
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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In today’s post, I want to go over some WordPress SEO plugins. These plugins are important to me because they help give my sites stronger SEO and become overall, more impactful in the search engines.
Here are just some of my favorite WordPress SEO plugins that I use on a regular basis.
SEO Smart Links
This plugin …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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