We’ve been taken to task for neglecting this space, so I’ll give a quick update. No, we are not dead. Quite the contrary. We are busily working on 1.3. We’ve been lowkey about the features in 1.3 because we don’t want to hype what isn’t finished. That said, we’re getting to the point where a…
Some people have been having troubles with WordPress on PHP 5 under certain server configurations. We’ve done a lot of investigation into the issue and there is good news and bad news. The good news is there’s nothing wrong with WordPress. The bad news is there’s a bug in PHP 5.0.0 that causes Apache to…
Between posting to the forums, the IRC channel, and of course the wiki, I somehow forgot to update this blog. It’s time for an update. Here are a few things version 1.3 will do, or already does: Works with all trackback URIs New login system (for people who were having trouble) New import/export system Improved…
To clarify, there are meetups happening all over the country, not just in San Francisco. Go to the site and enter your zip code to see one near you. As you may have heard, you can now meet up with people in your area also cool enough to use WordPress, an activity that is being…
In the past month or two it has become apparent that there is a whole in the discussion fora for WordPress. For new users and troubleshooting we have the easy-to-use support forums, now tens of thousands of posts strong. For the documentation team we have a forum, and mailing list, and the wiki. For general…
This is a story about multiple blogs, bugs, enhancements, tables, chairs, and servers. Everyone wants to know about multiple blogs. We all want it yesterday. To clear up a common misconception, you can already run multiple wordpress blogs just fine, they can even be in the same database. Just give the installations a different table…
I’ve set up a new mailing list for those who want to monitor the development of WordPress more closely. Whenever anyone makes a commit to the CVS repository it’s sent to the list with a diff of the commit. This may possibly be high traffic and the messages may be large, just a warning. If…
A few issues came up with the last release candidate that made it important to test out the latest changes in a final beta release. Trust me, I’m as anxious as all of you to get my hands on a final 1.2 but this last bit of testing will help us ensure that the much-anticipated…