WordPress, the world’s largest open source content management system (CMS), has just become even more open sourcier. Chalk it up to some changes from Automattic, the web development corporation most notable for its contributions to WordPress and WordPress.com, the hosted version of WordPress. Automattic has overhauled WordPress.com, opened the script to developers on GitHub, and made...Read More
What’s your favorite hosting service for a high-traffic WordPress site and why? The following answers are provided by members of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched BusinessCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses. 1....Read More
E-commerce has been exceptionally successful in the past few years and the worldwide online retail spending is close to $2 trillion with a 6.6 percent growth as compared to 2014. The industry is growing fast and it is no surprise that more and more businesses are trying to capitalize on the tremendous market potential of...Read More
WordPress.com, the fully hosted version of WordPress, has a received one of its biggest updates ever today. Codenamed Calypso, Automattic rewrote WordPress.com from scratch — everything is new under the hood. Here are the big changes. First, WordPress.com is now fully separated from the WordPress core. WordPress.com is now an admin interface that interacts with...Read More
WordPress.com has replaced PHP with web technologies and a RESTful back-end API for the administration console. Writing about why WordPress.com decided to move from PHP to JavaScript, Matt Mullenweg, Founder and CEOÂ of Automattic Inc., the company behind wordpress.com, said that the foundations of the platform were not strong enough for what is to come, and...Read More
The popular blogging site WordPress.com unveiled a new admin interface today for managing blogs, posting content, and reading other people’s sites. If you’re a regular user, you’ll notice a new look and feel. If you’re a code geek, you’ll notice something more remarkable below the surface: JavaScript instead of PHP. If you run the open...Read More
Gary Illyes, Webmaster Trends Analyst from Google, keynoted State of Search on Monday talked about AMP and how Google will be pushing it aggressively in 2016. But he also mentioned something else, that Google is working with both WordPress and Joomla to support AMP as well. WordPress has previously announced their efforts with AMP. But...Read More
In the early 2000s I dabbled in making websites. It was a time in my life when I wasn’t doing as much after recovering from a surgery. I became engrossed with the fact that I could do something behind the scenes and see it come to life in a web browser. I peeled back the...Read More
This article was sponsored by Beans. Thank you for supporting the sponsors who make SitePoint possible. If you develop websites and themes using WordPress, then you understand how much work it takes. Working from scratch makes you feel like you’re trying to reinvent the wheel, so many developers use frameworks to speed up the process....Read More
No application escaped without a Shellshock attack in 2015, either, report finds. Content management systems were attacked three times more often than other Web applications — especially WordPress, which was hit 3.5 times more often, according to Imperva’s new Web Application Attacks Report. WordPress, the most popular CMS, has taken a beating this year, marred...Read More
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