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WordPress 3.0.1

by Andrew Nacin
29 Jul 2010 at 5:38pm
After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku: Three dot oh dot one Bug fixes to make you smile Update your WordPress This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to t...

PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement

by Mark Jaquith
23 Jul 2010 at 3:01pm
Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we oc...

100 Million Plugin Downloads and Counting

by Andrew Nacin
2 Jul 2010 at 1:48pm
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 t...

Summer of WordCamp

by Jane Wells
29 Jun 2010 at 1:19pm
It’s been summer for about a week now. Whether you’re on vacation or burning the midnight oil, attending a local/nearby WordCamp is a great way to spend a weekend. Meet other WordPress users, developers, designers & consultants, learn a little something, maybe share a little of your own experienc...

WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious"

by Matt Mullenweg
17 Jun 2010 at 12:26pm
Arm your vuvuzelas: 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. The...

3.0 RC3

by Jane Wells
11 Jun 2010 at 4:49pm
A weekend present, in haiku: Last call; final bugs Itch, scratch, contort; calmly wait For now: RC3 That’s right. What will hopefully be the final release candidate, RC3, is now available for download and testing. Plugin developers: test your plugins!

Expanding the Theme Review Experiment

by Joseph Scott
9 Jun 2010 at 12:06pm
When I was a kid my dad used to practice his typing skills (on a real typewriter no less) with the phrase: Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. For some reason that has stuck with me all these years. Today I?m going to rephrase and [...]

WordPress 3.0 Release Candidate

by Jane Wells
27 May 2010 at 10:35pm
As Matt teased earlier, 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, wit...

Lucky Seven

by Matt Mullenweg
27 May 2010 at 7:04pm
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 b...

WordPress 3.0, Beta 2

by Peter Westwood
6 May 2010 at 5:05pm
Following the successful post-WordCamp San Francisco code sprint, we 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 o...