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W3techs annual “Web Technologies of the…

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Dan Knauss

W3techs annual "Web Technologies of the Year" came out recently and WordPress wins the CMS spot for the seventh year in a row. PHP also grabs "Server-side Programming Language of the Year" with a growing marketshare.

David Cohn hits on a good…

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Brian Krogsgard

David Cohn hits on a good point that, "technical features of a CMS dictate editorial. It’s as simple as that." For example, if Twitter removed the character limit, it would affect the content output on Twitter; the same is true…

Every year, Inc. ranks the fastest-growing companies…

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Brian Krogsgard

Every year, Inc. ranks the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. Ruth Raventós notes that 62% of the top 100 fastest growing companies in the US on that list use WordPress. Last year the number was 42%. The post goes on to…

The open web’s challenge

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Brian Krogsgard

I missed this article when it was first published, but Zack Rosen has a great post on the open web over at TechCrunch. Zack is the CEO of Pantheon, a web host specializing in Drupal and WordPress sites. He says, “the open web is…

GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP

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Brian Krogsgard
GoDaddy has acquired the WordPress website management service, ManageWP. ManageWP will remain a standalone app, and GoDaddy will integrate several features into their GoDaddy Pro and WordPress hosting plans.

If you wanted to improve the…

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Brian Krogsgard

If you wanted to improve the accessibility of your website but haven't found the time to dive too deeply into the provided information from those in the community, give Rachel Carden's recently released Wa11y plugin a try. The plugin is…

Daniele Procida is calling for Django…

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David Bisset

Daniele Procida is calling for Django CMS to be as easy to install as WordPress. For someone not involved with WordPress (or PHP) he gives WordPress a fair shake. It's nice to see people outside the WordPress bubble acknowledge its…

WordPress needs bigger data

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Brian Krogsgard

WordPress needs big data -- knowledge of how the product is used -- to make better decisions as to how to direct the future of the software. To make my point, allow me to drift off into the wonderful world…

Ben Gillbanks tells us why he…

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Brian Krogsgard

Ben Gillbanks tells us why he didn't use WordPress to build his WordPress themes site. I feel spending too much time in the WordPress bubble can be bad. I’m not going to grow as a developer if I don’t try…

WordPress’s place amongst an increasingly corporatized web

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Brian Krogsgard

Big companies are jockeying for position with regard to how content is published and how it is shown on the web, and WordPress is right in the middle of it all. Requiring new formats of web pages for tools like…

The role of blogs at The New York Times

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Brian Krogsgard

I really enjoyed a throwback piece on Nieman Lab today, where Joseph Lichterman reminisced with some New York Times folks about the earliest blogs at the Times (which have run on WordPress since their inception). Blogs have had a roller coaster…
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