WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed 3 million downloads yesterday, and today the plugin directory followed suit with a milestone of its own: 100 million downloads. The WordPress community’s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we’re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major [...]
By Andrew Nacin
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Tagged 100 Million, Adoption, Bug Tracker, Compatibility, Continual Improvements, Core Software, Determinations, Developer Tool, Developers, Hidden Gems, Incremental Improvements, Infrastructure, Milestone, Notifications, Plugin Directory, Plugin Installer, Plugins Directory, Release Announcement, Software Works, Thelonious
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It’s been summer for about a week now. Whether you’re on vacation or burning the midnight oil, attending a local/nearby WordCamp is a great way to spend a weekend. Meet other WordPress users, developers, designers & consultants, learn a little something, maybe share a little of your own experience and knowledge, and break bread (or [...]
By Jane Wells
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Tagged Berlin Germany, Bloggers, Boulder Colorado Usa, Boulder Theater, Break Bread, Burning The Midnight Oil, Collaborators, Dummies, Genius, Germany Berlin, July 17, Manchester England Uk, Midnight Oil, New Friends, Organizers, Sabin, Sketchbook, Uk Manchester, Wifi, Wordcamp
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Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow [...]
A weekend present, in haiku:
Last call; final bugs
Itch, scratch, contort; calmly wait
For now: RC3
That’s right. What will hopefully be the final release candidate, RC3, is now available for download and testing.
Plugin developers: test your plugins!
When I was a kid my dad used to practice his typing skills (on a real typewriter no less) with the phrase:
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
For some reason that has stuck with me all these years. Today I’m going to rephrase and re-purpose that [...]
By Joseph Scott
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Tagged Band Aid, Community Involvement, Community Members, Dad, Development Checklist, Love, Management Tools, New Year, Php Code, Phrase, Reviewers, Security Issues, Shape, Submissions, Theme Developers, Theme Directory, Themes, Typewriter
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