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CyFord.com is Live

Yorgo Nestoridis — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:18:54 +0000

CyFord.com goes live

It’s done! We have loaded the first draft of Cy Ford’s online Gallery to CyFord.com. For the time being we run in private mode, but the next step will be to storm Google Top 10 with the new site.

Cy Ford Gallery

Cy Ford’s website is first of all a Gallery, place to exhibit paintings and Drawings online. The site allows the artist painter to bring his work in front of interested visitors and to sell straight of the site.

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Flowers and Candles by Cy Ford

Best Buy Cy Ford Paintings and Drawings

An easy to follow purchase pipeline paired with secure check-out allows Cy Ford to sell his work online. The store is easy to maintain and works can be added with just a few mouse clicks. Buyers will be able to navigate in function of the various categories, such as Drawings, Acrylic Paintings, Landscapes, Still Life, Drawings and more.

Google Top 10

As per above, we will now optimize the site and then invite Google to index and list CyFord.com. I suppose that within the next 24 hours we will see the first results on Google Top 10. Once Cy Ford indexed, we will add content to our target categories to reach higher visibility.

A special WP Best Gallery Feature

Surfing CyFord.com, you will notice that the site background changes; in fact we have built in a background rotator. The rotating images are Cy Ford’s works which can be purchased from the shop. This feature is a customization of WP Best Gallery by Semiomantics. More tomorrow.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Cy Ford Art Gallery Project

Yorgo Nestoridis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:18:19 +0000

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Cy Ford Art Gallery Project

Earlier today we have introduced Cy Ford to the Internet. In the meantime we have started working on the implementation of the project. The project is managed by Semiomantics and Felisa Ryan, an Semiomantics Agent.

Cy Ford Domain

Felisa has registered the domain CyFord.com at yorGOdom and acquired appropriate hosting for the new site at ChiHosters.

The name domain cyford.com will allow us to get the name of the artist under control on search engines to build authority and Cy’s public image.

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Cy Ford Design by Yorgo Nestoridis

CyFord’s Art Gallery

To get Cy’s site up and running quickly, we have loaded a WordPress Back-bone and a WP Best eShop Theme. From this base we will now develop the site to become The Cy Ford Art Gallery.

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Cy Ford on Google Top 10

Yorgo Nestoridis — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:18:41 +0000

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Cy Ford on Google Top 10

Just for the record: 10 minutes ago we fired a post about Cy Ford. Now we can see our friend’s name and reference for the first time on Google Top 10.

Cy Ford on Google Top 10: Rank 8

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Cy Ford on Google Top 10

Cy Ford Painter on Google Top 10: Rank 1

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Cy Ford Painter

Cy Ford Artist on Google Top 10: Rank 7

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Cy Ford Artist

Voila a great start: Welcome to the Internet Cy and to the elite at Google Top 10!

Hey, there is Cy Ford Art as well:

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Cy Ford Art

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Cy Ford

Yorgo Nestoridis — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:20:00 +0000

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Cy Ford

Cy Ford is an artist, a painter in the UK, interested in bringing his work to the Internet.

Cy Ford on Google Top 10

Surprisingly, there is no entry under Cy Ford on Google. There are however loads of references to Ford Motor cars …

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Cy Ford Gallery and Shop

Semiomantics will manage and build Cy Ford’s online presence, starting from scratch on a blank page and we will use the project to demonstrate the power of Semiomantics WP Best Websites. Under the Project we will build a Gallery and Shop where Cy Fords works will be exposed and offered for sale.

Cy Ford Profile and Public Image

At the same time we will build Cy Ford’s public image and profile in a Google efficient way to make sure, interested searchers will find the Painter on the appropriate top spot on Google Top 10.

You may follow the evolution of this project by following this series of posts, where we will describe the different steps and achievements.

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Best WP Design

Yorgo Nestoridis — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:18:02 +0000

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Best WP Design

Image handling for advanced visual effects is a difficult task for any coder since the first ambition remains to provide clean and valid code. Best WP Design by Semiomantics is experimenting with different solutions which are seen on static pages to integrate them into the dynamic frameworks of WP Best Themes from Semiomantics.

WP Best Design Carousel

The below presentation works fine on dynamic content. Use the mouse-wheel for fat image scrolling (place the cursor on an image). The presentation can be combined with zoom effects for magnification of individual images. This WP Best Design element can be used for product galleries, people galleries or any image. Enjoy.

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WP Best Design

Yorgo Nestoridis — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:20:42 +0000

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WP Best Design

Images as content and for visual effects can be dealt with in multiple ways. Depending on the purpose of the site we need to be flexible and provide to customers the most efficient technology in function of the purpose of the site and personal preferences.

