The past year or so has seen a massive rise in the popularity of WordPress, particularly the idea of using WordPress as a CMS to run literally any type of site. You’ll now see WordPress not only powering blogs, but major news sites, eCommerce sites, Twitter clones, the lot. The massive rise in WordPress’... Read More »

This post is just a heads up to let everyone know that the WordPress Hacks theme has been updated with a few new features added, courtesy of my friends at Blog Design Studio .  Some you will notice right away, while others you may not.  Here are the notable changes included with this new update: Threaded... Read More »

Yesterday there was a ton of discussion via Twitter and on several blogs regarding a comment reset “exploit” which surfaced for the WordPress 2.8.x branch.  To avoid recapping the exploit, if you want to learn more about this exploit, check out this great post from our friend Leland of Theme Lab.  Along... Read More »

Since missing out on the WordCamp Chicago event that took place a few months ago, I’ve been keeping an eye on upcoming WordCamp events in the hopes that one will happen here in the Midwest again. If you’ve been considering going to one of these events, today I noticed a post from the official WordPress... Read More »

Back in April 2009, we wrote about Automattic purchasing WP.com . At the time there was a lot of speculation about what the role of this incredible new domain would be.  It has now been a few months since they took over possession and it looks like we finally have some hints about what the role of this domain may be.... Read More »