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May 20

WordPress founder claims 72,000 posts defected from Tumblr after Yahoo acquisition news

WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has spoken out in an attempt to capitalize on Yahoo’s rumored $1.1 billion acquisition of rival blogging service Tumblr. He claims that once the news broke on Sunday, blog post transfers from Tumblr to his own site rose from 400 to 600 per hour to over 72,000 — which presumably included users put off by Yahoo’s track record of shutting down its acquisitions (like Del.icio.us, Geocities and Broadcast.com). If that figure is true, then Marissa Mayer’s probably going to have to answer some rather awkward questions in a few hours.

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Apr 17

WordPress 2.3 for Android gains Holo interface and menu drawer

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Bloggers have been getting plenty of love on Android as of late, and if WordPress happens to be your platform of choice, you’ll be glad to know that your time in the sun has arrived. Similar to Tumblr’s recent overhaul, WordPress was just updated with a new Holo interface, and it’s really quite the looker. First and foremost, you’ll notice that WordPress now looks like a proper Android app, complete with an action bar for tasks such as creating posts and sharing to other apps. With a flick of the thumb, you’ll also notice a menu drawer that’s accessible from the left-hand side, which replaces the old school dashboard interface that was found in previous versions of WordPress for Android. We can’t say the new features will help you overcome writer’s block, but at least you’ll have something pretty to look at while you ponder your next great post.

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Apr 14

Fix For Recent WordPress Brute Force Attack Is Easier Than You Think

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Over the past couple of days it has been widely reported that WordPress based sites are being targeted by a massive brute force attack, one that is supposedly backed by a botnet with over 90,000 IP addresses. The nature of this attack has been described as being much larger than usual, with CloudFlar alone blocking over 60 million requests in under one hour. The attack is believed to be on a global scale, affecting almost every web host out there. So naturally WordPress users have been looking for a fix, which is surprisingly easy, this coming from the man himself who made WordPress.

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Mar 14

Mozilla launches Open Badges 1.0, delivers virtual kudos for real skills

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We’ve long missed the stickers and badges we could wear to show achievements in our childhood, whether it was an A+ in History or our campfire-making chops. Mozilla must miss those too, as it’s launching Open Badges 1.0, a spec for proving skills on the web. The approach provides verifiable credentials that are stowed away in a virtual Mozilla backpack and shareable through a number of online avenues, starting with WordPress blogs and Twitter updates. You won’t necessarily need to be a web scripting wizard to earn badges, either — they’re available or coming from 600-plus companies and educational institutions that include Disney-Pixar, NASA and the Smithsonian. We’re a long way from only having to flash our Open Badges to land a job, but those symbols may be enough to let teachers and coworkers know we’re up to snuff for key tasks.

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Jan 10

WordPress For Blackberry 10 Previewed On Video

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Heads up bloggers, we know that there are times when you have a cool idea you want to share on your blog but don’t have a computer with you, and sometimes it’s because of these situations that leads to us losing what could have been a great story. Thanks to smartphones and tablets, blogging on the go is possible and if you were planning on picking up a Blackberry 10 device, you might be interested to learn that a preview of the WordPress app for Blackberry 10 has been released on video (thanks to Simon at Crackberry), giving us a glimpse at what we might be able to expect. For the most part the app will do the most basic blogging functions, such as creating a new post, add tags, photos and the likes, and it even makes use of the Blackberry 10 cascades UI to top it off. Awhile back RIM mentioned that they planned to have 70,000 apps for Blackberry 10 at launch, and it looks like WordPress will be one of the big names – at least as far as bloggers are concerned. In any case check out the video above to see WordPress in action on Blackberry 10.

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Aug 09

WordPress for iOS gets revamped with new user interface and improved features

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If you’re managing your WordPress blog on an iPad or an iPhone, we’ve got good news for you. Today, WordPress has just deployed a huge update for its app on iOS. As you can see in the photo above, WordPress on iOS has been revamped with a new sidebar menu for quick navigation and sliding panels on the iPad for greatly improved navigation and ease of use.

Apart from the new app icon and the updated graphics, WordPress version 3.1 also includes support for post formats, new WordPress.com stats, landscape orientation support, and a Friend Finder feature helps you find your friends, not to mention a couple of bug fixes and performance enhancements. You can check out the change log after the break.