David F. Carr
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David F. Carr
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Writer, editor, speaker, creator of the RSVPMaker WordPress events and email marketing plugin and the Toastmost website hosting service. Find and tell stories based on Similarweb data. Posts are my own.
This interactive #WordPress tutorial was created in just a few minutes using my Quick Playground plugin. What I'm trying to do here is explain the concept of WordPress content blocks, which some people find confusing (particularly when you get to container blocks like columns and rows).
August 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Club and district webmasters who use Toastmost will see a Design Playground on the admin menu at the top of the screen, or under Appearance on the dashboard. Loads a rough copy of your current website, letting you preview it with different designs.
May 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Click this link to launch a virtual instance of WordPress with you as the administrator. playground.wordpress.net?blueprint-ur...

From my Toastmost websites for #Toastmasters project
May 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Organize #Toastmasters meetings from your phone with #Toastmost for iPhone and Android. Handy for in person, hybrid, and online meetings. Sign up, assign, suggest roles. Time speeches and vote. See speaker intros and your own speech history.
April 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#WordPress optimization experts, I could really use some help understanding how to stretch my hosting resources. Currently using a Siteground cloud instance to support multisite. I'd like to configure memcached but CPU goes crazy when I do.
April 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This 3-minute demo shows the agenda management features of the #Toastmasters mobile app I've been working on.

This extends the WordPress for Toastmasters open source software project and Toastmost club website hosting service. You can test against a demo account. See toastmost.org/app-setup/
March 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The rapid growth Bluesky experienced in November, particularly in the US, slowed in December to 12.2% month-over-month for its app daily active users and 9.6% for website visits, according to Similarweb estimates.
January 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Latest data from @similarwebinsights.bsky.social backs up the claim that Bluesky punches above its weight in referrals to news sites, winning it the love of the press

www.similarweb.com/blog/insight...
December 17, 2024 at 3:04 PM
X remains much bigger and likely to remain much bigger for a long time to come. www.similarweb.com/website/x.com/
December 15, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Similarweb monthly app usage estimates for iOS and Android show a small November gains for X and Threads, but Bluesky at +295% growth
December 15, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Here's the November month over month change in web traffic from within the US for X (-3.6%) vs Bluesky (+189%). It is remarkable that X was down for the month, given that some of its peak days for web traffic all year occurred around the time of the election, same time Bluesky took off like a rocket
December 15, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Good company.
November 24, 2024 at 3:00 AM
More than 115K US X users deactivated their accounts via the website on Wednesday, according to Similarweb estimates. We don't know how many others deactivated their accounts via the app. If you're a journalist, contact me for more post-election social media data.
November 11, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Brazil accounted for 85% of Bluesky global users during X ban - The Brazil Report, with research assistance from Similarweb. Daily tracking shows many new Bluesky users are sticking with the app, so far.
brazilian.report/tech/2024/10...
October 18, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Smile and heart reaction buttons a nice touch for allowing for a little feedback from the virtual audience watching the #Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking. #TIGoesBahamas

Jocelyn Tyson earning lots of hearts and smiles here.
August 19, 2023 at 4:44 PM