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WordPress.com for Windows 8 App

Friday, March 2, 2012

Yesterday at the 2012 Mobile World Congress, Microsoft announced the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview and the launching of the Windows Store. One of the apps used in the demonstration was the WordPress.com app. The folks from Automattic have worked together with Microsoft developers and designers to create this beautiful app for all WordPress.com [...]

50 Million Websites & Blogs Powered by WordPress

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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Last Sunday July 11, WordPress reached another milestone – the total number of WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress blogs have passed the 50 million mark with fifty percent. Of that number, fifty percent or half of it are self-hosted blogs. Based on statistics, WordPress now powers 14 percent of websites in the world wide web. WordPress.com [...]

Weekend Roundup #132

Sunday, June 5, 2011

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Hello and welcome to the 132nd edition of the Weekend Roundup! Had quite a busy weekend with lots of activities and other personal stuff. Again, I’ve gathered a lot of newsworthy, interesting and cool articles and links from around the Internet. I hope you check out each one, enjoy reading them and find them useful. [...]

WordPress.com Servers Hacked

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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Just found out earlier today that some of the WordPress.com servers were hacked. Matt Mullenweg revealed the incident and posted a warning about passwords via the WordPress.com blog. Although the hacks were low-level, there’s a possibility that all or any of the information kept on those servers could’ve been revealed. Matt Mullenweg has this to [...]

Automattic’s Worldwide WordPress 5K

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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Aside from working on WordPress.com and their other products, one of the priorities of Automattic is keeping their employees healthy. With that, the company recently came up with an idea for Worldwide WP 5K which will allow Automatticians (employees of Automattic) to run/walk together for 5K (3.1 miles) on the same day and be able [...]

Jetpack – Bringing WP.com Features to WP.org Blogs

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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Jetpack – Bringing WP.com Features to WP.org Blogs

Now that WordPress.com users are starting to get more features that previously were only available to WordPress.org blogs like premium themes, it’s now WordPress.org blogs turn to get features that were previously only available to WordPress.com users. How? This is all made possible by Jetpack, a plugin released by Automattic last week that brings WordPress.com [...]

New Premium Themes for WordPress.com Users

Friday, March 11, 2011

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WordPress.com announced the availability of premium themes for their users last month. The initial release only featured two premium themes – the Headlines theme by WooThemes and the Shelf theme from Theme Foundry. Last week, WordPress.com added more choices by adding three more premium themes – the Pretty Young Thing theme by StudioPress, Crisp theme [...]

Weekend Roundup #117

Sunday, February 20, 2011

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Good day everyone! Hope you all are having or had a good weekend so far. Made sure to prepare and finish this edition of the Weekend Roundup early coz I’m gonna be out the whole day again and don’t want you guys to wait for another late edition like what happened the past two weeks. [...]

WordPress.com Add Premium Themes

Thursday, February 3, 2011

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A blog theme is one of the most important aspects of any blog. It’s a visual representation of your brand, your content and what makes your blog unique from everybody else. A theme can make or break your blog. One of the things that make WordPress a very viable and popular choice as far as [...]

Automattic Now A Domain Registrar

Thursday, October 21, 2010

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Automattic, the company behind popular blogging service WordPress.com as well as the open source blogging software WordPress has recently been granted an ICANN registrar accreditation. This means that Automattic can now begin selling domain names directly to WordPress.com users. Since WordPress.com blogs don’t have their own custom domain names, domain mapping has been one of [...]

WordPress.com Introduces Text Messaging Service

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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WordPress.com Introduces Text Messaging Service

The folks from WordPress.com are always coming up with new cool and awesome features for all WordPress.com blogs/users. The latest addition comes in very handy when you’re always on the road and/or don’t have access to your computer. This new feature is called the Text Messaging – a SMS shortcode service that can be used [...]