A new version of Wordpress has been released, Wordpress 2.6.1.
Over 60 fixes have been introduced in the new Wordpress version, several of them critical and some security related. Please check them all by following the link to Wordpress Trac.
This release does not require a mandatory update, so you can continue using WordPress 2.6 if you [...]

FeedBurner has confirmed that Google Adsense advertising is being integrated in Feedburner feeds and that should increase the income generated from feed advertising.
FeedBurner intersperses ads in blog feeds between every few posts. Integrating with AdSense will allow for publishers to tap into contextual ads for their feeds, in addition to the ads that FeedBurner already [...]

WordPress 2.6 contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.
There are several new features in WordPress [...]

Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.
Here are some WordPress 2.5.1 highlights:

Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, [...]

WordPress 2.5 has been released and includes a huge number of changes over the WordPress 2.3 series. The new version is considered to be a major step forward, lots of elements have changed in the interface for example.
Some of the major features in this release include:

faster loading
cleaner interface
integrated gallery and media management
built-in gravatar support
plugin one-click [...]

Today, Google Adsense introduced a new ads unit, Google AdSense Video Units.
AdSense how has an option for affiliates or publishers to earn commission by displaying YouTube video content on their sites.
You can now place select Youtube videos on your site and get paid for doing so. Nice…
We’re excited about the launch of video [...]

Here is a simple guide how to change the default size of the thumbnails that WordPress 2.3 creates when you upload an image.
It is actually quite easy to change - it just requires modification of one WordPress file.
From time to time I wonder just how big the image thumbnails are, and occasionally I even ponder [...]