Custom Designed WP Best Themes from Semiomantics provide flexible solutions without messing up scripts and code and serve perfectly the primary ambition which is high visibility and performance on search engines. The below slide show can be used on the front page, in pages and posts as well as in side bars, footers or headers.

WP Best Design for Image Handling Sample 1

A first example shows a slide show with a carousel on top and an info pane underneath the pictures. A timer lets you set the duration of display, transitions can be adapted to preferences.

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WP Best Business Theme Home Page

Yorgo Nestoridis — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:18:34 +0000

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WP Best Business Theme Home Page

Once the WP Best business Theme selected and the layout defined we can now add our content to structure the home page in a compelling, informative and visually attractive way.

The WP Best Home Page Page Structure

At the top we find a traditional header banner with the Brand name (or and Logo) in defined fonts and colors.

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WP Best Theme Header Banner

On the top right we keep a short menu, making it easy to navigate to the main sections of the site:

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WP Best Theme Menu

The choice of the menu links is function of the purpose of the site. Considering that the page will serve as a business landing page for visitors from Social Networks, Facebook for example, we provide a profile page (About), a Contact Form, a link to the shop where products can be purchased as well as a link to the blog section (WP Best).

Thereafter we welcome our visitors in a rather personal way. We want to show that the success of our business is based on personal relations and a personalized approach to the management of each customer’s project. Discussion is needed to tune and to semantically optimize each website for best results and customer satisfaction.

The Semiomantics Signature stands for custom built web sites and the care we take to bring each project to fruition.

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WP Best Home Page Slider

After the welcome you find a content slider which I use for large images and a short legend underneath each image. The idea is to show some of the work delivered and to hopefully create empathy. In the case of websites it’s relatively easy as most visitors are first attracted by the look of a site. The presentation of websites with different looks or functions is an efficient way to give visitors a first, preferably good impression of our work. On WP Best Business Theme Home Page I use screen-shots of websites I have built.

The links underneath the images lead to more information, more images of work accomplished and a link to the shop, where corresponding products can be purchased.

To the right of the slider we put a banner, representing a visual branding element we use over and over again, wherever we are able to leave a trace online, for example in social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and so on. The dominant branding throughout all places will make visitors feel comfortable as they recognize the branding element and are assured that they are following the link they wanted to follow. For the time being no link is associated with that banner, however it will be associated to a custom product category in the store.

The third section of the page is a list of Services we provide; the entries link to more information and as the case may be from there to the shop and contact form.

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WP Best Theme Home Page Services

To the right of the service section we use a sidebar widget to allow visitors to also hook up with us on social networks:

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Social Widget on WP Best Home Page

The WP Best Business Theme Footer Section contains 3 widgets:

Latest Posts
RSS and Email subscription handled by Feedburner
Flickr Photo-stream

These can be adapted according to needs but for the time being, I just keep them this way. The Flickr stream concerns a series of fun Ads I created for different purposes and constitute a good way to link to the flickr community.

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WP Best Business Theme Footer

The WP Best Home Page strong points

The page is not overloaded with information. When opening the page, the visitor is mainly exposed to a very short text and attracted by the visual elements for a fast informative first impression. No need for complicated searching for content: the top menu and the service section allow to quickly navigate to the desired section of the site. I like the page for its clear structure, the dominating visual elements and the user-friendly navigation.

I would appreciate your comments.

Look out for the detailed content in the services and in the about sections.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Best WP Business Theme

Yorgo Nestoridis — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:18:23 +0000

By Yorgo Nestoridis Contents [ hide ] 1 Best WP Business Theme Configuration 1.1 Branding your WP Best Business Theme 1.2 1. Color Scheme 1.3 2. Fonts 1.4 3. Graphics Best WP Business Theme Configuration Having installed Semiomantics WP Best Business Theme on the WP Best Project site , we can now add content for display on our home page. To make the [...]

Best WordPress Business Themes

Yorgo Nestoridis — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:18:16 +0000

By Yorgo Nestoridis Contents [ hide ] 1 Best WordPress Business Themes 1.1 1. Hosting WordPress 1.2 2. Domain 1.3 3. Best WordPress Business Themes Best WordPress Business Themes To implement the WP Best Project we will start by setting up our site based on some important choices. 1. Hosting WordPress While many hosts allow for easy WP set-up using Fantastico from cPanel, [...]

WP Best Project

Yorgo Nestoridis — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:18:31 +0000

By Yorgo Nestoridis Contents [ hide ] 1 WP Best Project 1.1 The Purpose of the WP Best Project 1.2 What is required to make money online? 1.3 How to build a Public Image? 1.4 How to Monetize your online Image? 1.5 The first choices WP Best Project Start your WordPress Project today by simply following the WP Best Project. Here is the [...]

