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WordPress has taken its place a one of the most powerful website platforms, and today is being used in about 22% of all the websites on the web.

Running WordPress securely will mean careful planning, just as it is with most any type of technology used for businesses. Selecting WordPress to be your platform isn't that different from selecting a CRM. However, you do have other options.

In the past GoDaddy focused on small businesses that did not want technically advanced websites, but now is introducing Pro Hosting for companies with technical staff that want an advanced custom web programming platform. The company sees 6 million developers and designers that maintain websites for a majority of the small business today. Extra support options are a part of the Godaddy Pro hosting program. These developers support sites for multiple companies, making them a prime target.

Some of the new features include web hosting with CPanel, managed Wordpress, and VPS (virtual private servers). Administrators will be able to patch the operating, stage website changes, clone current installations, control backups, have direct access to the server, and plan for disasters. The Pro plans come fully managed to self-managed.

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WordPress has quickly become a powerful platform that powers around 22% of all websites.

Running WordPress securely does require a plan, just as the case is with any technology you use for business. Choosing WordPress as your platform is not really any different than selecting a CRM, but there are other options to consider.

Choose Between Your Servers And Theirs 
You can either choose to host your WordPress site on WordPress's servers or you can host the site on your own server.

WordPress.com has features such as allowing you to host image galleries, videos and there are plenty of integration tools that go hand-and-hand with some of the top social networking sites.

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Wordpress VIP, a premium wordpress service specifically intended for corporate ventures contains all wordpress features and other additional products and services. Wordpress VIP users enjoy an enhanced content management and monitoring system, security monitoring of the website and offer free training to developers.

Wordpress VIP has two hosting options to choose from; cloud hosting costs $3,750 a month for a maximum of five websites and self hosting costs $15,000 annually.

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Blogging platform WordPress recently released its latest update WordPress 3.8 with new features. The site named this particular refresh "Parker" in honor of bebop innovator Charlie Parker. Luckily, plenty of great new innovations and changes are available in this update. Users of WordPress will love these new features, and they come without any tough learning curves or other issues like other updates.

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Using The Instagrate To WordPress Plugin

For those who want to post Instagram images directly into their WordPress blog, you will want to install the Instagrate to WordPress plugin for your computer, which will immediately work with your computer to create a Wordpress blog post with the Instagram image file that you take.

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The Vulnerability Of W3 Total Cache And WP Super Cache

In June 2013, a vulnerability was found in a couple of commonly used caching plugins, which allow arbitrary PHP code to be included in blog comments. The WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache have launched updated versions to address this issue. Webmasters who use these plugins ought to update to the new versions as quickly as they can.

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WP Super Cache Vs. W3 Total Cache

WordPress cache plugins are often freely available and helps one work in improving the speed of his/her blog. Firstly in trying to distinguish between WordPress super cache and W3 Total Cache, it’s important to note that with WordPress super cache plugin, it’s possible to convert dynamic pages into static files (HTML files) from a WordPress blog though it falls short of important features like database cache, browser cache, CDN support and page caching that are offered in the W3 Total Cache plugin.

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Happy Blogging Birthday To Wordpress!

Wordpress has now been around for a full and fabulous decade.  Bloggers from all over the world should send a gift, or, at the very least, post a happy birthday message on one of the over 66 million Wordpress sites that exist around the world.  According to company's own stats, over four billion pages are viewed each month.  The power of Wordpress cannot be overstated.