Search Engine Optimization (SEO) was such a buzzword in the early 2000’s because most web folks noticed a change in behavior in the internet users. What’s that behavior? People used search engines as their primary starting point in their... 

More and more people are now using their mobile phones to access the internet. Noticing this growing trend, the Wordpress team has released a new upgrade that makes Wordpress.com blogs more mobile friendly. When a mobile phone views a Wordpress.com... 

Blogging for profit has been around since the early part of this decade but for some bloggers, blog monetization is often taken for granted. Especially when the global financial markets started crashing one by one last year, the diversification of  how... 

I’ve used SimplePie for a few projects, and so I was sad to find out, via WPTavern , that SimplePie is shutting down development. From the Blog Post : So effective immediately, we are ceasing development of SimplePie and shutting down the project.... 

Jeff appears to have a great article up regarding StudioPress, and it helps answer some common questions about the company, its goals, and direction. If you are interested in knowing what Brian Gardner thinks of his critics, outsiders views on his goals,... 

I’ve never been happy with how WordPress deals with user permissions and roles. I’ve always wanted to customize it further, and while it is supposedly possible to do without a plugin, having a nice user interface makes the world of difference.... 

I’ve never had much issue with RSS, but some people say it was a dying format. Unlike the “real time web” of Twitter, Facebook and other services, the data from RSS wasn’t getting polled often enough to be useful. Heaven forbid... 

For the longest time, I’ve been waiting for WordPress to handle images better, and allow built in editing tools. Most people don’t have Photoshop, or even understand how to use most basic image editing tools like Irfanview, and so building... 

There are numerous cheat sheets for WordPress, and they’ll continue to be created, edited and re-released, but I wanted to highlight a new one for those in search of one that fits the bill for WordPress 2.8.x. Ekin Ertac has created a new sheet... 

I went away from home, on a micro weekend vacation, and on arrival to where I was staying there were numerous e-mails waiting in my account. It seems as though old versions of WordPress were being hacked and many clients and friends wanted their versions...