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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WordPress is an amazing publishing platform with an strong community that supports it. For the uninitiated, WordPress is an open source blogging platform which can also function as a content ...

Your business blog helps people find your site and establish yourself as an authority in your field, but you'll want to get up to speed on copyright law regarding the content you produce. Many ...

Almost 30,000 WordPress blogs have been infected in a new wave of attacks orchestrated by a cybercriminal gang whose primary goal is to distribute rogue antivirus software, researchers from security ...

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 ...

Deciding to start a blog is not even close to half the battle, but it is a step in the right direction. A blog—short for “Web log”—is a great way to share your interests, hobbies, and causes with the ...