Late August is going to be a busy time, I’m going to be doing 3 appearances this month, two virtual and one in person. August 19th I will be giving a webinar on multisite for the guys at webdesign.com. Curious? Then this one is for you. (You need a webdesign.com membership.) August 21st I will...

Both Andrea & I will be speaking at WordCamp Montreal. Andrea & I have had a fantastic time at every WordCamp we have attended and we enjoy meeting other people who use WordPress. If you have never been to one, this will be a great one for you to attend. Whatever you are doing with WordPress,...

The penny has dropped, the vuvuzelas have sounded and the kitties have played themselves out. WordPress 3.0 has been officially released. Check out the official release post from Matt. I’ve been watching the download counter whirl by. This release marks the official end of separate WordPressMU...

… and what we really need is for WPMU users to test it out. Please do not do this on a production site. Ideally, have a test site you can play with (many MU people do) and just manually upgrade the WPMU install to the WordPress beta. Poke around, see if anything broke. If you have read my in-beta...

Today is our (Ron & I) 20th Wedding Anniversary. As part of our celebration, we are offering a one day 20% discount on all of our digital products. The coupon code is RonAndreaX20 and it expires at 11:59PM tonight. The coupon can be used on any of the following: Premium BuddyPress Themes Simple...

Yesterday, Donncha released WordPress MU version 2.9.2. 2.9.2 contains fixes for the major outstanding bugs in MU. Unless a security issue surfaces in either WordPress or WordPress MU, this is expected to be the last version of MU. Thanks Donncha  

BuddyPress reached Release Candidate status this week. Get BP rc-1 over here (zip). Also, the new 2010 default theme has just hit the repo. Scroll down on that page and you’ll get the zip of the theme.  

Over the weekend, there was yet another awesome WordCamp over in Boston. I am still bummed we were unable to go. But! We followed along at home, and there was some great news. WPcares was launched during the event to raise money for Haiti. The original goal was $1,000. Last I checked, it was over $3,000...

The bulk of the merge has been done in WordPress core. At least with regards to moving over the files. Now the fun part begins: bug gardening, testing and tweaking. Here’s what you can do to help not only the dev team and others, but also yourself: - set up a local install of WPMU - import some...

The trac for MU is now closed and all remaining tickets will be moved over to WP trac. source I know there’s a couple bugs in the latest release: people are working on it.