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10 Musicians and Bands using WordPress

A few days back I described a few sports stars using WordPress as their choice of Website software. Here now are singers and bands using WordPress Websites. Nicki Minaj Nicki Minaj was the first artist to have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. Her WordPress Blog is visually beautiful with, interestingly, no [...]

How to choose the best WordPress Host

The minimum requirements for a self-hosted WordPress Blog or Website are: PHP version 5.2.4 or greater MySQL version 5.0 or greater WordPress.org adds that they ‘recommend Apache or Nginx as the most robust and featureful server for running WordPress, but any server that supports PHP and MySQL will do. That said, we can’t test every possible environment …’. In theory these [...]

Cool Internet Stats

Around the end of each year there are a tonne of articles and Posts about the top 5 or ten of the year. This isn’t one of those Posts however I thought I’d share a few statistics from the ‘Online world’ that have caught my eye recently: Massive WordPress Popularity WordPress use is growing at a remarkable [...]

New Look WordPress Website

Mobile device access to Websites is growing very rapidly as a proportion of total visits to most Websites. Apple iPhone/iPad and Android devices in particular are driving this tend. I was amazed to read that PayPal saw ‘Black Friday global mobile payment volume increased six-fold (516%) compared to last year’. A Change of WordPress Theme [...]