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WordPress.com Goes Down, TechCrunch.com Goes With It

WordPress.com Goes Down, TechCrunch.com Goes With It

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 …

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WordPress Plugin Development, What Not to Do

WordPress Plugin Development, What Not to Do

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 Sitemap Ping Feature Gets You Quick Search Updates

WordPress.com Sitemap Ping Feature Gets You Quick Search Updates

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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WordPress 2.2 for the iPhone

WordPress 2.2 for the iPhone

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 …

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TechCrunch Moves to WordPress VIP Hosting

TechCrunch Moves to WordPress VIP Hosting

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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WordPress on Android

WordPress on Android

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 …

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The WordPress Foundation

The WordPress Foundation

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 point …

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WordPress (MU) 3.0

WordPress (MU) 3.0

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 …

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Get Your Personal Akismet API Key

Get Your Personal Akismet API Key

For a long time, you could only get an Akismet API key by creating a wordpress.com account. From what it seems though, that’s no longer the case. It seems that Akismet.com is offering personal keys directly on their site, http://akismet.com/personal. What is Akismet? Akismet is an anti-spam protection plugin. It will let you protect yourself …

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WordPress 2.9.1 Released

WordPress 2.9.1 Released

WordPress 2.9.1 was just released and it has a number of bug fixes. One of the biggest fixes was the upgrade process. There were a number of related bugs to the upgrade process and as you can imagine, this is a fairly big deal for most people. As Ryan notes, there were “millions of downloads …

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