVD set.

Watch The First Video For Free

Best of all, we’re giving away the first video for FREE! All we ask is that you sign up for the ZoopMedia newsletter. If you want to check it out, head on over to the WordPress Crash Course page to get started.

We’ve Made A Few Changes

Justin Wright — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:59:26 +0000

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve spent a lot of time working on the ZoopMedia website this past weekend. A lot of design changes were made, as well as a few featured added. We thought it would be a good idea to fill everyone in on the changes.

Design Changes

Here’s an overview of the design changes we made:

The most obvious of the changes is the new orange background at the top of all posts, pages, and the home page. Prior to the change it was blue, but we decided we wanted to add some color. It sticks out a lot more now, which we think is a good thing.
We also added the Why WordPress? and Portfolio buttons to the homepage, to make it easy to find the information most people look for when they first come to our website.
The graphics for all of our services were also changed, to not only match the site but to also match eachother. We previously had some cartoonish images that didn’t really match the rest of our site. We’re glad there gone!
Our logo was touched up a bit and we added a reflection. We think it looks a lot better than just the text, which we were previously using.
Last but not least, we changed up the homepage graphic to show off some of our recent projects. It’s far more attractive looking than the old graphic (or at least I think so).

Service Changes

The next thing we did was clean up our services. Here’s a quick overview of what we did:

We got rid of some of the services we didn’t really need listed. This includes monetization and search engine optimization, since they both fall into the category of consulting.
The content has been changed on most of the services to better reflect the actual services. This was just a matter of rewriting some of the content.

Blog Changes

One of our main focuses over the last few weeks has been the blog. We wanted to make it easier to browse and more useful to our readers and clients. Here’s what we did:

Added custom descriptions to each topic page, to give you a better idea of what you can expect to find in each category.
We added the popular posts widget, which will show you the most popular posts for any given day. That way you can find some of our best content really quickly.
Recent tweets were also added to the sidebar, since we’re trying our best to answer questions about WordPress. If you ever need help, don’t hesitate to send us a tweet to @ZoopMedia.

That’s It For Now

Well that covers all the changes for this round. We just wanted to point them out to everyone so you have a better understanding of what’s been changed and why.

We’d love to hear some feedback on our new design!

We’re Now An Affiliated Woo Worker!

Justin Wright — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:18:16 +0000

We’re please to announce that we are now an official affiliated worker of WooThemes. What does that mean?

It means we have been added to the list of certified WordPress designers that specialize in customizing WooThemes.

That means you can count on us to modify, customize, or build upon any of the themes available from WooThemes.

We applied about a week ago and were just notifed that we’ve been added to the list. We simply had to show them our portfolio of projects that we’ve done using WooThemes, including this very site.

Believe it or not, this site runs off of a heavily modified version of the Suit and Tie theme. It’s come a long way since we purchased it and continues to evolve on a day to day basis.

Here’s a quick look at our listing:

We look forward to helping you on your next WooThemes project!