Tumblr Hits 20 Billion Total Posts

Tumblr has hit a major milestone — 20 billion posts — a huge increase from the 12 billion posts figure it reached in November.
“Forgot to make a big deal of this earlier, but Tumblr crossed the 20-billion-post mark Monday night,” said a tweet from the official Tumblr account, with a link to Tumblr’s About page, which sports a counter showing the total number of Tumblr posts.
Currently, the number sits at more than 20 billion posts, 51 million of which were created today. Tumblr currently has more than 49.7 million total blogs and is due to hit the 50 million milestone any day now.
The rapid rise of Tumblr in the past year has been nothing short of amazing. In June 2011, Tumblr announced it had more blogs than WordPress.com — more than 20 million. It took less than nine months for Tumblr to double that number.
For comparison, WordPress powers more than 72 million blogs, about half of which are hosted on WordPress.com.

The simplicity and ease of use of Tumblr on one hand and similarity to microblogging services such as Twitter on the other, have apparently hit the right spot with a large number of users. One thing Tumblr still lacks is a viable business plan — despite significant funding. 

25 Outstanding Kitty-Themed Tumblrs [LOTS OF CATS]

1. Cats. Where They Do Not Belong

 

From the creator: "I decided there is not enough internet space devoted to pictures of cats trying to fit into anything they can, so I have graciously decided to take on this challenge."

We thank you.

2. Contortion Cats!

 

As far as "collections of contorted cats" go, this is particularly fine one.

 

3. The Kitten Covers

 

You'll get nothing but whiskers and win by following The Kitten Covers.

4. Dream Cats

 

With images of "girls and cats, cats in soft focus, cats on film and dream cats" you're sure to find something Pin-worthy here.

5. GIF Cat

 

A GIF-based blog slaving to "make the internet a better place."

6. Writers and Kitties

 

"Where literature has whiskers and pointy ears." You'll find plenty of vintage pics of literary types and their feline friends.

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7. Cats in Clothes

 

There are no surprises here. Just cats. In clothes.

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8. Garfield Minus Garfield

 

"Dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle," Garfield Minus Garfield is surreal and funny.

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9. F*** Yeah Kitties

 

Simply celebrating cats.

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10. C$shcats

 

Cats plus piles and piles of cash make for strangely compelling viewing.

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11. Review of My Cat

 

This blog contains reader "reviews" of their cats, rating them on appearance, sociability, usefulness, huggability and a final, overall grade.

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12. Cat Watching You Have Sex

 

"You've always pretended they weren't watching you get it on. You've always been wrong."

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13. Worldy Cats

 

Cats from all corners of the globe feature on this feline-themed travelogue.

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14. Cats That Look Like Ron Swanson

 

Even if you don't know who Ron Swanson is, you should get some laughs here.

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15. Barely Feral

 

Barely Feral says it answers the question "what if there was a porn site designed by cats for cats?"

It's an X-rated answer, so adult-only click-throughs, please.

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16. I ♥ Cat Gifs

 

"All cat GIFs, all the time."

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17. Stoned Cats

 

Drugs are bad. If you're not convinced, check out what they have reduced these poor animals to.

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18. Cats in Front of Macs

 

This blog shares the "pain" of cats getting in the way of your laptop/iPad/iMac, etc.

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19. Aw Yeah Pudgy Kitties

 

If you like a cat with a bit of meat on its bones, this blog is for you.

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20. Celebrity Pussy

 

As "your premier source for celebrities with cats," Celebrity Pussy is both a fabulous online image library and we to like imagine, a constant source of disappointment from, ahem, certain Google users

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21. CAT SCIENTISTS OF THE 1960S

 

Lest we forget the important work done by cat scientists during the Sixties.

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22. F*** Yeah Cats

 

More cats.

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23. We Are the 99 Purrcent

 

The Tumblr home of the occu-paw movement.

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24. Cats in Ties

 

There's a joke somewhere about "The Long Tail," but we'll just say this is splendidly niche.

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25. The Cat Scan

 

Finally, our favorite cat-themed Tumblr is the glorious The Cat Scan.

It is probably responsible for a large percentage of cat scratches in recent years as kitty-owners try and persuade their recalcitrant pets to sit still on a humming, flashing box of evil long enough to be scanned.

Those that succeed -- we salute you!

