The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. The latest version of WordPress — 3.2 Beta 1 — is now available for download. Interested parties can grab…

WordPress developer and all-around web geek Joost de Valk has just graced the Internet with a highly useful infographic. For a medium that leans toward the amusing, infographics can occasionally be enlightening or even helpful for later reference. This one…

Over the New Year holiday, WordPress.com issued a challenge to its blogger-users: Write and publish one post a day (or a week) throughout 2011.For non-professional and personal bloggers, writing and posting every day can be a tall order, so the…

WordPress has just introduced Toolbox, a brand new theme that will let its users take advantage of some nifty HTML5 elements with the Custom CSS upgrade.Toolbox is “a semantic, HTML5, canvas for CSS artists and an ultra-minimal set of super-clean…

Some very interesting stats have just emerged about the freelance and contract market for CMS developers and designers.In its quarterly market report, freelance site DoNanza discovered that even though WordPress devs, designers and SEO pros are in greater demand than…

WordPress has just announced a huge milestone for its mobile apps: The leading blogging service now has 1 million users across all its mobile platforms.The first WordPress mobile app was built for iPhone in 2008. Since then, the company has…

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. The old saying “you get what you pay for” is debatable when it comes to WordPress themes; there are a slew…

WordPress has introduces a brand-new subscription feature today. WordPress Subscriptions appear as a tab in the top menu bar when logged in and browsing around WordPress.com blogs and as a tab on a user’s WordPress.com homepage. The top menu tab…

The official Tweet Button has arrived; and while it’s as simple as a single click to use for the vast majority of end users, it brings scores of questions for casual and professional bloggers and other publishers. How can I…

Have you ever searched for a way to make a WordPress.com blog more robust? How about a way to make a WordPress hosted blog or site more secure and simpler to set up and maintain?A few WordPress superstars have teamed…

Chalk this one up as a victory for the free software movement: Thesis, the wildly popular proprietary WordPress theme from developer/designer Chris Pearson, is now available under a split GPL, the license that makes it possible to alter and redistribute…

WordPress 3.0 has just arrived on the scene — the thirteenth major release of the popular blogging software. It’s the result of six months of work from a total of 218 different contributors. You can download it now or upgrade…

Navel-gazing bloggers around the world, rejoice: Formspring will now play nicely with your WordPress blog.Formspring.me is a nifty little app that lets you answer anonymous (or credited) questions from your social network. It’s caught on like, well, a virus among…

At WordCamp SF yesterday, we got to talk to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. He’s the man behind the Automattic empire, a collection of blogging software and complementary services, such as PollDaddy and the spam filtration system Akisment.Mullenweg chatted with us…