There are many ways to follow a web site. The easiest is to regularly come and visit and, of course, you know RSS threads. But we can use Twitter too: a message per post update on the site.

That is the way I started using Twitter for my own YLovePhoto.com web site (for the English version as well as the French one). It’s simple: Any time an article is published on the site, it sends a message/twitt to http://www.twitter.com/ylovephoto_en (for the English version) in order to immediately inform the followers. This is quite the same as an RSS thread, but ultra-quick.

The principle is simple, but the implementation could have been a bit more complicated if I did not stumble upon an easy solution under the guise of a WordPress plug-in: TweetMe. It does the job neatly. You only have to install it, give it the coordinates (name and password) of the Twitter where to publish the updates and it generates a message containing the post title and a short link to jump straight to it.

Easy!

It’s time to upgrade your WordPress blog or web site, to warm up the FTP link and to shiver with consequences. The first consequence will be a set of new features, some of them quite useful:

• A new code editor with syntax coloring and some documentation. It won’t visible to most users, but it is my preferred interface to format properly the HTML code of my posts
• A class generator to handle the BODY tag
• Faster
• Easier theme installation
• Special RSS thread generation function
• Improvements to the admin interface (slicker and more options)

On my own, I started to upgrade all of my web sites. It takes quite some time, but it’s not hard:

• Security backup
• Download and install
• Database upgrade (this is offered by the software itself)

Easy!