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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… Continue reading Security and Backup Essentials for WordPress
When blogging started to gather steam a decade ago, you had (and still have) three ways of receiving comments. The first still which still holds to today are traditional style commenting done by a person reading your article. Then came the bots and the comment spam which has today become a more manageable issue given… Continue reading This is how you stop Trackback and Pingback spam in WordPress
WordPress v2.9 introduced Post Thumbnails (now called Featured Images). Since then the WordPress plugin repository has seen a host of plugins that help you create thumbnails, import images, resize them and regenerate them. In this post, I'll feature five plugins that I've come across and use that make your thumbnail experience a better one. Auto… Continue reading 5 Free WordPress plugins for handling Thumbnails
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.
Update: This giveaway has now ended and the winners will be notified by email. There is a very good chance that you have already heard about ThemeFuse, who create premium WordPress themes and are regarded as being the top in their field. We ran a successful giveaway with them last year.
WordPress powers 20% of the web. Which probably explains why Google has also jumped onto the WordPress plugin bandwagon. The Google team announced the beta version of Google Publisher WordPress plugin.
At Techtites, over the past several months, I've been trying to optimise the site to get the best load times. This is why you'd have seen several new themes being experimented upon. I also use Cloudflare to improve performance.
I've been running Wibiya on Techtites and a few other blogs for a long time. The Wibiya toolbar allows users to share your posts quickly and easily on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, via email, etc. Wibiya tracks statistics and gives you a decent idea of how successful this is.
WordPress theme has released v3.6.1.
It is said that the first step to tackling addiction is to first admit that you are addicted. ManageWP has an amazing post on WordPress addiction. Here are 34 tell tale signs that you are addicted to WordPress.