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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]