WordPress.com – the popular free blog hosting service – went offline today, taking with it popular sites like TechCrunch, GigaOm and 9.2 million other blogs. The site was down close to two hours. No official announcement has been made on the cause for the outage. WordPress.com is the 19th most popular site in the world, […]

Lead Developer Andy Peatling has announced that BuddyPress 1.2, the latest version of the WordPress social networking add-on, is now available. The release is notable because it works with standard WordPress installs. Previously, it would only work with WordPress MU. This means that bloggers and podcasters using WordPress can now have a self-hosted solution for […]

WordPress.org has announced an update to WordPress for iPhone. The update is focused on improved comment moderation, including: Reply to Comments Edit Comments Highlighting the new items in the comment list Missing in action are the spiffy vlogging features introduced last week in WordPress For BlackBerry. While iPhone users may be envious of the BlackBerry […]

https://videopress.com/v/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.15 WordPress.org has announced that WordPress for Blackberry is now available. New in WordPress for BlackBerry 1.0: Record and upload videos from your phone. Support for the HD video service VideoPress. Streamlined UI and functionality relating to comment moderation Overall enhancements to the speed and stability of the app No word on when the video […]

https://videopress.com/v/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.15 WordPress.org has announced WordPress for Android, a new mobile client for the popular blogging & podcasting app. Features: Configure and manage multiple blogs Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos Create and Edit Pages Get notified of new comments in the Android notification […]

Blubrry has released PowerPress 1.05, an update to its free podcast syndication plugin for WordPress. The release includes several new features and addresses multiple bugs. PowerPress lets users embed audio and video podcasts into their WordPress sites and create correctly formatted feeds for syndication.

There’s been a lot of discussion, growing out of the tremendous popularity of Twitter, that blogging is going to be replaced by microblogging, or some other “next best thing”. Last year, for example, Wired magazine’s Paul Boutin weighed in on the subject, arguing that Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004. WordPress creator Matt […]

Leading blogging/podcasting/content management platform WordPress today announced that WordPress.com now supports email subscriptions for blogs: This is a very simple way for your readers to subscribe to your blog and receive updates by email. Anyone can subscribe, whether they have a WordPress.com account or not. All you need to do is add the Blog Subscription […]

WordPress has announced that WordPress for iPhone 2 is now available in the App Store. Here’s what’s new: A new, more efficient user interface that makes it faster to switch between comments, posts, and pages. Various user interface refinements and bug fixes New Comments interface, with Gravatars and the author URL shown in the comment […]

Is time for WordPress-based podcasters to dump the once-pioneering podcasting plugin PodPress?

blubrry has announced that PowerPress 1.0 is now available, and it supports all the key PodPress features……