Following the successful post-WordCamp San Francisco code sprint, we are now ready to release the second beta of WordPress 3.0. Things...

Early next week, we’re hoping to release the 2nd beta release of WordPress 3.0 on our journey toward the final version. There are still...

Summary: A web host had a crappy server configuration that allowed people on the same box to read each others’ configuration files, and...

Remember when I posted earlier about the Twitter account, and I said that hopefully you’d find out later today what has been keeping us...

Scene: A college classroom Professor: So. Out of the 20 students in the class, half wrote WordPress Summer of Code proposals good enough...

Scene: A college classroom Professor: Is anyone here applying for Google Summer of Code this year? If so, see me after class to discuss...

A Report from the 3.0 Development Cycle Menus There’s been a flurry of blog posts about the integration of the WooThemes Custom...

I like to moderate comments when I’m waiting for something: a checkout clerk to help me, the dentist to call me back to the office, a soy...

Thanks to everyone who tested 2.9.1 Beta 1.  We’re following that up with Release Candidate 1.  RC1 contains a few more fixes, bringing...

Merry Christmas! One of the things that was discussed at the core commit team meetup was release scope (and scope creep). Now that 2.9 is...

Unfortunately, the recent 2.9 release triggered a bug in certain versions of PHP’s curl extension.  With these versions of curl,...

After the video from the core team meetup was posted, the topic that seemed to get the most attention on Twitter and various community...

We’re at that exciting point in WordPress development where the dev team feels like version 2.9 is complete and ready for the world. If...

To get started, here’s a short video from the meetup discussing some of the topics and 2.9. In the opening pan, you’ll see (L-R) Andrew...

There have been a lot of references to “canonical plugins” over the past year, especially at WordCamps by Matt, but we haven’t really...

Version beta-2 of WordPress 2.9 is ready for your testing pleasure. You can download it or use the WordPress Beta Tester plugin and...

Just in case anyone forgot, the first of the November bug hunts for version 2.9 is now in progress, and will last another day. If you’ve...

As we near completion of the 2.9 milestone, it’s that time of dev cycle again, when we ask all you community developers who’ve been...

The number one reason people give us for not upgrading to the latest version of WordPress is fear that their plugins won’t be compatible....

We have been hard at work now for a few months on the new features that will be coming in WordPress 2.9, and we are near the time when...