WordPress News

It’s a new year, and we have a new major release of WordPress coming soon. (We’re currently aiming for the 22nd.) It’s as good a time as any to examine where we’ve been, and where we are, and where we’re going as a community. 2006 was a pretty exciting year, we saw 1.54 million downloads […]

You can get the full details from the Web Standards Project press release, but to make a long story short WordPress.org will be taking Browse Happy under its wing by continuing hosting the site and keeping it current with the latest trends and information. Browse Happy is a site dedicated to educating people about browser […]

It seems like every few days a post comes up on the support forums about hosting — people asking for recommendations, talking about problems, or sharing advice. Where your blog lives is really central to your WordPress experience, and for a long time we’ve wanted to highlight some excellent resources to consider next time you’re […]

We are proud to announce wp-plugins.org, the WordPress Plugin repository. A need was felt for a set of common tools, and a common playground for developers creating plugins and themes to extend WordPress. WP-Plugins.org seeks to fill the gap by providing stable and reliable hosting, complete with version control, an issue tracker, and wiki to […]

Just a quick note to say the WordPress discussion lists will be down for a few more hours while we transition the archives and subscriptions from the old system to the new one. When everything is back to normal we’ll update this post. I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays as much as we are. […]

And in other news… Firefox 1.0 is now gold. The Mozilla sites are swamped right now, so I’ve currently got a torrent of the US English version for Windows going. Download some fresh, hot browser goodness, and don’t forget to spread the word. If you don’t already have a BitTorrent client, try BitTornado.

Over at my site I’m running a small contest for people to create alternative color schemes for the administration interface. When it’s done I’ll pick a few winners and package everything up in a plugin you can use to spice up your administration a bit. If you have a few free minutes try your hand […]

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.

Welcome Slashdot visitors, again. Can’t you guys give us a break? You know the drill, some parts of the site will be static while the wave rides out.

First off I wanted to let everyone know that the Ping-o-Matic XML-RPC interface is up and running. So to ping all those services with one fast and automatic step, follow these instructions: Login Go to Options → Writing Erase anything you may have in “Update Services” and just put http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ Watch how fast your posting […]

All the hubbub over the new MovableType terms and people switching to WordPress has been mentioned over on Slashdot. Welcome to all our new visitors! We’re going to deactivate the forums for a few minutes while we ride out the wave, if you check back later today they should be up.

As many of you know, the WordPress support forums have been growing by leaps and bounds lately, with over 30,000 posts and 2,000 in just the relatively short time they’ve been available. Personally I think they’re the best support forums on the web, but I’m biased. Anyway we tracked down the 2,000th registrant on the […]