It was the early days of the Gutenberg project. Many on the Theme Review Team and those in design circles were trying to wrap their heads around this new concept called blocks. In particular, we wanted to know how it could be applied to theme development. There were many discussions on the pros and cons of the early editor. Overall, there was a bit of cautious excitement in the air, our optimism tempered by a buggy version of alpha-level software.

The block system could potentially solve one of the biggest hurdles of theme development: inserting default/demo content for a full page…

The investment marks the single largest investment ever made by Automattic and values Titan at $300 Mn

Titan claims to have over 100,000 users at present and expects to grow to 1 Mn users within the next year and 5 Mn within 3 years

Turakhia aims to build a larger suite of productivity solutions targeted towards small businesses and competing with Microsoft and Google’s productivity offerings

Titan, the email app founded by serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia, which provides a suite of professional services for small and medium businesses, has secured a $30 Mn Series A funding from…

Growing a successful WordPress website requires heavy investments in time, effort, and resources. Engaging content, a proficient sitemap, high user satisfaction, key products or services, and a healthy dose of SEO are a few of the many resources you’ll need to contribute.

Let’s focus on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). A website that lacks organic growth and reaches less audiences is likely to have poor SEO. And in such situations, a WordPress SEO plugin can offer you the best assistance. Luckily, WordPress offers a variety of SEO plugins to help you…

WPX Managed WordPress Hosting suffered an outage that may have taken down thousands of websites. The outage has lasted for hours. Many customers are complaining about a lack of communication from WPX.

WPX Hosting Site Was Unreachable

Even the WPX website hosting site itself was unreachable.

Screenshot of WPX Hosting Unavailability

A page hosted on their knowledge base subdomain (kb.wpx.net) was issuing this error message:

Screenshot of WPX Knowledge Base Error Message

WPX Chicago Data Center Problems

WPX responded issued a templated response to customers complaining on Twitter. The response…

When you mention brands that dominate the market, the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon are likely to spring to mind.

Likewise, when it comes to CSM market share, it won’t surprise you to know that WordPress is dominating.

What may surprise you is how much by.

How Market Share Was Measured

The research carried out by GigaPress made use of the Alexa Top Sites, which identified the top 10,000 websites worldwide by measuring Alexa Traffic Rank.

From here, they utilized a script to determine the type of CMS each site uses, based on over 900 known systems.

Market Share Results

It was expected…

WAIKIKI, Hawaii, Aug. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — If you have ever searched reddit for anything you know it can be an overwhelming challenge sometimes, like where to find the best deal on web hosting. Well this one Waikiki resident has taken on the challenge.

The Reddit Guy Takes on these challenges for people who can’t search These deals on their own. Located in Hawaii, this keyboard warrior has researched over 109 hours to help small businesses in his area find…

WAIKIKI, Hawaii, Aug. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — If you have ever searched reddit for anything you know it can be an overwhelming challenge sometimes, like where to find the best deal on web hosting. Well this one Waikiki resident has taken on the challenge.

The Reddit Guy Takes on these challenges for people who can’t search These deals on their own. Located in Hawaii, this keyboard warrior has researched over 109 hours to help small businesses in his area find…