One-click installation of WordPress 3.0.1 is now available for Websoftnet web hosting customers. To install, simply log into your eXtend control panel and scroll down to ‘CGI Scripts’ for a one-click install and set up of your WordPress blog.

Customers with Windows hosting still have WordPress 2.9.2 as their one-click WordPress install, but we are looking to update this in the next few weeks).

As well as replacing WordPress 2.9.2, WordPress 3.0 also replaces WordPress MU (the multi-user version), as the multi-user features have been merged into WP as standard. Other new features in WordPress 3.0 include custom post types, unique author templates (great for multi-user blogs), improved menu management, a new default theme and support for the wp.me URL shortener. You can check out the complete list of the hundreds of new features and improvements in the WordPress 3.0 codex.

If you’re wondering about how to take advantage of some of these features, How to: Enable WordPress 3.0 New Features After Upgrading has lots of great links to help you get started.

Content Management Systems (CMS) are great tools for maximising the full potential of your web hosting.  This blog post will look at the various web hosting scripts and web hosting tools we provide at Websoftnet with your web hosting to help you simplify your web publishing. We have included the blogging scripts that come free with our web hosting as the line between the two is becoming increasingly blurred.

WordPress
WordPress is arguably the most popular blogging software available today! It’s easy to install and use with our web hosting one click install script and will allow you to have a great looking blog in minutes. WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today

Joomla
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Ready to be installed in your web hosting control panel, Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Mambo
Mambo is a fully featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.

Geeklog
Geeklog allows you to create your own virtual community area, complete with user administration, story posting, messaging, comments, polls, calendar, web links, and more

Nucleus
Nucleus offers you the building blocks when you need your web hosting to create a memorable web presence. Whether you want to create a personal blog, a family page, or an online business site, Nucleus CMS can help you achieve your goals.

Drupal
Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website through their web hosting control panel. Drupal is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Typo3
TYPO3 is a content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules. Using a graphical user interface which interacts with your web hosting, authors can simply create text, insert images and multimedia files, schedule content (and much more) to build and maintain a dynamic website. This is especially true if you take advantage of TYPO3’s server-side graphics generation for making image menus, graphical headlines, etc.

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We have updated a number of the scripts you can install from eXtend to the latest version:

WordPress upgraded to V2.6.1

PHPCoin upgraded to V1.4.4

Joomla upgraded to V1.5.6

Locked Area Lite upgraded to V6.0

Mambo upgraded to V4.6.5

RoundCube upgraded to V0.2-aplha

Website Search upgraded to V1.5b

AWStats upgraded to V6.8

ZenCart upgraded to V1.3.8a

Openads upgraded to V2.6.0

Web Calendar upgraded to V2.9.3a

You might be interested to know that keeping the scripts we provide up-to-date is quite a big job, on average it takes 2 hours to update each one and on occasions when major changes are made to the script it can take a few days. Some scripts like Joomla and WordPress release a new version every few weeks!