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Gravatar: Growth, Performance, and Pretty URLs

Published on January 25, 2012 By Barry

It’s been a while since we have posted about the current scale of Gravatar. Since that post in 2008, things have changed quite a bit. We are now serving over 100,000 requests per second. That is over 8.6 billion requests per day – more than…

WPTavern: DreamHost Resets All FTP/Shell/VPS Account Passwords

Published on January 23, 2012 By Jeffro

Knowing that a lot of people use DreamHost for their WordPress powered websites, it’s a bit unsettling to see that suspicious activity was detected within one of their databases and thus, passwords have been reset across FTP/Shell and VPS custome…

Jane Wells: Blackout

Published on January 18, 2012 By Jane Wells

The blackout on WordPress.org is active. It is an interstitial, but you have to scroll all the way to the bottom to get the clickthrough link. It will go away if you click that link and be replaced by the Stop Censorship ribbon for 1 hour, at which poi…

WPTavern: Touch Punch Enables Touch Screen Gestures For WordPress Admin On iPad

Published on January 9, 2012 By Jeffro

If you’re the owner of an iPad, you’ll likely love the sound of Touch Punch which is a newly released plugin by David Gwyer that enables users to use touch screen gestures to control the WordPress administration area. For example, with Touc…

Andrew Nacin: Jon Stewart, Ron Paul, and WordPress

Published on January 4, 2012 By Andrew Nacin

Did you know that before you could write crazy shit on Tumblr and WordPress, people had to type their crazy shit up on what was called paper — and distribute it by hand, reaching the few paranoid conspiracists within walking distance.
— Jon Stewart…


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