Social connection through online world is becoming more and more relevant these days. Even Google isn't ignoring it. While Google's Friend Connect was a success of some kind, it was still suffering from seamless integration with major CMS sources. But not anymore. Finally Google has come out with three Friend Connect plugins for Wordpress, Drupal and phpBB. webhole.net observes that anyone who is interested in your forum and blog will not need to make two accounts for your blog (wordpress) and forum (PhpBB) to participate. This will let less problems to occur when you switch between the two using the same account. Again you will not have to re-log each time you interchange and the annoying cookie management process will be out of the window.

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We just updated Simple Thoughts blog to the latest version of WordPress software.

So far everything looks good.

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Today I am going to introduce you to the most extensive bookmarking plug-in for Wordpress. This actually connects you to 99 social networking sites at a time. Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts. Your blog readers can use the Sociable button to automatically adds links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!

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While writing an article about the best security plugins of Wordpress, I felt the need to touch another very important security issue for the bloggers, and i.e. Anti Spam Plugins. If you are a blogger, you must be knowing thousands of spams that actually flood your website everyday. Its irritating, time consuming and above all pathetic to sit everyday and sort out the important and legitimate comments from thousands of spams. Because we can not let go of your opinion for hundred bots. So, here are 9 top anti-spam plugins for Wordpress which will relieve you from those worries and let you read the real comments in peace.

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Wordpress is the leading blogging software for pro-bloggers as well as amateur bloggers around the world. So, be it latest news (Wordpress 2.7) or tweaks, we cover it. The Achilles heel of WordPress is its security, which they try to continuously address by frequent patches after every major release similar to Microsoft Windows. If you are a Wordpress user, you must be very concerned with security issues and for good reasons. In this world of growing intrusions, hacking, cracking and data-thefts, security is of major concern for a starter as well as for a pro. Here are 20 Plugins and tips for you to help you get a good sleep at night assuring you that your blog is in safe hands (read WordPress security plug-ins).

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WordPress 2.7 (read detailed review) beta 2 fixes some crucial and long standing bugs in WordPress, so much so that it is worth looking into adopting it without waiting for the final release. The key fixes in WordPress 2.7 Beta 2: Full article (270 words) »

We, at Taragana, have always tried to provide you with the best software solution as well as latest news on technology balancing the need of the situation. Translator was one such initiative to help your blog reach a worldwide audience irrespective of the language and country. It has become one of the most popular WordPress plugins which automatically translates your blog pages to 32 additional languages for Translator Plugin Gold and 13 (+1 optional) additional languages for Translator Plugin Pro.

So without waiting for you to come up with any queries, our developers' have tried to help you with FAQ (read Frequently Asked Queries).

IF you are a translator user, the following links are a must walk-through.

1. How To Find Number of Pages in Translator Cache from Database
2. How To Find Number of Stale Pages in Translator Cache from Database
3. How To Find Number of Non-Stale aka Fresh Pages in Translator Cache from Database
4. How To Find Recently Refreshed Pages in Translator Cache from Database
5. How To Find 6 Month Old Stale Pages in Cache
6. How To Find and Remove Invalid Pages in Translator Cache

Note: Translator Plugin Pro (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 13+1 languages (many more will be added soon) with 4 translation engines to provide transparent fail-over support and load balancing.

Translator Plugin Gold (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 32 languages (more will be added soon) with 5 translation engines to provide transparent fail-over support and advanced load balancing.

Whatever be the latest news in technology and development, Taragana has it. We have already reviewed all the upcoming OS releases with detailed features. So when something as popular and happening as Wordpress was keen to release its newest version, we couldn't be far off. Wordpress 2.7 was due on 10th November, 2008. But due to some unavoidable circumstances it is delayed for two weeks. We tried and tested Wordpress 2.7 beta 1 and here are the treasures.

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The business of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro and Angsuman's Translator Plugin Gold has been transferred over to Wordpress Translator. All future news and updates on Translator Plugin Pro & Translator Plugin Gold will be available from the new site. Full article (240 words) »

I mean every word of it. I found this simple configuration tip after days of continuously looking at MySQL logs (mytop), top, slow log queries, debugging the hell out of applications, reading tons of MySQL optimization tips (and pulling my remaining hairs in frustration) on the web. Even MySQL optimization tips from MySQL doesn't mention it. And yet this single tip solved all my MySQL headaches and performance problems. Here are some of the problems I faced:

My powerful dedicated server was frequently consuming 100% of the CPU even with moderate load.
Even with tons of optimization and indexes, I found my server idle CPU going to 0%. The key resource consumer was MySQL. The worst part was that MySQL refused to serve new request as all threads were exhausted waiting (for some miracle to happen?).

Does any of that sound familiar? Then read on for the gory technical explanations and the tip.

BTW: My initial reaction to such problems was the standard one. I looked at MySQL master-master replication (this is better than the master-slave replication which WordPress.com does for its sites) to take care of the increased load. Fortunately this single configuration change made my server take at least 10 times more load than before.

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