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.
The Ford Story is a recently launched site committed to making Ford’s progress towards getting new high-quality, fuel-efficient cars, and trucks on the road today transparent and open. The site is completely powered by WordPress and uses WordPress as a CMS to deliver a wide variety of static content, videos, photos, and dynamic updates.
We talked [...]
Intruders.tv, an international web tv network, recently relaunched their globally focused channels, having switched to WordPress MU as their publishing platform of choice.
Since they started out two years ago, the Intruders team have been bringing high-quality, high-profile tech/Internet interviews to the world with HD video, in a number of languages, from a refreshing breadth of [...]
Michael Biven, CTO of Laughing Squid, wrote a great post highlighting how to optimize your self-installed WordPress setup:
Taking responsibility of your WordPress site by keeping it up to date to the latest version and managing it’s load on the server hosting it is just as important as the content you’re writing for it. Security updates, [...]
A new feature in WordPress 2.7 and on WordPress.com, is the ability to moderate comments using keyboard shortcuts. A few of the popular shortcuts include:
For any site that regularly receives dozens or even hundreds of comments per post, this new feature can dramatically speed up the comment moderation process.
Mark Jaquith, a lead developer on the WordPress project, put together a screencast to show how this new feature works:
done
[...] Keyboard Shortcuts in WordPress 2.7 – The WordPress Publisher blog has published a list of keyword shortcuts that are available for use in WordPress 2.7. If your site receives dozens of comments these shortcuts can really increase the speed of moderating comments in the moderation queue. – http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2008/12/29/wordpress-moderating-comments-keyboard-shortcuts/ [...]