Open source content management system WordPress has just released their latest update Wordpress version 4.4. Dubbed as "Clifford," this release is said to be attributed to the jazz musician Clifford Brown. The latest update offers several features to make your Wordpress based website become a little bit more mobile-friendly and become more visible on other websites. The highlights of the new updates include more responsive images (wherein pictures adapt in size to different devices and browser dimension) and more expanded embeddable content post options. Embedded support for Cloudup, Reddit Comments, ReverbNation, Speaker Deck and VideoPress has also been added. It also features the latest default built in theme, "Twenty Sixteen" … [Read more...] about What’s new with WordPress 4.4 – “Clifford”
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WordPress releases version 4.3 “Billie” … so what’s new ?
About 3 days ago, Wordpress just released Version 4.3 which they nicknamed as "Billie" in honor of jazz singer Billie Holiday. The update is now is available for download. Self hosted Wordpress sites can simply update from their dashboard. The latest Wordpress version features tools that make it even more easier to customise your site with features such as the all new Menu Customiser, Formatting shortcuts (Now doing lists is much more easier with a # or *) and an interface to upload your site favicon, helping reinforce your site brand. Aside from the above, the latest Wordpress features a smoother admin experience making WordPress more accessible and easier to work with on any device. Comments are turned off on pages and the new update lets you customize your site quickly by simply clicking "customize" in the toolbar whenever you are in the front end. As a veteran power Wordpress user I am excited with these changes. Wordpress has truly evolved into more than just a blogging … [Read more...] about WordPress releases version 4.3 “Billie” … so what’s new ?
Welcome “Benny” – WordPress’ latest update, version 4.0
I've been blogging for almost 8 years now and I really appreciate the fact that the the Wordpress team led by founder Matt Mullenweg has been constantly updating, refining and finding new ways to enhance the interface to give us bloggers and users a much more rich experience. For those who do not know what Wordpress is, it is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. The platform is used by more than 22.0% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013. It is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web as it is being used by more than 60 million websites. Count my more than 80 blogs and websites in this statistics as I use Wordpress in about 95 % of them. (I have several "blogger" sites and other sites running other platform as well) Aside from the usual under the hood and other security updates, Wordpress 4.0 features tools giving the user a rich experience. Innovative changes such as intuitive editing, seamless … [Read more...] about Welcome “Benny” – WordPress’ latest update, version 4.0
How To Maximize Your WordPress Blog?
This is a guest post from zohan who blogs at ScreamingTips, where he shares social media tips, blogging tips, tutorials, money making tips. If you would like to write for HumorTechBlog, check our Guest Post Guidelines. One of the key features that makes Word press such a powerful blogging platform is the thousands of plug-ins that are available to use with wordpress blog. Although these plug-ins make it possible to transform your blog into a powerful user experience it is however at times these very plug-ins that can limit and hinder your site's performance. So here are some tips for you to maximizing WordPress experience Keeping your plug-in installations to a bare minimum will ensure increased performance level of your website. Keep in mind that for every plug-in running on your site there is an unseen background process running that takes time to load every time your site is opened in a browser. Plug-ins that utilize WordPress Cron jobs can be the absolute worst possible … [Read more...] about How To Maximize Your WordPress Blog?
Tips for Choosing the best Web Host for WordPress
WordPress is the most widely used web blogging platform in the world. Ever since its launch WordPress has become the favorite tool for bloggers. Earlier blogs had been hosted under free domains such as WordPress.com and BlogSpot, however now due to the cheap web hosting rates, bloggers are starting their own self hosted wordpress blog. What amazes me is that they neglect few important points that must be considered before buying a hosting plan for their website. The below content are my opinion based on my own experience with web hosting, if the readers have any point to add to this post, kindly drop a comment below. Your response is much appreciated and valued. Storage Space It is the main priority of the webmaster to predict the amount of storage that he would need to setup his website. The storage prediction must take into account several things that will be added to the website like images and videos that will be included in the content. This can be achieved by writing a post … [Read more...] about Tips for Choosing the best Web Host for WordPress