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WordPress is available as an open source download that anyone can setup and install on their own server as well as on a hosted platform at WordPress.com. According to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG),

WordPress.com is the 12th most visited site in the world, with 120 million unique visitors in April.

With the WordPress 3.0 release, the open source effort is continuing to move beyond its basic blogging system and is now including more content-management capabilities. Among the biggest changes in WordPress 3.0 is the addition of multisite capability, allowing users to deploy a single WordPress installation across multiple sites, though there are some limitations.

The multisite capability is not enabled by default and requires users to manually edit the “wp-config.php” file to start the feature. Multisite is also restricted to providing site addresses within the main domain of the site in which WordPress 3 is installed.

The WordPress codex help system notes that users will have a choice between subdomains (site1.example.com and site2.example.com) and Subdirectories (example.com/site1 and example.com/site2) for their multisite addresses.

From a management perspective, there is now a grand unified updater in WordPress 3.0, enabling users to do bulk updates for plugins and themes. In previous releases of WordPress, users had to manually update plugins and themes individually.

For the actual sites, WordPress 3 provides a number of new customization features, including the ability to display custom background and header images. From a site-navigation perspective, there are also new custom menu features. Users can now create a navigation menu that includes links to a category, page, post or external URL.

With the new Custom Post type, users can also move beyond the traditional WordPress taxonomy of blog posts and content pages. A WordPress 3 installation can now have any type of navigation naming, than taking it beyond a basic blogging platform and bringing it more in step with a traditional content management system.

WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg noted in a blog post that the immediate focus moving forward is not a WordPress 3.1 release. Instead, the WordPress development team is now going to try to improve things around the broader user experience of WordPress.

“The growth of the community has been breathtaking, including over 10.3 million downloads of version 2.9, but so much of our effort has been focused on the core software it hasn’t left much time for anything else,” Mullenweg wrote.

Mullenweg added that development efforts will look at improving the theme and plugin directories, forum and mailing lists, among other items.

“The goal of the teams isn’t going to be to make things perfect all at once, just better than they are today,” Mullenweg wrote. “We think this investment of time will give us a much stronger infrastructure to grow WordPress.org for the many tens of millions of users that will join us during the 3.X release cycle.”

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com.

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We’re excited to tell you that we just released SilverStripe version 2.4! This is a major new release and an important milestone for the SilverStripe community, the open source project, and our company.

SilverStripe 2.4 is the culmination of over a year’s worth of development. We fixed 391 tickets and had over 1,400 changelog entries. A large number of the patches that went into 2.4 have come from you, the community, and we’re especially happy that there’s been increasing community involvement.

What’s new in 2.4? Find out more at SilverStripe

In a detailed offensive against the technology owned by Adobe Systems, Apple’s CEO wrote Thursday that Flash has too many bugs, drains batteries too quickly and is too oriented to personal computers to work on the iPhone and iPad.

This is not the first time Jobs has publicly criticised Flash, but the statement was his clearest, most definitive – and longest – on the subject.

In his 1,685-word “Thoughts on Flash,” Jobs laid out his reasons for excluding Flash – the most widely used vehicle for videos and games on the internet – from Apple’s blockbuster handheld devices.

He cited “reliability, security and performance,” and the fact that Flash was designed “for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers” as some of the reasons Apple will continue to keep the program off its devices.

But he said the most important reason is Flash puts a third party between Apple and software developers. In other words, developers can take advantage of improvements from Apple only if Adobe upgrades its own software, Jobs wrote.

Adobe representatives did not have an immediate comment Thursday. But in a March 23 conference call, President and CEO Shantanu Narayen said his company is “committed to bringing Flash to any platform on which there is a screen.”

That certainly includes Apple’s devices, and Narayen said at the time the Flash ban “has nothing to do with technology.”

“It’s an Apple issue and I think you’ll have to check with them on that,” he said.

Adobe has owned Flash since buying its creator, Macromedia., in 2005. Flash is one of the slew of software tools Adobe sells to professional designers and web developers as part of its Creative Suite software package, which also includes Photoshop, Illustrator and other programs, and brings in more than half of Adobe’s revenue. Adobe benefits from Flash’s wide use because it means web developers will keep buying the tools they need to create Flash content.

Apple has been criticised for the omission of Flash because that limits what the iPhone can do. Hulu.com, the popular video viewing site, uses Flash, for example, as do many restaurant websites. But thanks to the immense popularity of the iPhone, game and application developers are pouring their creations on to Apple’s devices without using Flash.

“And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games,” he wrote.

For consumers, Apple’s move means they will have to decide whether or not they want Flash content, and if they do, they’ll have to use devices other than Apple’s.

“It doesn’t mean this is the end of Flash,” said Sheri McLeish, an analyst with Forrester Research. “Apple is not the only game in town, and PC and Windows devices continue to dominate the market.”

She called Apple’s move a business decision, even though Jobs stressed it is based on technology: It is, after all, up to Apple to control how users experience its products.

“They have the momentum to do it today,” McLeish said. “A few years ago they wouldn’t have been able to.”

Although many websites use Flash to display videos, animation and internet ads, this may change in the years to come. HTML5, a new web standard – that is, a way to create web pages – will have built-in support for video and audio files.

But it could take as long as 10 years for HTML5 to be fully adopted, McLeish said. What Apple is banking on is that HTML5 will eventually win out, making Flash obsolete.

“Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind,” Jobs wrote.

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