Updated 2021-02-11: WordPress market share has now reached 40% of all public web sites.
It is pretty amazing that a free, open source software is the most popular system that is powering more than one third of web sites across the internet. Read >
Category: Publishing
Why we don’t write our posts in WordPress Gutenberg editor
When the first working versions of the Gutenberg block editor for WordPress were available, I was excited. The new editor promised so much for the future, and made some tasks easier than in the old WordPress post editor. After writing new Read >
Hey Google, when will your engineers resolve the AdSense account access problem?
I’m not 100% sure, but because I have been in similar situation with other Google products before, I think that AdSense doesn’t like the fact that I travel for work. During the last four weeks, Google AdSense advertising service has Read >
How to install and configure Awstats web statistics for WordPress and for other sites
Published 2019-08-27, Updated 2020-07-06 with settings for different types of URLs.
Awstats is a statistics/analysis tool that collects data from visitors who view a web site. It tallies up data into a database so that you can view historical statistics and compare Read >
One-third of the world’s web sites are running on WordPress content management software
WordPress, a free open source software package used for many types of online publications, was launched 15 years ago. Since then, it has steadily grown into the most popular content management system for building and running web sites. Now, the Read >
How to choose the best method for preventing comment spam in WordPress
Everyone who is responsible for administering and managing a WordPress blog, web site, or publication that is configured to accept comments knows how massive the comment spam problem is. Fortunately, multiple solutions are available to fight it. In fact, there are Read >
There is something terribly wrong with this web page
Why does someone publish thought-provoking articles on the internet only to cover the excellent content with popup windows (see the screen capture above)? In the early days of online advertising – 15-20 years ago – it was common to bombard web Read >
The future of WordPress after release 5.0
A major release of WordPress (version 5.0) open source publishing software and a major gathering of WordPress experts (Wordcamp) coincided in early December 2018. It wasn’t a coincidence. People who had contributed to the new software could explain what was new, Read >
Strategies for managing the migration to the WordPress 5 Gutenberg block editor
Matt Mullenweg, the founder and leader of the organization that is developing the core WordPress system recently confirmed that a production release of the WordPress 5.0 is planned to be available by the end of 2018. The primary new feature – Read >
This is why WordPress became the most popular open source publishing platform
There is a reason why WordPress has become the most popular content management system (CMS). It didn’t happen overnight. The first version of the core software was released 15 years ago. At the time, far better open source content management systems Read >