I don’t think much happened this week, but last week, I forgot to mention that WordPress Community Podcast had Matt Cutts as a guest on their show. For the few people that don’t know, Matt Cutts is a software engineer at Google who heads the web spam team, which is part of search quality. In [...]

Thesis is Now Under a Split GPL License
Chris Pearsonified announced this week through a tweet that Thesis now sports a split GPL license. For those that don’t know, this means that the PHP is GPLv2, and the CSS, JS, and images are proprietary. This announcement definitely got the whole community by surprise, but I’m sure [...]

GPL Debate
The GPL debate is back once again. If I’m not mistaken, it started on Twitter. Then, Andrew Warner of Mixergy.com invited the two guys at the center of the debate, Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg, to a live interview where they discussed about the Thesis vs. GPL issue. I won’t share my thoughts, but [...]

Nominate is a social voting theme that lets your visitors create accounts, submit articles, and vote on them. It basically lets you create a website similar to Digg. This is the first time that I’ve seen such a theme been released to the WordPress community. Nominate is actually the same theme that is used by [...]

Wellblog is a theme that was designed for food and recipe bloggers. The theme is highly customizable and comes with 3 built-in skins (Black, Gray, Yellow). Each skin has a good color contrast that makes your posts and images stand out. The Wellblog theme also comes with Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube integration to keep your [...]

Tung Do also known as Small Potato seems to be slowly coming back to the WordPress community. For those who don’t know him, he was very respected by the community as the founder of WPdesigner.com which is now dead. I don’t know what his plans are, but he’s definitely designing again and you can find [...]

New version of WordPress is out! Version 2.8 “Baker,” named in honor of noted trumpeter Chet Baker, has been released with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. Over 790 bugs has been fixed and major new improvements include:

Way faster to use because of changes in the way WordPress does style and scripting;
One click [...]

Happy New Year! I hope everyone’s year started off well! (:
I apologize for the lack of updates, downtime, and mess. I’ve made a few changes to the blog:

The web hosting has been changed to (mt) Media Temple;
WordPress has been updated to version 2.7;
And the theme has been changed to Busy Bee by WooThemes.

I also have [...]

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

See original here: Hello world!

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WordPress 2.6.5 has just been released and it fixes one security problem and three bugs. It’s recommended that everyone upgrade to this release.
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/

Read the original here: WordPress 2.6.5

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In the past few weeks, WooThemes has released a few free WordPress themes that I recommend you to take a look at:
Snapshot
Snapshot is the framework-equivalent of their own showcase and can be used for either a photo showcase, portfolio or design gallery.

Typebased
Typebased was designed by Armono Wibowo and it is a very clean and elegant [...]

In the past few weeks, WooThemes has released a few free WordPress themes that I recommend you to take a look at:
Snapshot
Snapshot is the framework-equivalent of their own showcase and can be used for either a photo showcase, portfolio or design gallery.

Typebased
Typebased was designed by Armono Wibowo and it is a very clean and elegant [...]

Platformate is another theme by Michael Hutagalung and it was recently released. If you don’t remember or just don’t know, he released Arthemia Premium in August. Just like Arthemia Premium, Platformate has a theme admin panel that lets you easily modify and customize your theme.
Here are Platformate’s features:

Theme administration panel
Automatic thumbnail generation
5+ theme colors included
Popular [...]

Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has acquired IntenseDebate for an undisclosed amount. Before this news, I had never heard of IntenseDebate before. So, I went to their website and found out that “IntenseDebate is a comment system that enhances and encourages discussion on your blog or website.” Some of the features are threading, reply-by-email, [...]

Matt Thomas, web designer at Automattic, has recently updated the logos and graphics page at WordPress.org. According to his blog, he was tired of seeing fake WordPress logos around the web.
In the page, you’ll find logos, buttons, and desktop wallpapers in various formats and sizes. The official WordPress colors are listed there as well. Show [...]