It is now official, Tumblr has more blogs on their service than WordPress.com.
Tumblr has only been around for 4 years and considering that WordPress.com has been running for 8 years its a remarkable feet for the blogging platform.
WordPress.com is closing in on 20 million hosted blogs on the platform. WordPress.com is the blogging service from Automattic’s brilliant WordPress software.
However, it seems as though Tumblr is quickly catching up with WordPress.com in terms of blogs hosted. Tumblr is only just short of 20 million blogs also, so look for them to overtake WordPress very soon.
WordPress has started bringing WordPress.com features to WordPress.org sites. Jetpack is a new plugin for WordPress.org sites that provides some amazing features. We have decided to start testing out Jetpack on Crenk and it has been great so far. Jetpack is completely and will always be free.
The Jetpack plugin includes:
VaultPress is a new web app tool (beta stage) that will shield and protect your WordPress blog, providing some interesting backup and restore features; and also maintaining the security of your site.
VaultPress offers a complete backup solution for your entire blog: articles, database, files, images and more. Giving you the chance whenever a disaster occurs, a fast and reliable restore can be executed. Also VaultPress will be in charge of monitoring the blog health against any possible security risks, applying the last updates.
Another remarkable point is that the people in charge of developing and maintaining VaultPress built it using the automatic grid from which over 10 million blogs from WordPress.com rely on.
VaultPress is only available as a private beta for now, and when the final version is released, this will be a paid service (around U$S15 or U$S20).
If you were wondering about a free possibility, we’ve already evaluated BlogBackupr.
If you work as a webmaster and maintain several blogs, or if you just maintain your own hosted somewhere, you would know that it has some extra management costs. WordPress represents the most used platform around the web, which means that vulnerabilities will appear constantly. And the last one it’s making a big impact around the blogger platform.
This vulnerability that appeared recently attacked thousands of WordPress self-hosted blogs (WordPress.com blogs are excluded), and it’s giving a lot of users a big headache. But the good news is for those that upgrade their platform regularly and have already the latest WordPress 2.8.4 are also immune.
Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress) wrote a few days ago about this incident and extremely recommending an upgrade to WordPress 2.8.4. This is of course what we would recommend to you to apply as soon as possible.
How do I update my WordPress platform?
You didn’t have the chance to do it already? Here’s a short video (1min 20seconds) about the entire process:
How Can I be certain that my Blog will always be safe?
Simple: You can’t. You can never tell when these vulnerabilities will appear. We can recommend to you this:
BlogBackupr it’s a simple and nice web app that automatically backups all your posts in your blog. It represents a very easy way for you to not worry so much about vulnerabilities in the platform, loosing data, accidental deletion, etc.
It works with all blogs that have RSS-feed, that is the minimum requirement. Among the features that you can find in this web app:
This is your administration site where you can execute all necessary tasks with the added blogs:
Go ahead, give it a try.
