The Sucuri Security blog shines a little light on how the AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache plugins were trojanized yesterday. ... Read More »
Free Themes & Hosting Giveaway
22 June 2011 Leave a Comment
Have you ever thought about creating your own WordPress powered website but weren't sure you could afford the hosting? Do you currently have a site hosted on WordPress.com and have toyed with the idea of being self-hosted? Well you may be in luck. Themify is running a promo in which the prize is a one-year free hosting package from InMotion ... Read More »
WordPress.org Forces Password Reset
21 June 2011 Leave a Comment
An important announcement was just published on the WordPress.org blog, Earlier today the WordPress team noticed suspicious commits to several popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) containing cleverly disguised backdoors. We determined the commits were not from the authors, rolled them back, pushed updates to the plugins, and ... Read More »
Bluegreen Corporation, a company in the business of vacation ownership resorts and residential real estate, recently launched a new WordPress powered site for its Bluegreen Vacation Club owners. You can see the new site here. ... Read More »
Great article in American Libraries Magazine about WordPress. Authors Kyle M. L. Jones and Polly-Alida Farrington explain why WordPress is the perfect CMS for libraries and educational organizations. ... Read More »
WooThemes Releases Statua
21 June 2011 Leave a Comment
WooThemes announced the release of a new theme called Statua. We haven't released a dedicated photography theme for a long while - not since Exposure was released almost 2 years ago in fact (eek!) - so it comes as no surprise that the user-submitted idea of a Minimalist Photography Theme gained so much traction relatively quickly. We have ... Read More »
WordPress Usage Trends
20 June 2011 Leave a Comment
Here is a very interesting item on not only WordPress usage but CMS usage around the web. The following data was compiled by BuiltWith Trends. The Numbers There are over 4 million WordPress-powered websites on the web The 2nd most popular CMS ... Joomla ... runs over 1.4 million sites WordPress powers 77,185 sites in the top ... Read More »
StudioPress Releases Click Here Buttons
20 June 2011 Leave a Comment
StudioPress has released yet another cool freebie - click here buttons. I am very happy to announce the release of Click Here Buttons by StudioPress. This set is the third of many free web graphics that we plan to make available to the community. The buttons come in 3 different colour palettes: Dark, Green and Orange. The Click Here ... Read More »
