According to the Wikipedia blog entry, a blog is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries (“posts”) typically displayed in reverse chronological order. I’ve never particularly liked this kind of definition of what a blog is, because it tends to encourage people to think that a...Read More
In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, Ross Jones of 2 the Top Design gives some tips for choosing the right WordPress theme for your business. Ross Jones has been an SEO specialist even before Google was founded. Ross and his company have helped over 1000 businesses improve their websites and drive targeted...Read More
What began as a blogging tool in 2003 has grown in less than a decade to become the largest self-hosted Content Management System (CMS) platform in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. In simple terms, a content management system allows you to manage your...Read More
Easily Trim Seconds From Your WP Loading Times I gotta say, I’m super stoked about this plugin! Why? Because up till now, there was no way to do this important part of site optimization without mucking in a lot of heavy code or hiring a developer. Admittedly, this plugin isn’t for everyone (raw novices) or...Read More
WordPress has always been a CMS (Content Management System) and blogging tool for those that aren’t as adept at web design and coding, but want the flexibility and professional design that many large companies pay thousands of dollars to developers to create. The community support has always been very active and WordPress core development has...Read More
I like the frequency of WordPress updates. They’re generally released every few months so you receive some great new features and bug fixes. But they’re not so frequent that you’re updating all your sites every other day. WordPress 3.7 was released on October 24, 2013. You can download the files from wordpress.org/download/ or you can...Read More
Seems like this is pretty much a re-write of a press release. WP will continue to be the target of malicious attacks because of it’s nature and design, including that many of the features are locked to certain URLs, making attacks much more easy. Automatic updates will not work for a number of installations (setuid...Read More
One big advantage WordPress has over other CMS software is that it is very easy to customize and create themes for. This has created an ever-growing marketplace of premium WordPress themes. No matter what your website is about, if you have some money to spend, you can find the right theme for you! Over the...Read More
WordPress.org today announced the debut of WordPress 3.7, which focuses much more on the backend than the frontend. You can download the new release now from WordPress.org/Download (it’s 4.8MB). Dubbed “Basie†in honor of American jazz pianist and composer Count Basie, WordPress 3.7 is the first release that uses the company’s new plugin-first development process...Read More
HealthCare.gov is “a disaster,” “a failure” and “excruciatingly embarrassing” for the Obama administration. Why didn’t they just use WordPress? Of the 14 states running their own health insurance marketplaces, five — Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Colorado and Hawaii — decided to use WordPress to power their sites. Other markets, such as Illinois, which selected a...Read More
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