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Are WordPress.com’s verticals falling short?

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

Earlier today, I tweeted (big news, right?) that the WordPress.com verticals that have been launching left and right seem like little more than SEO plays on the landing pages. Well, James Farmer, founder of Edublogs - a huge WordPress Multisite…

WordAds, explained

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2013

WordPress News

The Daily Post on WordPress.com has a post explaining more about the WordAds system on WordPress.com. WordAds is a managed ads system Automattic created for the platform, so bloggers can monetize their blogs. It's relevant, as traditional advertisers like Google…

WordPress.com theme guide resource

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2013

WordPress News

Michael Fields posted on the theme review team listserve this morning that the WordPress.com Theme Team has created a resource page for theme guidelines. They use this resource for reviewing themes submitted to WordPress.com, but it can be useful to…

Why Metro.co.uk chose to go with WordPress.com VIP

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

WordPress News

Here's an interesting and candid blog post on why Metro.co.uk chose to go with WordPress.com's VIP service for their site. I learned a few tidbits about VIP in this one.

The Zen of WP Development

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

In this WordPress.tv episode, Daniel Bachhuber - a Code Wrangler at WordPress.com VIP team - presents what it means to be "one with the code" of WordPress development for providing elegant solutions.

Obox temporarily removed from WordPress.com marketplace due to Theme Forest conflict

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

WordPress News

It was brought up recently that a couple of theme shops were selling commercial themes on both Theme Forest and WordPress.com. In light of recent GPL Drama, that caused some confusion about licensing allowances. StudioPress almost immediately took their themes…

Simperium joins Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

January 24, 2013

WordPress News

Simperium, makers of iOS note app Simplenote as well as a fairly powerful syncing API, has been acquired by WordPress.com parent company Automattic.

Akismet now requires a WordPress.com account

Brian Krogsgard

January 24, 2013

WordPress News

The Akismet blog announced this morning that Akismet accounts will now require a WordPress.com sign-in. They already required an Akismet login, but now it's integrated directly with WordPress.com. There are some checks Akistmet is doing for people that didn't have…