We’ve being using the updated WordPress dashboard, a work in progress since early last month and I’m giving this dashboard makeover a thumbs up.
No new features have been added and the arrangement has stayed the same but they’ve painted it black and readability has been improved. Continue reading
This image reflects 7 years here at WordPress.com but I actually started blogging elsewhere first. I became a private journal blogger 2005 and began my first public blog in 2006 on Blogger a year later. Then I became a WordPress.COM blogger.
Readers, commenters, subscribers – you’re the best in the blogosphere.
Blogging connects people from all parts of the world and it’s amazing but readers represented by flags from 221 countries and regions have visited one cool site!
I’ve been reflecting on how far I’ve come over the course of these last 7 years. Getting caught up in striving for more – more comments and followers – means you can miss the magic blogging moments. That’s why I try to remain focused on celebrating every small success. Continue reading
Size is everything. Lack of image preparation prior to upload leads to loss of image quality, waste of upload space and the frustration involved in troubleshooting. Worse still, it can lead to creating a bad experience for your readers. Take note of this timely post titled How Big Am I – GIF, JPEG, PNG and learn how to prepare your images prior to uploading them. Continue reading
I was so busy with the seasonal ghouls, goblins and zombies and the clean-up afterwards that I missed the announcement of this cool new widget.
“It allows you to use an iCalendar link to display a list of events on your WordPress.com site. This feature can be used for any kind of event list, but it was created especially with musicians in mind so they can rock the web with a list of tour dates. Rock on!” via Upcoming Events — Support — WordPress.com.
A company making less than $30 million powers 17% of the entire web. This story appears in the September 24, 2012 issue of Forbes.
Today WordPress powers one of every 6 websites on the Internet, nearly 60 million in all, with 100,000 more popping up each day. Those run through its cloud-hosted service, which lets anybody create a free website online, attract 330 million visitors who view 3.4 billion pages every month.
via With 60 Million Websites, WordPress Rules The Web. So Where’s The Money? – Forbes.
WordPress.com bloggers can enable social networking sharing buttons that appear below their posts on their blogs. I originally enabled Official buttons on this page > Settings > Sharing to appear on my Front Page, Archive Pages, and Search Results as well as on Posts and Pages. I have now chosen to enable display only on Posts and Pages. Continue reading
