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A Tale of Two WordCamps
This coming weekend, two WordCamps will be going on simultaneously — yep, it’s WordCamp season again! This weekend will be the first of...
Shikhar singh
Sep 15, 20111 min read
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Vote for WordPress Sessions at SXSW
Each year, members of the web community from around the world submit session proposals to the South by Southwest Interactive conference,...
Shikhar singh
Sep 2, 20113 min read
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State of the Word
This has been an exciting year for WordPress. We’ve grown to power 14.7% of the top million websites in the world, up from 8.5%, and the...
Shikhar singh
Aug 19, 20111 min read
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WordCamp SF Livestream!
The annual WordPress conference, WordCamp San Francisco, starts in fewer than 8 hours. The sold out event — three full days of...
Shikhar singh
Aug 12, 20111 min read
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Best WordCamp Speakers?
As we complete speaker selection for the annual WordPress conference (a.k.a. WordCamp San Francisco), it’s clear that even though there...
Shikhar singh
Jul 17, 20111 min read
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WordCamp San Francisco Call for Speakers
The annual WordPress conference, WordCamp San Francisco (home of the very first WordCamp), is now accepting speaker applications. Past...
Shikhar singh
Jun 1, 20111 min read
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Summer WordCamps 2011
Looking for something fun to do during your summer vacation? Why not check out a WordCamp! WordCamps are locally-organized casual...
Shikhar singh
Apr 17, 20113 min read
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WordPress Summer of Code 2011
For the past several years, WordPress has been a proud participant in the Google Summer of Code program (aka GSoC). We’ve been accepted...
Shikhar singh
Mar 30, 20112 min read
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Live from South by Southwest 2011
If you’ve ever heard Matt Mullenweg talk about the early days of WordPress, the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive festival that takes...
Shikhar singh
Mar 14, 20112 min read
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Coming Up: Meet the Makers
I am often asked how decisions are made for WordPress, who’s involved in decision-making, and how the open source project is structured...
Shikhar singh
Dec 28, 20102 min read
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100 Million Plugin Downloads and Counting
WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed 3 million downloads yesterday, and today the plugin directory followed suit with a milestone of its own:...
Shikhar singh
Jul 2, 20102 min read
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Summer of WordCamp
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...
Shikhar singh
Jun 29, 20103 min read
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Expanding the Theme Review Experiment
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...
Shikhar singh
Jun 9, 20102 min read
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WordCamp San Francisco 2010
A week from today on May 1, hundreds of WordPress users, developers, designers and general enthusiasts will descend upon San Francisco...
Shikhar singh
Apr 24, 20102 min read
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Coming up on Beta 2: Sprint!
Early next week, we’re hoping to release the 2nd beta release of WordPress 3.0 on our journey toward the final version. There are still...
Shikhar singh
Apr 24, 20101 min read
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GSoC Application Deadline is Today!
The deadline for students applying for Google Summer of Code this year is today, at 19:00 UTC. That’s about 3 hours from now. Still...
Shikhar singh
Apr 9, 20101 min read
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Tweet, Tweet!
This post is about the @WordPress Twitter account, so if you don’t use Twitter, or don’t care about Twitter, then feel free to take the...
Shikhar singh
Apr 2, 20103 min read
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Summer of WordPress 2010: Act II
Scene: A college classroom Professor: So. Out of the 20 students in the class, half wrote WordPress Summer of Code proposals good enough...
Shikhar singh
Mar 29, 20103 min read
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Summer of WordPress 2010: Act I
Scene: A college classroom Professor: Is anyone here applying for Google Summer of Code this year? If so, see me after class to discuss...
Shikhar singh
Mar 22, 20103 min read
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2010 Open Source Design Plans
2010 is the year we dive into open source design. We’ve dipped our toes in this pool before (icon contest, graphic design component for...
Shikhar singh
Jan 14, 20103 min read
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