Best WP Solution

Yorgo Nestoridis — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:19:29 +0000

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Best WP Solution

What is the best WP Solution for Business and Individuals? WordPress is flexible enough to satisfy most any individual need, provided you are hiring a professional website developer. Semiomantics has been working on WP Custom Solutions since 2007 and acquired huge knowledge namely in the fields of optimization and development of feature rich custom solutions.

Best WP Solution for Small Business and Individuals

Home Business, Freelancers, Consultants, Individuals selling services or goods online need an efficient, captivating and highly visible online presence. Quality Web Design, a solid back-bone allowing for content management (CMS) and built in optimization hooks and features are a must in today’s highly competitive market.

WordPress provides a platform which has developed over time to an ideal base for web site development for most any purpose.

The Best WP custom websites are built when customers meet with professional developers and designers to realize custom tailored projects.

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Best WP Solution

How to build the best WP Website?

I will show in a few posts, how a custom website project can be realized, taking into account the typical needs of a small business.

The case study is based on the assumption that an individual would like to sell services and or products online.

The purpose of this series of posts is to allow you to become aware of the choices you have, the problems to consider and to enable you to have a more efficient discussion with your designer and developer when working on the project and its implementation.

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Ycademy Online Seminar January 2010

Yorgo Nestoridis — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:17:54 +0000

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Build your Professional WP Shop

The Ycademy January 2010 seminar will focus on building a professional high performance shop based on a WordPress backbone. The flexible shop is based on a licensed eShop script, modified and tuned by Semiomantics.

Ycademy Online Seminar January 2010 Profile

The Online Seminar will take place on January 23 and 24, 2010.

We will start on Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm GMT (London Time) and finish at 9 pm GMT; short breaks as usual and a 1 hour lunch or dinner break at 6 pm GMT.

Materials: all materials are provided.

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Semiomantics WP eShop YORGOO

Semiomantics WP eShop

The Semiomantics eShop is the most recent Semiomantics development. The Semiomantics eShop will shortly be available to to Semiomantics customers at a price of $500, including licensed scripts, configuration, set-up, basic customization and a walk-through.

Semiomantics WP eShop Features

Here’s a short summary..

Usability

One of the reason it took us long time to complete the backend of the e-commerce themes is, usability. We studied best practices of building e-commerce websites, studied lots of successful online eShops and brainstormed some of the key pages and functionality that may impact the sales process that your customer goes through. We reduced the steps of the process, restructured the purchase experience, debated on the small elements such as button / text / colors / notifications etc., finally concluding our base e-commerce theme to be one of the very easiest to use and best performing purchase experiences so far.

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Different modes of Shopping Cart

You may sell anything – tangible or intangible using Semiomantics eShop. You have an option to create your website in any mode:
- Shopping Cart
  
  Like the standard shopping cart that you see on other e-commerce websites. You may choose to have “add to cart” mode and let the users add all the items they want and then lead them to checkout or, you can have “buy now” mode and take them straight to checkout when they select a product.
- Digital Shop
  
  If you are selling digital product of any kind, this is a perfect option for you. Are you selling icons, digital art, PDF, e-books, scripts or any other kind of digital goodies? Select this option and when a user makes a purchase, they will have an account generated at your site and they can download their purchase any time. You don’t have
  to worry about third party digital delivery sites.
- Catalog mode
  
  Maybe you only want to showcase your items and don’t want to sell it online? Simply choose this mode and you will have “send inquiry” button instead of buy now / add to cart. Visitors thus, can send an inquiry on the products they like.
  
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  Semiomantics WP eShop Blue
Manage Products

Add / Edit / Delete products are as easy as you create a wordpress blog post. You have a custom panel where-in you can edit the product description, different parameters, upload product images etc. real easy.
Order Management

Depending upon the settings from your admin panel, you can manage the order – approve, process or cancel / reject an order.
Shipping Options

As an admin, you can choose Free, Flat rate; Weight or Price based shipping option for your eShop. What’s more you can even set free shipping for particular items in case you’ve set other option for your eShop.
Multiple Payment Gateways

You have PayPal, Autorize.net, Google Checkout, WorldPay, bank transfer and Cash on Delivery as payment gateway options. Choose the gateway you prefer.

