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WordPress.com is working on making it easier to interact and maintain your blog. It's improving the notifications area that it introduced a few months ago adding comment notifications but also ways of moderating comments right from the notifications box."Today we’re adding comment notifications, complete w... |
10 February 2012
15:41 GMT |
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WordPress for Android has just been upgraded to version 2.0.5, now available for download via the Android Market, for all users of devices powered by OS flavor 2.1 and up.
Those who will download and install the new flavor of the app will benefit from a series of post editor improvements, the changelog unveils.
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10 February 2012
06:21 GMT |
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The latest malicious campaign begins at the point where cybercriminals compromise a few hundred websites based on WordPress 3.2.1 and alter them to redirect visitors to a domain that serves the malicious Phoenix Exploit Kit. M86 Security Labs researchers came across around four hundred of these sites. Using a cleve... |
31 January 2012
09:49 GMT |
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Whether they like to admit it or not, bloggers love stats. After all, they wouldn't be posting things publicly if they didn't care about whether people actually read them. WordPress.com knows this and it's got the data to back it up, the stats tab is one of the most popular screens in the dashboard.
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27 January 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Reblogging has been around as long as blogs have been. Sometimes, 'reblogging' meant simply copy-pasting a post with no attribution or link, but most of the times people just wanted to highlight a post they found interesting.
Twitter made the whole process of re-posting someone else's content triviall... |
23 January 2012
07:21 GMT |
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WordPress.com has introduced an interesting new feature, a blog reader, a cross between Google Reader and reader apps like Flipboard. Through it, you can keep track of blogs from WordPress.com but also other places.They don't even have to be WordPress blogs, Blogger ones work as well. In fact, any site with a RS... |
20 January 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Both WordPress.org and WordPress.com are joining the protest against the abusive SOPA and PIPA bills. They're doing it in different ways, but you are very likely to notice the protests if you use any of the two sites.
But bloggers using either WordPress.com or their own WordPress install can join in as well, by... |
18 January 2012
08:15 GMT |
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WordPress.com has debuted a new free theme, dubbed Forever, that may come in very handy if you're planning to add an online component to your wedding and, in 2012, there's no way you're not. Granted, you're still going to have a WordPress blog, but there are a few special features and customizatio... |
13 January 2012
11:21 GMT |
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WordPress.com has upgraded the amount of space you can buy for your blog, all of the amounts have doubled while the price stays the same. WordPress.com blogs get about 3GB of storage for free. Anyone that needs more than that has to pay.
Until now, the upgrades started at 5 GB and went all the way up to 100 GB. All ... |
6 January 2012
07:21 GMT |
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A couple of Indian security researchers, Aditya Modha and Samir Shah, found an easy-to-exploit cross-site scripting (XSS) weakness that affected all WordPress 3.3 websites, but version 3.3.1 was quickly released to fix the issue. The researchers showed that by posting a comment on a targeted site using a special scr... |
4 January 2012
02:38 GMT |
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Indian security researchers Aditya Modha and Samir Shah found a zero-day cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the recently released WordPress 3.3.
Modha and Shah tested the proof of concept on an Apache server, proving that by simply posting a comment on a WordPress website, an attacker can execute arbitrary ... |
3 January 2012
08:14 GMT |
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WordPress users who don’t want to wait for the next core release to fix bugs, can now turn to this latest unofficial plugin for upgrading their WP core.
The 0.8 release of the Hotfix plugin resolves an issue in which plugins and theme styles bled into the dashboard. This means that if the patch is applied them... |
23 December 2011
05:20 GMT |
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WordPress.com is debuting a new publishing process that should make it easier to check out your post just as you've published it, but also to find out more about your readers from social networks. There are several tweaks and new tools for the entire process.
"For months we’ve been studying how, when and ... |
13 December 2011
08:56 GMT |
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WordPress 3.3 is here, it seems that the last release candidate was bug-free so the final version of the popular blogging and content management software is now available for download for everyone. Existing users should also be getting an update notification in their dashboard. A big emphasis with the new release ha... |
13 December 2011
03:30 GMT |
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WordPress 3.3 is one step further to being a reality. The developers hope this is the last step as well, now that the third release candidate has been made available.
If everything goes well at this late stage, WordPress 3.3 should be released to everyone within days, meaning that it should be powering all of your f... |
12 December 2011
04:29 GMT |
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A second release candidate for WordPress 3.3 has been made available. The team reckons it's very close to a final release now, but there may still be another release candidate out.
WordPress 3.3 RC2 comes one week after the first release candidate. The first beta came out a couple of months ago, but development... |
7 December 2011
04:36 GMT |
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The water&stone Agency published its annual Open Source CMS Market Share Report, the most comprehensive study about open source CMS usage amongst web professionals.The report comprises statistical usage data about the 20 most used CMSs around the web.As in the previous years, the top three remained the same, with Wor... |
2 December 2011
11:21 GMT |
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Remember when having snow on your desktop was cool? Pixelated snowflakes falling from the top of the screen, settling on the My Computer shortcut or way below on the taskbar. Windows 98SE wasn't really that bad, now was it?
