If you’re a WordPress.com user you’ll want to be extra cautious the next time you’re tempted to whip up a blog post from your local coffee shop. If anyone on the same open connection is using a ...

This week marks two interesting anniversaries for me. I've been writing here at ZDNet for six years, and I've been supporting adopted open source projects for one year. While my experience here at ...

In late September, Automattic CEO and WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg started a public dispute with the hosting provider WP Engine, calling the company “a cancer to WordPress.” He accused WP Engine ...

Ten years ago today, WordPress, the open source blogging software, was born. It’s amazing to think that it’s been that long, but considering it had all of the elements that other startups and projects ...

Try to fire up a new blog on Windows Live and you’ll be directed to WordPress.com, the hosting portion of an insanely popular open source blogging platform that, until recently, had nothing to do with ...

Memo to anyone who logs in to a WordPress.com-hosted blog from a public Wi-Fi connection or other unsecured network: It’s trivial for the script kiddie a few tables down to hijack your site even if it ...

Last Friday, Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg—the founding developer of the WordPress open source blogging and content management platform—posted an open letter on his personal blog accusing the ...

Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg said he would be deactivating the accounts of several WordPress.org community members, two of whom he says planned to spearhead a new fork of the ...

WordPress, the world's largest open source content management system (CMS), has just become even more open sourcier. Chalk it up to some changes from Automattic, the web development corporation most ...

Update (8/9/2010): We've updated the plugin to v0.4. The latest version is much more stable and includes more capability for customizing your own blog posts. Today we are releasing a new tool that ...