Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of the CMS we all love, has announced that further development on Wordpress will be halted. This statement originated from Matts blog (ma.tt) early on March 31st.

If you’re a visual learner, then you’re in luck. In this post, I’ve compiled 20 really fantastic tutorial videos that center around Wordpress. Pretty much every common Wordpress question is covered in the following videos.

Wow, that seemed like a pretty long week. I don’t know why, but it just did. Anyway, it’s Sunday, and that means its time for another weekly roundup.

Another edition of the FTL Saturday Snippets! Today, I’m going to quickly teach you how to modify the way Wordpress uses excerpts. Excerpts, as I’m sure you already know, are the few brief sentences taken from the beginning of a post (or from the “Excerpt” field) that are displayed in place of the full blog post itself.

Custom Fields are one of the most powerful features in Wordpress. Most newbies are either afraid of these mysterious input areas or just plain ol’ don’t even know they exist. In this post, my goal is to enlighten you on what exactly the Custom Fields are and provide some examples of what they can be used for.

This post is directed mainly to people that are somewhat new to working with and developing Wordpress themes. I know when I first started out, tutorials and articles like this one were extremely useful to me. I remember I didn’t even know what the hell a “jQuery” was just a few months ago.