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Year of the Meetup

by Jane Wells
27 Jan 2012 at 3:17pm
We hereby declare 2012 as the Year of the WordPress Meetup. You'll want to get in on this action. So what is a WordPress Meetup? Basically, it's people in a community getting together — meeting up — who share an interest in WordPress, whether they be bloggers, business users, developers, consulta...

Internet Blackout Day on January 18

by Jane Wells
17 Jan 2012 at 6:18pm
WordPress.org is officially joining the protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act that is coming before the U.S. Senate next week. As I wrote in my post a week ago, if this bill is passed it will jeopardize internet freedom and shift the power of the independent web into the hands of co...

Help Stop SOPA/PIPA

by Jane Wells
10 Jan 2012 at 2:18pm
You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and [...]

WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release

by Ryan Boren
3 Jan 2012 at 4:24pm
WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Thanks to Joshua H., Hoang T., Stefan Zimmerman, Chris K., and the Go Daddy security team for responsibly disclosing ...

WordPress 3.3 ?Sonny?

by Matt Mullenweg
12 Dec 2011 at 5:58pm
The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, and in t...

WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 3

by Jane Wells
10 Dec 2011 at 7:27pm
The third (and hopefully final!) release candidate for WordPress 3.3 is now available. Since RC2, we’ve done a handful of last-minute tweaks and bugfixes that we felt were necessary. Our goal is to release version 3.3 early next week, so plugin and theme authors, this is your last pre-release cha...

Core Team Meetup Time

by Jane Wells
10 Dec 2011 at 7:06pm
It’s almost that time again, when the WordPress core development team gets together in person to review the year’s progress and talk about priorities for the coming year. Next week Matt Mullenweg, Mark Jaquith, Peter Westwood, Andrew Ozz, Andrew Nacin, Dion Hulse, Daryl Koopersmith, Jon Cave, and...

WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 2

by Andrew Nacin
7 Dec 2011 at 1:26am
The second release candidate for WordPress 3.3 is now available! As the first release candidate was well-received, we think we’re really close to a final release. Primarily, we’ve ensured that new toolbar (the admin bar in 3.2) has a consistent appearance across all browsers, and the API for deve...

WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 1

by Ryan Boren
1 Dec 2011 at 12:55am
Release Candidate stage means we think we’re done and are about ready to launch this version, but are doing one last check before we officially call it. So take a look, and as always, please check your themes and plugins for compatibility if you’re a developer. Stayed up late tonight, Hammering t...

WordPress 3.3 Beta 4 Available Now

by Jane Wells
23 Nov 2011 at 8:44pm
The march toward 3.3 continues! With all our major tickets closed, we are very close to a release candidate. In Beta 4 we’ve fixed a bunch of bugs, cleaned up the UI, added real text in some of the screens that still had placeholder text in Beta 3 (post-update screen, the Dashboard welcome area, ...