Along with Twitter’s redesign announcement Thursday, the service has rolled out a new way to let website developers and bloggers embed tweets that give visitors the ability to reply, retweet and favorite without leaving the page. Twitter users now can place embeddable tweets on their websites by simply using one line of code. A single-click...Read More
Having become a popular platform for publishing SEO copy, WordPress has revealed that it will be launching a PPC ads feature for its sites, according to an article published by The Drum. WordPress has partnered with Federated Media to create the feature, which will be accessible to users of WordPress that meet a number of...Read More
According to Water Stone, just like in 2010, the “big three” open source CMS services WordPress, Joomla and Drupal are dominating the market. And out of these three it is WordPress that outpaced Joomla and Drupal. This survey covered 35 systems – the primary focus of the survey was the adoption rate and strength of brand. For...Read More
Brian Casel is the founder of CasJam Media, a web design shop that works with clients worldwide designing custom WordPress CMS sites. Connect with Brian on Twitter @CasJam. For those of us who work with WordPress every day, it has been exciting to watch our beloved content management system evolve over the years from a...Read More
WordPress 3.2 has been downloaded a killer 12M+ times. WordPress as a whole continues to grow and is touted to be in the approximate 14% of the web zone. That’s ridiculously huge and it astounds me how big the projects footprint has become in the 7 years I’ve been around the community. Well done to...Read More
4 New WordPress Features You Should be Using Already Radu Tyrsina, Sat, Nov 19, 2011 WordPress has been getting really popular. According to figures published on wordpress.org, the open source publishing platform has seen substantial growth over the past year – now being the fuel behind 14, 7% of world’s top one million websites. Compare...Read More
Cybercriminals have hacked WordPress sites to redirect users to a Black hole exploit kit which circulates malware, anti-virus firm Avast said. According to a victim, the virus in image resizing tool TimThumb enabled assailants to take hold of WordPress websites. The anti-virus firm, on its own, blocked redirection efforts from 3,500 and 2,515 websites in...Read More
The enterprise just isn’t interesting, says Matt Mullenweg WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg believes in open source software, but if you ask him who really inspired him, he’ll say Apple, not Red Hat. Sure, Apple is “probably not the most kosher,†open source wise, but at least they’re not an enterprise software company. Mullenweg is not...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Can relying on open source technology as the backbone for an entire company really be feasible? WordPress.com’s founder Matt Mullenweg certainly seems to think so. “I believe morally and philosophically that not just software, but everything should be open source,†asserted Mullenweg, while speaking at the GigaOM RoadMap 2011 summit on Thursday...Read More
Millions of people use the software that Matt Mullenweg helped to create, but very few of them would probably know his name. He is the baby-faced founder of WordPress — the open-source software that powers more than 50 million blogs, including some published by leading news websites such as the New York Times — and...Read More
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