Monthly Archives: May 2014

05.15.14
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Free WordPress Hosting Vs. Self Hosting


WordPress Free Hosting

Most of the Blogger choose WordPress[dot]com for their blogging, as it is free. The site is managed, maintained & updated by the company “Automatic”, they are the creators of the WordPress. They do provide Zero hassle environment, it means that bloggers can work on the quality of their content and rest is all handled by the company itself. Although there are few restrictions laid by the company on the content like they don’t allow you to put adult content or google ads, but working on WordPress[dot]com is really amazing. They do provide theme library with inbuilt functionality. You can choose from thousands of the themes available to bring the best look for your website. You cannot install your own theme or re-design the theme, you can only choose from the available themes, but still that library is quite huge. WordPress[dot] provides the cloud hosting environment. Cloud means that there is distributed network of multiple servers which means that the site is fast and secured, if any server goes down, the site comes from the other server; it never goes down of the Internet. Most of the bloggers do complain, that the WordPress[dot]com don’t allow them to install plugins of their choice to add new functionality to their blogs, they are allowed to enjoy the functionality did provided by the company itself. Most of the people who are looking for free hosting or want to switch to it; the creator company does provide import facility from self hosted environment. Many of the them are moved to the WordPress[dot]com, as it is very rapidly growing platform. Not only import, the site do offers export functionality also, if you are thinking of moving your site to the self-hosted environment.

WordPress Self Hosted

You have a domain and you want to manage your site by yourself. You have already purchased the hosting services from CPWebHosting.com. From the Fantastico available in the Cpanel, you have installed the WordPress on your site and now you want to manage it by your own choice. Although there is no content restrictions laid by CPWebHosting, but most of time it is seen they point on adult content or sometime they don’t allow you. But, you can find the listing of the adult hosting providers on them also, if they don’t allow, you can choose hosting services of those companies. So, if they don’t allow, they provide you choices which allows it.

If the wordpress is on the self-hosted environment, you can put the Google ad sense which is not allowed in a free hosting environment. You can put any custom theme of your choice and also re-design it with the way you like. You can always add new functionality to your website using the plugins. So, you can add fancy of features on your website. All the controls are in your hand you can make the site setup exactly the way you want it to be. You can any linking and manage any of the hassles that comes to you. As with the feature available in free hosting environment, Import-Export features is also available. You can anytime switch to the free environment or vice-versa.

Both the free hosting and self hosting environments have advantages and disadvantages, but all depends on the assessment what you need and what is available and where you want to take your site in the near future. WordPress is same in both self hosted and free environment. WordPress is flexible you can switch to any of the environment at any time.

05.15.14
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WordPress data leakage risk flagged by security researcher


What happens if there is a flaw in the WordPress?

As we all know that all the web hosting providers possess some limitations also due to which it is possible that users have to compromise their data in the form of text, audio, video, images, quotes, links and other type of content and same thing happens with the WordPress also. Our Researchers are saying that on the basis of their findings they have find that there is a flaw in the WordPress which could put millions of user’s data at the risk of leakage and could affect thousands of websites and blogs.

WordPress data leakage risk flagged by security researcher-a company known as White hat

There is a security firm known as White hat which prepared a report on WordPress after going through it and with the proper analysis and according to that , the blogging platform ,we can say WordPress will not completely protect multimedia files i.e. audio, video, links, quotes and other content which are uploaded to sites in the same manner as it safeguards text, which could potentially leave a listed company to face the risk of insider trading or a design firm to copyright theft. This will allow the hackers or attackers to easily guess which files and attachments are available for postings that have not been approved yet or gone live .

For example, let’s say you are running a private traded company and you are planning to release your earnings report on your blog and for this you may upload a PDF file of the earnings report in a day or multiple days i.e. in weeks or in months in advance to make sure you’re your preparations are on full hand and as per your plans everything is ready and perfect and ready to go as soon as you announce.”

This is possible that an attacker could download the URL of the PDF of the earnings report in advance if he will be able to guess the (uniform resource locator) URL of the PDF of the earnings report and with this earning report attacker can do the trade of it also.

Despite above all of this, he claimed that there are less chances of flaw occurring in WordPress its severity is low, and apart from data leakage, it will not be used to increase attacks such as code injection or cross-site scripting.

