Automattic WordPress’ gave birth to the first Release Candidate of its 2.7 series. It took them quite some time to get everything wrapped up and it has taken a lot of beta testing in between. The output in WordPress 2.7 was yet again a decision made by the majority of the WordPress Users who have shared their thoughts, ideas and suggestions to make WordPress better and ended up with WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 which includes...

Did you heard about Gravatar already? If you haven’t then you must belong to those who are pretty unfamiliar with WordPress and are using my most hated blogging host, else, if you are a WordPress User, it may be that you are simply not updated or not geek enough to know about Gravatars, but don’t worry, let me tell you more about it. Gravatar stands for Globally Recognized Avatars, it’s a little image that will be attached...

It has been a year now since Gravatar has become part of the dedicated Automattic Family, which just extended it’s roots with the acquisition of Intense Debate. GRAVATAR used to be a very useful tool on it’s own prior the acquisition that happened a year ago, but now, after a year, it has become even better and has become a core functionality to WordPress, to which not only bloggers, but blog readers turn to, to make their...

The number one free and open source (foss) blogging software WordPress has contributed much to the web from its launching to this very minute. Might it be WordPress stand-alone or the Automattic maintained WordPress.Com blog hosting. Either way, you can be assured that what you get is quality, and that for free. Matt Mullenweg, the lead developer of WordPress has been recognized for this unflagging success once again, being one of the top...

Right this very minute we are celebrating the 500th spam comment that has been blocked by akismet, a production/project or what ever you’d like to call it by automattic. (for those who don’t know them, automattic are the makes of WordPress, Matt most especially. I wonder what we would have done without this neat plugin, which has blocked a lot of spam, and I mean, real spam. There where maybe 2-5 comments who were not a spam...