Tag: "WordPress"
WordPress Version 3.5 Released
WordPress has just released version 3.5 of their popular blogging software. This updated is dubbed ‘Elvin’ in honor of musician Elvin Jones. This upgrade is really designed to enhance the experience on mobile devices (from an admin perspective) and more prominence around using various forms of media in your blog posts. The new WordPress package is [...]
Read MoreWordPress version 3.4 is here
WordPress has again updated their popular blogging/ CMS platform that is now powering somewhere between 15-20% of the web. The update includes a number of new features: 1. Test theme code customisations changes before putting them live. 2. Customise the colours of your theme, background, header, logo etc before making those changes live. 3. A new way [...]
Read MoreWordPress version 3.3.2 Released
WordPress has just released an update to their WordPress.org software – version 3.3.2. This update fixes a number of security bugs and vulnerabilities. It has been some time since we’ve had an update from WordPress but I am glad to see this is a security update instead of feature upgrades. For me security is far [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Growth Australia – 2011 [INFOGRAPH]
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Tweet We had a busy 2011, reporting the news and compiling our social media statistics. As a result we have compiled an infograph showing the growth of each major social network over 2011. Table below shows Unique Australian Visitors to the site per month, users numbers reported by a reputable source, or an average of [...]
Read MoreVideo Blog: Social Media Weekly Recap 15-12-11
Here is my video blog going recapping the most important social media news over the past week – 15 December 2011. Topics of discussion: New Twitter Redesign rolls out Twitter releases New Tweet, Follow Buttons Instagram – iPhone App of the Year Foursquare Statistics – December 2011 WordPress 3.3 Now Released WordPress releasing their own [...]
Read MoreWordPress 3.3 Now Released
WordPress 3.3 has been released and you should start seeing the Upgrade button in your WordPress dashboard. A number of enhancements have been made, such as: Automatic file type detection on media upload Drag and Drop media interface More file formats allowed for upload WordPress Dashboard redesign New Header Admin toolbar New Info popups in [...]
Read MoreWordPress releasing their own PPC Ad Network
Everyday 50,000 new WordPress blogs are created. Over the years many WordPress bloggers have looked to ads and advertising to make money off their blogs. This has lead to WordPress developing their own Ad network, which has been unveiled today. WordAds – the new advertising network by WordPress. So far its understood that WordAds will [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Statistics Australia – November 2011
It’s the last day of the month and time for us to report our monthly social media statistics for Australia. As per previous stats, when compiling these figures we look at actual user numbers if officially reported (or by a reputable source ) – otherwise we look at the number of Unique Australian Visitors Per [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Statistics Australia – September 2011
It’s nice to end the month on a Friday and we have collated our monthly Australian Social Media statistics for September 2011. We are again reporting Google Plus user numbers in Australia by using global estimates – but please do remember this is very much an accurate assumption at this stage. Google haven’t been releasing [...]
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Thank your Blog commenters
Blog commenting is an important aspect in determining how active your blog is, and how well you are engaging your visitors. Over the past couple of years as blogging has become so popular and with so many blogs now, many have speculated that blog commenting is dead. Whilst I don’t necessarily believe this it is [...]
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