Mark at Weblog Tools Collection announced a plugin and mod competition for WordPress (similar to Alex King‘s highly successful theme contest.) Weblogs.us is again sponsoring a $500 prize, this time for Best Community Plugin Best plugin that ties the WordPress community together. Many WP bloggers keep in touch by email, RSS, or just visiting each… Continue reading Weblogs.us $500 prize for Best Community Plugin, part of the Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Contest
Weblogs.us offers $500 prize for “Global Appeal” WordPress Theme
Weblogs.us is one of the proud sponsors of the WordPress theme competition [Alexking.org] Our contribution is a $500 prize for the theme with the most global appeal. Judging will be by some of our core users: Ronnie, Murali, HP, Brandy, JD, and Tab. Judging criteria, we’re looking for themes that: 1. Appeal to a global… Continue reading Weblogs.us offers $500 prize for “Global Appeal” WordPress Theme
Now on a faster server; Some photo loss during the switch
The good news: -Weblogs.us is now on dual Opteron servers, woot! -MT rebuild and comment posting times are MUCH faster -We should be able to handle plenty of WP blogs now The bad news: – I accidentally deleted some user uploaded data (mainly GIFs/JPGs) during the server uprade. I restored from the latest backup but… Continue reading Now on a faster server; Some photo loss during the switch
Get a WordPress blog in 30 Seconds
The long awaited WordPress option is finally available to weblogs.us bloggers. Thanks for being patient! Signup here 🙂 Post comments/problems in the forums.
Sorry for the downtime tonight
I messed up the web server for about 3 hours tonight. The problem was related to me working with IIS and Apache on the same machine. If you notice anything amiss with your blog, let me know by posting a comment on the thread. While things should be back to normal now, when I was… Continue reading Sorry for the downtime tonight
WordPress Beta Blogs
The first weblogs.us WordPress blogs have been up for a couple weeks: http://kevin.weblogs.us/ http://hpnadig2.weblogs.us/ http://music.weblogs.us/ We are just working on getting everything working smoothly before we open signups for WordPress blogs. Postings have been minimal because really we’re just focusing on getting the infrastructure right. Right now the MySQL and PHP parts are working perfectly.… Continue reading WordPress Beta Blogs