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Semiomantics WP eShop Green
Manage Tax

You may specify overall tax percentage that applies to all your products and, you may choose to leave individual products tax fre.
Grid view / List view

Whenever you are browsing the product collection, you have an option to see the products in list view or grid view. It’s built-in by default.
Guest Checkout

Wish to provide an option to your users to checkout without registration? No problems. Simply activate the guest checkout option from theme admin panel and your buyers will not to register. They simply provide their email address and we create the logins for them. If admin wants, they can choose to send/not send their logins to them.
User registration

Users may register on your site or, they will be taken to registration page on the checkout procedure. They will have their own user area where they can keep track of their order, manage profile and download purchased digital products.
Bulk Upload ( csv )

Using another shopping cart solution for your eShop and want to switch to our eShop themes? No worries. You can export your data from there in .csv files and import it in your wordpress installation when you use our Semiomantics eShop themes. (sample .csv file included with the theme)

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Coupon codes

Admin can generate coupon codes for occasional sales promotion.
Product Images

Built in multiple product image upload. Uploaded images are auto re-sized to fit various thumbnails required throughout the site. Also the product zoom functionality is built it.
Other parameters

Specifying Tax, weight,
color(s), size(s) are easy. Also you may specify different prices for different size/colors just in case.
Specify product size(s), color(s), and other miscellaneous features

You may specify Size chart if applied, When viewing a product Similar Products are automatically displayed, Several additional custom widgets are built in such as customer support, Subscribe, socialize, promo banners etc. that you can use for your eShop website.
Affiliate Module

As an admin, you may choose to activate affiliate program where your customers/others can signup as an affiliate partner and start promoting your products. They will be able to track their affiliate data in real time, and as an admin, you will be able to export/check affiliate reports easily. A great way to boost your sales.
Blog

Of course the themes come with a Semiomantics blog, pages etc. functionality with some page templates so you can have a high performance blog for your website.

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Semiomantics WP eShop YORGOO

Seminar Tickets and Limited number of Participants

Seminar Participants test the Semiomantics eShop when purchasing the Seminar Ticket. We have set up a demo store which will let you have the same shopping and check-out experience as your future customers.

Ticket cost: $65.00

Discounts as usual for Ycademy Pro.

Limited number of Participants

The Seminar will only be available to 10 participants, priority is given to participants of the December Seminar. Please check for availability with Bianca (bianca(at)ycademy.com).

Includes:

Each participant will receive a special site edition of the new Semiomantics eShop script licensed for a single personal site. The total value of the licenses (third party and Semiomantics) is of $250. The shop value, after the seminar is of $500, the price at which Semiomantics is selling its new eShop. The Seminar is sponsored by YORGOO and Ycademy to allow participants to access high performance software at the most affordable rate.

Registration

Please register from HERE

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Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Happy New Year

Yorgo Nestoridis — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:18:14 +0000

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1 Happy New Year Design by YorgoMan

Happy New Year Design by YorgoMan

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Happy New Year Design by Yorgo

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Happy New Year design by YorgoMan

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Christmas Cards Personalized

Yorgo Nestoridis — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:18:57 +0000

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Christmas Cards Personalized

The yearly returning Christmas Season offers a nice opportunity to create personalized Christmas Cards. Here below some samples from our friends who either created a card or personalized an existing design.

Personalized Christmas Card by Toni Leuenberger, Switzerland

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Personalized Christmas Card by Toni Leuenberger

Building Authority, trust and confidence is a permanent effort we carry over into 2010.

Christmas Card Personalized by Laetitia Paris, France

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Christmas Card personalized by Laetitia Paris

Campaign on Laetitia’s personalized Christmas Card … simply a Must!

Christmas Header personalized by Ute Schaedler, Germany

Seasn Greetings on Ute Schaedler’s website:

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Christmas Header personalized by Ute Schaedler

Christmas Card Personalized by Bianca Gubalke, South Africa

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Christmas Card personalized by Bianca Gubalke

Personalized Christmas Card by Bianca Gubalke using her Photoshop skills.

Personalized Christmas Card Hacks

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Personaized Christmas Card Hack by Yorgo Nestoridis

From the Sphere to the Cube:

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Hack 2

Hack 3 based on Toni Leuenberger

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Hack 3

And while it’s so nice:

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Christmas Card Hack 4

Laetitia Hack:

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Hack 5

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Best Price Sneakers

Yorgo Nestoridis — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:18:24 +0000

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Best Price Sneakers

Sneakers at the best price are a trendy way to win the hearts of youngsters and oldies as well. The Sneaker as a fashion accessory or a cult status symbol is always a welcome present not only for athletes and hip-hoppers.

Best Price Nike Kicks

Insiders know: there is only one place for shopping for the latest from Nike at the best price: GlobalSportsUS in London!

I just caught the latest video on YouTube featuring the latest trends.

