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WordPress.Com; 6 Million More Blogs in 2010
Automattic, the company behind popular blogging platform WordPress.com, reported 6 million new blogs and 23 billion pageviews for 2010. The latter figure represents a 53% increase from 2009.
These latest stats were reported by The Next Web, which added, “Media uploads also doubled to 94.5 terabytes of new photos and videos, while new posts were up 110% to 146 million” for the past year.
Just last month, Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and CEO Toni Scheider disclosed that the company has around 30 million total publishers responsible for roughly 10% of all websites in the world. They also shared that WordPress.com receives 300 million unique visitors each month.
The five-year-old company may be experiencing remarkable growth, but it has yet to become a commercial success. The startup reportedly makes around $1 million per month from premium and hosting services, an inconsequential figure for a company that plays such a central role in web publishing.
Users can create their own blog using the platform located at WordPress.com or download the software at WordPress.org to use under their own domain name.
More at Mashable.
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WordPress – A Blogging Platform You Can Depend On
Web monitoring company Pingdom has tested the most-used blogging services to see how reliable they are over a period of two months.
The five most popular sites used for blogging included Google’s Blogger, WordPress.com, Typepad, Posterous and Tumblr.
“For each blogging service, we monitored the uptime of the homepage and four individual blogs, so we could see how the service as a whole performed,” said Pingdom in a December 17 blog post.
“The winner was without a doubt Google’s Blogger,” reports Pingdom. “The Blogger blogs didn’t have any downtime whatsoever during the two months we monitored them, followed by WordPress.com which had very little downtime.”
The average downtime for popular blogging site Tumblr was 47.5 hours. Posterous had the second highest rate of downtime, 2.1 hours while rivals Typepad and WordPress.com were almost always online with just 0.2 hours and 0.1 hours of downtime respectively.
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WordPress Theme Styles With CSS
WordPress has many themes to choose from and many of them have customizable backgrounds, menus, content layouts, and headers you can change to suit your own preferences.
But you can also take your site’s customization a step further and completely personalize any theme’s stylesheet by changing fonts, colors, borders, backgrounds, and even the layout of the site using the Custom CSS upgrade, a paid upgrade that costs $14.97 per blog, per year.
Many WordPress fans have made a beautiful home for their content using one of the basic WordPress themes as a base and customizing the site with the Custom CSS upgrade.
Here are some examples:
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WordPress Toolbox
Hot off the press from WordPress is news of a new December 2010 theme, Toolbox. What can you do with WordPress Toolbox? Lots of great things with a minimalistic look is the short answer.
Toolbox provides all the markup you need to build your very own theme with CSS alone–with one difference.
Toolbox uses some really exciting new HTML5 elements–like <article>, <header>, and <nav>–that better describe what your content is all about. (Head over here for a demo.)
Download Toolbox at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/toolbox
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Meet WordPress Matt
This is Matt Mullenweg. He’s not as famous as Sergey Brin or Larry Page.
No-one’s made a Hollywood movie of him like Mark Zuckenberg.
But Matt deserves a teeny bit of a spotlight because he’s the guy who is the founding developer of WordPress.
WordPress makes it incredibly simple to create and publish content, from a computer, a mobile or even an iPad.
In today’s age of citizen journalism, that’s important. Not everyone who works for your company is going to be net-savvy or confident about using a content management system.
But if you can drive a Word Document, you can drive WordPress.
Furthermore, because it is open-source software, you can customise it to your hearts content so it really delivers on the features, functionality and look-and-feel that you’re after.
“We do everything for the author,” Matt is on record saying. Every tool, every acquisition and every new feature must be right for the author or, says Matt, it doesn’t happen.
After 25 million global downloads, meaning 25M WordPress “homes” on the Internet, you can be sure that he’s doing something right.
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WordPress Mandatory Security Update Shipped
Maintainers of the open-source WordPress blog publishing platform has shipped a mandatory security update to cover a potentially serious security vulnerability.
The vulnerability, rated moderate, could allow a malicious Author-level user could gain further access to the WordPress-powered site.
“You should update immediately even if you do not have untrusted users,” according to a notice from the maintainers of the project.
The WordPress 3.0.2 update also fixes a flaw in the trackback whitelisting feature that allowed comment spammers to bypass certain security features.
A minor cross-site scripting issue was also addressed in this update.
WordPress can be updated from a users dashboard or contact me here if you need help.
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500K Windows Live Spaces Blogs Move To WordPress
In hot WordPress news, Microsoft has just announced that it has migrated more than half a million Spaces blogs to WordPress, the open source CMS/Blogging platform that I use for many of my clients.
In addition to this, almost half a million additional Windows Live customers have decided to create entirely news blogs on WordPress.com
All 30 million users of Microsoft’s Live Spaces blogging service are expected to be migrated to WordPress by March next year or face having their services cancelled.
If you’re looking for an easy-to-use, flexible content management system, you’ll be hard-pressed to beat WordPress. Furthermore, Google loves WordPress, so if you’re wanting your website to rank organically in the search engine, you’ll do yourself a favour by choosing one of the world’s most beloved CMS.
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Global PR Pool, Hot Musicians Promo Co.
Behind the DJs in the hottest Australian dance clubs are brother and sister team, Anthony & Gabby Colombi.
Their company, Global PR is the first to service DJs with digital promos that connect musicians with DJs, Radio and Media.
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Free User Interface Design Tool
Check out this free User Interface Design tool for Web Designers.
This free tool enables you to:
- Design faster wireframes and create better mockup deliverables in Illustrator.
- Design usable application interface with hundreds of common GUI elements : just drop them from Illustrator Panels or pick them in the library files.
- Customize easily the vectors GUI elements to your own needs : you can easily resize, color or tweak their appearance.
- Benefit from a consistent UI elements library made by a web designer expert in application interface design.
- Icons version for designing wireframes with Omnigrafle.
Download the GUI freebie over at Webalys.
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Looking For The Best WordPress Themes?
A great many people like WordPress and want their websites to be built using it.
Hey, that’s no surprise, WordPress is one of the world’s most popular content management systems – and for good reason. It doesn’t matter how new to the Internet you are, if you can create a Word document, you can drive the WordPress dashboard. It’s really that simple.
But the challenge facing many people is to find the best WordPress theme for their content. There are quite literally thousands of WordPress themes out there, where does someone start to narrow down options to a more reasonable number?
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