Since last year when we wrote about “WordPress in Demand on Elance“, WordPress has surged into the top ten, and now is the sixth most in demand skill on Elance!
Online publishing dominates this list. It’s exciting that the ever evolving WordPress, built on it’s PHP, MySQL, and CSS stack, continues to be (Read more...)
Great to have the official TED blog now part of the WordPress.com VIP program:
The TED Blog was previously running on MovableType.
Content wise, the TEDTalks videos are fascinating and insightful, and they are very popular and easy to share with the over 12M bloggers on WordPress.com .
[ Visit TED Blog ]
Great summary over on computercourage.com, on the “Top 10 Reasons To Use WordPress.org For Your Website”:
4. The Visual Editor and CMS are Outstanding
The intuitive, user-friendly backend of WordPress is probably what made it so famous in the first place. I’ll never remember the relief I felt when I first installed WordPress after (Read more...)
Very exciting news that invites to VaultPress — a subscription-based protection, security and backup service for WordPress blogs and sites — are now starting to be sent out.
Over the weekend we started to trickle out the first Golden Ticket invites to VaultPress. This means that if you’re on the list you now have a (Read more...)
Delighted to have the insightful and eye-opening author, Dan Ariely, now hosted in our WordPress.com VIP program.
Dan is the author of Predictably Irrational, and the recently released The Upside of Irrationality which he talks about in this short video:
[ Visit danariely.com ]
One of the most eagerly anticipated WordPress releases in recent memory is now available for download (or just 1-click upgrade from within your dashboard).
So what’s new ?
Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten.
Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom (Read more...)
Exciting news that Levi’s has just launched a new site, Pioneer Sessions, using WordPress to showcase “pioneering musicians from rock, pop, soul, and rap to re-craft the classic songs that inspired their sound”:
Conceived by Cornerstone and designed by Wieden+Kennedy, this site is definitely worth checking-out.
[ Visit levispioneersessions.com ]
Great to see that all the blogs on blogs.independent.co.uk are now powered by WordPress:
In a blog post from Online Editor Martin King, the reasons for the switch from Livejournal included the following:
* to continue pushing forward a site that is ever more social-media-friendly, incorporating our recently improved and well-received comments functionality;
* to (Read more...)
At a recent Dallas Fortworth WordPress meetup, Mike Pratt gave a presentation on how he’s using WordPress and BuddyPress to build his very own social network:
… there are a ton of excellent needs and reasons to use BuddyPress to take your site and turn it into the community it is begging to become. (Read more...)
Rosette Stone, the technology-based language learning company, has launched their new blog RVOICE on WordPress.com VIP:
The new blog, RVoice, will focus on:
… [a] discussion on the role of technology and pedagogy in changing how people learn languages. And we also wanted to provide an opportunity for you to get to know (Read more...)
