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You’ve heard lots of people say WordPress.org is the way to go when building a site. Heck, we’ve said it here. It’s a powerful content management system (CMS) that just about anyone can use. The back end interface is very user-friendly, and by choosing a theme and adding plugins, you can easily customize your site [...]

You have a fantastic idea for a blog, service, or affiliate marketing niche. All you have to do is set up a website, and you’ll be on your way. You know WordPress is a powerful yet easy-to-use content management system, so that’s your first stop. Oh, and look—they offer free hosting! You won’t have to [...]

WordPress users (and that includes us!) will be happy to know that version 3.2 had a beta release last week, bringing a slew of new features that are designed to improve the performance, usability and appearance of the blogging platform. However, this upgrade is rather different from the others. The most touted changes are not [...]

Last week, Automattic, announced a new plugin for WordPress called Jetpack. The plugin is designed to bring many of the features offered by their WordPress.com hosted solution to those who wish to host their own installation of WordPress, including updated states, grammar checking and more. But Jetpack more than just a great plugin, it actually [...]

On Wednesday, WordPress 3.1 was pushed out to the masses, the first major release in 8 months, and it sparked an intense flurry of activity as bloggers, hosts and other site administrators rushed to bring their versions up to date. However, unlike the previous security updates, this release makes significant changes to the way that [...]

If you run a Web service, or even just a network of popular sites, you know how difficult but important it can be to communicate with your visitors any technical issues that you might have. If a site goes down, you likely get barraged with emails from well-intended (or angry) visitors letting you know about [...]

WordPress is hands-down the most common application installed on most hosting accounts, especially shared hosting. Many major hosts have partnered with Automattic to highlight their WordPress-friendliness and many others have nice logos and graphics on their sites to indicate that they are WordPress-ready. But what do you really need out of a host to run [...]

WordPress is one of, if not the single, most popular applications hosting customers install on their servers. Not only is it an incredibly popular blogging platform, but it is also a well-respected CMS and is used to manage a large number of sites, even those that aren’t blogs. Nearly every major host, especially those who [...]

If you are a user of self-installed WordPress on Godaddy, Bluehost, Media Temple and other services, there is a decent chance that your site has been hacked and, worse yet, you may not know about it. Though what exactly caused the hack remains unclear, it does not appear, at this time, to be a vulnerability [...]

WordPress is far and away the most popular blogging platform for self-hosted blogs and, as such, frequently comes under attack from a variety of source. This includes malware authors looking for an easy way to distribute viruses, spammers wanting to insert garbage links and identity thieves wanting to place tracking tools on your visitor’s computers. [...]