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Life beyond WordPress: Showcase of blogging CMSs

Noupe :: When it comes to content management systems and/or blogging platforms, we know that WordPress leads the race by a mile. Hardly any other CMS comes close to WordPress in terms of popularity and ease of usage. Yet, it is always useful to know your way around an extra platform or two. Therefore, in this article, we shall take a look at some of the ‘other’ blogging CMSs, apart from WP itself.

Beyond WordPress - Continue to read Sufyan bin Uzayr, www.noupe.com

WordPress, Tumblr and Facebook add social to the blog platforms

AllThingsD :: For today’s blogging platforms, hosting a compelling set of publishing tools is no longer enough — you’ve got to get social. That’s why sites like Tumblr and more recently Automattic — the 106-person company behind the powerhouse blogging platform WordPress.com — have taken steps toward better social integration, hoping to attract publishers who are looking to increase user engagement on their sites.

Continue to read Mike Isaac, allthingsd.com

Facebook Integration for WordPress

Developers Facebook :: Starting this week (launch was on Tuesday) WordPress publishers can easily integrate Facebook features, such as social publishing and mentions, through the new Facebook for WordPress plugin. The plugin was built by Facebook engineers in collaboration with open source partners, and makes it simple for anyone to make their WordPress site more social – no coding required. The plugin will also work on mobile and support internationalization.

Continue to read Matt Kelly, developers.facebook.com

Infinite WordPress: Manage unlimited self-hosted sites from a single admin panel

The Next Web :: There are over 74 million WordPress sites online right now, half of which are self-hosted, and out of all these sites, many users of the CMS handle more than one install at a time. WordPress, with all its strengths, doesn’t cater to these users, and this is why the team behind Infinite WordPress created a free tool to make it easier to maintain multiple self-hosted WordPress sites all at once.

Continue to read Harrison Weber, thenextweb.com

Matt Mullenweg tells former rival Anil Dash what’s ahead for WordPress

paidContent :: Not that long ago, Matt Mullenweg, a founding developer of WordPress, and Anil Dash, once chief evangelist of Six Apart and Movable Type, were publicly feuding over open source and the relative merits of their respective blogging platforms. But that’s another country. Six Apart was acquired by Say Media and Movable Type is under control of a Japanese firm while WordPress continues to grow and evolve with its parent firm Automattic. As for Mullenweg and Dash, now cofounder of consultancy Activate, and CEO of start-up ThinkUp, the two got together on stage at The TimesCenter during our paidContent 2012 for an informative interview.

The interview on video - watch it here Staci D. Kramer, paidcontent.org

WordPress, Reddit, others join new 'Internet Defense League'

AllThingsD :: The Internet Defense League already has onboard sites that can motivate the online masses: WordPress, Imgur, Reddit, Cheezburger Network, Public Knowledge, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Craigslist founder Craig Newmark have signed up.

HT: Anthony De Rosa via Jeff Jarvis, here

RT @AntDeRosa: WordPress, Reddit, Cheezburger and others join new Internet Defense League dthin.gs/KUWhKv

— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) May 27, 2012

Continue to read Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com

New ‘radically simplified’ WordPress is on the way

paidContent :: Speaking at the paidContent 2012 event on Wednesday, Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress and Automattic said that he had been hard at work coming up with a new interface that will eradicate some of the complexity that WordPress is usually associated with. “One of the things I’ve been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface,” he told interviewer Anil Dash. “WordPress it’s a complex tool, it’s like the back of a digital SLR… but that doesn’t work on a phone.”

Bobbie Johnson, paidcontent.org

Dutch startup Cleeng's WordPress 'paywall' plugin to charge for content

The Next Web :: Dutch startup Cleeng‘s technology allows Web publishers to charge for their content without having to lock everything away behind a paywall. Instead, individual pages, or even sub-sections of pages, can be made chargeable using the company’s WordPress plugin.

Continue to read Martin Bryant, thenextweb.com

New WordPress themes: Responsive design ready for desktop, tablets and mobile devices

noupe :: Every year designers are pushing the boundaries of what WordPress can do. 2012 is no different. In just a few short months we have seen a large increase in the number of premium WordPress themes being released, and the bar is certainly being raised with the new additions to the ranks. It’s encouraging to see so many designers making their themes responsive so that their themes look great on desktops, tablets and mobile devices. Designers are also adding more custom page templates, short codes and portfolio functionality to their WordPress themes too.

Today we would like to show you 25 of the best WordPress themes that desginers have been released so far in 2012. We hope you enjoy the list.

Continue to read Kevin Muldoon, www.noupe.com

WordPress VIP: Now officially partners with third-party plugins

Betakit :: Today Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com VIP, is announcing the launch of its Featured Partner Program, which marks the first time the platform has officially partnered with third-party plugins. The program caters to WordPress.com VIP clients, which typically run large-scale sites and in total generate one billion page views per month, and allows them to easily integrate third-party partners. Current WordPress.com VIP clients include CNN, Time, and NBC Sports.

Continue to read Erin Bury, betakit.com