Schedule your posts to Facebook, twitter & now Google+

Buffer now lets you share to Google+ pages

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Fantastic news Google+ has now been added as a feed to Buffer.

Our favourite posts scheduling app Buffer has just been updated with the Google+ API and you can now schedule your posts to Google+ as well as Facebook, LinkedIn & Twitter.

The email has just dropped in to our Inbox and as with the feeds, connecting to Google+ was easy and took a matter of seconds.

Here’s the Buffer announcement about Google+

 

An unbelievable 3,613 people voted on a particular item in our feedback forum for which feature we should build next.

It has been holding the #1 spot as most requested feature from our users for almost 2 years. We couldn’t be any more excited to finally unveil it to everyone.

Buffer is now available for Google+ Pages. Anyone can now easily hook up their Google+ page and start posting and scheduling great content through Buffer to keep your Google+ Page up to date.

And they have written a guide with lots of pictures to help you add Google+ to your Buffer http://blog.bufferapp.com/introducing-buffer-for-google-plus-pages-scheduling-posting-social-media

You can now use Buffer to post to Google+

Not using Buffer?

Well you should. Buffer is a great way to quickly and easily schedule your posts to Twitter, LinkedIn, Twitter & now Google+. By installing their Google Chrome app, when you spot a story or image you would like to post about. just click the Buffer icon and that’s it. If you want to change, add or edit the wording then that’s easy as well.

You can set up multiple  posting schedules for each Social Media Feed. So say twice a day for Twitter and once for Facebook. It really is a fantastic and best of all it is completely FREE!

Here’s that link again… bufferapp.com

 

 

 

Latest version of the Genesis Framework for Wordpress

Genesis 2.0 Framework for WordPress released

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Genesis 2.0

We are really excited by the release of  the brand new version of Genesis 2.0 Framework for WordPress.

Genesis 2.0 is a huge leap forward for the framework. It includes essential web standards like HTML5 and schema.org to make your WordPress website as fast, secure, flexible, and findable as it can be.

All new Genesis themes will be fully Mobile Responsive so your site looks as good on a Mobile Phone or Tablet as it does on a PC.

Genesis 2.0 - Mobile Responsive

Brand New Design

Genesis is sporting a fresh new look.

We’ve taken advantage of the new HTML5 markup, as well as some snazzy CSS3, and we think you’re gonna love this.

HTML5 Markup

Genesis has always been on the cutting edge of web technology, and Genesis 2.0 continues in that excellent tradition.

With a single line of code in a child theme, Genesis will now output HTML5 markup in place of the old XHTML tags. Also, every theme we build in the future will be developed on HTML5.

Microdata

If you’re using a theme with HTML5 enabled, Genesis will also output your markup using microdata.

We did all the research and modified the markup to serve search engines the microdata they’re looking for, so you don’t have to. It’s good to be a Genesis user.

Removing Features

We want to keep Genesis as lightweight as possible for you, nobody wants to use bloated software.

So we’ve removed the “Latest Tweets” widget, the “eNews and Updates” widget, the “post templates” feature, and the “fancy dropdowns” setting. There are some good plugins you can grab and install, if you want to continue using those functionalities.

Boring, but Very Important

We’re always improving. Call it a sickness, but we like to make things work really, really well. Here’s a list of the technical changes in this latest release of Genesis:

  • Better named loop hooks for HTML5.
  • Network Upgrade now upgrades the Genesis database for all sites in a network when running WordPress in multisite mode.
  • Widget classes are now coded in PHP5 format.
  • Admin CSS and Javascript are now minified.
  • Inline HTML comments have been removed to reduce page size.
  • The Scripts option now has its own metabox when editing an entry.
  • Custom Post Type archive pages now have a settings page so you can control the output.
  • Genesis tracks displayed entry IDs so you can exclude entries from showing twice on a page.
  • Entries without titles now display a permalink after the post content.

 

Latest version of Wordpress

WordPress 3.6 “Oscar”

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We’re really excited about this. The latest version of WordPress is out and looking good. The biggest new feature for us is the HTML5 media player for native audio and video.

User Features

  • The new Twenty Thirteen theme inspired by modern art puts focus on your content with a colorful, single-column design made for media-rich blogging.
  • Revamped Revisions save every change and the new interface allows you to scroll easily through changes to see line-by-line who changed what and when.
  • Post Locking and Augmented Autosave will especially be a boon to sites where more than a single author is working on a post. Each author now has their own autosave stream, which stores things locally as well as on the server (so much harder to lose something) and there’s an interface for taking over editing of a post, as demonstrated beautifully by our bearded buddies in the video above.
  • Built-in HTML5 media player for native audio and video embeds with no reliance on external services.
  • The Menu Editor is now much easier to understand and use.

    Developer features

    • A new audio/video API gives you access to metadata like ID3 tags.
    • You can now choose HTML5 markup for things like comment and search forms, and comment lists.
    • Better filters for how revisions work, so you can store a different amount of history for different post types.
    • Tons more listed on the Codex, and of course you can always browse the over 700 closed tickets.

If we were’t on holiday in Turkey with little internet connection we would have upgraded and embedded a video…

Wordpress And Genesis Framework

We use and love WordPress

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WordPress is a rock solid, fully expandable and easy to use Content management System (CMS)and that’s the reason why it powers over 60 million websites worldwide.

It was first released on May 27, 2003, by founders Matt Mullenweg & Mike Little. As of April 2013, version 3.5 had been downloaded over 18 million times.

All of our sites are now built on WordPress using the Genesis Framework. Genesis is Search Engine Optimised, offers Turk-key designs and provides state of the art security to ensure your site is safe and secure.