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PressBooks Goes Open Source

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March 8, 2013

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PressBooks, that incredible WordPress plugin that helps authors create ebooks, PDFs, and web-based books with a few clicks has announced that they are going completely open source with a full GPL 2.0 license. It’s been in the works for quite some time and many have wondered when it was going to drop (if ever) but Hugh McGuire has silenced those critics a few weeks ago with his announcement. The reason? Simple: For book publishing to evolve to fully embrace digital, we need open tools that allow for experimentation with new technologies, and new models, business and otherwise. We are building […]

Is Your WordPress Startup Business 'Legit"?

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March 8, 2013

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Every startup needs traffic because traffic creates users, customers, and perhaps more importantly, fans. And a customer testimonial or big-name blog helps with that traffic wave, right? It kind of makes your startup more “legit” in some sense, right? Well, not always, but it can provide some confidence for those new customers who are just viewing your site for the first time. And hey, wouldn’t you know, but there’s an “app” (or web service) for those testimonials.

Top Hosting Locations for WordPress Sites

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March 8, 2013

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We’ve shared before the incredible news that 17% of the top 1,000,000 sites are now powered by WordPress – and that number is growing every single day. It’s an unbelievable time to be using WordPress and we are all riding a decidely-large wave of adoption that’s been growing over the last several years. Wherever you host, regardless of size, if you’re using WordPress then you are a part of a fantastic and passionate community that is just as successful as the next – and this community is definitely international. What’s fascinating is that although WordPress is a world-wide community the […]

WordPress VIP Scales Past 3,000 Auto-Deploys

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March 8, 2013

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The folks over at WordPress VIP are not stopping their fast pace growth and released some statistics that showcase some of that growth publicly. Those that have been aware of the VIP services have known that it’s a hosted solution for typically much larger sites and blogs. As a commercial arm of the much larger WordPress.com service, I can imagine that it’s a very profitable one at that. They are continuing to innovate and bring best-practice thinking to their customers. In June of 2012 they revealed auto-deploys for static CSS and images – in this way they can have their clients […]

ZippyKid Adds SPDY Support for SSL Customers

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March 8, 2013

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Not familiar with SPDY (pronounced speedy, btw) protocol, the networking protocol via Google? It’s an open protocol that is working toward standardization as an advanced latency system for such things as load time, security, and more. In layman’s terms, Google’s SPDY is a system which makes the web faster. It does not replace HTTP but modifies the way HTTP requests and responses are sent and received, and ZippyKid has added it for their existing customers with version 2.0 support. With SPDY, you don’t need to do things like add multiple hostnames for assets in your HTML, to get around the concurrent […]

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