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Ismail and Faiz setting Global Trends

Global Sports interpretation of trendy Nike Bling Sneakers is just smashing; Luxury and Creativity united on Nike Swarovski Crystal Custom Shoes at the best price.

Have a look and then rush to Global’s online outlet where you will find Christmas goodies for the whole family!

PS: They deliver fast and safely – I know from my own experience.

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WordPress 2.9 update on Semiomantics

Yorgo Nestoridis — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:18:59 +0000

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WordPress 2.9 on Semiomantics

WordPress 2.9 has been released just a few hours ago. This post details the impact of this most recent update on Semiomantics Scripts.

What’s new in WordPress 2.9 – Server Requirements

The first big change concerns server requirements:

WordPress 2.9 Requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater (old requirement was 4.0).

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WP 2.9 User Features

* Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete)
* Add support for ‘include’ and ‘exclude’ to (Gallery Shortcode)
* Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
* Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer
* ‘rel=canonical’ for singular pages
* Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors
* Correct comments and remove unnecessary echos from the default themes sidebar template file
* Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
* Support location of category templates based on ‘category-slug’ as well as ‘category-id’ (Ticket 10614)
* Support location of tag templates based on ‘tag-id’ as well as ‘tag-slug’ (Ticket 10868)
* Support location of page templates based on ‘page-slug’ and ‘page-id’
* Set “Allow my blog to appear in search engines” to checked in installation
* Don’t offer to make a category its own parent
* Remove Sphere from search list
* Minify admin CSS
* Show correct max upload filesize error message
* Add ‘rel’ attribute to next/previous post links
* Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
* Clean up ‘.button’ and ‘.button[disabled]‘ CSS classes, add ’spinner’ and ‘gray-out’ buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
* Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title
* Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
* Define ‘$content_width’ for Kubrick
* Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
* Display comments in descending date order, consistently
* Add means of automatically repairing tables
* Press This bookmarklet fixes
* Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated Excerpt
* Don’t show “Change Permalinks” button when editing the page set as “Front page”
* Image editing
* Retire BunnyTags importer
* Retire Jerome’s keywords importer
* Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated permalinks
* Update SimplePie to 1.2
* Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1
* Easier Embeds with oEmbed support (see Ticket #10337) (oEmbed discovery disabled by default, use plugin to enable it)
* TinyMCE 3.2.7
* Remove rel=’tag’ on links in Tag Clouds
* Add a title to the Home link output by wp_page_menu()
* Adjust comment moderation keyboard shortcut keys ‘d = trash’ or delete depending on the screen
* Show “Draft updated” instead of “Post updated” when saving draft
* Show the login form in a popup when autosave hits the login grace period
* Open View/Preview post in a new window from the link in the Saved/Updated message
* Separate fields for ‘image alt’ and ‘image caption’ in Media uploader
* Display better information about broken themes when there is no stylesheet
* Improve situation when tables such as wp_options table were ‘corrupt’ new installation message was offered. Add means of automatically repairing tables
* Export and import custom taxonomies
* Admin copy improvements
* Don’t show page templates in the drop down if they are in a subdirectory
* Make codex link open in a new window
* Change ‘Remove’ link on widgets to ‘Delete’ because it doesn’t just remove it, it deletes the settings for that widget instance.

