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 demo of what it looks like:

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WordPress, W3 Total Cache and more with Frederick Townes, CTO Mashable

WordPress, W3 Total Cache and more with Frederick Townes, CTO Mashable

    I’ve had the opportunity to work with W3 Total Cache (W3TC) on WPVibe and various other WordPress projects. I’ve found it to be the most flexible and without question, the most robust and effective caching plugin for WordPress. I’ve also been fortunate enough to meet with the creator of W3TC, Frederick Townes, and get some …

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Why You Shouldn’t Nofollow Links in Posts

Why You Shouldn’t Nofollow Links in Posts

Google brought up the huge discussion of paid links vs non-paid links; nofollow, or dofollow, or don’t use anything at all. This is a huge discussion among SEOs and webmasters around the world.
Today’s topic is about whether or not you should nofollow links within your posts.
The short answer is, no, you shouldn’t nofollow links …

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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 …

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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 development of custom post types …

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Exclusive Interview with Automattic CEO, Toni Schneider

Exclusive Interview with Automattic CEO, Toni Schneider

Toni Schneider is the the CEO of Automattic, the company behind the Wordpress platform. Before Automattic, Toni was the CEO of Oddpost which was acquired by Yahoo. While at Yahoo, Toni was the executive who lead the creation of Yahoo Developer Network.
Dre Armeda – Since leaving your position with Yahoo! back in 2006 and joining …

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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 …

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The Future of WordPress

The Future of WordPress

WordPress is coming up to a huge milestone in its history. For a long time, WordPress and WordPress Multi-User (WPMU) were serpate entities, sharing the same code base, but largely different functions. WPMU’s core function was to house multiple blogs, such as a network like WordPress.com. WordPress’ main function was to house …

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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 for …

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We Love WordPress

We Love WordPress

It’s a new year and people are loving WordPress! I threw out a question of “who else loves WordPress?” and here’s the feedback I got!

2010 is going to be an amazing year for WordPress!

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