It has been seen in the beginning of this year, that hackers were using brute force against thousands of WordPress sites’ administration accounts so that they can compromise or affect sites and spread malicious material , as reported by IT PRO’s.

05.15.14
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All about zed eCommerce 8.0 for SAP Business with WordPress Integration


Zed eCommerce 8.0 by Zed suite is considered to be a milestone in providing effective ecommerce solutions for the integration of SAP one. This offers one of the most comprehensive solutions. The Zed eCommerce 8.0 has WordPress integration that gives business owners complete control over the content of their websites. This version is priced perfectly to fit the budget of medium sized business owners. So business owners are able to afford new technology to improve their operations. Business owners that use SAP one and the users that use Zed ecommerce can take full advantage of the Zed eCommerce 8.0.

By using Zed eCommerce 8.0 business owners can utilize the best of two worlds. Now business owners may sometimes feel like transferring a store to another platform or they may feel like starting an online store and they are able to do this by using Zed eCommerce 8.0. The features of Zed eCommerce 8.0 allows the users a lot of customization and flexibility which is what a growing business really needs at this time.

Since Zed eCommerce 8.0 provides CMS through WordPress businesses can exercise complete control over their websites and they can control things like themes, extensions, content pages and navigation. You can give your online store a completely new look. Since Zed eCommerce 8.0 provides indexing for static pages and descriptions for the store the whole thing is indexed very easily by Google.

A little bit about the creators of Zed eCommerce 8.0

Zed suite is a reliable web integration partner that is responsible of taking the potential of SAP business and spreading it all over the world. Zed suite provides the appropriate level of customization and integration to cater to the individual needs of each customers. Zed suite provides the companies to provide innovative services to the customers so that even the customers feel that they are getting services worth the money that they have spent.

By providing Zed eCommerce 8.0 zed suite has empowered businesses to deliver good and flexible services. The company employs a very steady team of experts who know how to get on with it and provide exactly what the customers are looking for. The company follows a consultative approach to ensure that the solution provided is in alignment with the goals and processes of each business.

Zed Suite Incorporation is a component of the ZED group of companies since 1922. The group of companies is privately owned and operated and has a vision of sharing its technology with the customers and help them improve their operation in the process.

The best part is that Zed eCommerce 8.0 has various sophisticated tools that make the job a lot easier. The interface is very user friendly and very easy to use. So once you install this you must take the time to go through the various tools as there is plenty that you can do. So take the time and go through the entire interface and do not rush through the process. Follow the tips in the article for a better understanding of zed eCommerce 8.0 for SAP Business with WordPress Integration.

05.15.14
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Best WordPress Hosting Winners 2013


who is the Winner of best WordPress hosting for the year 2013?

Bluehost was declared as the Winner of best WordPress hosting for the year 2013 at wordpress by one of the top web hosting review site named Bestwebhosting2go on 23 July’13. Bluehost was founded in 1996 and is suitable for mainly community groups, small and medium sized companies, personal websites. It is an award hosting company with around 17 years development has become one of the largest web hosting provider which serves 2.5 million users worldwide. It was successfully providing top quality web hosting from last 15 years to millions of domains.Bestwebhosting2go is a global leader in web hosting search and review platform which help users in choosing the best web hosting provider.

This is declared as the best WordPress hosting on the basis of their customer feedback, security, reliability, speed, price and customer support, as said by the editor of Bestwebhosting2go.They also said that if you will compare bluehost with their competitors, then it will be a best choice for your small or medium company or if you were a blogger or developer.

Bestwebhosting2go states that to give their users best from their experiences for WordPress, bluehost accept the following criteria:

