Posts Tagged ‘wordpress’

Posted on January 16, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

WordPress 3.0 has been downloaded over 30 million times. That’s a lot of self hosted blogs

If there was any doubt that WordPress is the number one blogging platform, the image below tells it all.

The SocialWayne.com blog uses WordPress and I provide WordPress installation and customization support..

Congrats to Matt and the Automattic / WordPress team.

Posted on December 7, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

The Power of WordPress in two must see infographics

I use WordPress as a blogging platform here on SocialWayne.com but it’s much more than that. WordPress can be used as a content management system, or as a regular website and some of largest sites on the internet today such as CNN.com and TechCrunch us WordPress. If you’re doubting WordPress as a content management system (CMS) or a blogging platform take a look at the two infographics below and maybe you’ll change your mind.

via netchunks

via simplexstudios

Choose WordPress… any questions?

Posted on December 6, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Tumblr is down making self-hosted WordPress blogs look great and reminding everyone to backup now

It has been a sad 48 hours for Tumblr. The microblogging/blogging site has been down with no ETA as to when everything will be back to normal. Tumblr users are starting to panic and get frustrated and sharing their frustration on Twitter. I have a tumblr account as well but I’m glad it’s not may main website or I too would be a little upset at this point.

Regardless this is good reminder as I tell clients it’s always better to host your own blog using WordPress vs Tumblr or similar sites. Still if you are using a self-hosted WordPress installation you need to back up your blog for those just in case moments such as a server crash or you need to move your blog to another web host.

To back up your WordPress blog see my post: 3 plugins to backup your WordPress blog. Another option is http://www.backupify.com/ which supports various social web platforms but Tumblr is not one of them.

I wish the Tumblr team luck and I hope they’re able to bring Tumblr back to life soon. In the mean time visit: http://whentumblrisdown.com/

Do you use Tumblr as your main website? What do you think the problem is?

Posted on September 23, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

infographic – The State of the Blogosphere in 2010

While reading my RSS feeds in Google Reader I came across this interesting infographic made by by infographiclabs for blogharlad about the state of the blogsphere in 2010. Here are a few highlights from the infographic:

7 of the Top 10 blogs are tech related.

1. The Huffington Post
2. TechCrunch
3. Gizmodo
4. Mashable
5. Gawker
6. Engadget
7. The Daily Beast
8. TMZ.com
9. Boing Bong
10. ReadWriteWeb

Gender:
67% of bloggers are male while 33% are female

Age:
The top two age groups are between 25-34 and 35-44

Where:
48% of blogs are from the US

Updates:
Most people update their blog 2-3 times a week or at least once a week

Who:
72% of bloggers are hobbyists while 4% are considered pros

Source:
Blogpulse.com via 146,628,598 blogs

Via: Infographiclabs and blogherald

What are you thoughts on the infographic? Do you fell like the data is accurate? What surprised you?

Posted on May 28, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Google Wave turns one, then tweets and how to embed a Google Wave blip into any website

In case you missed it, Google Wave turned one year old today. I’m not sure what Google or the Google Wave team did to celebrate but the @Google Twitter account tweeted Happy Birthday about the news and soon the @googlewave team retweeted the message as you can see above and below.

Back in January I wrote a blog post called 9 practical ways to use Google Wave for business and fast forward six months later I’m still using Google Wave for business. Little did I know it was “Wave’s birthday and earlier today I tweeted the following message:

At the time I tweeted the message it was after reviewing some of the Google Wave “blips” / conversations that the TriOut team were having and some of the milestones we were reaching. Fast forward a few hours later Google Wave Product Manager Steph Hannon @twephanie tweeted the following:

No, Steph Hannon @twephanie thank you and the Google Wave team for continuing making a useful FREE collaborative tool for entrepreneurs like myself to use for team projects.

Since Google Wave launched from closed beta to public access one of the most requested features was to make it easy for people to embed Google Wave blip messages into a blog post or any website. I’m not sure when it was released but you can embed a google wave into any website with a Google Web Element called “Wave Element”. To do so go to: http://www.google.com/webelements/wave/ and just past the wave url you want to embed in the box and the Wave Element will provide you with the code to embed. Here’s an example and closing question below.

How are you using Google Wave?