WordPress is a cultural phenomenon when it comes to publishing online. What started as a simple blogging tool in 2003 has become the most popular open-source content management system (CMS) in the world powering WordPress.com and millions of sites worldwide. There are a number of alternatives including the very popular Joomla, but the difference with…
Techtites has been open to guest posts on this blog for a long time now. When guest posting was at its peak, I made the mistake of accepting posts with content and links that are today frowned upon my Google. Since then I’ve cleaned up several posts and massively cut down on what I accept on this blog….
As per a recent research, it has been found that nearly 55% of the 1 million most-visited websites operate on WordPress Content Management System (CMS). Well, frankly speaking, WordPress has definitely been successful in becoming one of the most preferable CMSs used by web developers across the globe. In this blog, I’ll be exploring the journey of WordPress from being referred to as a usual blogging software to becoming the ruler of popular CMSs including Joomla and Drupal.
Okay, I’m calling it: if you’re using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it’s become a more and more spammy practice, and if you’re doing a lot of guest blogging then you’re hanging out with really bad company.
I dropped in at the White House today because a friend asked if the White House has a site. Ok, not the White House, but at WhiteHouse.gov and I must say it is one of the most pleasing looking professional sites I’ve ever come across.
The first half of 2008 was a dead period for the blog. With me tied up with MBA activities, I simply didn’t have time and the blog got neglected. I decided to work on reviving the blog and post August has seen a steady flow of posts.
Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger conducts a poll every year on how much bloggers make. This year as usual they conducted the poll. Though this year, the sample size has been much larger, the findings are pretty much similar to last year.
How fast is your internet connection? If it is as slow as mine and you blog regularly, then you will understand the necessity of doing something to speed up the loading of pages of your WordPress Administration area. Fortunately, WordPress comes inbuilt with this support.
I’ve been using WordPress for more than five years now and have seen it through all its revisions. For those of you who came online recently, take a look at a picture journey through the several years of WordPress. Looking at 2.
Jeffro raised a point of reformating your blog for WordPress 2.7. I’ve been blogging with WordPress since late 2003 and have been the blog software go through tonnes of upgrades.
This week has been a rather active week for the folks at Google. You can now publish to your Blogger blog directly from iGoogle. Additionally, you can now choose to embed comments below your post inself instead of having them on a new page.
Two weeks back, Matt announced that Automattic is testing WordPress.com ads on post and tag pages. I don’t spend much time on any WordPress.