Jan 28 2009

WordPress the No. 2 Blogging Platform

Tag: Internet News — Smitty @ 10:40 pm

WordPress creator Mullenweg is many bloggers’ best friend
By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY

SAN FRANCISCO — While still in high school in Texas, Matt Mullenweg created blogging software he hoped would be easier and prettier to use. Less than six years later, Mullenweg’s WordPress has become the No. 2 blogging platform behind Google’s Blogger, signing up 10,000 new bloggers daily.

WordPress has become so entrenched on the Web that many of the biggest names use it now — a roster that includes CNN, Fox News and The New York Times, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Coca-Cola and General Electric, along with millions of ordinary bloggers.

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Dec 11 2008

Wordpress 2.7 is out!

Tag: Internet News — Smitty @ 10:00 am

December 11, 2008

WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane”

By Matt. Filed under Development.

The first thing you’ll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we’ve listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version. (Download it now, or read on for more.)

My comments:

This is a terrific upgrade to Wordpress.  Not so much from the visitor’s perspective, but from administration. The administration is incredibly clean, easy to locate anything and laid out beautifully. Great Job!

Now I have to get all my clients upgraded.