045 – How to Use cPanel with WordPress

Announcements

WordPress News:

– 9 Million Downloads
WordPress 3.2, or “Gershwin”, was released just 92 days ago on July 4, 2011. As of today the WordPress download counter shows that version 3.2 has seen over nine million downloads, which comes to approximately 97,800 downloads each day.
The last version, WordPress 3.1, was downloaded just over 15 million times during its four month release. Do you think WordPress 3.2 will see more downloads than 3.1 by the time 3.3 is released?

– WordPress 3.3 Beta 1 Released
As always, this is software still in development and we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. If you break it (find a bug), please report it, and if you’re a developer, try to help us fix it.

If all goes well, we hope to release WordPress 3.3 by the end of November. The more help we get with testing and fixing bugs, the sooner we will be able to release the final version. If you want to be a beta tester, you should check out the Codex article on how to report bugs.

Here’s some of what’s new:
* Media uploader
* Improved admin bar
* Fly out admin menus

Download at wordpress.org/news

Listener Feedback

Easily Replace Affiliate Links in WordPress
Blog post: http://www.paulund.co.uk/automatically-replace-words-with-affiliate-links.

function auto_add_affiliate_links($text){
   $replace_words = array(
    //text to search => text to replace
    'amazon' => 'Amazon',
    'ebay' => 'Ebay',
    'buy at amazon' => 'buy at amazon'
   );
   $text = str_replace(array_keys($replace_words), $replace_words, $text);
   return $text;
}

add_filter('the_content', 'auto_add_affiliate_links');
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'auto_add_affiliate_links');

NOTE: I highly recommend adding these changes while using an FTP editor, if not, you could break your site without being able to fix it. Believe me, I have done this before and it was very unpleasant.

Features I use in cPanel

• Mail – Email Accounts, Webmail, MX Entry
• Domains – Subdomains, Addon Domains, Redirects
• Databases – phpMyAdmin
• Software / Services – Softaculous

Am I missing anything?