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As previously mentioned, in my choosing a premium wordpress theme post, Blogging Review is running on the Thesis Theme. I was already a big fan of Thesis and today my adoration has been amplified.
Chris Pearson just announced some fantastic new updates taking Thesis to version 1.2. These changes and additions really fill in the small gaps on my WordPress theme wish list adding even more value to my purchase.
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In a pretty bold move Brian Gardner, the premium Revolution Theme creator, announced that he is going open source. The Revolution Theme is one of the first premium themes to really gain traction and is probably the most popular to be released yet. Brian spells it all out on his his blog covering the details regarding the new open source content and his already paid customers.
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WordPress posted a survey yesterday asking users to provide some input on a couple user interface aspects of 2.7. If you want to participate just visit the link below.
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Yes! It was announced yesterday that IntenseDebate was being acquired by WordPress’ parent company Automattic.
IntenseDebate offers a system that makes blog commenting more social and discussion oriented with features like comment threading, reply by email, comment voting and twitter notifications to name a few.
Matt Mullenweg of Automattic noted that the service would remain independent of WordPress as a whole but that users could expect integration into Wordpress, WordPress.com and Gravatar moving forward. He also mentioned one of the features that can be expected in WordPress 2.7 is comment threading which should be a welcome addition to many.
From an editorial point of view I feel this is an excellent move by Automattic. User commenting has been a fairly stale aspect to the WordPress platform for quite some time and this acquisition allows the team to have total control over what has become an emerging niche among WordPress related services. One such service that will probably take the biggest hit is Disqus which has seen rapid growth offering similar enhanced commenting services via plugin. All in all the net result should be an enhanced user experience for WordPress blogs.
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In case you’ve missed it Technorati is unveiling its annual State of the Blogosphere this week. The report is being phased over a 5 day period and features some very interesting blogging trends.
The report has already raised some eyebrows regarding a claim that blogs with 100,000 or more unique visitors per month have a mean revenue of $75,000 per year. The number does seem quite high for 100k uniques but I think the “or more” portion of the statement probably has it skewed upward a bit. All this has me particularly interested in the Day 4: Blogging For Profit piece. Should provide some good reading regardless.
Expect a opinionated overview here after the full report is released.
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