I’ve used SimplePie for a few projects, and so I was sad to find out, via WPTavern , that SimplePie is shutting down development. From the Blog Post : So effective immediately, we are ceasing development of SimplePie and shutting down the project.... 

One of the things that was discussed on a recent episode of WordPress Weekly Podcast was the idea of bringing back a long term support (LTS) release of WordPress like they did with the 2.0 branch up until recently. This made many companies feel secure... 

Jeff appears to have a great article up regarding StudioPress, and it helps answer some common questions about the company, its goals, and direction. If you are interested in knowing what Brian Gardner thinks of his critics, outsiders views on his goals,... 

Recently, Jeff and I had a great episode of WordPress Weekly that I hope more people will listen to. The episode contains our thoughts on WordPress releases, its user base and its management of press due to hacks. I got a little heated during the podcast,... 

I’ve never been happy with how WordPress deals with user permissions and roles. I’ve always wanted to customize it further, and while it is supposedly possible to do without a plugin, having a nice user interface makes the world of difference.... 

I’ve never had much issue with RSS, but some people say it was a dying format. Unlike the “real time web” of Twitter, Facebook and other services, the data from RSS wasn’t getting polled often enough to be useful. Heaven forbid... 

For the longest time, I’ve been waiting for WordPress to handle images better, and allow built in editing tools. Most people don’t have Photoshop, or even understand how to use most basic image editing tools like Irfanview, and so building... 

There are numerous cheat sheets for WordPress, and they’ll continue to be created, edited and re-released, but I wanted to highlight a new one for those in search of one that fits the bill for WordPress 2.8.x. Ekin Ertac has created a new sheet... 

I went away from home, on a micro weekend vacation, and on arrival to where I was staying there were numerous e-mails waiting in my account. It seems as though old versions of WordPress were being hacked and many clients and friends wanted their versions... 

One of the most confusing thing about WordPress is custom fields. The shame of it is that custom fields are one of the most powerful features of WordPress, allowing you to do all kinds of very interesting things. Over on WordPress.tv, there is now a...