Automattic announced this morning that they are launching Jetpack.me, a site around the offering of WordPress.com services to self-hosted WordPress sites. The initial launch is offering the following features for self-hosted WordPress sites: WordPress.com Stats, a Twitter Widget (for your sidebar), Gravatar Hovercards, WP.me Shortlinks, Sharedaddy (WordPress.com’s super sharing tool), LaTeX, After the Deadline, and …
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WordPress 3.1 was released into the wild today. Earlier we covered some of the new features in WordPress 3.1, but I’m just so glad it’s finally here. Some of the highlights are a redesigned linking workflow, a more streamlined writing interface, a refreshed blue admin scheme (which we use here at WPvibe.com), new Post Formats …
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You won’t catch me writing about security threats very often here, but when I do, it’s because I feel it’s worthy of writing about it. Today’s security warning is about the WordPress plugin “User Photo.” This plugin has not been updated since 2008-12-4, which means over 2 years ago. You should always be careful when …
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Matt Danner was able to post a video tour of the iThemes awesome. Here is where the magic happens. Watch below!
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Elegant Themes founder Nick, announced today that they are adding a new set of shortcodes to all of their themes. One of the shortcodes I’m most interested in is the Corporate Pricing Table option. This is something that is really difficult to do, some a CSS and HTML perspective. To be able to use this …
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WordPress.com announced today that you can enable new sharing options for your posts. It is called “Publicize.” Here’s how it works. After you publish a post, you can go enable the Publicize options (Settings » Sharing). Next, you can choose which services you want to connect to your blog. Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo! Updates, and MSN …
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Whoa there! WordPress.com launched a premium themes marketplace? Yes, yes they did. Matt Mullenweg brought this idea to light just 4 years ago, and it’s finally a reality. To kick off the launch of the premium marketplace, the Automattic team has selected two themes. Headlines and Shelf. You can view both themes on WordPress.com as …
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Today, Allure Themes was announced by Lisa Sabin-Wilson. The new WordPress themes company is going to be a creative partnership between Cory Miller’s iThemes and Lisa Sabin-Wilson, the author of WordPress for Dummies. Here’s what Lisa has to say about Allure on their website. Smart and stylish WordPress themes designed for today’s smart and stylish …
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WordPress 3.1 is getting really close to being released. 3.1 RC3 was released just a few days ago. So what can we expect from WordPress 3.1? Here are the highlights. New WordPress Admin Bar (here’s how to remove the admin bar) Theme Search Internal Linking Ajax’d Admin Updated WYSIWYG Editor Upgraded Password Reset functionality (#5919) …
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WordPress has passed the 30 million mark. As of this post, 30,396,531 downloads (and counting). WordPress had 20 million downloads last October, making it just three months to gain another 10 million downloads. WordPress.com released some stats as well, noting that WordPress.com hosts almost half of all the WordPress-powered sites in the world. Amazing work …
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