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FooPlugins.com Announces The Next Plugin Marketplace
May 18, 2013 By Jonathan Dingman

Adam Warmer and Brad Vincent, co-founders of FooPlugins.com, made the announcement a couple of days ago that they will be launching [yet] another plugin marketplace. So makes theirs so special? How about how what makes it different? Listing your free plugin and leveraging our traffic and marketing Listing your paid plugin and using your own [...]
FooPlugins.com Announces The Next Plugin Marketplace
May 18, 2013 By Jonathan Dingman

Adam Warmer and Brad Vincent, co-founders of FooPlugins.com, made the announcement a couple of days ago that they will be launching [yet] another plugin marketplace. So makes theirs so special? How about how what makes it different? Listing your free plugin and leveraging our traffic and marketing Listing your paid plugin and using your own [...]
StudioPress: Genesis Framework 2.0 Beta
May 18, 2013 By Jonathan Dingman

StudioPress’ Genesis framework is now in Beta release. This is really good for the StudioPress community as there are a number of massive improvements to the framework, including HTML5, microdata, and a huge clean-up of the code base. I’m really excited to see the direction that Genesis is going. The new default Genesis theme looks really nice too.
WordPress Jumps to 52% on the Royal Pingdom Top 100
May 15, 2013 By Jonathan Dingman

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 [...]
How Yoast Opens up WordPress SEO to the Community
May 15, 2013 By Jonathan Dingman

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.
WordPress 3.6 Beta 3 Now Available…Getting Closer!
May 11, 2013 By Jonathan Dingman

We’re getting a lot closer to a WordPress 3.6 Release Candidate, which is really exciting. Mark Jaquith posted on the main WordPress blog that WordPress 3.6 Beta 3 is now available. Mentioning just one feature enhancement, oEmbed support for Rdio and Spotify are now included with the WordPress 3.6 Beta 3 release. Unfortunately, the Rdio [...]
Giveaway: 5 Winners – Win a Developer Account from Elegant Themes
May 8, 2013 By Jonathan Dingman

WP Force and Elegant Themes have teamed up and we’re both excited to be giving away 5 Developer Accounts at ElegantThemes.com, valid for 1 year each. Elegant Themes has over 80 premium WordPress themes available and over 180,000 customers.
Introducing VaultPress Lite
May 8, 2013 By Jonathan Dingman

In an effort to appeal to more WordPress site owners, Joseph Scott — who works for Automattic, which operates VaultPress, announced today that VaultPress is now offering a “Lite” plan at a $5 per month price tag. You receive the normal benefits of daily backups, automated site restore, stats and activity logging, and 30 days [...]
WordPress as a CMS? As an App? For the Enterprise?
May 7, 2013 By Jonathan Dingman

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 [...]
WordPress.com VIP Announces new WordPress Search Feature
May 6, 2013 By Jonathan Dingman

Paul Maiorana, part of the WordPress.com VIP team, made the announcement that WordPress.com VIP cloud customers will be able to utilize the new search functionality. I said cloud customers because WordPress.com VIP offers two types of services. WordPress cloud hosting as well as WordPress.org (self-hosted) consulting. Both are at a high premium, but that’s the [...]
I’ll be at WordCamp Orange County 2013
May 6, 2013 By Jonathan Dingman

I’m going to be at WordCamp Orange County this year, which is just a few weeks ago. While it’s unfortunate the the tickets have already sold out, I know the organizers have said that they want to secure more tickets with a bigger venue for next year. I’m really excited to be a Green sponsor [...]



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.