Rested up from the holidays? I hope so, because the new year has begun and a lot is going to be happening with WordPress in 2010, and you...

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,...

I want to make you mine, all the time… oh wait. Hello. I’m here on behalf of the entire WordPress development team and community to...

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...

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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...

Thanksgiving was last week, and I thought about doing a post to thank the people who contribute to WordPress core, since this is a group...

I was very excited last week to learn that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS...

WordCamp NYC was last weekend, and it was crazy awesome to have so many WordPress users and developers together in one place (final...

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.  If you have...

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...

There are six WordCamps coming up before the end of the year, and since I like to make sure people know about it when there’s a WordCamp...

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....

As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9. We have also been working on...