WordPress News

In the past month or two it has become apparent that there is a whole in the discussion fora for WordPress. For new users and troubleshooting we have the easy-to-use support forums, now tens of thousands of posts strong. For the documentation team we have a forum, and mailing list, and the wiki. For general […]

I’ve set up bug tracking software at https://mosquito.wordpress.org/ and already people have begun to sign up. There is a lot of work that needs to be done to get the bug tracker up to WordPress standards, but the process has begun.

This is a story about multiple blogs, bugs, enhancements, tables, chairs, and servers. Everyone wants to know about multiple blogs. We all want it yesterday. To clear up a common misconception, you can already run multiple wordpress blogs just fine, they can even be in the same database. Just give the installations a different table […]

I’ve set up a new mailing list for those who want to monitor the development of WordPress more closely. Whenever anyone makes a commit to the CVS repository it’s sent to the list with a diff of the commit. This may possibly be high traffic and the messages may be large, just a warning. If […]

As I promised the other day, the first release candidate of WordPress 1.2 is available. It’s available from the usual place. We need a real page for beta releases, not just posts on the dev blog and apache indexed directories, I know. It’s on the list! As always, feedback in the beta forum is appreciated.

If you’ve been following WordPress development, you know that this 1.2 release is our most ambitious to date. In my eyes it is as significant as our 1.0 release was. There has been more development, and more testing than any previous WordPress release. Also, most exciting to me, is more people contributed to this release […]

The talk of the town is that WordPress is going the l10n-i18n way. But what exactly does that mean? l10n stands for localization, and i18n, for internationalization. Counting the number of letters between the first and the last letters in those words explains the numbers in the names. Laziness is universal! The difference between l10n […]

I’ve posted a single entry template for MoveableType that you can use to republish your MT archives and have them all redirect to the corresponding entries you’ve imported into WordPress. Download. If you’re inspired to take this and create other templates (archives, etc.) feel free to send them my way and I’ll include them in […]

In the CVS development code, and the March 24 nightly build, there is a new feature: Post Meta-Data, or “Post Custom Data”. This allows you to attach arbitrary bits of information to a post using key/value pairs. You may have have seen blogs before where every post has something like “mood: happy” or “currently listening […]

I’ve just committed some more fixes for the XML-RPC blog API interfaces into CVS. If you are testing WordPress code from CVS or nightly builds, and you have had trouble posting to WordPress with your favorite blog client in the past, give it another try. Please post your results in the support forums.

I almost missed it, but the 25th was exactly one year after the fateful comment from Mike that started the chain of events that brought WordPress into being. Look how far things have come from that comment to the world-class blogging software we have now. The longest journey begins with a single step.

Nightly builds are now available at https://wordpress.org/nightly/ . If you’re reporting a bug from a nightly build in the forums please let us know the date of the build.