The popular open source WordPress blogging tool for mobile phones has recently been updated. BlackBerry, Android and Symbian platforms received new versions with mainly bug fixes, in the case of the first two, and a major user interface redesign for Nokia’s operating system.

The latest 1.4.1 release for BlackBerry addresses some bugs encountered by users, such as the empty title issue for blogs with the “Site Title” field set to an empty value, a problem in the comments screen that didn’t allow editing of comments with special characters within the URL or e-mail field, as well as other minor bugs.

Besides these, the update also delivers a better integration with the VideoPress service and the WordPress.com Space-Upgrade option, as well as support for the blog shortcut icon.

The Android build, now at version 1.3.5, has a longer change list, including: more stable preview of blog posts, a fix regarding multi-language support which made  long strings of text break the interface, a patch for an issue which caused the option  to turn off the Mobile Theme to randomly disappear, and another one for the occasional adding of random extra paragraph HTML tags when editing a blog post.

Furthermore, the update deals with two crashes which occurred when working with very large images of over 8Mb, and when switching the data connection type during a process (e.g. switching from WiFi to 3G).

Apart from these fixes, the release also makes it easier for users to deal with comments.

A newly added feature makes the actual text of new comments appear in the Android notification bar.

Also, when selecting the comment notification to moderate the comment, it will now appear instantly in the Comments view instead of requiring users to refresh.

After several months of design sketches, the beta version (0.8.0) of the Symbian app received the user interface overhaul that users were waiting for.

While not yet perfect, because of some limitations in the underlying Qt framework and a font mismatch problem, the new UI should provide an improved user experience for most bloggers.

The latest mobile versions of WordPress can be downloaded below:

WordPress for Blackberry
WordPress for Android
WordPress for Symbian
WordPress for iPhone/iPad

WordPress Search engine optimization techniques (SEO) should become attention for bloggers who are interested in building high traffic to their WordPress blog. WordPress SEO can help improving the search engine rankings of their WordPress blogs. You can really base a significantly successful and profitable WordPress optimization program by having SEO enriched content on the website of your business. SEO enriched website content is an invaluable element of an overall profitable search engine optimization effort.

This article will explain some useful information for you who are considering starting a blog with WordPress and want to optimize your WordPress with simple tips using Search Engine Optimization technique. In this articles will be focus on a SEO technique called On Pages Optimization. Basically On page Search Engine Optimization will alerts the search engines to the topics of your wordpress blog which is absolutely necessary to get ranked highly in the search engines for your specified search keyword.

Why use WordPress?

WordPress is easy to use and provides a variety of templates and pluggins and offer excellent support to bloggers. One of pluggin that very usefull for On Page optimization is All in one SEO plugin. By this pluggin you can edit/add your niche keyword and Meta tags in your WordPress blog.

How to improve your wordpress blog by On Page SEO technique?

There are 3 importance keys to optimize your wordpress blog using On Pages Optimization. After you have installed All in one SEO plugin you should edit your blog as below.

Keywords: To optimize your wordpress blog you should place your keyword or keyword phrase in various specific locations on your webpage.

Meta Tags : Meta Tags contain of 3 main components:

a. Meta Keywords: Meta Keyword should be containing of our targeted keyword and related to your blog topic.

b. Meta Title: Create a short Title for your blog. Avoid to choose Title that not important and not related to your targeted keyword even “or” or “and”.

c. Meta Description: The Meta Description should be containing all keyword which is you fill in Meta Keywords.

Content: You should ensure the content in your articles contain 3% – 8% of main keyword.

Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within your site and from other sites. A use full WordPress pluggin called Google xml Sitemaps plugin will help you to generate a search engine friendly site map to your blog. It will provide additional information about your site to Google and will facilitate to the spider to crawl. Make your URL’s search engine friendly by go to your WordPress dashboard and click on “settings” then choose the “permalinks” option. Choose the “custom structure” and type in “/%postname%/”.

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• At least 10x improvement in site performance (when fully configured: Grade A in YSlow or great Google Page Speed Improvements)
• “Instant” second page views (browser caching after first page view)
• Reduced page load time: increased visitor time on site (visitors view more pages)
• Optimized progressive render (pages appear to load instantly)
• Improved web server performance (easily sustain high traffic spikes)
• Up to 80% Bandwidth savings via Minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and RSS feeds

Features:

• Compatible with shared hosting, virtual private servers and dedicated servers / clusters
• Transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration with Media Library, theme files and WordPress itself
• Caching of (minified and compressed) pages and posts in memory or on disk
• Caching of (minified and compressed) CSS and JavaScript in memory, on disk or on CDN
• Caching of RSS (comments, page and site) feeds in memory or on disk
• Caching of search results pages (i.e. URIs with query string variables) in memory or on disk
• Caching of database objects in memory
• Minification of posts and pages and RSS feeds
• Minification (combine and remove comments / white space) of inline, embedded or 3rd party JavaScript (with automated updates)
• Minification (combine and remove comments / white space) of inline, embedded or 3rd party CSS (with automated updates)
• Browser caching of CSS, JavaScript and HTML using future expire headers and entity tags (ETag)
• JavaScript grouping by template (home page, post page etc) with embed location management
• Non-blocking JavaScript embedding
• Import post attachments directly into the Media Library (and CDN)

Easily improve the user experience for your readers without having to change WordPress, your theme, your plugins or how you produce your content.

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