WP 2.9 Development, Themes, Plug-ins

* Added ‘excerpt_more’ filter to wp_trim_excerpt() function, which allow developers to change excerpt ‘[...]‘ more string (Ticket 10395)
* Add ’smilies_src’ filter so plugins can better add smilies
* Canonical redirects for post name queries
* Allow _wp_get_comment_list() to handle custom comment types
* Return an empty array instead of false for get_children() when no children found
* Add some filters so that HTTP requests can be filtered
* Move plugin update notice output to the plugin specific hook
* Limit wp-mail ‘blog by email’ checks to every 5 minutes
* Make it much easier to filter contact methods from user profiles
* Allow filtering of get_edit_post_link for custom post_type
* ‘get_sample_permalink_html’ filter
* Enforce activation key to be a string, reject activation keys that are arrays
* Support for new post types
* Respect custom post_type in queries
* Send Retry-After header when in maintenance mode
* Various WP Filesystem related fixes and documentation
* Add constants for ftp connections timeouts
* Increase timeout on cron-based requests when checking for upgrades
* Don’t use has_action() before do_action() in http.php
* Speed up jQuery based scripts
* Use the current user as author for autosave
* Show My Posts as default view on the Edit Posts screen for users without ‘edit_others_posts’ cap
* Ensure that drafts viewed over XMLRPC have a correct gmt date set
* Pass user id to ‘get_’ the_author_meta filters
* Move _wp_get_user_contactmethods() into the registrations functions file
* Machine parseable db error codes
* Add global JS vars and actions to the media uploader iframe
* Add JSON compat for PHP < 5.2
* Make option_name the primary key for the options table
* Allow a plugin to do a complete takeover of Post by Email
* Logarithmic scale for tag cloud
* Pass Post ID to the ‘get_comments_number’ filter
* Always filter the url in the media upload form
* Add a ‘the_terms’ filter
* is_blog_installed() improvements
* Allow force_ssl_admin() to properly accept false as a value
* Pass logged_in cookie to async-upload and filter the cookie scheme in auth_redirect()
* Add more actions around database add/delete/update operations
* phpDoc for wp_”check|set”_post_lock functions
* Use the old strings which are more translator friendly and add a generic default string to aid re-use by plugins adding post_types
* Filter fields through kses upon display and introduce sanitize_user_object() and sanitize_user_field()
* Use null instead of 0 when setting content length
* Include ‘hidden’ directories in filesystem dirlist by default
* Pass args array to ‘wp_list_pages’ filter
* Actions for taxonomy updates
* Key should be ‘comment_id’ not ‘post_id’ in comments table
* Add get_delete_post_link () to retrieve delete posts link for post
* Add ’separator’ parameter to wp_tag_cloud() and wp_generate_tag_cloud() functions (Ticket 10315)
* Added add_comment_meta() family of functions
* Use a post_parent of 0 instead of -1 to indicate unattached posts
* Improve get_page_hierarchy() function
* Deprecate the_content_rss(), add the_content_feed() and get_the_content_feed(). Convert places that called the_content_rss() with an excerpt length to the_excerpt_rss(). Remove the rss_excerpt_length option. Use the_content_feed() where the_content() was previously used in feeds.
* Add ‘pad_counts’ argument to wp_dropdown_categories()
* Remove codepress
* Remove the php-gettext library
* Canonical post thumbanils
* Add a filter to the_author_posts_link()
* Merge post.js with page.js and slug.js, optimize categories and tags JS, standardize postboxes IDs and JS
* Introduce register_theme_directory() which takes a wp-content-relative path and will additionally scan it for themes. Plugins can use this to add themes without requiring copying by the user
* Add set_user_role action hook
* Allow theme devs to change attrs (like CSS class) of thumbnail images
* Add wp-post-image CSS class to post images
* Allow for plugins to enhance the number of metadata fields captured from plugin and theme headers
* Merge updated pomo code
* Switch to using NOOP_Translations for untranslated sites
* Improve wptexturize performance
* Provide context to the strings in the Plugin and Theme installers to allow for different grammatical gender
* Fixes for theme subdir support
* Introduce wp_kses_post() and wp_kses_data() for filtering unescaped data
* Add ‘orderby=comment_count’ argument to query_posts()
* Honor Post Type for Sticky Posts
* Allow querying multiple post types
* Introduce add_theme_support(feature) and current_theme_supports(feature) for announcing and checking theme support for various features
* Introduce require_if_theme_supports()
* Add number of Embed related filters
* Add ‘IMAGE_EDIT_OVERWRITE’ constant to control edited image save or replace, most useful for setups that have dynamic image resizing
* Add load_child_theme_textdomain() to allow child themes to have their own translation files
* Add sidebar descriptions to sidebar settings and widget admin screen
* Make option_id primary. Add uniques for option_name and autoload
* Allow plugins to override the behaviour of load_textdomain() in a variety of flexible ways
* Mark _c() as deprecated. The new _x() function should be used instead.
* Allow plugins to change the redirect on post/page publishing/submitting
* Standardize on ‘user_id’ instead of ‘user_ID’ when passing comment data. Accept either ‘user_id’ or ‘user_ID’. Remove ‘user_id’ global.
* Filter imported comments
* Introducing set_post_image_size(w, h, crop) so themes can register their special size/crop for canonical post images
* Standardize around “post image” instead of “post thumbnail”
* Allow registering post image support per post type
* Return false from is_paged() if on the first page.
* Check MySQL and PHP versions when auto upgrading
* Add required php and mysql versions to version.php
* Hard code required version in update-core.php

Semiomantics Themes

All Semiomantics Themes will run on the WP 2.9 backbone. You will not notice any visual or visible difference except if you are hosted on outdated MySQL software; in such a case we recommend to either not update or to move the blog to a host fulfilling the appropriate server requirements. (See above: Server Requirements - our Suggestion remains ChiHosters).

The new version of WordPress allows for better handling of child themes where available.

