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 [...]
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 [...]
If you work with Wordpress, you are a web developer of some kind. Whether it is your full time job or just a side gig, you may want to display your work. As Wordpress themes become more and more specialized, portfolio themes have developed rapidly. From their beginnings as a simple blog [...]
At Pingable we’re all about Wordpress, which is all about blogging (and a few other things). With an estimated 900,000 blogs created every day, many of them don’t last more than a few weeks. Bloggers put tons of energy into their blogs, then get disappointed when nobody reads them. Here are our favorite ways to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Have you noticed some websites have those toolbars at the bottom of the screen? They stay put as you scroll around and offer you all sorts of conversion tools like twitter buttons, subscribe buttons, search features, etc. See them in action on the top blogs like Web Ecoist, Walyou and The Next Web. [...]
These theme creators stand above the rest in terms of aesthetics, web standards, functionality and creativity. There are over 19,000,000 results for “premium wordpress themes” on Google. Wouldn’t it be nice to rely on a handful of providers? In no particular order, here are some of our favorites:
Woo Themes
PremiumWP
Studio Press
Theme Forest (a marketplace site with [...]
