PureBlogging

Some of you may have already found this plugin but for everyone else, here is a WordPress plugin that can really save you some time.

If you run several blogs then you know what a pain it is upgrade each time a new version comes out. Well, there is another way. I downloaded and installed InstantUpgrade on a blog that desperately needed an upgrade and was able to upgrade WordPress 2.1.2 to 2.3.1 in about ten seconds.

InstantUpgrade is a plugin for WordPress, which will perform automatic upgrades of a WordPress installation with a single click. You can upgrade to the latest WordPress version, or you can upgrade to a version of your choice. The plugin downloads the chosen WordPress version, unpacks it, deletes the old files and inserts the new ones. All these actions don’t require funky PHP extensions — they are all handled by the InstantUpgrade plugin.

This plugin might be of special interest for you if you installed WordPress for a friend or a customer with no knowledge of FTP, PHP and MySQL. But of course, everybody else will surely also apprechiate easy and instant upgrades.

Documentation, screenshots and downloads are available from the author’s homepage.

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Would you like to earn an extra $100 a month? EatonWeb, the oldest blog directory on the web, is looking for a little help and they are willing to pay for it.

Ryan Caldwell of Performancing.com recently announced that the blog directory is looking for category editors. The requirements for an editor are as follows:

1. You should be familiar with the top 10-25 blogs in your category
2. You should be able to write 100 word reviews of each blog that gets submitted in your category
3. You should be interested in helping to make “a blog directory that matters” – not one that passes link juice;-)

Each editor will be required to submit 5 new blog submissions per month in exchange for $100. Submissions will be filtered by the EatonWeb editor for both quality writing and quality blog selection.

To apply just send a private message to Ryan Caldwell via Performancing and be sure to include the category that you would like to edit.

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