WordPress continues to grow as the CMS (Content Management System) of choice on the Internet. It also ranks as the fastest growing CMS as well! Two years after WordPress usage reached 20%, it achieved the next major milestone: 25% of all websites now use WordPress. Or, as its founder Matt Mullenweg puts it: Seventy-Five to Go. […]
Category: <span>News</span>
[vimeo width=”600″ height=”340″]http://vimeo.com/31100268[/vimeo] “… new powers to block Americans’ access websites that corporations don’t like. The bill would criminalize posting all sorts of standard web content — music playing in the background of videos, footage of people dancing, kids playing video games, and posting video of people playing cover songs. This legislation will stifle free […]
Proving once again that WordPress is not just the domain of hobby blogs and small online entities, we are spotlighting international news giant, CNN as a WordPress user. CNN actually has a constellation of WordPress blogs covering a wide variety of topics from the news giant’s coverage, ranging from personal pieces to global events, with […]
As I a huge advocate of both Android and WordPress, I was delighted to see a new, highly updated version of the official WordPress Android app. I can’t wait to load it up on my phone and tablet and give it a spin. We’re pleased to announce that WordPress for Android 2.0 has been released […]
Ford is one of those companies that displays an enduring resistance the ails that are all too typical of the modern manufacturing industry as a whole in the United States. After a period of stasis, they began to reinvent themselves in terms of technology and image. No less is true of their online presence. In […]
eCommerce wunderkind Amazon really needs no introduction. Its store platform and servers are among the most respected, trusted and stable in the world. Time and time again, Amazon has weathered the online storms from bubbles and crashes, to scaling and security. So you can imagine how delighted I was to learn that they decided to […]
A vulnerability in the popular third-party plugin, 1 Flash Gallery, has been identified by multiple independent sources. The vulnerability allows attackers to perform an arbitrary file upload (usually a malicious php script or the like) which then can be used to perform various undesirable actions from the victim’s server (typically server a spam email relay). An attack […]
Now more than ever is no time to be slack about security. The folks at WordPress.org realize that the popularity of their Content Management System makes it target for bad guys looking for large numbers of potential targets. Therefore, when they noticed what the deemed suspicious activity surrounding three popular plugins and took swift action. […]
Spotify is the Sweden-based online music service that has transformed the way Europeans listen to their music, particularly on mobile platforms (much to the envy of many Americans). Like many companies, Spotify has harassed the power of WordPress to create their news portal. Custom template styling has allowed them to match the rest of their site […]
One of the biggest hurdles decision makers have to overcome in understanding just how powerful and versatile WordPress is as a web presence platform is one of perception as merely a “blog” (the other is the word “blog” itself, but that’s a topic for another article). From its humble origins, WordPress has evolved into a […]