  • Bluehost is cheap and affordable.
  • It provides very good and friendly support to their customers. Customers can contact then 24*7 through e-mail, live chat or phone. Customer satisfaction rate is highest of bluehost, if we compared with others. They have so many tutorials available which give quick answers to the questions.
  • It is 100% well suited or goes well together with WordPress.
  • It also provides high performance web servers and world class data centers.
  • They have their own data centers, not like the other web hosting companies which rent their data centre. Apart from this, their data centre contain good web hosting packages which ensures good services to their users, high speed and bandwidth capacity.
  • It allows WordPress users to handle large amount of data i.e. image files, plugins and other content because BlueHost allows a high PHP memory limit at 521MB.
  • BlueHost also allows WordPress to run fast by optimizing MYSQL performance and PHP caching.
  • BlueHost provides Simple Scripts a new script installer for installing and maintaining WordPress site but if we talk about other web hosting providers then they provide fantastico, which is an old script installer.
  • Regarding the pricing and other plans, BlueHost is offering 44% discount to all their new customers. Plan of the BlueHost includes 1 free domain registration, no set up fees, full payment at the time of sign up.
  • BlueHost also provide money back up guarantee if you cancel your account within 30 days and if after that then it will give you pro-rated refund.

Conclusion-BlueHost is basically designed for those who have to host a personal site or blog and it is the best hosting available for WordPress.

05.15.14
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WordPress Plugin for Events


Why use WordPress Plugin for Events Management

WordPress Plugin for Events management is widely used now-a-days. It was used primarily for blogging, but these days they are mainly used for event driven website making. It is PHP based framework software that uses MySQL as data base. WordPress Plugin enriches content management system. It helps to manage contents perfectly. It makes website developing easy and devoid of any hassles.

Now you must understand what a plugin is. A plugin is a basic software developing tool that does not have an independent existence like other software. It works when it is attached to another web development kit or content management system like WordPress. Suppose you are trying to develop a website, a plugin like Event Calender will be very useful.

Event managers use event organizers to mange event in a WordPress website. Some built in plugins like “Customesmpost type” to manufacture events that have same functionality like posting a date with year in a website. The other event organizers use WordPress plugins for the ease with which it can be installed and customized. Again the plugins are very developed. Event organizers use mainly these WordPress Plugin for Events:

  1. Event scheduler/calendar : This is an Ajax oriented searching output screen like Google or yahoo calendar. This event manager gives you the facilities like managing appointments, schedules and upcoming schedules on task bar.By clicking the task bar a user can manage or customize the events with calendar date.
  2. Amr-ical events list : Any user can use this WordPress plugin for Events to manipulate the calendar widgets.
  3. MEM or Minimalistic Event Manager : It is used by the developer to develop flexible event dates. Event dates can be added to a post sent by any user.
  4. Eventify : This is also a popular plugin which will let you edit pop ups and widgets.
  5. Event Brite : This plugin helps you to manage registrations and ticket sales.

Many other tools are available to manipulate events .some of them are free of cost and some of them are paid, but the main thing WordPress plugin for Events provides is easy optimization of user interfacing events.

There are many events made by the programmers to achieve their target for event management. Those WordPress plugin for Events are used in online newspapers to make it user-friendly. A user can search the news by clicking the calendar event for a particular day .Bloggers are also facilitated by those events, as they post their blog in time frame basis. WordPress plugin for Events manager manages those posts timely.

Word press plugin for Events are made by the programmers in daily basis to enrich the event management system. Most of them are free and you can search your needed manager to accomplish your task. As it is a technical issue of installing and using them perfectly, only a good web developer can add them to your website that will make it run properly. So you have to know what you need and then ask your web developer for an appropriate Word press plugin for Events.

JW Player Plugin for WordPress

JW Player plugin for WordPress.com VIP provides publishers to stream, publish, and monitor video with the JW Player, directly within the WordPress. Video uploads and embeds can be performed directly within the WordPress post or page editor. Now WordPress VIP customers can get full access of the JW Player and JW Platform. The player aim is to make it simple for publishers to deliver broadcast quality videos to their audience. JW Player plugin have some key features::

  • Fast video streaming playback across browsers, in both HTML5 and Flash modes.
  • Inline Library Search, Upload, Click-to-Publish.
  • Instant click-to-publish for a specific video you want to embed from your JW platform library using the inline search.
  • Keep the video playing back in your WordPress VIP site secure by using videos URL signing abilities to protect embedded video.
  • Seamless integration & full support for the JW Player.
  • Quick tags to locate custom players.
  • Support for uploading videos using our custom widget.
05.15.14
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Speed Up WordPress in the Cloud


How to Speed Up WordPress in the Cloud?

