Wordpress

The danger of subscription services, the paywall era trap

Paywalls or subscription services are the now, – as corporations move towards catering to users with ad-free options while also maintaining the products traditional…

WordPress now allows you to post your blogs as a Twitter thread

WordPress has introduced a new posting feature for Twitter that turns your blog post into “tweetstorms” or Twitter threads. The company announced the feature…

WordPress geeks, unite! WordCamp set to hit Cape Town

Yes, it’s that time of year again: one of the biggest meetups of small business owners, non-profit agencies, photographers, designers, bloggers, journalists and web…

Matt Mullenweg writes a love letter to WordPress on its 10th anniversary

This is pretty adorable and one of the sweetest things we have seen on the internet. To mark the 10th anniversary of WordPress, founder…

Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web

From the mind of a 19-year-old to the world’s most popular content management system (CMS) — WordPress has done some serious growing up in…

In the future we will only need five computers says Matt Mullenweg

WordPress founder and open source advocate Matt Mullenweg dropped by the Memeburn offices today to speak about how WordPress went from a blogging platform…

WordPress founder Mullenweg on openness and the mobile future [LeWeb]

Matt Mullenweg has never been an advocate for controlled systems. This is, after all, the man who founded the download-and-code-it-yourself giant WordPress, and wished…

How has WordPress evolved as a business tool?

WordPress as a business platform is not a new trend by any means. Successful businesses have been running on WordPress for a long time,…

WordPress unveils new live-blogging plugin

This is very cool, especially if CovertLive’s move from free to paid had you distraught. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has unveiled a new…

WordPress claims ‘biggest update ever’ with new iOS version

Expect to see people blogging a lot more from their iDevices in the near future. WordPress today rolled out a new version of its…

Why WordPress’ Facebook plugin is actually a big deal

One of the key success factors of blogging is the ability to share. Facebook are the masters of sharing. Small wonder then that on…

Facebook’s official WordPress plugin is here, bloggers rejoice

Facebook has announced a new plugin for WordPress that will allow bloggers to tap into Facebook features, such as social publishing and mentions directly…

Mullenweg: Future of WordPress is ‘shorter, simpler, faster’

WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg reckons that the platform he founded is going to have to radically evolve if it’s going to succeed on tablets…

Why PressTrends is one of the most exciting things to happen to WordPress

Recent news around WordPress has, primarily, been focussed around the release of WordPress version 3.3 and the launch of WordAds. Those of us interested…

WordPress 3.3 release trends globally

The release of WordPress 3.3, dubbed “Sonny” in honour of renowned Jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, has generated so much online buzz that it has…

WordPress lets bloggers make money with WordAds

One of the world’s foremost blogging platforms and content management systems, WordPress, is now allowing bloggers to make money via online advertising. The programme,…

State of the word: What to look forward to in WordPress 3.3

With more than 3.5-million downloads since release, WordPress version 3.2 has been received by users worldwide with open arms. A fresh coat of paint…

The future of WordPress: Q&A with founder Matt Mullenweg

Named as one of the 25 most influential people on the web, Matt Mullenweg founded and runs an open source web platform that has…

Ways to enhance your WordPress blog

WordPress has, for many, become the platform of choice for powering business websites, both general content-managed and blog websites alike. Let us not forget…

Multiple DDOS attacks threaten WordPress and int’l governments

In a day of multiple cyber-attacks across the web, WordPress, the government of South Korea and 29 international government agencies were threatened by DDOS…

Anticipation builds around the impressive, upcoming WordPress 3.1

With three release candidates available at the time of writing, and a bleeding edge build of the software released nightly, WordPress version 3.1 is…

The WordPress evolution: 10 major media players that use it

Over the past three years WordPress has evolved from being predominantly blog-centric into a full, hands-on content management system (CMS) with more than 15-million…

Obox Design unveils a WordPress mobile theme framework

South African WordPress theme company, Obox Design, has recently made some significant developments in the area of theming for mobile devices. “Obox Mobile” is…

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