There has been a series of unfortunate events involving Wordpress recently, and a Company that offers hosting on Wordpress software called WPEngine. Although Wordpress has always defined itself as open source software, it has come to light that the trademark “Wordpress” is the exclusive property of Matt Mullenweg, founder of the company that offers services related to the commercial site Wordpress.com.

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Si sono verificate di recente una serie di spiacievoli eventi che investono Wordpress, e una società che offre hosting su wordpress chiamata WPEngine. IlPost.it ha riassunto la situazione in un ottimo articolo. Benche’ Wordpress si sia sempre definito come un software open source, è saltato fuori che il trademark “Wordpress” sia di esclusiva propietà di Matt Mullenweg, fondatore dell`azienda che offre i servizi collegati al sito commerciale Wordpress.com.

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After some tweaks, we changed a bit of things on Gioorgi.com in Winter 2019

1. First of all, we moved Gioorgi to a powerful server at the end of 2018, tuning it during the autumn.
2. An Apache Solr server was added to get better search results, with indexed stuff.
3. Quality We decided to reorganize the major theme, moving away from Magazine lite and trying Astra, which is higly customizable. We reorganized content to use only categories and menu, dropping the Series plugin we used for a long time. NEW Editing Policy Our article will be edited after a short time, to fix typo and adapt to comments and so on. 
4. We set up a monitoring system and discovered JetPack slow down a lot WordPress. So we decided to move away from it, replacing with some ad hoc plugin for related pages and so on. By the way the new monitoring system is powered by Apache Kafka, and it is our implementation backbone for internal analytics.
5. Removing JetPack forced us to rethink things like:
   1. Twitter streaming become more important then the other socials.
   2. Related posts was re-organized via a more plastic plugin, getting better control over the content and the discovery process
   3. JetPack analytics was replaced with old evil Google Analytic

Last but not least, no advertisement on front page!

We are happy to announce a Solar-powered search engine on our web site. The search is integrated with the site, so click on the right upper icon to open the search box, type your words and the search will be far more relevant.

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After some trial and error, I decided to switch to a new syntax highlighter library, mostly because the old one stopped working. I am very satisfied with Crayon because it is backward compatible with  the previous plugin based on SyntaxHighlighter3 and offer also a nice in-line editor.

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After 6 years, Gioorgi.com is in “redesign mode”: site design is evolving!

New Site design will slowly roll out in the next month: stay with us until mid-January for new feature articles.

New shiny Wordpress theme is on the go: menu bar and layout will “pop” during the next three weeks.

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After some year, we decided a new theme shake up..

The new PinPress theme spot article auto loading; more important, you get also auto artilce rearrange when you resize the window (try out).

We are planning some refinement on the newxt week so stai tuned and… we hope you enjoy the new style!

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