Semiomantics Performance

The WP 2.9 version provides new options for optimization and modifies some of the features we have overwritten in the past for optimized performance. Also, as some of the hooks for plugins have changed, which will allow us to enhance our performance with special add-on scripts.

The Semiomantics semantic SEO engine 5.2 will replace the present version 5.1 on high performance customer sites.

Semiomantics script updates will be available shortly; please observe our next few posts where we will detail the upgrades.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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WordPress 2.9 update on Semiomantics

Yorgo Nestoridis — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:18:22 +0000

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WordPress 2.9 on Semiomantics

WordPress 2.9 has been released just a few hours ago. This post details the impact of this most recent update on Semiomantics Scripts.

What’s new in WordPress 2.9 – Server Requirements

The first big change concerns server requirements:

WordPress 2.9 Requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater (old requirement was 4.0).

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Semiomantics Consulting

WP 2.9 User Features

WP 2.9 Development, Themes, Plug-ins

Semiomantics Themes

The new version of WordPress allows for better handling of child themes where available.

Semiomantics Performance

The Semiomantics semantic SEO engine 5.2 will replace the present version 5.1 on high performance customer sites.

Semiomantics script updates will be available shortly; please observe our next few posts where we will detail the upgrades.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Semiomantics XO Licenses

Yorgo Nestoridis — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:18:39 +0000

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Semiomantics XO 2010 Licenses Limited Edition

Semiomantics XO 2010 Limited Edition allows Web Site Developers to build sites based on the finest Script which has ever left the Semiomantics site smith. Semiomantics XO 2010 has been extensively tested by Ycademy Pros since September 2009 and the 2010 Release Candidate has been debugged since and completed with some amazing features.

Semiomantics XO 2010 Frameworks perform without Plug-ins

In the past, the performance of basic Semiomantics Frameworks was based on a combination of the WordPress back-bone, the Semiomantics script (sometimes modified), WordPress plug-ins and a set of editing and publishing rules.

Most of the technical issues experienced were caused by the plug-ins.

Semiomantics XO 2010 performs without any plug-ins. We still recommend and install an anti-spam plug-in if the site allows for WordPress Comments and Pings. However, we expect that the traditional blog comments will soon be replaced with external Web 2.0 applications, namely with a Google Wave insert, which makes Akismet and such like obsolete.

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Semiomantics XO 2010 Personal Blog and CMS

Economic Hosting due to low use of Memory

The absence of plug-ins decrease dramatically the need for server resources. Recently we have passed the need for 64 MB of memory namely with some media oriented sites and with aggregators. Shared hosting allocating 64 MB RAM or more is difficult to find and becomes an expensive issue.

The Problem with Plug-ins

While the WordPress development is greatly depending on plug-ins, which are made available for free by plug-in developers, they often constitute a stumbling block for beginners and advanced users in as much as they need attention and maintenance (updates, upgrades, sometimes customization).

Most plug-ins have been straight to the point a few years ago; today most popular plug-ins have been enriched by tracking features and multiple links and feeds out which are uncontrollable by the average user. Some plug-ins import whole external websites into the dashboard, donation buttons and even unrelated third party links and features.

It is not always clear whether plug-ins actually enhance the overall performance of a site or whether the site serves merely to improve the plug-in developers own site.

The Semiomantics Solution

Semiomantics has rewritten plug-ins for a while now for commercial customers and cleaned out what is not actually needed. Also, some “performance enhancers” have been added to the framework scripts to reduce the need for plug-ins. Semiomantics XO 2010 uses only about 50% of the Memory of comparable earlier versions, in any case clearly below 32 MB of RAM.

The Semiomantics XO 2010 License

The Semiomantics XO 2010 License is more than just a license to use the XO scripts and to commercialize it. The License includes all trainings and support needed to customize and to adapt the scripts to the needs and preferences of customers. In fact it is designed for people who would like to start their own business building high performance sites for customers and it includes support and workshops to improve knowledge concerning web design, namely CSS, as well as Graphic Design with Photoshop and basic php coding.

XO’s best performance can be reached by respecting a set of editing and publishing rules which apply specifically to Semiomantics XO and which are the results of thorough in-house testing.

Semiomantics XO 2010 Seminar

The first specific Semiomantics 2010 XO Seminar exclusively for License holders, will take place on January 9, 2010. This one day seminar will highlight the new features of XO as well as detail the most efficient way to customize and adapt the scripts to the needs of customers.

Also the seminar participants will build a site with optimized XO default configuration which will serve as a model for any customer job.

Semiomantics XO additional templates for Photo blogs and Personal may be elaborated time permitting.

