If you love the WordPress logo, and want to sport it everywhere you go, they now have hoodies. Winter where I am in Canada, hasn’t gotten all that cold yet, but a nice hooded sweatshirt would be perfect for the current temperatures outside.
They recently put up a post on the WordPress.com about the new [...]

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A very urgent and important security release has been put out by the WordPress team. It will hopefully, and likely be the last update until WordPress 2.4.
From the WordPress blog:

WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages [...]

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There has been some interesting updates on WordPress 2.4 this past week, as listed in the weekly updates via Westi on WordPress.
The latest things to catch my eye include:

New get_search_feed_link() and get_search_comments_feed_link() template tags
Addition of a password strength meter to the user profile page
Addition of pages to the things searched
Saving of tags when auto-saving

Another thing [...]

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I am not sure how useful or needed this feature was, but its still fairly neat: gravatars in the dashboard. WordPress.com now has gravatars for people in the dashboard, meaning you can see who you are approving and deleting comments from.
Very cool though I wonder how much this will slow down the WordPress dashboard [...]

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If you are a WordPress.com blogger, you must be happy with how Automattic is finishing out the year, especially with the latest addition: Enhanced Feeds.

Up until now your feed has been fairly basic. All you got in most aggregators was the post title and the content. Simple to navigate and read, but it left [...]

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It looks like the team at WordPress.com have Ajaxified the statistics charts so they no longer refresh the whole page, a welcome change for many. For me this signals that WordPress.com has gotten to the point now where most of the changes are going to be small tweaks, rather than huge releases, and that is [...]

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There is a new version of Akismet out today, and this time it looks like they are taking some cues from their competitors and users in adding new features:
Version 2.1 main new addition is the ability to filter by comment type, as seen here:
There’s also a new hook so other plugins could add addition tabs [...]

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Charles has produced another episode of the WordPress Podcast, despite being under the weather.
The episode covers things like Automattic turning down money, tainted themes, WP-Super Cache, and some other great news. The show includes appearances by Jonathan Bailey, author and plagiarism expert, and Lorelle, as a WordPress.com reporter.
The episode runs nearly fourty minutes long, [...]

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It looks like the WordPress Theme Viewer isn’t dead, it is just still being revamped, or at least that is what the latest post on the site says called Upcoming Changes.
Just wanted to do a quick update for those wondering when you’ll be able to add new themes or update existing ones here in the [...]

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So Automattic had bought Gravatar a little while back, a service that is well known in the blogosphere for providing a way to easily display profile images, and now they have added the service to WordPress.com.

What’s that mean? When you have a WordPress.com account you can have an avatar by your comment, but now if [...]

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Matt has posted another wrap-up, which is basically a quick look at how WordPress.com is doing. One of my first thoughts when looking over the stats is that if each of the half a million active blogs were worth one dollar per year for Automattic, that would be half a million dollars of revenue coming [...]

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Charles Stricklin of the WordPress Podcast introduced me to another podcast that covers the WordPress world called Talking WordPress.
I have listened to a little of it, and it is interesting, though not as content rich in my opinion. I figure though if you are a WordPress fan, you will want to check this podcast out [...]

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I am wondering if a proposed idea is any good or not, as an announcement on JustAddWater.dk has been growing in power on the web. The idea: turn off Akismet for a day. The idea is to be reminded about how much work anti-spam software does for our blogs, and how much time it saves [...]

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Is it just me, or is Matt getting better at being interviewed in podcasts? This latest one with him on the Random Bits Podcast is amazing. Some great questions and a very candid Matt made the experience great. I highly recommend listening in.
Here is some text from the site:
This episode with Matt is a great [...]

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It has been over two weeks since the last theme was added to WordPress.com, and it seems that people wanted something a bit brighter, and so WordPress.com users can rejoice as The Journalist is added.
The Journalist features a fixed-width, two-column layout, elegant typography for post text and block quotes, and supports widgets in the right-hand [...]

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Is there enough news on what is happening in the WordPress community? I don’t just mean on this blog, but all blogs.
In the WordPress Dashboard, there are a fair number of sites, some of high quality WordPress related content, others with development information and then a few other blogs thrown in there as well. [...]

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With so much going on in the WordPress world, I have to admit, I wondered if they would be done WordPress 2.4 early. Such a strong team of developers and a good list of things being completed, it wouldn’t have surprised me if we saw the next version of WordPress before the end of the [...]

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Recently, there have been more reports than normal of people having their blogs hacked. Some Splashpress Media blogs were effected, but only in so much that spam code was added to the entries, no personal data was accessed. Now I see that Vandelay Website Design’s blog has also been hacked. Is this all due to [...]

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Everything makes sense in the world again. Recently, there were reports that Automattic, the people that “run” WordPress, had turned down $200 million dollars, but now it seems that they may have made a smart move, and are now set to receive $50 million. When is $50 million better than $200? When you don’t have [...]

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There has been a new theme added to WordPress.com, and this time it is a beautiful dark theme called ChaosTheory.
Interestingly enough, it was designed exclusively for WordPress.com.
From the blog post:
It features an unusual single-column layout with two widget sidebars at the bottom, and a page navigation menu at the top. You’ll find it listed on [...]

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