WordPress.com announced a new pricing plan today for premium blog hosting tailored around business customers. The new service costs $299 per year and is available under the WordPress.com Business line of services. Features that come with the $299 per year package include live customer support, unlimited storage, and unlimited access to premium themes. The package also includes a personal domain name.
Automattic is the parent company of the popular blogging platform, WordPress. Automattic has acquired security company CodeGarage. Automattic also runs a WordPress backup and security company called VaultPress. CodeGarage is believed to be one of the best alternatives for the VaultPress service. CodeGarage allows you to monitor 5 websites per month for $25. VaultPress charges a flat fee per website. Peter Butler, one of the founders at Code Garage, is joining Automattic.
Automattic has announced that they have launched a new platform called WordPress.com Enterprise. WordPress.com Enterprise has all the best features of WordPress.com including paid upgrades, premium themes, and custom design. It also has built-in WordPress.com VIP features including over 70 vetted plugins and integration with top partners like Facebook, Chartbeat, and Flipboard. Some of their beta customers includes ESPN’s Digital and Print Products and Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Chef. WordPress.com Enterprise can be purchased through the WordPress.com Store for around $500 per month. [Source: WordPress Blog]
BuddyPress is an open source social networking platform run by the parent company of WordPress. BuddyPress is generally installed on the WordPress platform to turn it into a social network. It is popular with sports teams and schools. A new version of BuddyPress is created every few months and the last time it was updated was in June 2012. The basic version of BuddyPress includes an activity stream, user profiles, group creation, and a messaging system. Below is a list of over 30 BuddyPress themes that you can download now.
Nowadays, blogging is considered to be an integral part of many people’s life. Every day we are introduced to thousands of new blogs written by people from different walks of life. There are numerous platforms available for blogging websites and among them the most popular is WordPress – an open source Content Management System (CMS), used by over 70 million websites around the world.
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When people want to sell products online, they usually turn to eBay, Etsy, Amazon, Alibaba, etc. All of these websites take a cut from your sales and then you have to pay shipping costs. You may not know this, but Groupon.com was initially built entirely on WordPress. Sure they had to heavily modify WordPress to get it to work for them, but nowadays building a WordPress Ecommerce solution is easily right at anyone’s fingertips. Below is a list of WordPress Ecommerce related plugins and themes.
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If you have a WordPress blog and want to get noticed, having the right SEO tools are important. When I first launched this blog, I knew nothing about SEO. Eventually I started to get the hang of it using some of the tools below. Below is a list of over 20 of the best WordPress SEO plugins (pages 1-20).
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WordPress is one of the biggest content management systems in the world. Some of the biggest businesses have been built on WordPress like Groupon and some of AOL’s largest web properties. WordPress is free, but some a lot of the business WordPress themes are not. If you are looking for FREE WordPress business themes, you are in the right place. Below is a list of over 40 of them:
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