Wordpress is quickly becoming a fully-featured, powerful and dynamic content management system and not just a blogging tool. The geniuses over at Wordpress.org are continually improving and expanding the codex while miraculously protecting the speed, simplicity and ease of Wordpress.
In tandem with the developers, theme creators are continually pushing the limits of Wordpress to new [...]
Towards the end of 2009, Wordpress released a second version of their iphone Wordpress application. The fully featured blogging application allows you to do a range of tasks with Wordpress.org and Wordpress.com sites, the most important being: Writing new posts and pages, editing existing posts and pages, and moderating comments. The thought of writing blog [...]
Wordpress is without question, the #1 blogging platform and content management system (CMS) available. For obvious reasons like simplicity, speed, flexibility. But what about all those subtle differences that you notice, but can’t quite put your finger on? It has a lot to do with AJAX or asynchronous JavaScript and XML. From saving changes to [...]
With hundreds of thousands of blogs being created every day, yours will take a lot to stand out in the crowd. These tips have been assembled from years of experience navigating the blogosphere. Stick to these 6 principles and you’ve got a pretty decent chance of making it.
1. Use a custom design
This is [...]
We don’t often stray from Wordpress here at Pingable. But we stumbled upon this site at Google, claiming to offer free wireless broadband. At first I was excited because I need a solution for reliable broadband internet. As I continued to read, I realized it was a joke, catching an inference to the quality of [...]
The golden rule of blogging is offer valuable content. This tip trumps a good design, flashy graphics, twitter integration, powerful links, even advertisements.
However, quality content can be improved with an applicable and eye-catching screenshot. Here are some tips and tools for creating awesome screenshots for your Wordpress posts.
Choosing the format
All screenshots should be the same [...]
Wordpress is a simple tool used by millions of webmasters. Did you know Google has a whole department dedicated to political adword accounts? We didn’t either until recently.
There are many political candidates using Wordpress to manage their online presence. As the United States Presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Howard Dean showed, the web is one of, if not the most important tool for political organizing.
Here are our picks for Wordpress themes best suited for political applications.
There is a lot to consider when choosing a host for your Wordpress site. Of course, you don’t have to self-host your site as outlined in this post on How to Install Wordpress. If you do choose to self-host Wordpress, you’ll need a hosting provider. However, not all hosts are created equal and there are [...]
Blogger and WordPress are two of the most popular blogging platforms. Blogger and WordPress are often compared to one another and the supporters of each of them try to prove that their beloved blogging platform is the best. While in many aspects this comparison is subjective, for many people WordPress is the more advanced blogging [...]
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is one of the key aspects to long term success with any online venture, so if you are looking to make your Wordpress blog a success in the long run, you are going to want to consider how best to optimise your content for search engines. As it is out of [...]
