The WordPress mobile apps for Android and BlackBerry have both been updated with some shiny new features, like a new comment notification system and improved VideoPress integration.
There’s no word yet on an update to the iOS mobile app, but the team still has its eyes set on making this one a major bug-fixing release.
These recent updates would not have been possible without your feedback and beta testing skills, so keep doing whatever you can to make each release better than the last!
Do you use any of the WordPress mobile apps? I use the iOS mobile app and can honestly say that it has certainly simplified my life when it comes to moderating comments and making last-minute post corrections. How about you? Have the WordPress mobile apps added to or detracted from your WordPress blogging experience?
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Original post by James Huff
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Remember the old days when your computer would crash because you were running too many applications simultaneously? Well, you might be surprised to know that WordPress can fall victim to the very same thing.
You see, your server may be packed with 4 GB of RAM, but that doesn’t mean that all 4 GB have been allocated to PHP on your account. In fact, most decent hosting providers only allocate 32 MB to PHP under each account. Now, most WordPress installations with a good amount of plugins will run fine under 32 MB, but there’s always a chance that one more plugin or one seemingly innocent admin panel task (like exporting or importing posts) may put you over the edge, and you’ll see either a blank screen or the infamous error which starts off something like “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted.”
If you see a […]
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You may be wondering why anyone would want to do this. Think about it, you probably have hundreds of articles that you wrote years ago and when those same articles appear on Google search engine results, the dates appear next to the description. You might think that this is great, users searching the web should be able to see when an article originally published, but research shows that users discriminate against older content just because it is old. An article that may be valuable despite its age would be subject to a user completely ignoring it and would click on the newer article, just because it was newer.
As you can see in the image above, the search results page lists the post date for the article followed by the description.
Do not confuse the intent here, if you are running a news site or writing about topics whose value is short […]
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The SXSW staff wants to hear your feedback on the proposed panels for SXSW 2011. Your votes on the proposed panels will account for 30% of the final vote, so start voting today!
Currently, there are ten WordPress-related panel proposals awaiting your feedback:
Beyond Blogging: WordPress is a CMS
Don’t Be Ashamed to Use WordPress
Essential WordPress Search Metrics
Knocking Out Application Layer and Open Source Threats
Life After Blackbaud
Making Money with WordPress (Without Working at Automattic)
Web Development Simplified: Unifying Multiple Tools and Platforms
WordPress: The Small Business Swiss Army Knife
WordPress 3.0: The TV Series Publishing Platform
Yahoo! and WordPress: A Marriage Made in Hell
Are you planning to attend SXSW 2011? Which panel proposals captured your interest?
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Original post by James Huff
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First, I would like to thank everybody for reading Web Designer Wall and following me (@nickla) on Twitter. Today, I have iPhone stickers to give out to my followers only. I will be giving out 20 iPhone stickers (sponsored by Sticker Mule) with my illustration printed on it . All you have to do is tweet a message to me. For example: "@nickla, I like the Koi or Peacock or Phoenix sticker. #wdw_stickers". Winners will be selected randomly on Aug 27, 2010 and contacted by Twitter’s Direct Message.
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Original post by Nick La
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WordPress is a powerful blogging platform with a large community volunteering its time to provide support to users in the WordPress Support Forums.
Last week, the WordPress Support Forums mailing list presented nominations for the top active support forum volunteers. These volunteers were nominated for being active on the support forums within the last month and for helping multiple users almost every day on their own free time. The nominees were then organized by the number of topics they have been involved in since joining the forums to find this year’s top fifteen.
If you stopped by the WordPress Support Forums this year, you were probably helped by one of these fifteen volunteers, or you at least got the chance to see them in action.
Without further delay, here are the top fifteen active WordPress Support Forum volunteers:
Mel “esmi” Pedley: Professional web developer since 2001 with a special interest in CSS, […]
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The 300,000 Biggest Websites, Visualized With Their Icons: Gizmodo had an interesting post today about a chart/image that contains the favicons of the 300,000 most trafficked websites on the Interwebs. I thought the interactive version was interesting and found Weblog Tools Collection completely hidden right under the lower left corner of the Blogger icon. The traffic data came from Alexa and it was put together by Nmap.
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The 300,000 Biggest Websites, Visualized With Their Icons: Gizmodo had an interesting post today about a chart/image that contains the favicons of the 300,000 most trafficked websites on the Interwebs. I thought the interactive version was interesting and found Weblog Tools Collection completely hidden right under the lower left corner of the Blogger icon. The traffic data came from Alexa and it was put together by Nmap.
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Original post by Mark Ghosh
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You’ve just spent countless hours on your latest and greatest WordPress plugin and theme, and you want the world to know about it. Well, we want to help! I’m sure that you’ve all noticed the plugin and theme digests published here every other day, and it’s not too difficult to be a part of them. Sure, we all recommend that you submit your work of art to the official plugin and theme directories, but it normally takes a few days for these directories to be updated. Why not announce it here as soon as you’re done? We’ve made it easy to do just that.
If you want to share your latest and greatest WordPress plugin and theme with us, stop by the New WordPress Plugins and New WordPress Themes forums and simply post a new topic via the form at the bottom of the page, or […]
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October 15th is less than two months away and Change.org wants you to vote on this year’s Blog Action Day topic. Currently, the selection includes the following topics, but they will continue to take suggestions until the poll closes.
Water: The UN recently declared water to be a human right, but millions around the world still lack even the most basic access, causing widespread disease and the possibility of military conflict over access to clean water.
Human Trafficking: From prostitution to forced labor, more than 27 million people are modern-day slaves, making human trafficking one of the most overlooked man-made tragedies in the world.
Women: The most discriminated against group in the world isn’t a minority: it’s women. From inequality in schooling to reduced economic opportunities, women face a disproportionate degree of adversity all over the world.
Sustainable Food: Industrial agriculture has overtaken the world’s food supply – creating obesity in the developed […]
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