Earlier this week, news emerged that up to 5 million Gmail usernames and passwords were published to a Russian Bitcoin forum, though Google said that it didn’t believe any of it was the result of a security breach at its end. Now, Automattic, which operates hosted blogging service WordPress.com, has revealed it has taken pre-emptive...Read More
Almost a quarter of all sites on the web today run WordPress (including TechCrunch), but it’s not the easiest content management system to scale up for high-traffic sites. A bit of basic caching goes a long way, but to run a very large site — or to manage a huge visitor spike from Reddit and similar...Read More
(ari) On Wednesday, some of the Web’s biggest properties are staging a day of Internet protest to draw attention to net neutrality — the idea that broadband providers shouldn’t speed up, slow down, block or otherwise manipulate the traffic that you request online. The demonstration will involve the likes of Netflix, Mozilla, Kickstarter, Etsy and WordPress, just...Read More
Machine-understanding of text is part of many marketers’ toolbox, but it is one of the more complex tools. Today, a startup called MonkeyLearn is releasing the beta version of a cloud-based artificial intelligence platform that it hopes can do for text mining what WordPress did for websites and blogs. “We want to make text mining-driven...Read More
What do Flickr, TechCrunch, eBay and Best Buy all have in common? They all use WordPress. Initially developed as a blogging platform, WordPress has evolved in the last 11 years to a full-fledged popular content management system (CMS), capable of hosting static and dynamic content, e-commerce and event calendars, audio and video podcasts, and more, thanks largely...Read More
PayStand has released an e-commerce plugin for WooCommerce that will give WordPress merchants a new way to accept bitcoin. With the news, PayStand joins BitPay to become the latest bitcoin payments processor to integrate its services with WooCommerce. The free e-commerce toolkit is a popular method for WordPress websites to accept payments. Speaking to CoinDesk, PayStand CEO Jeremy Almond...Read More
Want to design and code quality themes and plugins for the world’s most popular CMS? We’ve got just what you need to develop your WordPress skills and make your Web projects shine. The 0-100 WordPress Starter Kit includes lifetime access to six great tutorials from Udemy, with over 30 hours of content, to teach you...Read More
Developing a great WordPress site that yields results is one thing, but mix in inter-team dynamics and multiple departments and that’s when things can get complicated. As the business of Marketing Press grows, we find ourself in this very position. WordPress development for multi-department organizations is a balance of give and take, plus sometimes there...Read More
WordPress now powers so many websites, it’s no surprise that it’s a favorite target for hackers. To keep its users safe, Automattic – the company behind both WordPress.com and the open-source WordPress project — today announced that it has acquired BruteProtect, a security and management tool for WordPress. The BruteProtect plug-in is currently used on...Read More
For those who use the popular WordPress content management system for blogging, there are a lot of iOS tools. In the OS X world, however, you’re generally content to use a Markdown tool that also happens to upload content to WordPress blogs. Blogo 2.0 (US$29.99, available at introductory price of $14.99) has been designed from...Read More
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