This blog is aimed at helping publishers get the most out of WordPress. We’ll cover features that are often overlooked, we’ll highlight plugins that extend WordPress functionality, and we’ll showcase interesting sites being built with WordPress.
At a recent Dallas Fort Worth WordPress meetup, Mike Pratt gave a presentation on how he’s using WordPress and BuddyPress to build his very own social network: … there are a ton of excellent needs and reasons to use BuddyPress to take your site and turn it into the community it is begging to become. [...]
Really interesting case study posted by Ryan Hellyer of PixoPoint on how his firm, using CSS and a couple of upgrades, built a full site on WordPress.com for the Red Devils of the New Zealand Ice Hockey League: Ryan described the initial scope: Their original site consisted of hard coded .html files as a simple [...]
From Harvard Law’s Dan Collis-Puro, a how-to on optimizing your WordPress MU install, using Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress: We put an nginx caching proxy server in front of our wordpress mu install and sped it up dramatically – in some cases a thousandfold. I’ve packaged up a plugin, along with installation [...]
New WordPress user Martha Stewart dedicated the September 17 episode of The Martha Stewart Show to blogging!
On the show, Martha explains how she and her staff utilize The Martha Blog and chats with some of her favorite bloggers, including WordPress users Margaret Roach, Perez Hilton, and Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman.
Martha loves the exposure and ease of use of her blog:
I’ve been writing this blog for almost a year now and I have to say that I love being able to communicate so easily on a daily basis. Being in the public eye, I have a devoted following that wants to know more about my personal life and activities. Prior to blogging, we sent out a newsletter dealing with such issues. Although the printed newsletter was charming and informative, it was also a rather slow process and didn’t reach nearly as many readers as this blog does.
I really love the spontaneity of blogging and being able to post whatever, whenever.
Here’s a clip from the show:
Check out her post for tips on blogging and details about her blogging contest.
How cool, I didn’t know that Martha even had a blog, and it shows how smart she is since she’s using WP!
So glad you posted about this, Heather. In my segment with Martha yesterday, for whom I worked for 15 years until starting my own company in January, we talked about WordPress…so once the clips are live on http://marthastewart.com in the next day or two from yesterday’s ‘Martha’ show, you can have a listen.
Did I just see Martha using IE5 (1:58)?
No arguments from me Heather! Blogging is absolutely the fastest way to get your message out there. I’ve been mailing printed newsletters to my clients for years very successfully – but as a client retention and referral building marketing tool. That’s really the only (and best) way you would want to use printed newsletters.
Sweet……Never knew she had a blog
ummm according to typepad she also has one there.
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The Martha Blog switched from Typepad to WordPress a few weeks ago: http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2008/09/08/martha-stewart-wordpress/