WordPress has so many advantages but besides this, it has one limitation also, it is generally very slow and due to this visitors who visit the website have to wait for loading of pages, which in turn distract them because nobody wants to wait for so long and sometimes it happens that they will not visit the site again due to its slow speed. Every company wants its website to respond very fast to the users because they want that in just one visit the visitor will be convinced as visitor will not going to wait for so long, so it is necessary that certain steps must be taken to increase the speed of WordPress, which are as follow:

  1. Good host must be chosen : WordPress sites should not be run on shared hosting as it will affect their speed and create traffic, thus to choose the good host is first requirement to increase the speed.
  2. Good framework/theme must be chosen : Frameworks like twenty ten/twenty eleven, thesis theme frameworks, SEO abilities etc. must be used to increase the speed.
  3. Catching plug-in must be used : Various plugins are available but catching plugins like W3 total cache are generally used to improve the speed of loading of pages.
  4. Blogger must use CDN : Content delivery network allows the visitors to download static files very fast by serving the files very close to them.
  5. Optimizer must be used- Optimizers generally reduce the size of image file, in WordPress free plug-in called WP SMUSHLT is available which optimize the images automatically at the time of uploading.
  6. Optimize homepage : Homepage should be optimized and look clean and focused by removing unnecessary inactive plugins, widgets and by reducing the no. of posts on pages which in turn will load the homepage fast.
  7. Optimize database : This means spam, post drafts, tables etc. which reduces overhead and thus increases speed.
  8. Hotlinking and leeching of content should be disabled : Hot linking means bandwidth theft, thus when it occurs load on server is increased to a great extent, which reduces overall speed, thus hot linking and leeching of content should be disabled.
  9. Expire header must be added : Adding expire header to static resources is a way that the clients don’t have to re-fetch any static content like images, java script etc. which can cut load time for the regular users.
  10. Gravator images must be adjusted : Gravator images should be adjusted because it contains unnecessary data which load the page very slowly or you can disable them throughout the site.
  11. Lazyload should be added : Adding lazy load means keep those images only which are seen in the visitor’s browser window will speed up the page load.
  12. PHP must be replaced with static HTML : This step will reduce the time of loading of page, so it should be done to increase the speed.
  13. Cloud fare should be used : With W3 total cache plug-in cloud fare must be used to improve the speed and security of the website.

By following the above steps, WordPress can be speed up to a certain extent.

05.15.14
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WordPress CMS for online newspapers


Why You Need WordPress CMS

webhostingcheap-1WordPress CMS for online newspaper will make your dream of publishing an online newspaper come true. Even if you publish it, managing an online newspaper and maintaining it is not easy. Here also WordPress CSM is going to be your genie. Creating, managing, updating the latest news and deleting the older or inappropriate one will be easy as pie with WordPress CMS.

Before going further, you must know what CMS is. CMS stands for Content Management System. It is used to run different types of websites like online newspaper, blogs etc. Now coming down to the meaning of WordPress CMS, it is an open-source website designing content management tool.

Now let us look at the benefits of using WordPress CMS for online newspapers:

  1. It helps to make an eventful website faster than other website making techniques. Website made in cms contains pictorial data, graphics and even blogs. So if you are thinking of publishing an online newspaper, CMS may be the solution for you.
  2. WordPress CMS is a tool that lets you create, manage, measure, deliver, develop, optimize, extend and modify contents.
  3. As WordPress CMS is an open-source CMS it has various benefits. You don’t have to pay license fee so you can invest more on development and beautifying your online newspaper.
  4. It is more customizable and user friendly than any licensed CMS.
  5. It is safe and secure.

As online newspapers are dynamic in nature they need extra customization and facilities to manage the business. The contents of the newspapers are needed to update regularly. Other features like high definition images, sounds, and vedios are added to make it real time environment. Here real time environment means that it gives a tough competition to the breaking news of live tv channels. WordPress CMS for online newspapers provides that kind of extra features to the content of the newspapers.

The dynamic nature of the newspaper needs more live contents .dynamic means the contents are updated frequently and they are related to some other data source which keeps the content moving all through the day.WordPress cms provides this kind of content making easer.Wordpress is the software which makes such events running beautifully, smoothly in the smart web pages like online newspaper.

