If blogging is all about self-expression, why do so many blogs look so blah? Most free blog services offer only a handful of designs, giving you few options for personalizing your site. Most beginner ...

If you plan on running a blog, chances are you’ll use WordPress as your hosting site of choice because it’s so popular. WordPress offers thousands of free and paid templates for blogs. While the ...

You took the leap and installed WordPress to host your own blog because you want complete control over how it looks and works. Now, it's time to power it up, lock it ...

WordPress is a powerful and flexible blogging platform that allows blog owners to create pages, install templates and plugins and is even more customizable for developers who know PHP programming.

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WordPress automatically creates a feed for every blog it powers. Visitors subscribe to these feeds in a reader to keep updated with your content. However, you can use these feeds to aggregate content ...

Blogging is a necessary part of our life these days, and tools like WordPress make it even easier. WordPress is nowadays the most used platform for blogging and creating websites. But setting up ...

Matt Mullenweg was a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Houston when he clicked "publish" on a new blog post. His personal website, Photomatt.net, was growing, he explained, but he needed a ...

WordPress has just announced a partnership with Federated Media to allow bloggers to monetize their free, hosted blogs on WordPress.com with ads. It’s calling the new program WordAds. While Google ...

In its own blog on blogs (metablog?), Web monitoring company Pingdom is reporting the results of a study with news that WordPress is used by 48% of the top 100 blogs worldwide. The group increased ...

Your WordPress blog can be customized to an astonishing degree, giving your site unique functionality in addition to a distinctive look. I’ll explain how to make simple design tweaks, how to import ...