At the last WordPress IRC meetup there was a consensus that this development blog isn’t used enough for spreading general news and information about WP, and one of the ways we’ve decided to address that is with weekly roundup posts summarizing some activity and highlighting some of the amazing resources in the Codex. The posts…
Since WordPress is easy to upgrade, and support is efficient and easily available, a lot of users had been using nightly builds and betas prior to the release of version 1.5 just because they were impatient for the release. (We were too!) This created a tricky problem for the support volunteers and for the users…
We hope the new year brings cheer and good news to your life. For the WordPress family, the year starts on a positive note. ArsTechnica names WordPress the Web Application of the Year! The blurb reads: Let’s face it. Blogs are in fashion, and why not? Vanity knows no bounds, and there are some people…
The generation of the nightly builds has now been automated, so from now on we will have one nightly build each night. This should make it easier for folks involved in testing and debugging to grab the latest, bleeding-edge code. We do not recommend nightly builds for regular usage, so please do not use a…
Now there is one blog to cover them all. Planet WordPress is an aggregation of mostly WordPress related posts from the blogs of the WordPress developers, and a few other blogs that belong to WordPress hackers and trackers. You will find posts from the following blogs at the WordPress Planet: Alex King (feed) Blogging Pro…
WordPress 1.3 will enable you to use Themes to design and style your weblog. Work on this feature has been in progress for quite some time now. Work started back in September. Now the shape of things to come seems clear. The next version of WordPress will have support for user-defined themes built in. Until…
Mark Pilgrim has a long post on why he’s switching to WordPress. Carthik makes switching easy with his comprehensieve summary on migrating from MovableType to WordPress. Gregory Auld has published the second part of his series on converting your MT template tags to WP tags.
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.
Haven’t we all wondered about RadioactiveCaribou..er, NuclearMoose at some point or other? He’s all over the forums, he’s just done an incredible job with a preliminary table of contents for the wiki, and he’s created most of the great WordPress holiday logos seen in the header (among many other things). I mean, who IS this…