We recently reported on Wibiya, an exceptional tool for Wordpress blogs (and other sites but we don’t care about them). At the time, Wibiya was in beta mode, asking you to request an invitation to use the plugin. Just recently, Wibiya took two pretty big steps.
First, Wibiya is now open to the public. Simply click [...]
Akay has created a stunning new Wordpress portfolio theme. With a slick vertical slide combined with a horizontal slide, this theme promises to make your Wordpress portfolio stand out. It comes with a unique layout which strays from the standard right-column layout. The dotted gradient effect with screenshots stands above other examples we’ve seen. This [...]
Wordpress themes have come a long way. As the exceptional Wordpress team builds in more and more features, they give web designers tons of options for creativity and innovation in theme design. We hope that this post brings up trends in Wordpress themes that you have noticed, but didn’t know you noticed.
What are your tricks for promoting your wordpress blog? Everyone has their techniques. Maybe you are an avid Tweeter. Maybe you have a secret arsenal of high pagerank blogs that instantly give your new blog street-cred. Whatever your technique, exchanging links is an important tactic… right?
We think so, but just recently we found someone who [...]
Have you seen the wordpress.org hosting page? With Wordpress consuming a massive segment of the web, the Wordpress hosting industry has to be big. We recently stumbled upon a page over at Wordpress.org that recommends web hosting providers. Our first thought: this must be a goldmine! Here’s why:
1st) Wordpress.org has a page rank of 9. [...]
This question was asked in the Wordpress forum here. Since nobody had answered Michael at press time, I thought it might be helpful to find the answer and publish it here.
Solution:
Option 1) Use robots.txt to prohibit search engines form indexing a page. Simply add this to your robots.txt file. If you don’t have a robots.txt [...]
We have built a ton of Wordpress sites. Seriously, hundreds. Maybe thousands. Over time, we have developed a short list of go-to plugins. No matter what kind of Wordpress site we’re making (a blog, a community, etc.) we start by downloading the latest version of these plugins. In our humble [...]
Wordpress is so immensely popular that even some monster sites and companies are using it to manage their content. From blogs to portals, these big boys have chosen Wordpress. Can you blame them?
If you like this post, you’ll probably like this one: 20 Reasons Wordpress Gives Us Goosebumps
Where are the links? This list will grow [...]
If you’re reading this post we can be sure of two things. First, you love Wordpress too. Second, you have experienced other content management systems and thus, know Wordpress beats them all. These are (just some of) the reasons Wordpress is the only choice for managing a blog, a community, or a business online.
Wordpress is…
simple.
easy [...]
As of today, Wordpress 2.9 is out of the gate. Self hosted Wordpress site admins are seeing “Upgrade to Wordpress 2.9″ messages across their dashboards. So what’s new in Wordpress 2.9? It’s a long list but here are some favorites:
Trash status for posts and pages.
Support for excerpt_more (see our previous post on this)
Sticky post support [...]