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Automattic Debuts Vetted And Featured Third-Party Services For WordPress.com VIP Sites

Automattic is announcing a new feature for large-scale sites hosted in WordPress.com VIP SaaS program (TechCrunch is a VIP publisher)—Featured Partners for third-party integrations. Basically, the program allows companies that have integrated their services with the WordPress platform to promote and seamlessly enable their tools for large-scale VIP sites, which account for one billion page views each month.
WordPress.com VIP will vet potential Featured Partners and review their code, to ensure a tight integration with the WordPress.com VIP platform. Chartbeat, ContextLogic, Daylife, Livefyre, MediaPass Subscriptions, Ooyala, SocialFlow, Uppsite and Mobilize with Wibiya are the first to join the program.
While these services could previously work with VIP blogs on an individual basis (i.e. outside of any WordPress.com relationship), the VIP team is now actually reviewing and endorsing these services. WordPress.com is also working to make sure the integrations with these services are seamless for the publisher. With Automattic’s endorsement, these services could be more attractive to a large site.
We’re told there is no category exclusivity for the Featured Partner program. Automattic will continue to add more plugin partners across various services & verticals (mobile, social, video etc.). Currently, WordPress currently powers 15.8% of the world’s top one million sites, up from 8.5% in 2010

WordPress Now Available For the BlackBerry PlayBook

February 21 was a busy day for RIM and PlayBook owners alike.
Shortly after the release of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0, bloggers will be glad to find out that the official WordPress App for PlayBook is also available for download on BlackBerry AppWorld.
This app allows you to write posts, edit pages, and manage comments on the go. Both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.9.2 or higher) sites are supported.
The application features similar capabilities with those you can find in the WordPress for BlackBerry smartphones, but with a much better resolution, to take advantage of the 1024 x 600 screen on the BlackBerry tablet.
Source: BlackBerry
Via: BerryReview

2011 List 10 plugins needed to get started WordPress 3.3

"You have installed WordPress 3.3 ... So ... What to do next? "

The 10 plugins needed to get started WordPress 3.3
When we started in WordPress 3.3, it is not always easy to find the right plugins necessary for the proper development of his blog.

So Here's a list of 10 essential plugins for the WordPress platform 3.3. All are used on this blog and classification is performed in order of importance, depending on personal criteria (popularity, features offered, ergonomics,..).

1-plugin Akismet:
Fight against spam effectively with this plugin.
Akismet is a plugin (included with the default wordpress package) that will automatically remove-all-comments and trackbacks unnecessary. But if you get this service you will need an API key from WordPress.com site . The key is free, but you must request and assign it to an Akismet.

Download Version 2.5.3

2-plugin All in One SEO Pack :

It's just a plugin that allows you to automatically optimize your WordPress blog for search engines. And its author, uberdose, said: "out of the box". Or in other words, just install it with default options.Specifically AiOSEO Pack works on a number of HTML tags in the headers of your pages:

    Titles: allows the rewriting of article titles and display them before anything else (for example, the title of your blog), which is much more relevant to a search engine. Indeed, the title of an article must contain the keywords of your article for features and include the best results in Google and Yahoo!, among others;
    Description: created automatically or manually tag description, the same one that appears in search results under the title of the article or the site. It is therefore crucial and must, again, contain keywords representative section in order to optimize its referencing;
    Keywords (keywords): allows the addition of tags in the same way that the field for this purpose since WordPress 2.3. However, while it is preferable to a moderately tagged entry through the field of WordPress for not having a tag cloud excessive (2-3 max, in my humble opinion), there are no limits with respect All in One SEO Pack. Be sensible all the same!
    Duplicate content: the plugin handles very well the problems of duplicate content via the function noindex. It is available separately for each applicable articles or pages for archives, categories or tags. However, I think page tags is not a source of duplicate content and to generate additional traffic, quite the contrary;In most cases you can let the plugin work alone, but everything is fully customizable. Section by section, page by page, if you wish!Although it is not alone on the niche SEO, the big advantage of All in One SEO Pack is that it is, as its name suggests, "all in one." It frees you to install and manage multiple extensions. It is also easy to use, lightweight and compact, which makes it even better, more well-coded.

Download Version 1.6.13.8

3-plugin Google XML Sitemaps:

Plugin Google XML Sitemaps generates a sitemap (a kind of summary of all your pages) for your site, allowing the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Ask, MSN, ...) to improve the indexing of it. Every time you change or add an item, the site plan changes automatically. 

