If you’re looking for a hosted blog platform, you may want to avoid Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces. According to figures released today by Royal Pingdom, Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces is down more than 12 times as much as WordPress, Blogger and TypePad. Royal Pingdom checked nine major blogging services over a four month period to […]

The Blubrry PowerPress plugin for WordPress version 0.7.1 is now available. The latest version includes a large number of new features as well as bug fixes. New Features: Simple/Advanced Modes Simple Mode is perfect for podcasters just starting out Advanced Mode includes additional settings, tools and features. Enhanced iTunes Summary option (learn more) Create Unlimited […]

https://videopress.com/v/Pk6aHQhX IntenseDebate, a hosted comment platform for WordPress comments, has announced that it’s opened the platform to third-party plugins. As part of the introduction, IntenseDebate has introduced several plugins: PollDaddy: Readers will be able to create polls right in the comment section. Seesmic: Readers the ability to record and post video comments. YouTube: Commenters can […]

PodPress, a WordPress plugin that adds features for podasters, has been updated to 8.8.1, removing compatibility issues with recent versions of WordPress, according to its developer: Version 8.8.1 is temporary maintenance release to make podPress compatible with the post revisions feature introduced in WordPress 2.6. If somebody is interested in maintaining podPress while the main […]

Erik Rassmussen has released a WordPress plugin that’s designed to make it easy for audio bloggers to use YouTube as a free audio host.  YT-Audio adds an flash audio player to your blog that streams audio from YouTube. It works by trimming the standard YouTube video player to only show the controls. The above image shows […]

Royal Pingdom has released stats that show the free blogging platform WordPress is the most popular platform for blogs and new media.  They ranked the Technorati top 100 blogs, investigated what blog platforms they are using and found that WordPress has more than twice as many blogs in the top 100 as Movable Type, the blog platform […]

Kaltura has updated its All in One Video Pack plugin for WordPress.  Kaltura’s plugin is designed to offer all the functions you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, […]

Six Apart, the creators of Movable Type, have introduced an add-on that turns Movable Type into a social networking platform.  Motion is a Movable Type application you install and run on your web server. Motion will be freely available in early 2009 for any licensed user of Movable Type Pro.  According to Six Apart, “We looked at […]

The WordPress team created this video to highlight the new features of WordPress 2.7. Much of the focus in WordPress 2.7 has been on usability, which should make it faster than ever to work with WordPress. Here’s a list of what’s new: XMLRPC Comments API (Ticket 7446) Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation (Ticket 7643) Sticky […]

Blubrry has announced that they’ve released version .5.0 of their Powerpress podcasting plugin for Wordpress.

The latest version incorporates a number of bug fixes as well as some minor enhancements.