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Innovators make our lives better

With the release of WordPress 3.3 I was reflecting on how its developers have made my life and the lives of millions of people easier in so many ways, including making money. That same night I was watching an episode of Mythbusters (my kind of reality TV) and they proved that like birds, airplanes can [...]

Updates are a part of software life

I sometimes hear people complaining that WordPress has had YET ANOTHER update. Let me clear up a couple of misperceptions that may be driving such complaints:
All software requires updating, whether it’s on the web, on your computer, on your smart phone, even in pieces of hardware, such as routers or tvs.
Some software requires more frequent [...]

Not everyone’s liking the WordPress admin bar

I was over on the wpdig.com site the other day and checked out the latest stats on the poll they’re running about the WordPress admin bar, which was introduced in 3.1 (there’s a sample of it at the bottom of the post).
Turns out respondents were almost evenly divided between loving it, hating it, and not [...]

Does Google penalize sites using WordPress?

In a follow-up to his earlier SearchEngineWatch article, Gary-Adam Shannon is claiming again that Google may be penalizing sites for using WordPress:
If you ask me, it makes perfect sense that Google could potentially penalize based on a site footprint.
This time he offers two kinds of evidence for this:
 I’ve talked with a few SEOs who also [...]

For the love of content management and using WordPress

I’ve particularly enjoyed working with a recent client because his enthusiasm for training on WordPress was contagious. Ken’s constantly finding some “mind-blowing” new feature, and this isn’t just empty praise – he’s excited because of the possibilities he sees for his website.
For example, as I showed him how he can organize content using categories, he’s [...]

Knowing if search engines are blocked in WP 3.2

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