I bet you expected me to complete the sentence started in the title of this post, but it is unknown when WordPress 2.5 will be released. The WordPress trac has the due date pushed to the 17th, but some are scratching their heads if that will even happen.
The last full version of WordPress was released [...]

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So our two WordPress related shows have released another episode with the WordPress Podcast pushing out episode 37 and the WordPress Weekly Podcast on episode 9.
A fair bit of the WordPress podcast was devoted to what is going on with Charles and Jonathan as well as WordPress 2.5, which hasn’t come out yet. This week [...]

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WordPress 2.5 is supposed to come out today, at least that is when it was scheduled to come out, and that is what Trac still lists as the due date. With a little over twelve hours remaining before the tenth of March is over, will the team push out the release?
My current bet would be [...]

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With WordPress 2.5 scheduled for release on March 10th, some people have been wondering if they are going to be able to make that date, with still half of the tickets assigned to the release still open.
Matt Mullenweg chimed in to let everyone know what’s going on:
There is still a fair amount of testing going [...]

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As things continue to progress, and we get closer to the next major release of WordPress, the podcasting scene continues to grow, and increase in pace. With two weekly shows about WordPress, I feel like we are getting all of our news, but now Performancing, a sister blog to Blogging Pro is getting their podcasting [...]

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It feels like it has been a long time since I have looked at a WordPress.com wrap-up, but every time I do, I am blown away by the hugeness of the numbers Matt lays down.

245,329 blogs were created.
432,478 new users joined.
1,920,593 file uploads.
2,814,893 posts and 996 thousand new pages.
4,961,330 comments.

At Northern Voice, Matt mention that [...]

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One of the most exciting parts of the recent Northern Voice conference was the opportunity to meet Matt Mullenweg. I hadn’t been able to attend any of the WordCamps as of yet and so I hadn’t had the honour.
On the first day of Northern Voice, called Moosecamp, Lloyd Budd, also of Automattic, let me [...]

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Charles is getting into his podcasting stride, and keeping up with the new WordPress Weekly, as he pushes out his own show weekly. I am very impressed that he’s been able to retain the quality of the show during this faster production deadline.
In episode 35 he covers WordPress 2.5’s feature freeze, WordPress 2.5 demo blog, [...]

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If you enjoyed listening to me in the WordPress Podcast with Charles, then you might be interested to hear me in WordPress Weekly, a fan created podcast run by Jeffro of Jeffro2pt0. I was recently in episode six, which discusses many interesting things relating to WordPress and the WordPress community.

This week on Episode 6, we [...]

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Charles did it! After a little more than a week, he released a new episode, so he’s off to a great start with his weekly scheduled release of the WordPress podcast. As WordPress news heats up this year, it will be great to see a quick and consistent release schedule.
Some of the show notes include:
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Itching for a chance to play with WordPress 2.5 but don’t want to deal with installing it yourself? Chris Johnston has put up a great demo install for people to mess around with. It gives you the latest version of WordPress to enjoy.
Many of the administration panel design elements are quickly coming together, which [...]

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Last year was really my first year of attending events related to blogging, but thankfully, I get to do it again this year, and one of the conferences I am going to is Northern Voice, a two day event being held in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada that starts off with a Barcamp-like day called Moosecamp, [...]

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Over on the increasingly popular WordPress.com, there is a new post up letting us know of a feature that was listed as “meant to fully support that a long time ago”.
Summarized stats give you a detailed look at referrers, search terms, and clicks.

Many people find the new results to be longer and more enjoyable. Your [...]

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After nearly a two month hiatus, Charles has put out another WordPress Podcast for everyone to listen to and it’s a long one at nearly 80 minutes long. If you have a crazy long commute, you will definitely be happy with the latest episode.
They cover all sorts of things, having recorded the show only a [...]

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So, another security upgrade is out for WordPress. This one is fairly urgent, as it allows other members of your blog to “hijack” posts not written by them.
From the WordPress development blog:
WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. A flaw was found in our XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow any [...]

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So the WordPress team has released a super theme called Prologue. The basic idea is to create a Twitter-like system for teams of bloggers. I, personally, can’t think of many uses for Prologue, and I know it won’t replace Twitter any time soon, but the uses I can come up with are very interesting.
Twitter shouldn’t [...]

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Tonight, I was a guest on the WordPress Weekly Podcast which is hosted by Jeffro from Jeffro2pt0 and Weblog Tools Collection. It was a lot of fun to join the festivities. I had intended to listen in, but Jeffro had me join in with his other great panelists.
It was a lot of fun. I [...]

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With Automattic’s recent funding, the Houston Chronicle’s TechBlog was able to get some details about Matt Mullenweg’s plans. One of the more interesting things noted in the article was TalkPress, based on the current bbPress forum system, TalkPress is supposed to realize Matt’s dream of good forum software.
From the article:
Mullenweg says he’ll use the new [...]

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So news has broken about Automattic getting $29.5 million in their “series B” round of funding from a group including the New York Times.
Everyone has been asking me how I feel about this influx of cash into Automattic, and my response has been simply to smile.
With WordPress.com doing very well, and growing by leaps and [...]

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Matt Mullenweg recently posted on the WordPress.com blog about how Automattic does a fair bit of their work behind the scenes, on infrastructure and other improvements, and he has proved that today with an upload storage space on WordPress.com accounts increasing from 50 megabytes to 3 gigabytes, or an increase of sixty-fold.
From the post:
Today, one [...]

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