I hope the holidays are going well for you and your family. In my short basic absence, the WordPress, Joomla and Web Design market sure seems to be showing some holiday spirits every where in the World. l would like to say HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MAY 2010 BRINGS YOU HAPPINESS AND SEE YOU NEXT YEAR. ) [..]

Merry Christmas! One of the things that was discussed at the core commit team meetup was release scope (and scope creep). Now that 2.9 is out and it’s time to start thinking about 3.0, we think it would be appropriate to stop and take a breath before diving in, and make a plan in advance. What winds up happening is that during each release cycle a few new features are selected for inclusion, but then right up until feature freeze (and/or beta cycle), people keep adding feature requests, patches for enhancements, and ongoing bug reports. This means each release winds up getting pushed out later than planned, and with so many things going in per release, it becomes harder to catch new bugs. [..]

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Caulk WordPress Theme  is a modern, sleek WordPress custom theme built especially for magazine-style blogs, but also customizable for personal use, making use of multiple jQuery sliders. It is clean, organized, and easy to read with plenty of white space and nice typography. There is a nice big featured post rotator at the top to grab your readers’ attention right off the bat, and a popular posts slider underneath it to keep them there. [..]

We’re at that exciting point in WordPress development where the dev team feels like version 2.9 is complete and ready for the world. If you’ve been waiting for your moment to pitch in, it’s now. First we need tech savvy testers to upgrade their blogs and kick the tires, make sure everything is rolling like you expect it to. Here’s a list of all the fun and geeky new stuff in 2.9 to try out. Second, and more importantly, we need everyone to test out their plugin compatibility. [..]