The Blog Herald WordPress News that I’ve been producing weekly will soon be changing, evolving naturally into something that meets the needs of the Blog Herald readers and editors. For over two years, every week almost without fail, I’ve brought you a summary of the news from around the ...

Adii, a well known WordPress theme developer has put up a post on his blog about WordPress Theme Frameworks, and his opinions regarding them. He makes his own opinions perfectly clear in his post saying things like: A framework per definition includes features & functions that are not necessari...

Like a developing country, WordPress has been growing at a phenomenal rate. I would liken the current WordPress community to the USA of the 1980’s. While there were issues, just as there are in the WordPress community today, the world watched as the USA became entrenched as the predominant pow...

Image via CrunchBase This article  is one of the best written I have read on How To Use an ApplicationI-Posterous POST BY EMAIL WITH POSTEROUS However, a free online service called Posterous was also mentioned. This lets you post not only text, but also images, videos, etc by email. Posterous also ...

Last year, there was a lot of noise about WordPress being especially vulnerable to attacks and hacks. Not all of those reported hacks and wild fire assuptions about WordPress security were true. In “SecurityFocus SQL Injection Bogus,” Matt Mullenweg talked about one false report: Online,...

The year is off to a great start for WordPress fans with WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Indonesia 2009 in Jakarta, Indonesia, a snow-filled skiing and photography WordCamp Whistler, two WordCampED educational WordCamp events in Worcester, Massachusetts and Vancouver, BC, Canada, WordCamp Jena in Germa...

WordPress 2.7 downloads now past 650,000. Poll out for WordPress 2.8 input. Possible WordPress Theme threat you need to know about. BuddyPress beta released. Imagine moving millions of Typepad blogs to WordPress? Want some WordPress schwag? WordCamps coming up in January - are you going to a WordCam...

There was a lot of WordPress news this week, including the release last week of WordPress 2.7, which has been heralded by many as one of the easiest upgrades and enthusiasm for the new interface. Applause for the whole WordPress development team and community that worked so hard to make WordPress 2....

At a blog conference recently, I overheard the following exchange over a laptop as part of a blog review exercise: “For your blog to be successful, you need more comments on your blog posts.” “I have plenty of comments on my blog. See, this one has 14 comments.” “That p...

Mark Jaquith has just announced that WordPress 2.7 is now live and ready for download. Rumors were flying with the WordPress 2.7 RC2 release announcement and WordPress mailing lists, and now, the official announcement is now out. This version of WordPress is named “Coltrane” for famed ja...