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Some argue that the $1.1 billion (€856 million) deal between Yahoo and Tumblr is way more than the Internet giant should have paid, while others think it doesn’t even begin to cover what Tumblr is capable of.
While the first category is generally formed by people who have no idea about Tumblr, the second... |
20 May 2013
07:49 GMT |
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Well, it’s obvious that not all users are happy about Yahoo buying Tumblr, although they don’t even know the details of the deal yet. WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said in a blog post that imports from Tumblr to WordPress had risen from an average of 500 blog posts an hour to over 72,000 on Sunday. ... |
20 May 2013
07:35 GMT |
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It has come to our attention that the reason the Bookings Engine plugin we recommended below was removed from the WordPress plugin repository was due to a copyright infringement reported by Quintessa Media. We strongly recommend not using Bookings Engine and getting the original instead. Original story:Bookings Engi... |
17 May 2013
12:01 GMT |
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The third beta of the upcoming WordPress 3.6 is here. While it's obviously better than the first two betas, it's still testing software and should be used for just that, testing, and not on production sites.
The third beta comes with a long list of fixes, WordPress boasts about over 100 changes. Notably, i... |
11 May 2013
03:56 GMT |
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WordPress has been a reliable blogging platform for many years and it keeps on going strong. It dominates the blogging platform after being used by 52% of the top blogs in the world.
With over 65 million WordPress sites in the world, the platform’s popularity can’t be contested, Pingdom writes.
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9 May 2013
15:51 GMT |
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CSS Plus provides the fastest and easiest way of adding custom CSS code to a WordPress page or post.
WordPress plugin developers have a bad habit of over-complicating simple tasks or features.
Personally, for years I've struggled with adding custom CSS code to a WordPress site. And by custom CSS code I don... |
8 May 2013
12:01 GMT |
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WP Ya Share takes on link sharing and social bookmarking, implementing the Yandex Share widgets for the WordPress platform.
There are so many good social bookmarking plugins in the WordPress plugin repository that a blind, retarded monkey can come across one by accident within 5 minutes.
There are many different im... |
3 May 2013
12:01 GMT |
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An interesting WordPress plugin released a few days ago could be of great aid to website administrators that want to make sure their sites are protected against the recent brute-force attacks.
Many websites are configured to block out an IP address after too many failed login attempts.
However, the brute-force att... |
2 May 2013
17:01 GMT |
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The second beta version of the upcoming WordPress 3.6 is here. It's no surprise that most of the changes between beta 1 and beta 2 are bug fixes and polishing, but there are some big changes to the newly introduced Post Formats UI. The first updated version, in the first beta, didn't go well with testers i... |
30 April 2013
03:02 GMT |
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While at first sight WP Catalogue might look like a great way to showcase portfolios on a WordPress powered site, the plugin is capable of much more than just blindly outputting a list of items on a grid layout. WP Catalogue was coded on top of a WordPress custom post type structure, allowing editors to add portfoli... |
25 April 2013
12:01 GMT |
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With the latest brute-force attacks against WordPress sites, it’s likely that many website owners and webmasters are in search for solutions that can protect their assets against such threats. If you’re one of them, I recommend that you check out 6Scan Security.
6Scan Security is a free WordPress plugin ... |
22 April 2013
15:11 GMT |
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The WordPress.com dashboard is getting a redesign. While it's been getting small tweaks and updates since this latest version was introduced, WordPress felt that it was time for a complete redesign. The new dashboard doesn't actually look all that different from the current one, but there are plenty of cha... |
22 April 2013
09:39 GMT |
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A new flavor of the WordPress for Android mobile application is now available for download, namely version 2.3, set to provide users with a new experience while on the go, courtesy of an updated interface. The new app iteration was built using the Holo style guidelines, and sports an Action Bar interface throughout... |
18 April 2013
07:51 GMT |
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Logo Slider can create and publish uniquely styled image slideshows, better suited for presenting an image carousel of logos or other small graphics.
Even if it can work with normal sized imagery, there are plenty of other photo gallery WordPress plugins, better designed and much more full of features than Logo Slid... |
16 April 2013
12:01 GMT |
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As we all know by now, the lack of apps is one of the major setbacks of Windows 8, the new operating system that currently has nearly 60,000 tools available in the Store.
This time, the company is willing to convince devs to create Windows 8 apps by releasing IdeaPress, a new tool aimed at WordPress blog owners that... |
15 April 2013
22:31 GMT |
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Over the past few days, several web hosting companies have reported seeing brute-force attacks being launched against websites powered by Joomla and WordPress. The attackers are using a botnet with more than 90,000 servers to break into the websites’ administrator panels by attempting to “guess” t... |
13 April 2013
04:15 GMT |
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Audio Tube allows editors to shamelessly use YouTube as their song hosting CDN. This little WordPress plugin works by taking a YouTube video, stripping the video screen from the player and keeping the controls to allow site visitors to listen to the video's music. In layman's terms: it uses YouTube as a mu... |
10 April 2013
12:01 GMT |
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A new flavor of the WordPress application is now available for download for Windows Phone devices, namely version 2.1, providing users with the possibility to easily write posts, edit content, and manage comments for their WordPress websites.