WordPress CMS provides very flexible content management that suits the news business. CMS was previously used in blog making, but in modern days its features are efficiently used in online newspaper developing. Online blogging and news magazine are very famous in Canada and Australia, and you will be surprised to know that most of them are written in WordPress CMS. Eminent newspapers and news organizations like the Wall Street Journal, Express & Star, and The Gazette use WordPress CMS.

Even in the third world countries like India, Pakistan WordPress CMS for online newspapers has become very famous. As a result the cost effectiveness of this kind of software is very useful. In these countries where money is a problem open-source WordPress CMS is like a blessing.

You can easily understand the usefulness of WordPress CMS by simply logging in to the internet as most of the cheap and successful online news portals are using this software for the betterment of their business and experience of their readers. Good luck using WordPress CMS for online newspapers.

05.15.14
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Trustworthy WordPress Themes & Plugins


As it is seen that many WordPress themes and plugins are available so before moving to the topic, first question arises: how to select the trustworthy WordPress themes and plugins?

To select the trustworthy WordPress themes and plugins, following steps will be undertaken:

1.Believe on the directory of WordPress : WordPress directory contain so many themes and plugins and it is maintain by a team of contributors but this maintenance does not have any worth as they act very quickly on the reports which contain untrustworthy content and the themes and plugins which are abusive are generally removed.

2. Number of downloads and review : WordPress dictionary contain no. of downloads and review, plugin which has few downloads is not trustworthy but the plugin which has more than 1, 00,000 downloads is consider trustworthy. Reviews also tell which themes and plugins are trustworthy by telling you their rating out of 5. If rating comes 1 or 2 out of 5, then they will consider as untrustworthy but if rating comes 3, 4, or 5 out of 5, then it is vice-versa.

3. See the support area : Every theme and plugin have their own support areas but with that they also contain several issues also. Thus, we have to see that which themes and plugins do not contain issues, so that they can be consider as trustworthy.

4. Updated themes and plugins : As WordPress contain a no. of themes and plugins, so the plugin which is not updated in more than 2 years, should be avoid and select the plugin which is updated as it contain new features and process which developers required to be compatible with the current version.

5.Free themes should not be downloaded : Free themes are available on the web in general but it is harmful to your site as it affect its performance and security ,so it is not trustworthy but the themes which cost are genuine. But it is not same with plugin; there are few plugins which are free and trustworthy also.

6. Developers should be tested :Themes and plugins are developed by the developers but it is necessary to test the developers also because sometimes their theme does not comply with WordPress and thus they are not trustworthy.

7. Take a simple test : A simple test should be done to see if there is anything wrong in the code of the theme, it is suggested to use WordPress themes which contain correct code of the themes and thus themes are consider to be trustworthy but the themes which are having some problem in their coding should not be purchased as it can be harmful to your site.

Now after going through the steps of choosing the trustworthy themes and plugins, next question arises:

What are the trustworthy WordPress themes and plugins available?

First we talk about plugins-Improved text widget, Backup plug-in,SEO Plug-in, Notification plug-in, Secure plug-in, Event plug-in, E-Commerce plug-in, Appointment plug-in, Removing spam, WordPress form plugins, Social media plug-in, Speed improvement plug-in, Interesting business blog plug-in, Brand plug, Advertisement plug-in, Admin bar plug-in, Question answer plug-in, Sidebars plug-in, Improved text widget, Backup plug-in, SEO Plug-in etc.

Now themes : Tint, Mono, Wootique, Leather, Laigus, Ecomicro, Briefcase, Zenshop, Urban city, Ultima, Panoramica, Grid, Bunker, Illustrious, Align etc.

Above given names of few trustworthy themes and plugins, besides them some more are available.

05.15.14
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Everything about ScaleArc iDB


Before we talk about ScaleArc iDB to Boost Performance of WordPress let us get familiar with Scale arc as a company.

Introduction to Scale arc

Scalre arc is nothing but an expert in the field of developing a software for creating a database infrastructure that simplifies the process of creating environments for databases and their management. This also brings down the cost substantially without altering the databases or applications. ScaleArc iDB abstracts application servers from database servers to give connection management and horizontal scaling. This also provides real time visibility for every query to give the users the benefit of instant trouble shooting and analytics in real time. High speed security enforcement and one click query are some of the other benefits provided.

