WordPress 3.0 Beta 2 has been released.
If you’ve been following the news of WordPress 3.0, you will know that it is a huge release for WordPress. It’s the milestone of merging WordPress and WordPress Multi-User (WPMU) into a single platform.
This is by far one of the best things that has happened to WordPress, to …
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WordPress 3.0 Beta 2
Announcing Tweeted, Embed Tweets from Twitter
Ever run into the problem of wanting to include or embed a tweet in a blog post or a page, but you don’t want to take a screenshot or copy the tweet? There’s a plugin for that.
Introducing the ‘Tweeted‘ plugin. Simple put… you wrap the Twitter status of any user in the shortcode ‘tweeted’ …
WordPress License Plates

So a few weeks ago I picked up my new plates. WRDPRSS. I’m really excited about them :)
The general response I’ve gotten from my friends and family is “you’re such a nerd” and you now what, that’s exactly right, I certainly am a nerd :)
Here are what the plates look like:
And one of my …
Read More...Real-time RSS Updates via PubSubHubbub

The latest blog innovation is how RSS interacts with subscribers. This round of innovation is push instead of pull. The way RSS has worked is that the RSS client will pull the website each time, asking if there were any updates. PubSubHubbub changes that. Instead of asking, it’s now told.
This video …
Growth of WordPress.com in 2009
2009 was the year for WordPress.com.
It’s nothing new to hear about the tremendous popularity of WordPress.com, but the proof is in the pudding! There was a significant higher number of blogs created in 2009, more importantly was the expanding adoption rate. Who said blogs are dying?
One of the WordPress.com staff members was nice enough to …
WordPress.com Goes Down, TechCrunch.com Goes With It
WordPress.com isn’t perfect, mortal just like any other network. Today, there has been a flurry of people talking about wordpress.com being down, and for a fact, it is down right now.
This has been confirmed by WordPress.com staff:
UPDATE at 2:55pm PST:
I will update this story as news progress.
UPDATE at 3:16pm PST:
There’s some visible on the …
WordPress Plugin Development, What Not to Do
Mark Jaquith, a core developer for WordPress, published a non-exhaustive list of what “not to do” for plugin development.
We enjoy great plugins as much as the rest of the WP community. This guide by Mark will help ease a lot of pain for a lot of people. Here’s the list.
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Read More...WordPress.com Sitemap Ping Feature Gets You Quick Search Updates
WordPress.com will not to be left behind in the search engine update game. As of last week, WordPress.com blogs have a great new feature to keep those engines up to date. The new functionality sends an instant ping to Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask to ensure they know you’ve added or removed a page or …
Read More...WordPress 2.2 for the iPhone
Raanan recently announced the release of the iPhone app, WordPress 2.2. This not a major release, but a minor release. It does add some much wanted functionality though.
Notable, these are the major feature upgrades:
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Click here to download the upgrade: WordPress 2.2 – …
Read More...TechCrunch Moves to WordPress VIP Hosting
The most recent site to be accepted into WordPress VIP hosting is TechCrunch. This is a huge tech source that gets millions of uniques per month, so this is a huge win for the WordPress.com VIP hosting team.
I checked with one of my sources on the WordPress VIP team and they confirmed that it …
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