There’s finally HD video support for WordPress.com sites with VideoPress. A lot of the WordPress.tv videos have gone HD, and it’s spreading like wildfire. Here’s what the WordPress.com blog there has to say about it. With the video...

The weblogtoolscollection.com wordpress plugin contest for ‘09 is well underway, with just about 2 weeks into the 3 month long contest. Here are some details from the site… # All code must be GPL compatible # All Plugins must be compatible...

Word Camp Toronto starts in about 15 minutes, goes until the 10th, and it should be a good one. From the Site… BackSpaceStudios and PHUG - Open Source Culture, will be hosting WordCamp Toronto 2009! We want to explore WordPress to a higher degree...

Looks like WordPress.com is testing out some interesting, and potentially very spammer friendly, commenting features. Namely, the ability to embed Youtube videos and Polldaddy polls directly in comments. It’s as easy as adding the url for the...

A great friend of mine, Elena of DesignDisease has released another free WordPress theme called Evidens. It comes in both a white version and a striking black version. Evidens is a new 3 column, full width theme from Design Disease. Featuring both...

vAssistant Services, a provider of WordPress coaching, consulting and tutoring, is having a free teleclass on May 7th. From vassistantservices.com… No matter where you are with your site/blog, you’ve probably got some questions. This week, get...

BuddyPress, the WordPress MU social networking platform, has finally released version 1.0. From BuddyPress.org… I’m happy to announce that version 1.0 of BuddyPress is now available for download. This release marks over a year of solid...

Yoast.com Has posted the slides from a presentation from the A4UExpo Europe a couple days back, and it’s pretty interesting (and useful) stuff. Check it out below. WordPress Optimisation - A4UExpo View more presentations from Joost De valk.

Weblogtoolscollection.com just posted a list of 9 ways to make your blog “Smart”, and though the list is definitely targeted at WordPress blogs, many of the ideas can be implemented for any blog. There’s a lot of great ideas, such as...

The most recent episode of the WPWeekly podcast is one giant interview with Matt Mullenweg covering a wide range of questions and topics such as… What is the process one must go through in order to patch a bug, complete a ticket and get it into...