Random WordPress of the Day #0041

Title: 6 Reasons to Choose WordPress

There are dozens if not hundreds of reason to choose WordPress, and they can vary from one person to the next depending on ones needs. WordPress is ideal for small businesses because amongst many other reasons, it’s free and easy to use.

Fast Company, a magazine geared towards business entrepreneurs, recently featured a great post titled “6 Reasons Small Businesses Need WordPress“ by Francine Hardaway.

Tell us why you NEED WordPress!

Random WordPress of the Day #0040

Title: WordPress 1.3 for BlackBerry

Just over a year ago, we introduced you to the WordPress application for BlackBerry, and now we are pleased to announce version 1.3 is out, and has come a long way from the beginning.

Here is a list of new features or improvements:

• Option to load more comments, not just the latest 100
• Ability to load comments by status (all/spam/pendings)
• You can now edit the comment details (Author Name/E-mail/URL)
• Option to manually set the video-size when using VideoPress service
• A much requested formatting toolbar that allows you to bold text for example
• A new word count feature is shown on the post/page write screen
• You can now submit bug reports and feedback from within the app
• Multiple improvement to how Stats are handled
• Improvements on the photo resizing options and a new jpeg encoder is now being used

Random WordPress of the Day #0039

Title: WordPress Help Sheet Wallpaper

I use custom wallpapers to help me with a lot of information I need on a daily basis, and can be very helpful with some hard to remember information. Some call it a cheat sheet, which is what it is, without the cheating of course.

A great source for different desktop wallpaper help sheets is Quickly Code, which realeased one for WordPress back in May 2010.

Check it out here, it’s free!