Named as one of the 25 most influential people on the web, Matt Mullenweg founded and runs an open source web platform that has revolutionised website publishing. WordPress began its life as free, open-source blogging software which quickly evolved into a general-purpose CMS used by millions of sites on the web. The success of WordPress...Read More
Apple has apparently placed a mammoth order of 15 million units for the iPhone 5 as the countdown to the release of the handset in September continues. According to Monica Chen from Taipei-based news outlet, Digitimes, Taiwanese ODM Pegatron Technology – an offshoot of Asus – has been tasked to build the phone which it...Read More
WordPress WordPress 3.2’s new Twenty Eleven theme The newest version of WordPress arrived two days ago and in 24 hours, about 330,000 downloads of the free, open source software had taken place. Matt Mullenweg’s WordPress News blog post about the update characterizes the 15th major release of WordPress as “faster and lighter” with an emphasis on...Read More
Casey Chan —The TouchPad, though a little undercooked, has a few impressive apps on their platform already. WordPress for webOS, for example, uses the sliding panels motif to create a highly flexible blogging interface. It’s everything you’d want in a WordPress app. The sliding panels is straight out the Twitter for iPad playbook, you can...Read More
The latest stable version of WordPress, 3.1, was first released on 23 February 2011. Now, less than 5 months later, the blogging software has been downloaded over 15 million times according to a tweet posted mere minutes ago (and the download counter). Joomla just recently announced that its software has been downloaded 23 million times...Read More
Tumblr now hosts more blogs than WordPress.com, despite having existed for half the time of its competitor. According to Tumblr’s info page, the site hosts more than 20.9 million total blogs, up from 7 million in January. By contrast, WordPress.com’s stats reveal that the platform powers 20.8 million Web sites. Tumblr was founded in 2007,...Read More
The new WordPress 3.1.4 update comes as developers push forward on the next generation of the blogging platform. The third release candidate for WordPress 3.2 is now available, including the same security and hardening fixes that are in the 3.1.4 release. Additionally, WordPress 3.2 includes some additional JavaScript, and user interface fixes. WordPress 3.2 is...Read More
So far, I’ve noticed you, the loyal (hopefully) readers, aren’t all that amped up about the new format. Personally, I think that anything new always takes some time to get used and is problematic at the start. I can understand some of the frustrations with the format though and share them with you. Here is...Read More
WordPress lately cautioned each of its accountholders who used the company’s software to remain watchful of three malevolent plug-ins that were associated with the content management application it provided, being possibly offered for taking down online from WordPress.org during a 24-hour or more period, thus published InformationWeek in news on June 22, 2011. Essentially, WordPress...Read More
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