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WordPress Stats Infographic by Yoast
WordPress Stats Infographic by Joost de Valk shows off WordPress numbers and compares them to Drupal, Joomla and others. Includes some stats from WordPress.com too.
Custom CSS Now with CSS3 Support on WordPress.com
Who said all WordPress.com blogs have to look the same? Who said you cannot customize your theme unless you’re running self-hosted WordPress? WordPress.com had the Custom Design upgrade for quite some time now, and now it’s suited and booted with CSS3 support: animation, gradients, shadows, transforms and a bunch of other stuff. You can even make your non-responsive theme into a...
WordPress 3.4 is ready for beta testers!
WordPress 3.4 is ready for beta testers! Flexible header sizes, new XML-RPC API, a bunch of performance improvements, and my personal favorite — The Theme Customizer. Give it a shot, and don’t forget to report any bugs you encounter.
The Future of CSS
If you’re familiar with Less CSS, SASS and others, you will absolutely love this one: The future of CSS. It seems to cover everything we’ve been missing so far. I’ve already started using More CSS in my next project and it’s looking very good so far!
102 People Power 16% of the Web
Not entirely true, and not entirely up to date, but still worth linking to: 102 People Power 16% of the Web by Andre Bourque for Social Media Today.
San Kloud Theme by Theme.fm, now on WordPress.com
Today WordPress.com has launched a couple of new themes, and one of them is San Kloud. I remember introducing the San Kloud theme for WordPress on Theme.fm, back in August last year, and it’s made almost nine thousand downloads since then. Designed by Umit Kayabas and developed by Alexander Permyakov, San Kloud is a great theme for blogging. Congratulations to the Theme.fm team for making...
Introducing Milestones on WordPress.com
Good news! WordPress.com rolls out a few terrific badges for achievements, which will keep you motivated, and not only to post more often, but to post quality content, because the new badges are for likes and for followers. Here’s a screenshot of how it looks: With all those new features introduced on WordPress.com — likes, reblogs, achievements and badges, I’m really loving the...
Join the WordPress Moscow Meetup Group
If you’re in Moscow and use WordPress, join the WordPress Moscow Meetup Group on Facebook. Everybody’s welcome: bloggers, developers, designers, photographer, journalists, writers, content managers, entrepreneurs and anybody who’s using (our would like to use) WordPress. Our next meetup is sometime in April.
Open-sourcing the Code Comments Trac plugin
Open-sourcing the Code Comments Trac plugin by Nikolay Bachiyski, from the WordPress.com VIP team. I haven’t had a chance to use the plugin myself, but I really love Trac (I don’t have much choice now either) and I really love code commenting on Github. This little plugin brings one to the other. Awesome, and well done!