The 3.1 ‘Reinhardt’ WordPress release is finally out! i’m writing this on the old version and about to upgrade as soon as I post the link and click upgrade!

Go Get It!

Okay I just updated it and am now re-editing this post:

Here is a screen shot showing how you now can ‘select from a dropdown’ of your own content to link to when you click on the paperclip ‘or ‘create link’ icon in the visual mode of the ‘Edit Post’ screen on WordPress 3.1.

Isn’t that nifty?

Please click to read my blog on Wpromote’s ‘The Wpromoter’ Blog’ about SEO and Social Media. This is the first part of a two blog post series, SEO in 2011: Supporting Social Media Campaigns with SEO.

Part one has tips and tricks for LinkeIn profiles for personal and business accounts, then an entire section devoted to Twitter.

Click the screencap below and Read it!

Los Angeles Wordcamp 2010

Thanks to @thefrosty for and @jeanajuice as well as @inmotionhosting and everyone there for helping put on this awesome event. Last year I met a lot of cool people (I spoke on an SEO expert panel with @googleandblog and @tonyadam).. this year I hope to meet more cool new people.

***HIRING an SEO MANAGER*** if you know anyone with exceptional SEO skills email me – aaronkronis (-at) gmail.com

with a resume or reply to @KRONiS on twitter

I’m currently at #wcla (twitter hash) and will write a more informative post after the event is finished…

For those who can’t get on the WiFi (come on its almost noon!) here’s the info:

How to connect to WiFi at LMU Wordcamp 2010

First try to connect and when you do you will see the network “guest” available.

then when you get to LMU’s page, you need to login with:

(so network is called GUEST login  user is ‘wguest’).

Username: wguest
pass: LmuL!0ns

THEN you *must* reboot.

good luck! I’ll blog about takeaways after the conf!  @KRONiS on Twitter... SEO Director @ Wpromote Inc.

Five WordPress Plugins I want to see:

1) HTML Sitemap Plugin. With Features such as:

• Automatically creates a footer link to ‘sitemap’
• Allows for creation of an HTML sitemap using JUST categories or selected blog posts
• Ease of creation (don’t need to gather post ID numbers
• Has nothing to do with XML sitemaps! keep it separate!

2) Test in all browsers plugin.

• Something that displays images from all browsers (setup on some virtual server or something somewhere and then generated to display and flag any thing that appears erroneous.
• Sometimes styles don’t properly display in all browsers – this would help to identify those issues without the need for multiple computers.

3) Referring Sites plugin

• Something that would interface with your Google Analytics data and report to you within the wordpress admin panel (like Count Per Day does) with ACCURATE referring information.
• perhaps a way to sort through the data within wordpress admin panel

4) Shopping Cart integration

• It would be great is there were some better, more non-custom interesting ways for wordpress to interface with Magento or other shopping carts easily in a ‘plug and play’ kind of way would be great
• obviously the authorization process would need to be setup, preferably and easy, simple solution for wordpress blogs to sell
• there are likely some implementations of this, comments on success stories anyone?

5) WordPress Skinner from Images

• Wouldn’t it be great to have a PSD file that can turn into a skinned WordPress blog?
• even if it just required specific sized images, there could be a PSD template that helps make them from one main large image
• this could be done easily and in a way that the theme doesn’t ‘break’ when wordpress updates.
• *Need a skin plugin to update with versions of wordpress using standard image files in specific folders with specific names identifying the regions they are intended for.

If you have already found solutions or are creating plugins like this, please LET US KNOW BY COMMENTING HERE! and we will help you spread the word.

Thanks! comments welcome