WordPress

WordPress is an open-source blog tool that’s powered by MySQL & PHP. It’s easily customizable with a content management system (CMS) and compatible with IOS phones, Androids phones and other smartphones. It also can host many blogs on a single installation.

WordPress News

• WordPress Releases BlackBerry PlayBook App – PC Magazine
  Maintaining a WordPress blog on the go just got easier for those who own a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. That’s because the official WordPress for PlayBook app was released on Tuesday in the BlackBerry App World. With the app, WordPress bloggers can write …
• WordPress for PlayBook 2.0.5 Released – Softpedia
  Owners of a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet PC can now enjoy not only a new platform release on their devices, but also a set of new or updated applications for it, such as the WordPress for PlayBook. The mobile application has just arrived in the BlackBerry …
• TCWH Announces Top 5 WordPress Web Hosting – TMCnet
  San Francisco, CA, Feb 20, 2012 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) — After being reviewed more than 50 shared web hosts, Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com had come out a list of best WordPress hosting over the Internet. WebHostingHub, InMotion hosting, GreenGeeks …
• Megaupload founder out on bail, banned from Internet and helicopters – Venturebeat.com
  Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was released on bail Wednesday in New Zealand, after a judge ruled he was no longer a flight risk. Dotcom is not allowed to access the Internet while out on bail, and he cannot use a helicopter. Additionally, he’s …
• The Official Guide For Your Business To Stand Out On The Web – Forbes
  GeekWhat Design, located in NYC, specializes in high end WordPress customization and Facebook landing pages. Here is what Tony had to say…. With the overabundance of web tools on the Internet, many businesses spend their time trying to …

WordPress Blog

• Year of the Meetup
  We hereby declare 2012 as the Year of the WordPress Meetup. You’ll want to get in on this action. meet·up \mēt-əp\ noun A meeting, especially a regular meeting of people who share a particular interest and have connected with each other through a social-networking Web site: a meetup for new moms in the neighborhood; a meetup to plan the trip; a meetup for WordPress users.1 S …
• Internet Blackout Day on January 18
  WordPress.org is officially joining the protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act that is coming before the U.S. Senate next week. As I wrote in my post a week ago, if this bill is passed it will jeopardize internet freedom and shift the power of the independent web into the hands of corporations. We must stop it. On January 18, 2012 many sites around the web — from small personal …
• Help Stop SOPA/PIPA
  You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and democratizing publishing, and we don’t want to alienate any of our users no matter how much some of u …
• WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release
  WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Thanks to Joshua H., Hoang T., Stefan Zimmerman, Chris K., and the Go Daddy security team for responsibly disclosing the bug to our security team. Download 3.3.1 or visit Dashboard → Updates in your site admin. …
• WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”
  The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, and in this third major iteration we’ve added significant polish around the new u …

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