Year: 2010

WordPress 3.0 – Sound the vuvuzelas!

WordPress 3.0 Is Here

Today is historic.

After many hard working months from all the folks who contributed to WordPress 3.0… You can now download it for your blog.

I’ve been running a development release as well as the release candidate version for about a month now on MarkDelDegan.com and numerous other sites and have enjoyed all the new features like shortcode generators, the look and feel, and new custom page links.

WordPress has truly graduated to the full blown content management system. And I love it.

I will do a follow up post to this one on some of the cool stuff that I’m doing with WordPress 3.0 so you can can look forward to that.

But in the meantime here is how you upgrade your blog. (Your plugins should be updated but it always best to backup first; I use this plugin for easy WordPress backups WP-DB-Backup.)

Step #1 – Login to your self hosted wordpress blog.

Step #2 – Click the upgrade to WP 3.0 button at the top of your screen. (See image below.)

How to upgrade to WordPress 3.0
Click on the please update now. (So polite.)

Step #4 Click on the upgrade automatically button.

Upgrade WordPress 3.0 Automatically
Click the upgrade automatically.

Step#5 – Wait for the downloader to do it’s thing. And…. Your done! (Easy eh.)

There is going to be a lot of really cool implementation techniques come out of this release, but for now enjoy the work of the people who made this all possible.

One last thing…

Check out this video for a overview on some of the new features.

That’s all for now.

– Mark

4 New Internet Marketing Videos

Hey Folks,

I have a really cool offer for you.

Yesterday, I shot 4 brand new training videos as a bonus for opting in to my list. (Cause I’m like that.)

Here are the topics…

  • How to choose a niche market
  • The blog “profit” blueprint
  • The easy sales video formula
  • 5 secrets to get more traffic

They are broken up into modules so you can reference them later if you like.

I really enjoyed making them for you so here is how to get them…

Go to the home page on http://markdeldegan@gmail.com and opt in to the newsletter in the middle of the page.

After you confirm I’ll send em’ out to you.

That’s it for this time. Have a good week!

Talk soon,
Mark

P.S. Tell your friends about the offer.

P.S.S. If you like the videos let me know, I’m always interested in what you have to say.

Video from the Fresh Prince.

I just watched this video today and honestly I had no idea that Will Smith was into all that…

Sure, I’ve seen a ton of his movies and respected him as an actor but this totally caught me by surprise.

“Just decide what it’s going to be, who you’re going to be, and how you’re going to do it. Just decide; and from that point; the universe is going to get out your way.” – Will Smith

Hope you enjoy it…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLN2k0b3g70

Credit to the ever cool Frank Kern for posting this vid on his blog.

Talk soon,
Mark