There is a flashy 3D tag cloud plugin for Wordpress. It is contributed by www.roytanck.com. The tags form a sphere that will rotate at any direction depending on your mouse position. I have installed on this blog. You can take a look the 3D tag cloud on the right sidebar.

I like this 3D tag cloud. But I feel that it is not that easy to catch the tag that people is looking for.

You can download the plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/.

We have designed a sophisticated Wordpress CMS for one of our clients. The site is www.quantumconsulting.org. In this site, we created a static home page and a page link to the blog post. The blog link has a pretty permalink http://www.quantumconsulting.org/blog. Besides that, we also incorporated a newsletter contact form on the front page.

You may be interested in how we create a page link to the blog posts with such a nice permalink. Here is our step-by-step method:

Wordpress 2.6 is released on the 15 July. Over the last few days, I have updated the WP to version 2.6 for most of my clients. Version 2.6 is actually not a major revision as compared to version 2.5. The backend still looks pretty much the same. Among the new features of Wordpress 2.6, the key one is the “Turbo” which allows users to cache common files like stylesheets and scripts to their own computers. This can significantly speed up loading and operation times of Wordpress. Turbo is actually leveraging on Google Gear technology that allows for Firefox to “pre-cache” pages and speed up access. To enable Gears in your new WordPress 2.6 installation, click on the Turbo link in the upper right corner of your WordPress admin.

For updating the Wordpress, it is recommended to use the automatic update plugin. The plugin follows obediently the recommended 5 steps upgrade protocol.