Building backlinks to your pages is an essential part of SEO (short for Search Engine Optimization) for two reasons. The first reason is that it helps your pages get indexed faster, which is very important because you want the search engines to find them as soon as possible and crawl them regularly. The second reason [...]
Dev Blog: Passwords Reset
June 22, 2011 Leave a Comment
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 shut down access to the plugin repository while we looked for anything else unsavory. We’re [...]
Matt: New York Observer
June 18, 2011 Leave a Comment
WordPress Publisher Blog: Influential Weekly The New York Observer Migrates from Drupal to WordPress. Cool! View full post on WordPress Planet
Weblog Tools Collection: Best Of WLTC 2010 ? Part 1
December 31, 2010 Leave a Comment
In terms of WordPress stuff, WeblogToolsCollection.com publishes a large amount of content over the course of a year. In this two part series, I’ll be highlighting some of the best content that will not only give you a glimpse of the progress made regarding WordPress but also remind you of some of the more important [...]
Matt: State of the Blogosphere
December 16, 2010 Leave a Comment
But blogging perseveres–as it should. It is a place where context, thoughtfulness and continuity are rewarded with inbound links, ReTweets, bookmarks, comments and Likes. Blogs are the digital library of our intellect, experience, and vision. Brian Solis on The State of the Blogosphere 2010. View full post on WordPress Planet
WordPress Blogging – Can It Help Super Charge Your Online Income?
December 16, 2010 Leave a Comment
I only entered the blogosphere in late 2005 when realizing that I was losing out on an important half of the whole “on-line communication” genre. As I had been active managing forums, net sites, and writing articles, I shortly discovered that I could stable up my 2 niches – aviation and article writing – by [...]
Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Security Update Efficiency
December 5, 2010 Leave a Comment
WordPress 3.0.2, the first mandatory security update in quite a while, was released not too long ago. The update patched an exploit which allowed an Author-level users to gain access to the site well above their user level, but the real story here is the overall efficiency of the volunteer developers. With a team unpaid [...]
Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 3. 0. 2 Released, Mandatory Upgrade
December 1, 2010 Leave a Comment
Just moments ago, WordPress 3.0.2 was released to the public. This version is a mandatory security upgrade. According to the release notes: This maintenance release fixes a moderate security issue that could allow a malicious Author-level user to gain further access to the site, addresses a handful of bugs, and provides some additional security enhancements. [...]
Matt: New VaultPress Security Scanning
November 27, 2010 Leave a Comment
New VaultPress security scanning, scans all your core files to make sure they’re kosher. View full post on WordPress Planet
