Wordpress

WordPress is free to use and very easy to set up, but if you’re starting, you must understand the basics of WordPress to help you get the most out of your site. Here are some basic things you should know before getting started. WordPress is a very powerful content…

Wiping away your digital life means getting rid of the traces you’ve left – the mistakes you made, the embarrassing photos, the unwise comments, the flawed social media profiles where you’ve left too much visible. But how easy is that? The following steps…

Affiliate schemes have been described as a good way to earn money without lifting a finger. Say you’re a classic car enthusiast and create an interesting website about them: you’ll attract like-minded visitors who might be interested in buying spare parts. You…

A Turkish court has banned internet users from viewing the official Richard Dawkins website after a Muslim creationist claimed its contents were defamatory and blasphemous. Adnan Oktar, who writes under the pen name of Harun Yahya, complained that Dawkins, a fierce critic of…

Since Tuesday, running a personal website has become a privacy minefield for people using .uk domain names. A recent rule change by Nominet, the company which manages the .uk registry, means that domain name owners whose home addresses were previously kept private may now be…

So what’s the mission statement for Automattic / WordPress and how has this changed over time? Automattic’s mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratize publishing. Basically what I found after a few years of doing WordPress…

WordPress has removed an interview with the “homophobic” campaign Straight Pride UK after the group used US copyright law to issue a takedown notice. In an interview posted on his WordPress blog, student Oliver Hotham published an interview with the group…

More than 11,000 websites using the WordPress blogging platform have been blacklisted by Google after they were infected by the “SoakSoak” malware. Security firm Sucuri, which first reported on the blacklisting, claims that the malware’s impact could be far wider…

Giant media and internet companies keep scooping up social-media services: among others, MySpace went to News Corp, YouTube to Google, Instagram to Facebook, and now Tumblr to Yahoo. For the young founders and their investors, the trajectory in each case has been 1) create a…