According to a report from Pingdom.com, 52 out of the Technorati Top 100 blogs use WordPress as their platform of choice, up from 48 blogs last year. Four years ago, that number stood at 32.
52% of Top 100 Blogs Use WordPress
WordPress Multisite with Nginx – How to set it all up and enjoy the blazing fast consequences
Recently, due to the many attacks launched on the internet, especially the botnet DDoS attacking WordPress hosts, I was forced to move some of my sites to a shared server — a virtual machine — with little memory and just a slice of one CPU core.
This required rethinking the whole strategy of hosting them: instead of having huge server with almost unlimited memory, disk space, many CPU cores, and infinite resources, I had to somehow extract the same amount of performance out of this tiny virtual server. How?
Add Privacy Controls To The BuddyPress Activity Stream
New BuddyPress plugins are being released just about every day, and once in awhile there’s one that stands out with the potential to be universally useful. That’s the case with the new BuddyPress Activity Privacy plugin. It gives users the ability to restrict who can see their activity posts.
Once installed and activated, BuddyPress Activity Privacy adds the following privacy controls to the post update box for members:
Anyone
Logged In Users
My Friends
Admin Only
Only Me
Making Conditional Tags Work Magic in Your WordPress Site
Conditional Tags are one of those things that you can leverage on your WordPress site whether you are an ace in coding or just have enough knowledge to install a plugin. It’s amazing what a simple piece of PHP can do for your WordPress site. They work well with BuddyPress too.
The Ultimate Beginners Guide To BuddyPress
Are you thinking about setting up a social network for your university’s onesie appreciation society? Are you suffering analysis paralysis after installing BuddyPress because you don’t know which boxes you should tick? Or maybe you’ve set up version 1.7 and have a truck load of questions?
Well, you’ve come to the right place.
In this guide I’ll go through the ins and outs of BuddyPress, or as everyone and their dog likes to call it, social networking in a box.
I’ll cover:
What is BuddyPress?
Features
Why you should use it
Installation
bbPress forums
Plugins
Themes
Who uses it
Support
The future of BuddyPress
Okay, So What Is BuddyPress?
Zuck’s got it right, 50% of our staff have been turned down for US visas… for a holiday get together!
So, this year something pretty amazing is going to happen… the whole Incsub team is going to meet up for the first time in NYC, at the end of June, woohoo!
We’ve never done it before, but we figure that it’s time to start behaving like a bona fide proper business, and doing as many physical meet-ups as possible, even if they are more of the Valve type (i.e. very little, if any, actual work… ok, it’s a holiday :)
How To Redirect Nonexistent Blogs in WordPress Multisite
On a very active WordPress multisite network, blogs can come and go. Perhaps a user hasn’t renewed his membership or simply decided to delete his blog. Other sites may still be linking to that nonexistent blog. The default behavior of WordPress is to direct you to a 404 error page when you try to visit a nonexistent blog. Unless you’ve taken great care to make your 404 error page useful and engaging, the visitor has probably reached a dead end.
120 Free WordPress Themes from Premium Theme Developers
Everyone familiar with WordPress knows the tactic of giving away free themes in order to build a name or attract customers to your paid offerings.
It’s pretty much a win-win for everyone. If you’re happy with the free theme, then carry on with it. It you want more functionality (or support in many case), then you’ll need to upgrade to a paid option.
At the very least, free themes let you check out a designer’s work from the inside with zero pressure involved. And so all in all, free themes from professional theme developers are a good thing.
The Most Exciting Feature of WordPress 3.6: Native Audio and Video Support
We’re all eagerly looking forward to WordPress 3.6 with its beautiful updates to Post Format UI and bright new default Twenty Thirteen theme. But there’s one feature that far and away surpasses all the others.
The upcoming WordPress 3.6 release will add native support for audio and video files. This one is a real game changer. We’re going to give you a full introduction to the new capabilities and show you how you can use them on your WordPress site. But first, let’s take a look at how we’ve previously been managing multimedia files.
In the old days…
How To Quickly Duplicate A WordPress Database
There are many situations where you may need to copy your WordPress database. The most common scenario would be to set up a development site in order to test new themes or features. In the past you may have exported a copy and then re-imported that to a new blank database. If you want to copy your database onto the same server, then this is probably the easiest way.
This quick tip is based on a phpMyAdmin operations feature, so it won’t apply to you if your host is using something else for managing databases.
