WordPress News For The Week Of June 6th 2008

*Plugin Deactivation* - John Lamansky has put together a list of steps that you should perform to alleviate this issue entitled, What To Do If Plugin Deactivation Breaks Your Blog. Typically, deleting the plugin file from your plugin directory usually solves most problems. However, John’s list of steps guides you through the process of determining which bits of code from the failed plugin are causing the errors and then removing those lines of code. - http://wordpress.jdwebdev.com/blog/plugin-deactivation-theme-errors/

*31 People To Follow On Twitter - *Twitter, the micro blogging service which allows you to submit messages that are 140 characters or less has become an excellent communications tool. A large number of people are using Twitter on a daily basis to keep up with the world as well as communicating with their friends and family members from almost any location. As luck would have it, a large number of WordPress faithful are also using Twitter. Each individual on this list is doing something significant within the WordPress community and some of them are core developers such as Matt Mullenweg. - http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/06/04/30-people-to-follow-on-twitter/

*WordPress.com May Wrapup* – Matt has published the stats for WordPress.com for the month of May and as usual, the numbers are large. Check out these stats. (All of the stats have been rounded off to make things simpler)

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221,000 blogs were created

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245,000 new users

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2.6 million file uploads

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1,100 gigs of new files

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417 terabytes of content transferred between datacenters

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3.4 million posts and 1.1 million new pages.

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5.8 million new comments

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4.9 million logins

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694 million pageviews on WordPress.com and 441 million pageviews
on self-hosted blogs.

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71 million pageviews in RSS feeds

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965 thousand active blogs where active means they got a human visitor

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157 million unique people visited WordPress.com hosted blogs.

*Plugin of the week* – WP Comment Remix - WP Comment Remix adds a plethora of new options and features to Wordpress. From Reply and Quote links for commenters, to a full upgrade to the edit comments pages in the admin panel. - http://pressography.com/plugins/wp-comment-remix/

If you would like to know more about what is going on within the world of WordPress, visit www.weblogtoolscollection.com or tune in to my weekly podcast called WordPress Weekly which comes on immediately following this talkcast

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