WordPress has announced, yesterday, that version 3.2 is expected to have higher system requirements. Currently, WordPress requires that web servers are running PHP 4 and MySQL 4 or higher. However, WordPress 3.2 will no longer support those dated technologies. Instead, it will require that users upgrade their server software to run PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5.0.15 or higher.

What does this mean?

Basically, server administrators will have to update their systems if they have not done so already. They will be unable to install or upgrade to WordPress 3.2 if the system requirements are not met. Most shared hosting providers already support the newer versions. However, if you are running a VPS or dedicated server, you may have to upgrade perform the upgrades yourself. Don’t be alarmed, upgrading PHP and MySQL is not difficult, you can find hundreds of step-by-step tutorials online.

What if I still need PHP 4?

If you still rely on PHP 4, you have, essentially, two options. Firstly, and the most advisable, upgrade or make the necessary changes to the other scripts to work with the newer version of PHP. Your second option is to run both versions of PHP on your server. Again, there are more than enough tutorials online about running multiple versions of PHP on a single server. Before making any decisions, I’d highly suggest that you research the matter and make an educated decision on what would be the best choice in your specific situation.

WooThemes is at it again, they’ve released a new premium WordPress theme yesterday with a rather clever name. Its name, “Canvas“, is quite fitting as it initially looks like a big blank sheet of paper. The default style contains the basic structural elements and a few cosmetic features to keep everything looking nice and clean. The theme comes with a total of six different styles and each of them is very unique.

WooThemes, however, didn’t stop there; the name “Canvas” goes much further. They’ve built so many options into the easy-to-use administrative panel that you can customize the entire layout and literally design your own unique site without ever having to edit any of the themes files. After setting the overall width of your site; you can change the designs structure, or as they call it the “Main Layout”, so that it has 1, 2, or 3 columns.

The fully featured administration panel gives you the ability to change the background, color of links, font family and sizes, and it even lets you edit the header, navigation, widgets, footer, and just about anything else you may want to change. With Canvas, they have also implemented the option to enable CSS3 rounded corners! I must remind you that all of this is on top of the standard features that you would find in any other WooThemes product. This would include lifetime support and updates plus it’s built on the WooThemes framework which gives you many additional options.

Conclusion

Canvas is simply an amazing theme and does what it was made to do flawlessly. However, it can be frustrating and time consuming when trying to find the perfect design for your website. Thankfully though, the 6 included styles help get you started and once everything is setup the way you like; it’s a breeze to make minor adjustments to keep things looking fresh. I personally love the theme and would highly recommend it to everyone who is looking for a highly customizable theme that is not bloated. Canvas gives you the ability to be lazy by changing only a few settings before you are able to launch a site. However, it’s flexible enough that you could go all-out with your imagination and create an extraordinary piece of art. Priced at just $70 USD, you can’t go wrong.

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Programmers across the world have started their journey into learning a new programming language with a simple project that does nothing more than outputting the message “Hello world!”. Therefore, we are going to take a moment to say “hello” to the world wide web. Hopefully, this post will let you know what we plan to do and how it may benefit you.

What is talk(wp)?

As you already know Talk(wp) is a website, but you are probably wondering what purpose we serve. To put it briefly, talk(wp) is an online resource for a free, open source, blogging software known as WordPress.

We set out to relieve the pain of finding quality products or services for WordPress. As a result, we contact companies and individual programmers who have WordPress related products or services for sale and run several tests on what they have on the table. Afterwards, we’ll compile all of our information into an easy-to-read and to-the-point review to let you, our readers, know which products and services are worth their price tag.

If you’ve ever been curious to know if a premium plugin does what it says or if it actually has an active support team behind it’s one-page marketing website, we can help. We’ve been in that position before and we hate the feeling of possibly putting out money where money is not deserved or when it can be better spent on another product or service.

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Absolutely nothing, we’ll do the research for you for free! However, you can certainly help us out by leaving a friendly comment letting us know if our article was helpful or not and how we can make them more useful in the future.