WordCamp Melbourne 2011 was last weekend, and there is a wrap-up of it on the WordCast Podcast episode 92.
Kym Huynh attended the event and interviewed some of the attendees.
I’ll be posting my own summary of WordCamp Melbourne 2011 in the coming days.
This post contains a comprehensive list of the new features and changes that are part of the recently released WordPress 3.1.
After 8 months of development WordPress 3.1 has just been released. Continue reading
Update 24 February 2011: WordPress 3.1 has now been released
According to Andrew Nacin, WordPress 3.1 is going to be released in 23rd February 2011 in the AM (US time):
Fingers crossed 
Today Automattic released the brand new Duster WordPress Theme.
Being a technical guy, I typically don’t care much for WordPress themes.
However I haven’t been happy with how my website has been looking so I decided to give it a try.
The showcase template is really cool (I’m using it for the home page), and I also really like the simplistic layout of the individual post and archive pages.
Anyway, enough talking about pretty things. Time to dig back into some code!
Is your WordPress website not appearing at all in search engines?
A simple setting in your WordPress dashboard could be preventing your entire website from being indexed! Continue reading
With WordCamp Melbourne 2011 only 2 weeks away, the schedule has been announced.
There are approximately 15 presentations on the first day, and 5 workshops running on the second day.
Notable speakers from the WordPress industry include: Continue reading
WordPress Melbourne User Group’s February meetup has been announced.
The agenda is as follows:
Followed by casual drinks at a nearby pub.
The meetup is scheduled for Wednesday 9th February 2011 at 6:30 PM at RMIT.
WordPress 3.0.5 has just been released.
It is a security release which is required if you have any untrusted user accounts.
It also contains other important security enhancements, so all users are encouraged to upgrade.
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WordPress 3.0.3 has just been released.
It is a security release which fixes issues in WordPress’ XML-RPC remote publishing protocol. If you are using XML-RPC and your blog has untrusted Author or Contributor users, then you should upgrade as soon as possible.
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