Tag Archives: Wordpress

WordPress To Go Native (Advertising)?

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider has long chronicled the vagaries of WordPress in a series themed Don’t Look a Gift Host in the Mouth. Now it’s the hardtracking staff’s turn. From paidContent: Where WordPress is headed: Longform content, curation and maybe even native ads … Continue reading →

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The Things WordPress Says To Us (IV)

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

A while back, Wordpress stopped telling the hardworking staff that its new posts were groovy and rad, and started quoting Writers on Writing with each new addition. Some new representative samples: I’m a drinker with writing problems. – Brendan Behan … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Brendan Behan, E.B. White, Elmore Leonrd, Leo Rosten, W. Somerset Maugham, Wordpress | 1 Comment

The Things WordPress Says To Us (III)

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff is always reluctant to look a gift host in the mouth (see previous reluctance here and here), but we feel it’s incumbent upon us to note that WordPress no longer says Rad! or Cowabanga! or some such after … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Gustave Flaubert, Isaac Asimov, Wordpress | 5 Comments

The Things WordPress Says To Us (II)

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Once more: The hardworking staff has mentioned this before – and again, not to look a gift host in the mouth – but really, you guys at WordPress: Please stop! Please stop saying after every post, “This is your (umpteenth) post” followed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Woohoo this, Wordpress | 4 Comments

The Things WordPress Says To Us

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff has mentioned this before – and again, not to look a gift host in the mouth – but really, you guys at WordPress: Please stop! Please stop saying after every post, “This is your (umpteenth) post” followed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged '60s acid flashback, gift host, Wordpress | 3 Comments

Hey, WordPress: Drop The Pom-Poms

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Not to look a gift host in the mouth – WordPress is, after all, a swell free blogging platform with very helpful tech support – but really, enough with the patronizing messages every time the hardworking staff files a new … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged drop the pom-poms, gift host, post published, Wordpress | 4 Comments

And The Winner Of The Great iPad Blogging App Bakeoff Is . . .

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

I dunno. The hardscratching-its-head staff is still trying to figure out how to do basic stuff on the iPad’s WordPress and BlogPress apps. We’ll keep you posted.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged blogging apps, BlogPress, iPad, Wordpress | 2 Comments

The Great iPad Blogging App Bakeoff (WordPress Division)

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Item: Parker Spitz Trouble in CNNLand – Kathleen Parker is all lathered up over co-host Eliot Spitzer’s alpha-dog act on their struggling squawk show. So she’s reducing her workload at the Washington Post from two columns a week to one. … Continue reading →

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