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WordPress hasupdated their dashboardto add several nice features for sites hosted on WordPress.com. It has redesigned the toolbar and font sizes, refreshed the design and improved the speed of the dashboard. One of the most exciting new features of the dashboard is an upgrade to the full-screen writing mode to eliminate more of the interface for focused writing sessions. The ‘New Post’ button is gone, replaced with an ‘Add New’ menu....

Today, WordPress’ Lance WillettannouncedCustom Design, a new tool that combines easy to use, code-free font selection fromTypekitwith a brilliant CSS editing interface. WordPress worked with Typekit to create the easy-to-useFont Editorprovides a visual preview of your blog with over 50 premium Typekit fonts from font makers like Mark Simonson and the League of Moveable Type. The editor, which required no coding, allows you to easily modify the size and style of your fonts....

After noticing some suspicious commits to popular WordPress plugins today in the main WordPress.org repository, passwords are being reset for all users of WordPress.org, bbPress.org and BuddyPress.org,Matt Mullenweg said on the WordPress blog. The reset comes after suspicious commits to AddThis, wpTouch and W3 Total Cache that contained backdoors were spotted. The WordPress team promptly rolled back the changes and pushed updates to users who might have installed the plugins with the trojans, and shut down access to the repository....

Matt Mullenweg, creator of the WordPress blogging platform and founder of Automattic, will have big reason to celebrate this Sunday after the number of self-hosted and WordPress.com blogs passed the 50 million mark. WordPress keepsa counter on its WordPress.com site, counting the number of WordPress installations on their own servers but also self-hosted blogs, where developers, designers and other users have decided to take control of their own installations of the open-source software....

Just about everyone reading this will be familiar with WordPress: it’s the behemoth on the content management scene, employed by millions of blogs and web publications large and small alike. The Next Web runs onWordPress,as do most of our competitors, and these days you have to look a little harder to find sites that run on the giants of the past such asJoomla!(formerly Mambo) and the perpetual underdog, Drupal. WordPress has evolved in huge ways over the years, and generally for the better....