If someone had to achieve capabilities that are mentioned above it would require a lot of investment for the continuous maintenance and engineering the resources.

About ScaleArc iDB

ScaleArc iDB is nothing but an engine that takes care of traffic management, it is based on SQL. This is able to bring in a lot of transparency between the databases and applications. This is able to provide a lot of visibility into the problems encountered by the databases and it uses real time analytics based on SQL. ScaleArc iDB also provides high level of availability for the databases and also instant scalability, routing capabilities, load balancing and read/ write split are some of the other facilities that you can expect. Since there is a SQL firewall you can experience a high level of security and transparent caching.

The good thing about ScaleArc iDB is that you do not have to make any modifications to the database or any application and you can set up the entire thing in less than 15 minutes. ScaleArc iDB supports Oracle, SQL Server and MSQL database, this is also as a software on a x86-64 server. ScaleArc iDB is very compatible with cloud technology and is available with Nephoscale, Liquid hosting, Joyent and go grid.

Let us look at the other benefits of ScaleArc iDB

Compatibility with a wide range of database, ScaleArc iDB supports most SQL based databases and millions of other applications utilize these databases. Let us take a look at the technical specifications.

  • ScaleArc iDB is quite transparent and you have to make no changes to the databases or applications
  • The applications are developed using all programming languages.

You can take advantage of the SQL Analytics

  • You are given access to historical data for carrying out a security performance
  • The analytics help to build firewall rules within a short time.
  • Reduces the time taken for trouble shooting

You can take advantage of the SQL based caching

  • You do not have to make any changes to the applications or databases.
  • You cache some of the popular queries at one single click utilizing the analytics
  • This is much faster than the usual servers.
  • You can use big cache to work with big databases

So follow the tips mentioned in the article so that you are able to use ScaleArc iDB to Boost Performance of WordPress

05.15.14
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Bye WordPress 3.5


We enjoyed WordPress 3.5, released in 2012

Now the new version of WordPress 3.6 is released, so if you have not yet wordpress updated your blog or website, you can do it now.
Let us reclaim what WordPress 3.5 did provide or what were the significant changes were there in the version. Basically, there were 4 major significant changes in WordPress 3.5 from its previous versions.

When the system was newly installed or being upgraded from the previous version, it shows the welcome page which displays the new changes being brought.

  1. Media Manager : It handles the media content like images, videos and files, which in WordPress 3.5 was completely changed. Also, there was in uploading method of the media.
  2. New Default Theme : It was called 2012, as it was released in that year. Although 2010 and 2011 were sill bundled, but 2012 was the most updated theme with most recent features.
  3. Support for High Resolution Devices : Palmtops, mobiles do require high resolution, WordPress 3.5 was able to support them with more integrated graphics, so icons and pictures were shown more crispy and clear.
  4. Links Manager was not there, as this feature was being used by very few people. If you have upgraded from the earlier version and have links installed, you would be able to view the Links Manager otherwise not.

Let us now enjoy WordPress 3.6. WordPress comes in 2 different varieties –

  • Cloud Hosted – Provided by WordPress [dot] com, here you can setup your own website for free in their server itself.
  • Self-Hosted – You can install WordPress on your website, hosted on your own server, it is the same application as provided by WordPress [dot] com.

WordPress was created by Matt Mullenweg. He did created the simple blogging tool, to put his content whenever he wants to be. It has undergone several changes and now WordPress is not just blogging software. It is now being used by lot of heavy weights website:

  • Blogging sites: BoingBing, Cheez, Buzzmachine, Mashable
  • News Sites: The New York Times, CNN, Forbes, Reuters, Maclean’s
  • Music Sites: Arcadefire, Jay-z, Katyperry, Mp3
  • Fashion: Kineda, Modelina, Stylewatch, hypebeast, ELLEgirl
  • Technology: All thing, Gigaom, TechChrunch, Technologizer, 9To5Mac
  • Politics: FiveThirtyEight, Swampland, Realclear Politics, Political ticker
  • Fortune 500 Companies: GM, UPS, eBay, Sony, WW

There are endless possibilities with WordPress, you can do whatever you want to do with WordPress. You can bring your own ideas, twist WordPress, by adding new functionality, looks and behavior and continuously improve and shape it to fit with your ideas.