Download Version 3.2.6

4-plugin Broken Link Checker:
 Find broken links on a blog with plugin WordPress Broken Link Checker
WordPress Plugin Broken Link Checker is the perfect tool to automate this task very tedious if you had to realize it by hand.
The interface of the plugin is partly in French (the latest versions have not been translated). It can automatically find broken links on the entire contents of your WordPress blog. This includes links in posts, pages, comments, blogroll and custom fields.
Broken Link Checker runs continuously in the background and report broken links as appropriate to correct or verify because some sites can sometimes be unavailable for short periods.

Download Version 1.4 

5-plugin WP Security Scan:

Scan your WordPress installation to find security holes with WP Security Scan.
WP Security Scan, and allows, among other do a scan of the installation on the file system, verify the security of your administration password, or check the permissions on files and directories. (chmod). 

Plugin WP Security Scan checks your WordPress website/blog for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions such as:

1. Passwords
2. File permissions
3. Database security
4. Version hiding
5. WordPress admin protection/security
6. Removes WP Generator META tag from core code

Requirements

• WordPress version 3.0 and higher (tested with 3.2.1, 3.3)
• PHP5 (tested with PHP Interpreter >= 5.2.9)

Download Version 3.0.9 

6-plugin WP-DB-Backup:

Back up your database.

If PHP pages are easily recoverable in case of "crash" of your blog, it is quite different to the database, which is the living element of our Blog. Each item, each comment, each page is stored in the database of our Blog. If you do not have a regular backup of your database, you may in case of "crash" to leave a blog completely reset.

For Wordpress users, we will see how to make regular backups of our database, the best way to back up our concerver Blog.

WP-DB-Backup is a plugin that will allow us to perform a one-time backup of our database, for example before an update of our blog, but also allow us to perform a daily backup of our Blog.

Download Version 2.2.3

 7-plugin W3 Total Cache:

Site speed affects everything from user experience to search engine rankings so it is vital that your WordPress website loads in super fast time. This plugin improves site speed and reduces the strain on your web server.

It encourages visitors to browse more pages by offering optimised progressive rendering (a technical way to say the page starts to appear immediately!). It can also save you a fortune too because when installed and configured it offers huge bandwidth savings by compressing HTML, javascript and CSS. This can be really handy if you are on a smaller hosting plan.

This plugin is trusted by the likes of Mashable.com and WebDesignerDepot.com so you know its essential if you want to build a successful WordPress website.

 

 Download Version 0.9.2.4

8-plugin Contact Form 7:
Add a contact form
This is a tool that is of interest rather traditional, but you might want to put on your blog. It allows you to create forms of contact with its contents sent to your email.
Again, many choices. A little random, I made plugin contact form 7, which ultimately answers to all kinds of forms needs ...
In short: you can create multiple forms, to send two different email addresses, manage the fields very easily (the plugin provides a very powerful wizard to add several types of fields).

 Download Version 3.0.2.1

 9-plugin SexyBookmarks | email, bookmark, and share buttons:

I tested plugin SexyBookmarks, I saw a lot of other blogs, such as PapyGeek. To be honest, I was afraid that this solution contains a very heavy Javascript file to load, which would slow the page load, as the images used (each potentially representing a query image). Or is not, contrary to what I thought the picture buttons of sharing is a sprite, so loading a single query. CSS and Javascript to load very quickly, so that the loading of the plugin can takes me almost 30 / 100 on the total ticket, as you can see in the image below. Imagine my satisfaction quandj'ai recovered a very nice plugin, as offering a more attractive by its ergonomics (buttons that 'exit' attract the eye, and gives an impression of the visitor ahut technological novice), but also from the is seen immediately and buttons so the logos of social networks (no need to click on a link before), and finally, if I remove two seconds, and I add 30 hundredths, it makes me a total lost by 1.7 seconds in total on the page load, which is always good to take!

So if you also want to optimize the loading time of your pages (of course the best is to do nothing), I recommend SexyBookmark.

Download Version 4.0.6.4

10:plugin WP-PageNavi:

 WP-Page Navi is an essential plugin of WordPress, it allows you to replace the conventional navigation system WordPress (Older posts, Newer) by a numbered paging system.

 

Download Version 2.81