WordPress.org today announced the release of WordPress 3.6, featuring a new blog-centric theme and a revamped revision browser. You can download the new release now from WordPress.org/Download (it’s 5.2MB). Dubbed “Oscar†in honor of Canadian jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson, WordPress 3.6 features more than just a new theme and improved revisions. Oscar includes...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — At the annual San Francisco WordCamp, WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg told the audience a fascinating stat about the service. In a talk that also included details on the next two versions of WordPress, Mullenweg said, “We’re now up to 18.9 percent of the web running WordPress. … We’re going to see the number...Read More
Harry McCracken / TIME If you glance at Wikipedia to determine what WordPress is, you might come away with the impression that it’s a tool for creating and maintaining a blog. It is. But that’s an increasingly insufficient way to describe it: 18.9 percent of the web now consists of sites that run on WordPress’s...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Starting tomorrow, Matt Mullenweg will be leading development on WordPress 3.8. It’s a bit unusual for a founder of a 500-person company with a hugely popular product to take direct part in product development, but Mullenweg wants to be part of an ambitious acceleration in the WordPress release cycle that will bring...Read More
Bloggers using the hosted WordPress.com service now have the option to use a .CO domain when looking to procure a customized name for their site. Thus far, users looking to steer clear of a WordPress.com-branded domain through using a personalized URL could choose from a .COM, .ME, .NET or a .ORG. The domain is the...Read More
Social intelligence platform Swipp unveiled a WordPress plugin that allows bloggers to incorporate the company’s sentiment-measuring widgets and offerings right on their site. In doing so, Swipp believes it will turn plain ol’ sites into a community where visitors can offer their opinions about what’s being posted. Following Swipp’s release of an email insights widget...Read More
Just over a week ago, I read a blog post on ManageWP entitled “Is WordPress SEO by Yoast Broken”. The post details three issues the author (Tom Ewer) has with the plugin and his efforts to get support for it. I do not support the post content itself and think there could have been better...Read More
Treehouse, the learn-to-code startup helmed by web savant Ryan Carson, is now offering code courses for WordPress, one of the most popular content management systems and website frameworks on the Internet. The news comes almost one month after Treehouse launched its PHP courses — perfect timing, since WordPress itself is a PHP product. “We have...Read More
All projects:Â DIY-IT Project GuideThis project:Â Migrating a massive legacy CMS system to WordPress Over the past year or so, I’ve been telling you about my large CMS conversion project, where I’m (almost done) moving nearly a hundred thousand articles over to a highly-modified WordPress environment. WordPress, for me, is running on a single server, but WordPress.com...Read More
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