21 January 2009 1 Comment

WordPress launches WordPress TV

Automattic, the company behind the blogging platforms wordpress.com and wordpress.org launched a new service today: wordpress.tv. WordPress TV is meant to become “your visual resource for all things WordPress“. The new platform will share all videos on WordPress insights, skills, hacks and knowledge. Focus lies on both the blogging software wordpress.org and the free bloghost [...]

15 July 2008 0 Comments

WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” released

As from today WordPress 2.6 is available, almost 1 month ahead of schedule. This version is called WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” after jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and it contains a few new features that have to make WordPress a more powerful Content Management System (CMS): Check all new features here.

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26 May 2008 0 Comments

How to make your standard WordPress titles more attractive?

Most WordPress themes have the same, SEO-unfriendly, standard titles. Although the times are changing little by little, a lot of blogs still use those unattractive titles. They don’t look good in the SERP‘s and when you add a post to a social bookmarking site, chances are real those strange looking characters (« and ») will [...]

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7 February 2008 1 Comment

Forgot to change the year in your footer?

A new year, a new footer? Even now in february I still see a lot of blogs that haven’t changed the year in their footer (yet). It still reads “© 200x – 2007“. Maybe the owner forgot to change the year or doesn’t know how and where to change it. If you change the code [...]

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18 November 2007 43 Comments

How to optimize your WordPress blog for the Search Engines?

Fact 1: WordPress in the best and easiest blogging system in the world. Fact 2: search engines like Google, Live and Yahoo! really like blogs. The reason behind the success of blogs in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERP’s) is that they really fit in the way search engines and their algorithms work today. I’m [...]