7 Ways To Build A Business Around WordPress

June 2, 2011
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It’s no secret that WordPress is the fastest growing content management system (CMS) platform on the web. As of this writing, WordPress has a 54% market share of all websites that use a CMS. As users continue to flock to WordPress, we in turn see massive demand for WordPress’ products and services. If you’re a WordPress expert, your products and/or services are part of a rapidly growing market. In fact, over the past few years, we’ve seen the launch and success of businesses that are built entirely around WordPress. In this … [Read more...]

Search Engines Love Blogs; 3 Benefits

May 31, 2011
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Search engines love blogs. They provide original, updated content that contribute to highly ranked sites. But how do merchants optimize blogs for search engines and how do they incorporate the blogs into their ecommerce sites? I'll discuss optimizing blogs for search engine performance in this article. Optimizing a Blog for Search Engines A blog presents a unique search-engine-optimization opportunity for ecommerce merchants in that it's already — out of the box — search engine friendly. Merchants can leverage that fact and further … [Read more...]

WordPress 3.2: What To Expect

May 31, 2011
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For those keeping tabs, WordPress 3.1 made a debut earlier this year in February bringing several new features including internal linking with the post editor, an admin bar, post formats, and a handful of other additions. Just a few months later, WordPress 3.2 is already warming up for a debut at the end of June. This version brings plenty of enhancements to the Dashboard, a distraction-free writer, and ships with a new default “Twenty Eleven” theme. A New Dashboard Long time users may remember the several major Dashboard … [Read more...]

WordPress enables new iPad-optimized layout for its 18 million blogs

May 31, 2011
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WordPress has just announced the introduction of a 'pure HTML5' iPad-optimized theme. It has been automatically activated for all 18 million WordPress.com blogs, and self-hosted WordPress.org users can download and install the plug-in manually. The iPad-optimized layout, which was developed with tablet publishing specialist OnSwipe, supports touch interactions, swiping, rotation and 'many other features of the iPad,' all with the power of HTML5. The theme is highly configurable, too. You can change the font typeface, choose from nine … [Read more...]

Speed Up Your WordPress Site With Google’s New Page Speed API

May 31, 2011
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Google’s Page Speed testing tool, which recently went from a browser add-on to a web-based tool, now sports a new API. The Page Speed Online API allows outside applications to send URLs to Page Speed and get back a list of things the site developer can do to speed up the page in question. If you’d like to try it, head over to the new documentation page and request an API key. Sample apps include using the Page Speed Online API to display suggestions for speeding up sites or even combining the API with the Google Charts API to show a … [Read more...]