No official details on what was changed in the new app release has been p... |
8 April 2013
16:41 GMT |
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Two-step authentication is slowly becoming the norm, which can only be a good thing. Google was the first big web company to enable two-step authentication for its accounts and since then others have followed.
The latest is WordPress.com which is enabling two-step authentication for the blogs it hosts. Users can no... |
6 April 2013
07:41 GMT |
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The first beta release of the upcoming WordPress 3.6 is here. It's a bit later than some might have expected, but this release is a change of course for WordPress.
All the features have been mostly completed by now, the beta release is intended for testing and just for testing, there won't be any major ch... |
5 April 2013
11:02 GMT |
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The WP Butler plugin can provide a very useful shortcut system for common actions in the WordPress dashboard and admin panel. Want to add a new blog category but hate navigating the default WordPress sidebar menu? It's simple with WP Butler. Press SHIFT+ALT+B and type “add” or “category”... |
3 April 2013
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Blogging platform WordPress is getting a leg up on iOS with a lot of fixed bugs, improved notification settings, an enhanced Jetpack setup mechanism and more.
WordPress version 3.5.2 disables autosaves “until they are more stable,” improves the Jetpack setup process and Notification settings, and deals a... |
2 April 2013
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If you're a Web designer and you have real problems negotiating and presenting design proposals for client work, the Design Approval System will alleviate some of your concerns with a very thought-through process and easy to use interface.
The plugin supports managing multiple projects with multiple proposals a... |
28 March 2013
13:01 GMT |
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Flare is yet another high-end product from the Digital Telepathy team, creators of SlideDeck and The Hello Bar. Flare is a WordPress plugin for adding social sharing buttons and toolbars to various places and in various ways to WP sites. Absolutely everything about the social sharing toolbars can be customized, from... |
20 March 2013
13:01 GMT |
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Ultimate Admin Bar makes a simple, yet very noticeable modification to the WordPress backend, moving the much loved, well-known side admin menu to the recently added administration top toolbar.
Affecting only the backend, and not the site's frontend toolbar, the plugin is recommended for admins who need more sp... |
15 March 2013
13:01 GMT |
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Trust Form provides a visual interface for building advanced, complicated Web forms inside the WordPress administration backend. Relying on lots of drag-and-drop actions and little to no coding experience, Trust Form provides a very versatile solution that webmasters can use in creating custom form structures, that ... |
7 March 2013
12:01 GMT |
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A new flavor of the WordPress application for Windows Phone devices is now available for download, namely version 2.0, with a nice range of enhancements packed inside.
The new flavor of the application provides users with the possibility to create galleries straight from their handsets, while also offering various ... |
1 March 2013
05:37 GMT |
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BracketPress is one of the easiest to use toolkits for managing sport tournament brackets out there. And this statement covers non-WordPress solutions as well.
Benefiting from a KISS-based interface, BracketPress allows easy editing of complicated tournament brackets, along with the teams that participate in them.
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27 February 2013
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Youtube Channel Gallery can transform a WordPress site into your very own customized YouTube video channel.
The plugin can embed videos or entire playlists from any YouTube user, allowing webmasters not only to embed their own videos, but aggregate video feeds from a plethora of people, creating relevant video-based... |
22 February 2013
12:01 GMT |
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Debug This is a very powerful troubleshooting toolkit for WordPress websites. Created to aid theme and plugin developers, Debug This can be used by any webmaster experiencing problems with his WP-powered site.
Covering a plethora of debug options, the plugin simply outputs the desired data as a regular PHP array ins... |
14 February 2013
12:01 GMT |
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Bulk Plugin Installation allows WordPress administrators to install more than one plugin at a time.
It works by modifying WordPress' plugin installation page, adding a big textarea at the top.
Admins can then enter here the plugin's name, as seen on the WordPress plugin index or the plugin's WordPres... |
8 February 2013
12:01 GMT |
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Owners of Windows Phone devices can now download and install a new flavor of the WordPress application, namely version 1.9.3.
Unfortunately, no specific info on what was changed in the new application version has been provided as of now, though we could assume that there are various performance improvements and fix... |
6 February 2013
20:31 GMT |
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WordPress.org is out with a brand new version of their iOS blogging app which focuses entirely on notifications, including how you manage the alerts that come in, the blogs that matter the most, etc. WordPress 3.4 brings notifications for WordPress.com blogs and self-hosted with the Jetpack plugin, according to the ... |
6 February 2013
07:31 GMT |
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Bitdefender warns users that cybercriminals are trying to hijack their accounts by relying on a cross-site scripting (XSS) type of attack.
