WordPress News

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 […]

I’m very happy to kick off the 1.2 beta cycle tonight. In many ways version 1.2 represents the largest step forward since the inception of WordPress. It’s been a bit over a month since the last version—1.0.2—was released, but the 1.2 branch has been under development since mid-January. Because of the heavy changes to the […]

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 […]

Alex King has release Tasks Pro 1.1, which is amazing task- and project-management software that you have to see to believe. It was already incredibly useful with the last version, and 1.1 offers some cool features like time tracking, file attachments, and theme support. Why am I mentioning this all here? Becuase the WordPress project […]

Dougal is a humble guy and wouldn’t ask here himself, but I have no problem pimping the fact that Dougal is looking for a job in Atlanta. You can read about it more on his site, but basically he has to move because of family reasons. It’s great news… for the company in Atlanta that […]

I put together a quick method that allows you to redirect old Movable Type entries without leaving the old files around. The method, which uses .htaccess, is on the wiki, redirect MT links using .htaccess. Shelley used this with some modifications.

Recently, there’s been quite a few ‘switchers’ from MovableType to WordPress noted here in the devblog, with an attendant rise in MT-related questions in the forums. For those of you switching (or considering the move) the following recent articles will be of great use: Shelley Powers at Burningbird has written several articles detailing her move […]

With all that’s been going on with WordPress development lately [see the nightly builds, or the CVS for alpha versions of version 1.2], one might reasonably wonder, what’s going on with the damn docs? Well, I’m here today to address just that question.

It’s only Monday and we already have several new switch stories for you. Thanks to everyone who mailed in! x.blog My first impression on WP is very positive. By now, I’m convinced that my MT set up going crazy was a blessing in disguise. I was used to the (awkward) MT templates and stuff and […]

First off, happy Easter to everybody. I came across three more switchers today. Remember if you blog about your switch to send me an email. Mickey’s Musings I’ve now moved to WordPress a PHP-based blog that has most of what I was looking for in a blog. Most importantly, it has the ability to submit […]

Several more blogs have made the switch to WordPress and written about it: King of Nothing The first thing that impressed the hell out of me was how easy it was to install WP — I had a working copy in 3 freakin’ minutes. Not only that, but WP imported 3 years worth of posts […]

Highlighting a few recent converts to WordPress.