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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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WordPress 3.2 has only been out for a week and there's already an update. WordPress 3.2.1, as you can expect, is a small bug-fixing release, bringing with it some last minute changes and fixes for issues that somehow crept past the testing phase.
"After more than a million downloads of WordPress 3.2, we&rsquo... |
13 July 2011
10:11 GMT |
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WordPress seems to have had a lot of reasons to celebrate these last few days. Just before it released WordPress 3.2, the previous version, WordPress 3.1, reached 15 million downloads. Now it reached another milestone, WordPress software powers 50 million blogs on WordPress.com and on independent hosts.
Automattic... |
11 July 2011
05:47 GMT |
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Just as WordPress 3.2 is set loose upon the web, Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and some of the WordPress.org development, is announcing a brand new theme for WordPress.com users.
Considering that they already got most of the new features that WordPress 3.2 introduced, ahead of time, it's proba... |
6 July 2011
10:52 GMT |
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After several months of work and quite a few test releases, WordPress 3.2 is out. The latest update to the most popular blogging software on the web brings several new features, performance upgrades and a new default theme.
"I’m excited to announce that WordPress 3.2 is now available to the world, both as a... |
5 July 2011
03:41 GMT |
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On the eve of WordPress 3.2's debut, the group of developers behind the very popular blogging software have announced that the previous and still current version, WordPress 3.1, has now been downloaded more than 15 million times, as is evident from WordPress' own statistics page.It's an important miles... |
4 July 2011
11:37 GMT |
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WordPress 3.2 is almost here. The latest update to the very popular open source blogging software comes with several nice new features, but it also comes with new minimum requirements, both on the backend and the frontend.
On the server you'll be running WordPress 3.2, you will need to have PHP 5.2.4 or abov... |
4 July 2011
07:46 GMT |
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The third release candidate for WordPress 3.2 has been released. The finishing touches are being put on the latest version of the popular blogging software. WordPress 3.2 RC3 comes with a plethora of security fixes, the same ones from WordPress 3.1.4 which was released at the same time. RC3 also comes with several ot... |
30 June 2011
04:51 GMT |
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Tumblr is the hottest thing in blogging for years. Granted, it's not a traditional, full-blown blogging platform, but its simplicity and focus on social interactivity have paid off, Tumblr's latest stats are truly impressive.About a month ago, Tumblr reported that it was seeing about 250 million daily page ... |
28 June 2011
10:51 GMT |
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The second release candidate for WordPress 3.2 is out, less than two weeks after the previous one. WordPress 3.2 RC2 brings more fixes for the new default theme, Twenty Eleven, as well as additional fixes and tweaks.
"The second release candidate for WordPress 3.2 is now available. If you haven’t tested Word... |
25 June 2011
07:01 GMT |
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The WordPress team has decided to reset everyone's password on WordPress.org, BudyPress.org, and bbPress.org websites, after discovering that several plugins were rigged with backdoors."Earlier today the WordPress team noticed suspicious commits to several popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) c... |
22 June 2011
04:34 GMT |
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WordPress.com is a great way of starting to blog and getting accustomed to the WordPress platform, but for some users, one of the main drawbacks is that, even though you get plenty of themes to choose from, you can't get down to the code level and edit the CSS to customize your blog.Luckily, WordPress.com will a... |
16 June 2011
07:52 GMT |
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The release candidate for WordPress 3.2 has been made available. The blogging software is almost close to completion, in theory it should be ready for the final release, but in practice issues creep up in the release candidate stage as well.If you're interested in seeing what WordPress 3.2 has in store for your ... |
14 June 2011
04:11 GMT |
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WordPress is now eight years old. Way back in 2003, WordPress 0.7 was released, the first version of the very popular blogging software. What started out as an open-source web publishing platform became one of the biggest things on the web, powering tens of millions of sites. While WordPress definitely didn't in... |
28 May 2011
06:40 GMT |
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WordPress 3.2 Beta 2 is available for testing now. Two weeks after the first beta release, the new build includes all of the fixes introduced in the meantime. More planned features are nearing completion, but it's still testing software and not a suitable replacement for the current and stable WordPress 3.1."If ... |
26 May 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Microsoft said a big thank you to Wordpress for the decision to dump support for Internet Explorer 6 announced on May 19th, 2011. The Redmond company is one of the driving forces pushing the transition away from IE6 and onto more recent browser releases, preferably IE8 or IE9, as far as the software giant is concern... |
24 May 2011
10:01 GMT |
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WordPress.com has just introduced a refreshed Dashboard, featuring some layout tweaks, some new features and some performance enhancements. The same revamped dashboard is also coming in WordPress 3.2. With the updated dashboard, though, WordPress.com is also dropping support for the ancient Internet Explorer 6. "In t... |
23 May 2011
10:50 GMT |
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Isaac Keyet of WordPress.org is happy to announce a ‘big update’ for fans of the open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL - a new version of their iOS app is now up for grabs with major new additions.According to Keyet, the latest WordPress app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad... |
20 May 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Tumblr, the relatively young simple blogging platform, is growing like there's no tomorrow. The site just announced that it's now getting 250 million page views per day, according to directly measured data from Quantcast. To put this in perspective, Tumblr got this kind of traffic in a month in 2009.Every n... |
18 May 2011
04:40 GMT |
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The first beta release of the upcoming WordPress 3.2 is now available for testing. The big focus with this release has been on performance and it should be visible already, WordPress 3.2 Beta 1 should feel faster than the the current release in many areas.There are also new features to play around with, the full-scre... |
12 May 2011
10:15 GMT |
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WordPress has been around for ages now, but it has really started to soar last year. Millions of blogs were created, it grew by more than 60 percent in 2010. And it keeps on adding new blogs, it's now getting close to 20 million.By themselves, the numbers are certainly impressive, were it not for Tumblr's t... |
11 May 2011
07:31 GMT |
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The WordPress team has just announced that a new BlackBerry version of its popular open-source application for bloggers is now available for download.
WordPress for BlackBerry version 1.5 adds new features, fixes several issues and brings a fresh new UI.
Although the application has already been unveiled, ther... |
4 May 2011
07:59 GMT |
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One of the first experience most people starting out with WordPress remember is seeing their blog for the first time with the simple yet functional default theme, aka Kubrick, and the Hello World post. This went on for years and the theme has left its mark on the collective consciousness. That said, last year the dev... |
22 April 2011
10:50 GMT |
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