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WordPress 3.0 Updates
We’re big fans of WordPress here at Myjive. Over the years WordPress has evolved from a simple blog management tool into a robust Content Management System. All the while, it has maintained it’s open source philosophy and community of contributors.
Recently, WordPress reached a major milestone with it’s 3.0 release. There are a ton of new features, but here are the highlights:
- First new official theme in years, Twenty Ten takes advantage of the newest features of WordPress.
- WordPress and WordPress MU have been merged. Manage multiple “sites” from within a WordPress installation.
- Custom menu management feature, allowing creation of custom menus of posts, pages, categories, tags, and links. Menu items may have parents/depth and the new theme has support for drop down menus.
- Define custom header and background images.
- Define both the admin username and password during install.
- Full support for bulk updating of themes and plugins.
- Official support for shortlinks that maintain your site’s brand.
- Improved custom post types and custom taxonomies including hierarchical (category-style) support.
- Specific author templates in the Template Hierarchy.
- 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements.
While these changes may not be noticed by the visitors of WordPress powered sites, the new functionality should increase efficiency and management by developers and administrators.
Workplace Technology Generation Gap
Baby Boomers and Generation Y are now cohabitants in the workforce. As Sarah Perez notes in her recent article, the technology gap between the generations at work is “Oh So Wide.” The results of a study released by business information solutions provider LexisNexis are quite illuminating.
Gen Y spends 10.6 hours per day browsing social networks, news sites, blogs, forums, and multimedia sharing sites while Boomers clock in at only 5.6 hours.
A majority (62%) of Gen Y employees interact with a social network while at work, but only a fraction of Boomers do (14%).
A majority of Boomer feel PDAs and mobile phones negatively affect workplace etiquette and don’t believe laptops should be used by participants of in-person meetings. Less than half of Gen Y agrees.
As the complexion of the workplace evolves, will the Boomers change their views or will the younger generations continue to frustrate their bosses? Time will tell.
Myjive Word Cloud
Here’s a word cloud of terms we use on our website (www.myjive.net) courtesy of Wordle. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text or a url that you provide.
