James Huff reminded folks on Twitter…
James Huff reminded folks on Twitter that neither WordPress nor WordPress.com offers phone support. If anyone claims to offer such support, it is a scam. 🚨
James Huff reminded folks on Twitter that neither WordPress nor WordPress.com offers phone support. If anyone claims to offer such support, it is a scam. 🚨
James Farmer’s WordPress story goes all the way back to his launch of the first hosted WordPress multisite blogging platform — just a few days ahead of WordPress.com. Edublogs currently hosts millions of students’ and educators’ blogs. James talks about successes and failures, his views on Gutenberg, how he stays competitive with Squarespace, and how he thinks the WordPress business community should respond to the loss of active install growth data at WordPress.org.
Matt Mullenweg reported on Thursday (September 20) that Gutenberg has over 420,000 active installations, and 213,000 posts written with Gutenberg have been tracked. Note that this is only for Jetpack and WordPress.com sites. The total number would be higher if self-hosted installs that are not using Jetpack were included. A new blog (gutenstats.blog) has been…
David and Olivia Bisset sat down for a chat with Matt Mullenweg about open source, Tumblr, and how Matt deals with negativity. Matt has three roles today: CEO of Tumblr, CEO of Automattic, and project lead for the next release of WordPress. He shares what went wrong with post formats and what he would love to acquire next if he could. The answer may (or may not) surprise you! Recorded shortly before WordCamp Europe 2022.
Today is April 1st. Trust nothing and nobody, including me. Yoast + Crowd Favorite are not really happening, but this one had pretty much no hint to the contrary. AutoMatton — the WordPress.com auto-blogging tool. Pagely is partnering with U-Haul for storing big data. Organic Themes goes retro (and I honestly think this theme would…
Twitter has finally announced an official WordPress plugin. It’s pretty thorough, and on a quick test run, works as advertised. Here’s a rundown of some of the features and background.
A few months ago, I enabled two-factor authentication for WordPress.com. There are a number of reasons I did so. For one, at Range, we sometimes work on WordPress VIP projects, where two step authentication is recommended for about anything that could interact with those projects (.com, email, etc). Second, it was required for me to…