It all starts with an email coming from a contact. The message doesn’t say much, except for “check out this page,” followed by a link.
The link appears to le... |
31 January 2013
03:42 GMT |
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Deprecation Checker checks WordPress code against various standards and suggests alternatives for deprecated functions.
Developing for WordPress ain't that hard if you know PHP and are able to make your way around the WordPress Codex (documentation). Because of this, it's certainly much easier to code Word... |
30 January 2013
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One month and a half after WordPress 3.5 came out, the first minor update, WordPress 3.5.1 is here. A you'd expect, it comes with a few fixes, some tweaks and some security patches, nothing spectacular, but you should definitely get the update anyway.
Among the fixes, some HTML elements are now no longer being ... |
25 January 2013
06:21 GMT |
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There is a plethora of WordPress plugins dealing with creating and embedding image or content sliders on WP-powered sites. Each one of them is unique in their own way, with various levels of customization available.
Sliderly was created by Dallas Read and focuses on a simple slideshow display, with a minimal adminis... |
24 January 2013
12:01 GMT |
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Iris is the color picker that ships with the newest WordPress release, v3.5. It is also the color picker you'd see when customizing your WordPress.com blog, originally created to power their Custom Colors feature. Without the regular whistle and bells that Automattic uses to promote its regular products, Iris w... |
23 January 2013
12:01 GMT |
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WP-o-Matic gives WordPress site administrators an advanced tool for importing content from RSS or Atom feeds and converting them to fully compliant WordPress blog posts. The core of the plugin revolves around the SimplePie library which does all the heavy lifting regarding feed parsing and manipulation. A special p... |
16 January 2013
12:01 GMT |
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Speed addicts will love CleanerPress, a WordPress plugin that helps webmasters tweak their WP installations, optimizing code output for faster page load times.
Google has been promoting page speed as one of the most important metrics in search results classification for a long time now, and rightfully so, since some... |
11 January 2013
12:01 GMT |
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On January 30, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion will officially unveil to the world the next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system, along with handsets set to run under it. Before that, however, partners and app developers are preparing to have their products ready for launch for the official avai... |
10 January 2013
14:41 GMT |
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WordPress for Windows Phone devices has just been upgraded to version 1.9, with some appealing new features packed inside. According to the development team, the new flavor of the mobile application brings along support for full-screen content creation, which provides users with the possibility to edit and create n... |
9 January 2013
06:41 GMT |
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The WordPress blogging software tends to stick pretty close to what's available on WordPress.com and the other way around. There are differences though, not just from the fact that one is a hosting service.
There are some features exclusive to WordPress.com, not necessarily because they're "exclusive," bu... |
7 January 2013
14:46 GMT |
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Auto Attachments makes attaching any type of file to a WordPress post or page much more easier, both for editors and for readers.
It changes the way they are listed on the front-end, grouping files together based on their type, adding icons for easier content identification and automatically linking audio and video ... |
3 January 2013
12:01 GMT |
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The popular WordPress performance plugin W3 Total Cache – which is currently used by tens of thousands of websites from all over the world – has been found to expose sensitive information if it’s not configured correctly. The researcher who has identified this issue, Jason Donenfeld, explains that ... |
28 December 2012
07:44 GMT |
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WP-United is a toolkit for synchronizing WordPress and phpBB3 content. It comes as a phpBB3 mod and a separate WordPress plugin that allows data to be interchanged between the two installations.
WP-United supports embedding phpBB3 forums inside WordPress themes, and the vice-versa effect of embedding WP blogs in php... |
27 December 2012
12:01 GMT |
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A security hole in WordPress’ Pingback system – a mechanism utilized by web authors to know when someone links to one of their documents – can be leveraged by cybercriminals to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks.
According to Bogdan Calin of Acunetix, the WordPress XMLRPC API, whic... |
18 December 2012
09:15 GMT |
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Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, founded by WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg, has been trying, and succeeding in fact, to create a revenue model from blogging. To date, it's been making money by selling premium features to regular users, such as the ability to customize themes, and by selling a whi... |
13 December 2012
12:07 GMT |
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Tweet Collection can be used to import tweets into the WordPress database and then publish them online as individual posts.
The plugin gets a person's latest 3,200 tweets (the number of recent tweets Twitter will store for a person) and saves them as a custom post type in the WordPress MySQL database.
It will ... |
13 December 2012
12:01 GMT |
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WordPress 3.5 has arrived. After several months in development and several beta and RC builds, the final, stable release is here. It's about a week behind schedule, but that's to be expected for such a big project.
The big new feature in WordPress 3.5, codenamed "Elvin," is a new media manager. The t... |
11 December 2012
12:41 GMT |
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