As Matt teased earlier, the first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.0 is now available. What’s an RC? An RC comes after beta and...

Has it really been seven years since the first release of WordPress? It seems like just yesterday we were fresh to the world, a new...

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

A week from today on May 1, hundreds of WordPress users, developers, designers and general enthusiasts will descend upon San Francisco...

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...

The deadline for students applying for Google Summer of Code this year is today, at 19:00 UTC. That’s about 3 hours from now. Still...

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...

This post is about the @WordPress Twitter account, so if you don’t use Twitter, or don’t care about Twitter, then feel free to take the...

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...

If you’re a WordPress fan attending SxSW (or you just happen to be in Austin), please join us for lunch after 12pm* tomorrow, Sunday...

We recommend open source software whenever we can, and the Firefox browser from Mozilla is one of our favorites. Firefox 3.6 recently...

Back in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking...

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...

Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have...

It is with extremely great pleasure that I point you to the first post at the new WordPress Foundation site. Not only am I excited about...

2010 is the year we dive into open source design. We’ve dipped our toes in this pool before (icon contest, graphic design component for...

After over a million downloads of WordPress 2.9 and lots of feedback from all of you, we’re releasing WordPress  2.9.1.  This release...