Well, WordPress.com is bringing back the nostalgia, of either your childhood Christmas o... |
2 December 2011
07:02 GMT |
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Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, the hosting service, and behind much of the development of WordPress - the open source blogging software, has been looking for ways to make money for a long time.It's running several strategies at once, but it is now debuting something new, ads for WordPress.com blog... |
1 December 2011
11:35 GMT |
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WordPress 3.3 is almost here. In fact, the team thinks it's done, but it's putting out a release candidate to make sure. In an ideal world, there would be no more bugs and this is the version that will get pushed to millions of users around the world.
But things rarely work out this way, so expect some las... |
1 December 2011
05:43 GMT |
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Black Friday is upon us, meaning every retailer out there is hustling to sell you the most stuff at the cheapest prices. Luckily, you don't have to go out in the cold to take advantage of this momentous day, in fact, you don't even have to get up from your chair.
WordPress.com is running a Black Friday sal... |
25 November 2011
06:10 GMT |
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WordPress 3.3 is getting even closer now that the fourth beta is here. As you'd expect at this point, it's just a bug-fixing release. That said, this only makes it more stable so if you've been weary of testing it, perhaps it's time.
"In Beta 4 we’ve fixed a bunch of bugs, cleaned up the U... |
24 November 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Four years ago Google had ambitions of taking on Wikipedia. In fact, it though it had an even better idea, instead of all manner of people writing everything they wanted on the site, it would have experts writing highly accurate articles.As we all know, Google turned out to be right, Knol has taken over the world and... |
23 November 2011
16:41 GMT |
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One of the disadvantages of using a blogging platform, like WordPress.com, is that you're more limited in your customization options than you'd be if you used your own WordPress install.
But WordPress.com is working on enabling bloggers to make their blog exactly how they want to.
There are now over 150 t... |
22 November 2011
05:18 GMT |
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WordPress is trying to tackle a problem that any WordPress user has faced. Different themes have different widget slots, or areas, and changing from one theme to another means that widgets get removed or added.
Changing back to a previous theme does not bring your widgets back though, meaning that you have to re-add... |
21 November 2011
05:01 GMT |
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WordPress.com is continuing to update the Dashboard, even after several fairly significant changes this year. Bloggers now get a brand new media uploader, with drag and drop uploads, as well as flyout menus and a bit more space for the stuff that matters.
The big new feature is the drag and drop media uploader. The ... |
17 November 2011
07:44 GMT |
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The one big advantage of using WordPress.com is not having to worry about hosting, configuration and so on. But this can mean that bloggers give up on some customization options.Luckily, WordPress.com bloggers have it good at least in one department, themes. WordPress.com constantly introduces new themes to choose fr... |
10 November 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Ignoring a lesson that Blogger learned the hard way, WordPress.com is now introducing a new lightbox viewer for photo galleries. WordPress calls it a carousel, but it's the same feature, a way of browsing through a set of photos through a full screen viewer.WordPress.com's carousel feature is pretty run of ... |
9 November 2011
08:01 GMT |
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WordPress 3.3 Beta 3 is now available for testing. The latest release comes with plenty of bug fixes and improvements, but no new features at this stage.Whatever has made it in will stick around, provided it doesn't prove too broken when it's time to make the final release, everything else will have to wait... |
9 November 2011
04:12 GMT |
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WordPress.com has debuted a very interesting if not highly original feature, Notifications. Taking a few design cues from Google notifications, in the navbar, the new feature aims to make it easy to keep up with activity on your blog."Your blog lives and breathes. Today we’re launching a new way for you to chec... |
7 November 2011
17:51 GMT |
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WordPress 3.3 Beta 2 has been released. The second testing release of the upcoming WordPress 3.3 brings a log of fixed and better fleshed out functionality, but no big new features.
Since Beta 1 landed a couple of weeks ago, the team has been hard at work. WordPress 3.3 Beta 2 brings an updated Blue theme and supp... |
20 October 2011
03:50 GMT |
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The first beta for the upcoming WordPress 3.3 is here. Developers and early adopters can start playing with the new version that adds a new admin bar and a revamped media uploader. WordPress 3.3 Beta 1 is available now, but updated releases should be coming soon. There should be another beta and at least a couple of... |
11 October 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Steve Jobs' death has triggered a lot of responses. Those who knew him, even briefly, were quick to laud his best traits and many companies and websites made their own tributes to the tech innovator.
