Pingdom.com’s blog, Royal Pingdom, puts out a Top 100 every year, naming which platform the top 100 blogs use. Last year, between WordPress.org (self-hosted) and WordPress.com, WordPress took home 49% of the marketshare. This year? WordPress takes home the cake with 52% of the top 100 blogs. While Pingdom didn’t break out WordPress.org vs WordPress.com [...]
Yoast has been part of the WordPress community for a long time now and I’m really thankful he is. His plugins have been a huge time saver, and he’s continually been an open person to speak to. He’s taking it one step further.
In a recent post by Morten Rand-hendrikso, he wrote an extensive piece about WordPress and its many facets. WordPress for blogging? WordPress as a CMS? WordPress as an application? WordPress powering a network of sites? WordPress as Software as a Service? There are many more ways you could use WordPress. WordPress is celebrating its 10th [...]
This last weekend was truly amazing. The WordCamp San Diego organizaters did an incredible job of setting up a great line-up of speakers and putting on a great event. There were a bunch of great talks. Did you miss the liveblogging action? Saturday – All About WordPress Hiring the Right WordPress Consultant with Cody Landefeld [...]
We are kicking off the business track of WordCamp SD today, with Steve talking about Client Selection and Management. If you don’t know who your “target” client is, you’ll spend a lot of time & money on the wrong ones. Steve will help us think about how we define & evaluate the kinds of clients [...]
WordCamp San Diego here we come! Last year, tickets sold out in 11 hours, this year, just 7 hours to sell out. I’m planning on testing the WordPress liveblogging plugin by Automattic that I’ve been writing about, to give it a real world test. Mark your calendars for March 23rd and 24th next weekend, to [...]
WordPress, thank you. Thank you to the community, thank you to Matt Mullenweg, thank you to Mike Little [2]. The first thing I want to say is that it’s been a wild ride. I can honestly say that I would not be where I am today without WordPress in my life. It has changed many [...]
Have you ever wanted to speed up your WordPress site? One of the easiest ways to do that is with a Content Delivery Network (CDN). Here on WPForce.com, I use MaxCDN. So why MaxCDN over the other networks? I’ve come to love how easy it is, for a non-server admin like myself, to use the [...]
Introduce yourself Andy, I’d really like my readers to know more about who you are and your background with WordPress. Hey, I’m Andy (Stratton). Some know me as @theandystratton. I’m a freelance WordPress developer, founder of Sizeable Interactive (a WordPress co-operative), and founder of WordPress maintenance service WP Maintainer. I’ve been coding since age 12, [...]
Malware security firm, Sucuri, has two openings for full-time employment; a Junior Security Support Analyst and a PHP Developer. The support analyst opening doesn’t necessarily require extensive web security experience, but being an uber-geek helps your application a lot. Sucuri offers a WordPress plugin to help prevent WordPress sites from being hacked and attacked with [...]
Matt Mullenweg, one of the founders of WordPress, posted a 2012 wrap-up about WordPress and Automattic. Some of the 2012 highlights he included are: We added 48 new Automatticians We made over 40,000 commits to our various repositories, about half of those on WP.com alone We added 75M uniques to our our network There is [...]
Smarterer, a site that let’s you test your skills against other experts on the same topic, has a few WordPress tests. I decided to go head to head against the other 5,000+ people on the WordPress Smarterer test. So I scored a 752 after answering all the questions. Not too shabby. I’ll be honest, a [...]
Courtesy of PostRunner.com, some great pumpkin carving of the WordPress logo and letters. Have a happy Halloween!
Alex King, author of the widely used plugin Popularity Contest, decided that the plugin “did too much,” but “not enough.” And as a result, decided it was time to end-of-life the plugin. Rather than just removing the plugin from the WordPress plugin directory, he took a different route to ensure that people really stopped using [...]
ManageWP is more than just a backup service. It’s more than just a place to manage all your comments. It’s even more than just a place to update all your WordPress installations. It’s all of those, and more. ManageWP.com will let you manage multiple sites in a grouped and orderly fashion. The system will let [...]
This is a guest post written Austin W. Gunter, the Brand Ambassador of WP Engine’s Managed WordPress Hosting Platform. WordPress’s development has been intertwined with Apache since the beginning. WordPress was built to be served on Apache. Recently Nginx has risen to prominence to serve traffic from 11.4% of all known traffic. Automattic moved WordPress.com [...]
Long time community member Ryan Duff, is seeking support from the community to help get him to WordCamp SF 2012. WCSF is undoubtedly the largest WordCamp each year, founded and ran by the powerhouse behind WordPress — Automattic. UPDATE:Duff was successful in his crowdsourcing was able to raise enough money, in under 24 hours, none [...]
This is a guest post by Simon Ward, founder and author of Pingable.org. You can find him on twitter @Pingable. I have been blogging with WordPress since 2007. It’s a fantastic platform with a huge variety of plugins and themes which allow for a fantastic experience for you and your readers. However, if you follow [...]
Custom WordPress license plates are just one more way to show support and love for the platform we love, WordPress. Here is a collection of the known WordPress license plates out there. Jonathan Dingman via WPForce.com and Jonathan.VC
WooThemes is undoudbtly a successful premium themes company. They have certainly left their footprint both in the WordPress core and the on the WordPress community as a whole. 4 years ago today WooThemes launched. What started as 3 WordPress designers dabbling in commercial theme development working from three home offices in Cape Town, London and [...]
Jonathan Dingman is a passionate blogger who loves writing about WordPress news, reporting on events, theme releases, awesome plugins, and more. He started using WordPress in 2004 and ran the first WordCamp NYC in 2008.