A Very Wordpress World

Since 2003, an open source, Internet-oriented software package has done what is exceedingly rare within that community:  becoming not only immensely popular and wildly loved, but also profitable.  Matt Mullenweg has managed to turn what began as ... continue

Fail: Automattic CEO takes on WPMU

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has once again highlighted the gross conflict of interest between his commercial interests and involvement in WordPress.org by wishing that WordPress development team WPMU would go out of business. WPMU, run by Edublogs founder ... continue

Sociable Acquired By Startups.com

Excellent Wordpress social voting plugin Sociable has been acquired by Startups.com for an undisclosed sum from developer Joast de Valk. According to a report at The Next Web, de Valk will remain on board for the mean time ... continue

Automattic Acquires After The Deadline. Bloggers Suddenly Learn How To Spell

After The Deadline is a popular spell check plug-in that allows users to incorporate spell checking into their online applications. Now that technology is in the hands of the Automattic team who have just acquired the company ... continue

WordPress-tards wet their pants over not much at all

Hardcore WordPress groupies (hereby known as WordPress-tards) are in a flap over comments made by Chris Anderson in his new book "Free" about the WordPress model. Without being able to see the actual book and extract, I can ... continue

WordPress 2.8 released, but you shouldn’t install it yet

The latest version of popular blogging CMS WordPress has been released. WordPress 2.8 offers a range of enhancements and bug fixes, although is not as big an upgrade as WordPress 2.7 was (which some would argue should have ... continue

WordTwit offers custom short URLs for WordPress blogs

Twitter updating plugin for WordPress WordTwithas recently released a new version with a range of extra features including a short URL service. The short URL service allows users to use their own URL when updating Twitter, for example ... continue

WordPress 2.7 breaks category feeds (and apologies if you got the wrong content)

The Inquisitr is now running WordPress 2.7, the "Coltrane" release that offers new security and a wacky new layout that takes a lot of getting use to (I hate it so far, but I'm going to give ... continue

More Hypocrisy from Mullenweg and WordPress with new themes jihad

WordPress has removed over 200 themes from the WordPress theme directory for the crime of the themes linking back to the sites and people that created them. The jihad against themes started last year with Automattic's Matt Mullenweg ... continue

WordPress Developer Acquires PollDaddy

WordPress developer Automattic has acquired online poll service PollDaddy, the company has announced, and has added an integrated poll creation tool for blogs hosted on WordPress.com. A plug-in has also just been launched for externally hosted ... continue

Deals: Voxant, Intense Debate change hands

Two interesting acquisitions related to blogging this week: licensed video provider Voxant has changed hands along with commenting 2.0 service Intense Debate. Voxant offers licensed videos from media outlets, including AP for use on websites. For bloggers the ... continue

Setting up your own blog is easier than you think [Blogging 101]

This is the start of our occasional series of posts covering the aspects of starting a blog But it's hard! I don't know how to use FTP! CHMOD?!?! php is confusing! what's CSS? These are all typical arguments I've ... continue