Written by Hi, 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 [...]
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WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”
Hi, 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 them to [...]
READ MORE »WordPress Expanding the Theme Review Experiment
Hi, The theme directory has been chugging along for more than a year now. During that time we’ve tinkered with the review process and some of the management tools, but haven’t really opened it up as much as we’d like. It’s time to rip off the band-aid and take some action; to that end, we’re [...]
READ MORE »WordPress 3.0 Release Candidate
Hi, the first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.0 is now available. What’s an RC? An RC comes after beta and before the final launch. It means we think we’ve got everything done: all features finished, all bugs squashed, and all potential issues addressed. But, then, with over 20 million people using WordPress with a [...]
READ MORE »Lucky Seven
Hi, Has it really been seven years since the first release of WordPress? It seems like just yesterday we were fresh to the world, a new entrant to a market everyone said was already saturated. (As a side note, if the common perception is that a market is finished and that everything interesting has been [...]
READ MORE »WordPress 3.0 Beta 2
Hi, WordPress are now ready to release the second beta of WordPress 3.0. Things to test: * Revised menu user interface * Changes to the WordPress exporter and importer to make it more flexible Already have a test install that you want to switch over to the beta? Try the beta tester plugin. Testers, don’t [...]
READ MORE »Secure File Permissions Matter
Hi, Summary: A web host had a crappy server configuration that allowed people on the same box to read each others’ configuration files, and some members of the “security” press have tried to turn this into a “WordPress vulnerability” story. WordPress, like all other web applications, must store database connection info in clear text. Encrypting [...]
READ MORE »WordPress 3.0, Beta 1 Released
Hi, his is an early beta. This means there are a few things we’re still finishing. We wanted to get people testing it this weekend, so we’re releasing it now rather than waiting another week until everything is finalized and polished. There’s a ton of stuff going on in 3.0, so this time we’re giving [...]
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