Drupal 7.0 has been officially available. The most exciting release and one of the best open source content management systems with more flexibility options and more usability improvements. Almost 1% of all the websites in the world are powered by Drupal.

“About 1,000 people contributed to Drupal 7. It is a legendary piece of work, by the community, for the community. On Friday, we celebrate the release with 248 parties in 88 countries. Make sure to buy these people a drink.” Said Dries Buytaert, Drupal Founder.

Thousands of add-on modules and designs let you build any site you can imagine, you can create new content types using the Drupal Core, you can add custom texts, images, and file-fields to the content and users as well. There is no doubt that Drupal has gained a good reputation during the years. Today, it is being used in by government agencies, universities, non-profits organizations, and individuals.

When installing Drupal, some built-in modules for services like OpenID, forums and contact forms, can be enabled and disabled.
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Right after Pligg announced the new 1.1.3 version, I was excited to download it and try it. However, I faced a some kind of disappointment. The voting system was not working; at the beginning, I thought a file must have been corrupted or there is something wrong with my database. But that was not the real Issue. So what is the solution?

The problem is mainly from the database and while the installation, some fields were not created. So what you should do to fix this is to upload the /install/ directory again and run yourwebsite.com/install/upgrade.php It will ask you whether you want to upgrade the database and the language file; once the upgrade is successful, the function will work perfectly.

Pligg team has announced that they are working to solve the issue as soon as possible. I will update this post when the problem is fixed.

UPDATE: Pligg 1.1.3 has been updated and the fix is included.

I have pointed in my last article that Google Page Rank (PR) update is gonna take place soon, approximately at the end of 2010, webmasters would definitely want to check their Page Rank which is obviously one of the most important factors that affect the SERP (Search engine results page).
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Moved: How To Upload a Big SQL File To MySQL

Informing search engines that your site content has been updated is an important task. Google downloads your site-map automatically every few days, or even few hours If you are running a big website. However, Webmasters like to ping Search Engines automatically after every update on the website. Here are few links for several search engines that you may want to ping.

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