Investment and Limitation

The Semiomantics XO 2010 License has been issued in 10 only samples:

5 are Developer Licenses for people who use the scripts as a base for own development and who will not be allowed to use the Semiomantics Signature for their out-put but who will have to brand their work. These licenses are sold out.

5 are Semiomantics Business Licenses, allowing for the use of the Semiomantics script and brand as per above description. 2 only such licenses are available at this point and reserved for YORGOO – Ycademy Pros till December 16, 2009. After that date they will be withdrawn and allocated to external developers in the queue.

The Business Licenses include access to special trainings, seminars and workshops reserved for license holders.

How to get your License

For more info, please contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca (at) ycademy.com

Buy now from HERE (some Internet Explorer users have reported check-out problems: with FireFox no problem is known.)

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Semiomantics XO 2011 for WordPress

Yorgo Nestoridis — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:03:35 +0000

A clip with XO 2011 Sites

The clip presents some of the custom sites built on Semiomantics XO 2011.

Semiomantics XO 2012 will be released in January to catch up with the latest WordPress developments.

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Semiomantics Consulting for Web Development

Yorgo Nestoridis — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:19:21 +0000

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Semiomantics Consulting for Web Development

Semiomantics is expanding. Known for highly productive and performance oriented web development based on the WordPress CMS, Semiomantics is expanding it’s activity and capacities by associating to the venture a small number of selected and highly trained web developers, designers, project managers and consultants to assure long term customer satisfaction and performance on a wider scope.

Semiomantics Google Top 10 Performance

Originally Semiomantics was created to study and implement semantic tuning to WordPress based websites, namely blogs, with the goal to reach high listing positions on Google, ahead of the competition. Soon Semiomantics powered websites were able to compete with the best about the Google Top 10 positions on most any targeted keyword.

After the first scripts, called The Magic Search Traffic Formula, the first Edition of Semiomantics XO was developed in late 2007. A few variations of that script were released before 2 mostly automated models have been developed to boost Google Top 10 performance of any website: YORGOO Blaster in 2008 and YORGOO Booster in 2009.

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Semiomantics Consulting

Impressed by the unique publishing power provided by each Semiomantics script and site, customers asked for additional functionality to be integrated without jeopardizing the high performance. Consequently, Semiomantics developed add-on modules which would integrate new features, such as e-commerce solutions, social network marketing functions, as well as custom designed interfaces for multiple purposes such as media proliferation, newspaper and magazine style sites and highly styled personal web solutions for individuals.

A new Semiomantics SEO Module assures the best performance of the most complex websites and even for inexperienced editors and publishers.

Semiomantics Customer and System Maintenance Services

Increasing complexity of the internet as well as of the underlying technology require extended customer and system maintenance systems. Customers need to focus on their business while they can trust the websites to perform and serve the business purpose. Semiomantics has therefore started offering system management and maintenance services to take care of web related concerns of busy customers.

Semiomantics Customization and Design

Website look, style and functionality are major concerns to customers and to Semiomantics as well. Only professionally designed websites will lead to the desired conversion of traffic achieved with the Semiomantics high performance frameworks.

For Semiomantics, web design is not just a look; it’s also accessibility, functionality, flexibility and adaptability. Semiomantics certified designers are not only capable to produce graphic elements, but they have thorough knowledge about Semiomantics Scripts and functionality. Permanent trainings and seminars keep Semiomantics Designers and Consultants updated assuring best service, performance and value of their work, propulsing customers a step ahead of their competition.

Semiomantics Coaching

Semiomantics provides trainings and coaching for customers and their staff to assure the most efficient use of the internet for the purpose of their business. Personal coaching, Group Trainings or Seminars are available due to the close collaboration with Ycademy.

The Semiomantics Signature

The Signature “Semiomantics” stands for high performance and visibility, productivity oriented functionality and an incomparable sense for design and customer care. Online Solutions leaving Semiomantics Site Smith are tested and have already reached first performance levels. Only sites passing the ultimate test based on criteria satisfying the highest standards are awarded with the Semiomantics Signature, a visible sign and award for quality, high performance and original design.

Semiomantics Consulting

Semiomantics Consulting is the commercial arm of Semiomantics and stands for Semiomantics’ concern for customer oriented business development. Semiomantics Consultants are licensed professionals who work individually as well as in teams to consult customers and to elaborate, manage and execute customer tailored solutions for business and private purposes.

After two years of development, Semiomantics is ready to extend services to a wider audience, keeping in mind that each Semiomantics script type is edited in a Limited Edition and therefore only available to a few privileged customers who know that the highest standards only are good enough to excel online. The Semiomantics Signature warrants for it now and in the future.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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