Here’s an incredibly handy infographic about Creative Commons that’s well worth a review if you use any photos or media for your blog posts, which is an incredibly strong strategy for building great content. Make sure that your blog posts have some media and make sure that you cite it well and right! Click for a much larger view:
With an overview of 2012 via WordPress.org I thought it would be neat to take a look at what 2012 looked like for WordPress.com – specifically via metrics, a bit of analytics, and some very basic math. There’s some neat things that have happened cumulatively that are worth noting:
Jane Wells spent a few moments reflecting on WordPress.org and all that has happened around the budding community over the last 365 days in the now quickly-being-forgotten 2012 – my, does time fly when you’re having so much fun! A few things that Jane mentions are the fact that we saw two major releases (3.4 and 3.5) as well as updates to all of the native mobile platforms as well, like iOS,Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Nokia, and WebOS. The plugin directory was updated, the “Make” network with team reps have continued to be refined, the WordPress Community Summit came and went and a focus on even more […]
It’s my honor and privilege to be one of the editors of this newly minted blog and since we started earlier this month it’s been a pretty neat ride. Statistically it’s been an incredible start for a concept that was once just a simmering thought below the surface that bubbled enough (and long enough) to capture our attention toward execution, even if it wasn’t a perfect product out the gate. Here’s a top-level look at what we’ve accomplished in just 24 short days – not even a full calendar month! 130 published posts – that’s more than 5 posts a day! […]
This has been a great year to be a WordPress developer, designer or user. With the updates to core, community, and paid plugins and themes, it’s been a real smorgasbord of awesomeness. In the realm of plugin development, it’s been a particularly exciting time with amazing new plugin releases and feature upgrades with existing plugins. I’ve asked some well known folks in the WordPress community for their top picks and present to you the top five mentions here. You should also check out the other year end plugin roundup posts for more great plugins. Enjoy!
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