Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva starts blogging
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is the latest high profile name to join the blogging world.
However the launch of his blog turned out to be a disappointing for his fans.
The load on the blog was so much that it became inaccessible just after [...]

WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 2 released
WordPress developers continue to fix more bugs as they near the launch of WordPress 2.8.1.
They have now released the second beta of this edition.
WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 2 is available as a free download from WordPress site.
Changelog:
Translation of role names fixed
wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than [...]

WordPress 2.8 could be released on June 10
WordPress developers have revealed that they are aiming to release the next stable edition of the popular blogging software on June 10.
WordPress 2.8 is currently undergoing beta testing.
Developers have also stated that the next edition of WordPress would require at least MySQL 4.1.2.
Current editions of WordPress [...]

WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 is out!
The developers behind the popular blogging platform WordPress have released the first beta of their WordPress 2.8 release.
WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 is now available for download.
The developers are inviting interested testers to install it and check it out for bugs.
New features? Tons of them. Here is a feature [...]

WordPress 2.7.1 is out
The developers behind the popular open source blogging software WordPress have released a new update.
WordPress 2.7.1 is now available for downloading.
It is essentially a maintenance release and comes with mostly bug fixes.
Users on WordPress 2.7 can use the new built-in update feature to upgrade their installations.
Users can also download [...]

Google Gears support in WordPress is pretty basic right now
I am amazed at how Gmail uses Gears for offline email capabilities.
We have been using Gears on WordPress since a long time. I dug into the WordPress documentation to find out how much functionality is provided by Gears if you are using it.
Right now, [...]

WordPress 2.6.3 released
The developers behind the WordPress blogging platform are working hard on the next major release WordPress 2.7 which would come loaded with several major new features.
Meanwhile, they have release an update for the current version.
WordPress is in version 2.6.3 now and the latest update comes with a security fix.
The fix is [...]

WordPress 2.6 out
The developers behind the WordPress blogging platform have announced the launch of their latest edition WordPress 2.6.
The latest version comes with several new innovative features including:
Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits
Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web
Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging
Theme Previews: See it before your audience does
It also features [...]