In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse -- the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others -- with the acquisition of an ...

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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 ...

Your favorite blog got hacked. Worse, it infected the computers of thousands of people who visited it. Such a scenario played out earlier this year with the Flashback ...

Your company might already have a website, but perhaps it’s not as easy to update as you’d like. Or maybe you are interested in creating a dynamic new company blog. Whatever phase you’re in of ...

Creating a blog is pretty straightforward and there are plenty of ways to do it. Thanks to all manner of online tools and services you can put together the bare bones of one in mere minutes. However, ...

Bloggers can make money from their blogs using affiliate marketing, but free blogging services such as WordPress.com have specific rules about commercial blogging, which includes advertising, paid ...

A WordPress blog enables you to easily present your business, as well as your products, qualifications and expertise. If you also maintain a business website, it's a good idea to integrate WordPress ...

WordPress.com, one of the internet’s leading purveyors of blog infrastructure and hosting, has taken a step toward making blogging more sustainable by allowing sites to easily accept recurring ...

Blogging with Microsoft Word lets you use the richly featured word processor to circumvent many of the underpowered, sometimes unfriendly aspects of browser-based interfaces used by platforms like ...