WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress is throwing itself behind RSS Cloud, a step that could put millions of bloggers and podcasters one step closer to real-time updates: Today we turned on support for all 7.5 million blogs on WordPress.com something called RSS Cloud, which is basically a way for people to get […]

A major WordPress hack has been creating headaches for bloggers, podcasters and anyone else using WordPress for their content management system. If you’re using anything other than the most recent version of WordPress, your site is apparently ripe for the plucking by hackers. If you haven’t already, update to the most recent version now. WordPress […]

Blubrry has updated its PowerPress plugin for WordPress to version 0.9.2, adding a large number of new features/options as well as a some bug fixes. Here’s what’s new: Embed player within blog posts with [powerpress] shortcode. (learn more about PowerPress shortcode) Add embed code from sites such as YouTube, Viddler and blip.tv Custom entry box […]

Developer Edgar de León has introduced a new video blogging plugin for WordPress, WebTV. WebTV is designed to let you attach a video to a post and upload it to most popular video distribution sites, including YouTube, Vimeo and Blip.tv. After your video is uploaded and processed, WebTV get and inserts the embed code from […]

WordPress for iPhone developer Raanan Bar-Cohen has announced that version 1.3 of the free iPhone WordPress app (App Store link) is now live. The announcement doesn’t explain what’s new in the update, other than this note: Please note: Due to a strange glitch when submitting the app, the About page of the “1.3″ version will […]

https://videopress.com/v/Pu3T4X8l WordPress has announced that a new release of its popular blogging and podcasting platform, WordPress 2.8. 2.8 is more of an incremental update than 2.7. Here are the highlights: New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors Browse the theme directory and […]

Today podcast production and hosting company RawVoice introduced a major update to PowerPress, its podcast plugin for use with the WordPress blogging platform. The PowerPress Plugin now integrates with the RawVoice Podcast Hosting Services Platform at Blubrry.com, adding a podcast statistics summary to the user’s WordPress dashboard. The update also adds the ability to select […]

In Stories With Alliterative Headlines (see above) this week, podcasting network Blubrry released a new Power Press plugin for their users, which aims to simplify moving podcast content to the Word Press platform from other content management systems: “While the latest version of PowerPress contains a large number of bug fixes we have a new […]

Chandima Cumaranatunge has developed a free WordPress plug-in that allows users to incorporate micro video posts into their blogs. The plugin is designed to let you create and update Live blog posts using micro video application 12seconds.tv. The video site 12seconds allows bloggers to use the webcam on their computer or their mobile phone to […]

Mashuqur Rahman has created a new WordPress plugin, Twitter Liveblog, designed to let you create and update Live blog posts using Twitter. Once you’ve installed and configured Twitter LiveBlog with your Twitter account info, it will let you: Start a liveblogging post using a Twitter update. Add to the liveblogging post using Twitter updates. Each […]