One of the problems the core developers have of WordPress is the amount of testing that goes on. Since this is free/open source software, users usually do not try software that they can get free. When its paid software they fell like it’s an obligation to make sure that they are getting their’s money worth [...]

The first meetup was very successful of the new year. Sun Microsystems came though for us and helped us out with some great space. Large room and three smaller room for other things. The main presentation hall held 113 people. We had close to the 78 people that RSVP to the event. Not sure of [...]

Today is the first meetup of 2010 for WordPress NYC Meetup Group. Registration was open for 3 weeks so if you are just finding about this now, sorry. I have been tweeting about it. The event happens tonight at 6:30pm at 101 Park Ave at the Sun Microsystems Building.

Right now there is no plans to have jQuery updated to 1.4.0 in WordPress 3.0. It is not impossible, but very unlikely due to fact that it does not cover the WordPress 3.0 Scope of Work. Use jQuery at your own risk and if you do use it, unload jQuery 1.3 first before registering jQuery [...]

So I been working on behind the scenes on a new Widget version of my theme. It’s now live and it works great, but I had to make a number of modifications to the Widget system for it to work correctly. Back story: The first post in this series is located here. The way the [...]

Wow. That was fast. Not less than 72 hours ago we released RC1 of 2.9 and we got such a good response from testing that we decided to skip the two week testing period for a release of WordPress 2.9 “Carmen”. Early Holiday Present. So get it today using the automatic upgrade feature. Expect WordPress [...]

WordPress 2.9 RC1 is out and ready for use and abuse! Please update all live sites using WordPress to this version so we can now get a huge sampling on any other errors before we mark it ‘GOLD’!. Be sure to submit tickets to the trac site so we know about them. The faster we [...]