
2009 was the year for WordPress.com.
It’s nothing new to hear about the tremendous popularity of WordPress.com, but the proof is in the pudding! There was a significant higher number of blogs created in 2009, more importantly was the expanding adoption rate. Who said blogs are dying?
One of the WordPress.com staff members was nice enough to …
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WordPress.com isn’t perfect, mortal just like any other network. Today, there has been a flurry of people talking about wordpress.com being down, and for a fact, it is down right now.
This has been confirmed by WordPress.com staff:
UPDATE at 2:55pm PST:
I will update this story as news progress.
UPDATE at 3:16pm PST:
There’s some visible on the …
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Mark Jaquith, a core developer for WordPress, published a non-exhaustive list of what “not to do” for plugin development.
We enjoy great plugins as much as the rest of the WP community. This guide by Mark will help ease a lot of pain for a lot of people. Here’s the list.
Give it a license …
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WordPress.com will not to be left behind in the search engine update game. As of last week, WordPress.com blogs have a great new feature to keep those engines up to date. The new functionality sends an instant ping to Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask to ensure they know you’ve added or removed a page or …
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Raanan recently announced the release of the iPhone app, WordPress 2.2. This not a major release, but a minor release. It does add some much wanted functionality though.
Notable, these are the major feature upgrades:
Reply to Comments
Edit Comments
Highlighting the new items in the comment list
Click here to download the upgrade: WordPress 2.2 – …
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The most recent site to be accepted into WordPress VIP hosting is TechCrunch. This is a huge tech source that gets millions of uniques per month, so this is a huge win for the WordPress.com VIP hosting team.
I checked with one of my sources on the WordPress VIP team and they confirmed that it …
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The WordPress team recently launched an Android application.
Here are a few of the features,
Configure and manage multiple blogs
Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments
Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos
Create and Edit Pages
Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar
Here’s a video demo of what it looks like:
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All I can say is wow. This is awesome! Matt Mullenweg is starting up the WordPress Foundation. So what is the WordPress Foundation for?
The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.
The …
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As I previously wrote, WordPress and WordPress MU are merging. This is a huge step for WordPress.
Jane wrote a post about the upcoming schedule of how the WordPress merge should take place.
January 7, 2010
Identify major features slotted for 3.0
Begin merging MU files into trunk
Begin development of new default theme
Begin development of custom post types …
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