Now, you can do it as well, as long as you have a WordPress.com blog, with the new Retro MacOS theme. The them... |
7 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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The WordPress iOS application used by thousands of iPhone and iPad owners to manage their blog has received a major update this week, to include text-formatting abilities, a new full-screen editing mode, and more.“We’re excited to give you the next major version of WordPress for iOS. The focus of this rel... |
27 September 2011
11:41 GMT |
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It seems that everyone is adding a 'follow' feature these days. Facebook introduced 'subscribe' and now WordPress.com is adding a Follow button to all blogs for visitors, i.e. not logged-in users.The button sits at the bottom of every blog page, as long as you don't disable it, and slides out... |
21 September 2011
11:41 GMT |
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RAGE Software have unleashed a new piece of Mac software called iWeb to WordPress. As its name implies, the program facilitates moving your iWeb blog to WordPress.Those of you owning a blog created with Apple’s iWeb creation tool may have heard that MobileMe is transitioning to iCloud.Apple gave customers 1 yea... |
12 September 2011
07:51 GMT |
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After a solid run of new features and improvements, including the new distraction-free, full-screen editor and the refreshed dashboard, WordPress.com users have had time to settle in.
But, just because there haven't been any big new features lately, doesn't mean that there's nothing going on over at... |
10 September 2011
13:51 GMT |
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WordPress.com has added new features enabling users to get some stats on comments, for the first time. Blog owners can now know who is the most active community member, which posts generate the most attention and have an overall view of commenting activity on their sites.The new features should already be available t... |
8 September 2011
06:31 GMT |
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In the world of Facebook and Twitter, two sites that have Web 2.0 written all over them are not only making by, but growing at huge rates. Blogging, for the everyday user, lost its appeal years ago, but Tumblr's take on has led it into becoming one of the fastest growing community-driven sites around.Same goes f... |
5 September 2011
13:51 GMT |
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WordPress has some boasting to do and for good reason. The open source content management software now powers 14.7 percent of the top one million websites in the world, according to its own data. The percentage is growing, as 22 percent of new active domains in the US are now using WordPress. While WordPress is clea... |
20 August 2011
06:00 GMT |
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WordPress is making a couple of small announcements related to its stats feature. For one, it's adding a small stats chart to the admin bar for WordPress.com blogs. Second, it's now enabling private blogs to get meaningful traffic data, which wasn't possible before."The WordPress.com Admin Bar (visibl... |
19 August 2011
11:10 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that the number of attacks exploiting a flaw in a popular WordPress script continues to increase and started leading to malware.Timthumb is an image manipulation script incorporated by default in many popular WordPress themes. This means that even if it's not a part of the platform'... |
16 August 2011
12:23 GMT |
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Thousands of hacked WordPress blogs have been used in a recent black hat search engine optimization (BHSEO) campaign on Google Images that directed victims to scareware.Denis Sinegubko, the creator of the Unmask Parasites website scanner has managed to locate doorway pages associated with this attack hosted on 4,358 ... |
9 August 2011
10:58 GMT |
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An image manipulation script used in many popular WordPress themes has been updated to address a critical security vulnerability.The flaw was reported last week by Feedjit CEO Mark Maunder after his personal blog was hacked and is currently being exploited in the wild. The affected script is called Timthumb and is ma... |
9 August 2011
04:21 GMT |
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Now that there's not much new on the feature front with WordPress.com, since all of the new things in WordPress 3.2 have already been integrated, Automattic, the company behind the popular blogging host, is introducing a plethora of new, elegant or fun themes to keep your blog looking fresh and to widen your cho... |
3 August 2011
11:33 GMT |
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Joomla 1.7 is here. The latest version of the popular CMS software comes shortly after the previous major version and is the first to come in the new six months release cycle. From now on, new versions should be coming at a much faster rate, about the same as WordPress. Joomla 1.7 also introduces a new simplified upd... |
20 July 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 9 users visiting their favorite WordPress blog will be able to start taking advantage of two of the browser’s exclusive features, provided they’re running Windows 7. WordPress is a popular blogging platform used to power in excess of 20 million sites worldwide, all of which can deliver ... |
20 July 2011
10:01 GMT |
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WordPress is not the only blogging platform that is dropping support for legacy browsers. Blogger has announced that it's following the company line and will only support the last two versions of a browser, from now on.
The change will be effective starting August 1st at which time, Firefox 3.5, Internet Expl... |
15 July 2011
10:21 GMT |
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WordPress 3.2 has just come out, but if you prefer to have other people handle all of the minutiae, WordPress.com has something that might entice you, three fresh new themes available for your blog.
There's a new premium theme and a couple of free ones. They're designed to appeal to a wide range of needs... |
14 July 2011
09:43 GMT |
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WordPress 3.2 has only been out a week. Already, the team has pushed an update, WordPress 3.2.1, a minor one that fixes several pressing issues which made it into the final release, through the testing phase.But this doesn't mean that it's too early to talk about WordPress 3.3, in fact, the team is now acti... |
13 July 2011
12:01 GMT |
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