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The merge of MU and the standard WordPress code has brought with it, among other things, the ability to build your very own blog network and have a multisite environment. Check out this video from Devin Price (@devinsays) of WPTheming.com as he details the procedure necessary to switch a standard WordPress installation over to the [...]

WordPress is one of the most popular open source blogging and content management systems. It’s free, and it lets you create a website to promote yourself or your business quickly and easily. WordPress is a flexible, user-friendly system, and it can be extended with a variety of themes and plugins. Beginning WordPress 3 introduces these [...]

Ah they grow up so quickly…the young ones that you nurture. Next thing you know another year has passed. Today, May 27, 2010 marks the 7th anniversary/birthday of WordPress. On this day in 2003 Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) posted on the WordPress development blog that,”…I am very happy to announce that the first release of WordPress [...]

Major Software as a Service provider, Salesforce is providing users of the popular blogging platform WordPress with a time-saving plugin: WordPress-to-lead for Salesforce CRM. WordPress-to-Lead provides small businesses that use WordPress as their primary web platform a way to add contacts and customers automatically to their Salesforce CRM. In the past, WordPress users had to [...]

Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett have done it, and continue to do it… Now they’ve updated their book for the rest of us. Thousands of aspiring bloggers launch new blogs every day, hoping to boost their income. Without solid advice from experts, most will fail. This bestselling guide, now fully revised with new and updated [...]

Holy smokes Batman, it’s here !! The much anticipated WordPress 3.0 has finally reached public beta state. WordPress fans, it’s here: the first beta of WordPress 3.0 has been released. In a late-night announcement Jane Wells, the UX lead at Automattic laid out some of the many new features that are featured in version 3.0 [...]

Alright, I admit it – I sound like a broken record when it comes to posts about backup and securing your blog. Reason being, I’ve been the victim TWICE of a blown up site – once I was hacked and once I very stupidly installed an aggregating plugin that did all sorts of bad things [...]

The moral of the day: If you have a blog – Lock It Up !! Learn how to keep your WordPress-powered website secure from hackers and exploits. Brad Williams from WebDevStudios.com shows examples of hacked sites, shares tips and plugins for keeping WordPress secure, and talks about his experiences with WordPress and security. This video [...]

Blogging (blog comes from the term Web log which is similar to an online diary) is a marketing tool many businesses foolishly do not use. When a blog is done well it creates a conversation between you and your client community, driving traffic to your site as the result of search engine results. You can [...]

Millions of people have already succumbed to the irresistible lure of an online web log (aka, a blog). Chances are, you are one of them, those people commonly referred to as “bloggers.” But would it surprise you to learn that in addition to posting online entries on virtually any subject you can imagine, you can [...]