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One little known fact from the early days of blogging is that WordPress is actually a fork of a previous CMS, b2/cafelog, and we know what happened next. In 2010, there's a new fork in town: Open ...
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Automattic's hosted blogging platform WordPress.com has suffered a major outage today, taking millions of blogs offline.
The outage started at around 5:30pm PDT (10:30am AEST) with the main Wordpress.com site stating only that it would be offline for ...
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Just as we thought that Automattic, the company behind WordPress, might finally be softening on its no one can make money from WordPress except us stance, comes news today on an attempt to cripple the thriving "Wordcamp" ...
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The long standing jihad by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg against commercial WordPress themes may be coming to an end with news that Automattic is now embracing commercial themes.
Automattic has announced “The Theme Team” which according to the ...
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If you're running a website using the popular Wordpress blogging platform and you're a big fan of that little silicon valley company "Google," there are several plugins you can install on your blog that will allow you ...
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WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has called foul today while dodging issues on the ongoing conflict of interest between his involvement at Automattic and WordPress.
Several sites, including this one, published stories today suggesting that WordPress.com ...
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Automattic, the company behind WordPress and self-proclaimed nazis when it comes to enforcing the strictest interpretation of open source on others, have announced that they're moving WordPress.com to are plugging Microsoft's Azure cloud hosting.
At the Microsoft (MSFT) ...
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A week ago I, Kyle the Invincible!, was hit by an injection attack on the majority of my own sites, and it took a large handful of hours to even figure out what was wrong. Once I ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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News broke earlier today that Google has acquired Korean blogging outfit TNC, the company behind the TextCube blogging service.
TNC founder Chang Kim doesn't disclose the full details of the sale, but speculates that the acquisition may have ...
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Sarah Perez on ReadWriteWeb today argues that the next social networks will be powered By WordPress and Movable Type. She bases her conclusion on the excellent new release of MovableType that delivers a full social networking solution, ...
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