Future of Google Wave in New API Competition?
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 9 2010 at 2:03 pm | 1 Comment »
A new Google Wave API competition might heat up interest again in the collaborative documentation program. What would you like to see Google Wave do beyond it’s current functionality?
WordCast Conversations 8: Anne Helmond on SEO and Social Media
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 9 2010 at 10:05 am | 1 Comment »
When it comes to the relationship between blogs and search engines, there’s no comparison to the expertise of Anne Helmond, who’s worked for years researching blog software and how it connects to Google and other search sites. This week, she talks to Kym about her research and how it connects to search engine optimization (SEO), WordPress, blogging, and social media.
WordPress Hack Cloakes Itself to All But Search Engines
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 5 2010 at 1:36 pm | 1 Comment »
A new WordPress hack is making its way around the net, and it has some new tricks up its sleeve. Read our coverage to learn what’s going on, whether or not your WordPress blog could be affected, and what’s being done to solve the problem.
Around the WordPress Community: Dynamic Copyrights, Moving WordPress, Microformats, and Twitter to Blog
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 4 2010 at 4:28 am | 2 Comments »
In this week’s Around the WordPress Community, we dig far and wide to bring you WordPress related tips and techniques on moving your WordPress blog, creating dynamic copyrights, injecting content and custom stuff into your WordPress feed, bringing Twitter to your blog, and some great tips on microformats for WordPress Themes.
WordCast Recap: 2/15/10
By Dave Moyer, posted Feb 19 2010 at 7:50 pm | 4 Comments »
We’re wrapping up the week here at WordCast. This week: WordPress.com’s outage, and also brought you the details about the newest version of the WordPress.org blogging system, a tip on how to use your browser better as a blogger, and more.
Blogger Rolling Out Automatic Pagination
By Dave Moyer, posted Feb 19 2010 at 7:00 am | No Comments »
Google’s Blogger service announced yesterday that it is beginning a gradual roll-out of automatic pagination on their users’ sites. The old method of simply pulling a static number of posts is being replaced with a method to dynamically calculate an appropriate number of posts based on the file sizes of code and images.
Be Legal! Find Creative Commons Photos and Images For Your Blog Posts
By Jonathan Bailey, posted Jan 19 2010 at 3:00 pm | 3 Comments »
It’s a simple fact that blog posts with images look better and get more attention than those without them. They are easier on the eyes, attract readers and stand out when users are glancing through their RSS feeds. However, it is important to make sure that your images come from a legal source. Failure to obtain properly-licensed images can lead to many different headaches including takedowns which can hurt your blog, legal threats and, in drastic cases, lawsuits. Don’t pick through Google Images and deal with these nightmares! We’ll show you where to find the good stuff you can use for free.
WordCast 55: Only the French
By Dave Moyer, posted Jun 10 2009 at 9:00 am | No Comments »
WordPress.org and WordPress MU merging, 2.8 on the way, Widgetifyr, and more.