I have always found the codex to be too difficult sometimes, and the search has always been very ineffective, especially when I am looking for something as simple as a WordPress function. WPLookup tries to help fix that issue by providing a simple search interface for connecting you to various codex...

Blog Security is one of the top security blogs out there keeping an eye on all things blog security and WordPress. They’ve just released two great articles WordPress fans need to check out. First is news of a video and blog post by Guvnr called “10 Tips to Make WordPress Hack Proof. The ...

Recently, Matt Mullenweg has been fending off questions about bbPress, the popular open source, free forum platform. This past weekend at WordCamp Denver, and last month at WordCamp Las Vegas, audience members begged for an update on the status of bbPress. He joked in Denver that he felt he was bein...

Over on Theme Playground, there is a great article up with information on fifty great WordPress related personalities, from Automattic staff, to theme makers, plugin developers and more. I am not just pointing this out because I was fortunate enough to be included in this list, but also because I lo...

This week’s Blog Herald WordPress News covers “Can You Spot a WordPress Blog? WordPress 2.8 News, Plugin Directory Searchable, iPhone App Tested, and More” including: March is WordPress month with more WordCamps and WordPress Meetups than ever. Will April beat it? Lester Chan makes...

First off, I wanted to say, “when did Automattic become such a big company?” I remember looking at their employee list, and seeing a dozen names, and it has ballooned much larger since then, but thankfully, even though many of them don’t blog consistently, they keep a strong presen...

I’ve just posted this week’s WordPress News: Can You Spot a WordPress Blog? WordPress 2.8 News, Plugin Directory Searchable, iPhone App Tested, and More on the Blog Herald. Can you spot a WordPress blog? Are you sure? WordPress 2.7.1 released. Improvements on the WordPress Plugin Directo...

This is probably the second e-mail I have ever received about WordPress from the WordPress project itself, so I thought it was worth mentioning. Matt recently e-mailed everyone on the WordPress.org announcement list to let us all know that WordPress 2.7.1 has been released. The e-mail was entitled &...

It looks like the WordPress folks have finally fixed the plugin search, though it still isn’t perfect, it has been much improved over what it was before. Knowing that a big complaint with WordPress is its built-in search abilities, it didn’t surprise me when I found I couldn’t find...

We have all heard of Windows’ Blue Screen of Death, but have you heard of the WordPress White Screen of Death? It is an error that has popped up from time to time since WordPress 2.5, and various people have seen it, but it isn’t as common as other WordPress errors, so the bug has never ...