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A New WordPress.org Homepage and Download Page
The WordPress experience has significantly evolved in the past few years. In order to highlight the power of WordPress on WordPress.org,...
Shikhar singh
Aug 15, 20221 min read
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A New WordPress News
In June 2021, @beafialho in collaboration with @pablohoney floated the idea of giving WordPress News a new look. Today, those ideas...
Shikhar singh
Feb 16, 20221 min read
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WordPress at 18
Today marks the 18th anniversary of WordPress’ launch, a day that I fondly refer to as WordPress’ birthday, which means WordPress is...
Shikhar singh
May 27, 20211 min read
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Improvements to WordPress.org
If you visit WordPress.org regularly you might have noticed some changes around the place. If you don’t, now’s the time to check them...
Shikhar singh
Apr 5, 20152 min read
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Ten Good Years
Mike Little about forking our favorite blogging software, to powering 18% of the web. It’s been a crazy, exciting, journey, and one that...
Shikhar singh
May 31, 20135 min read
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Plugin Directory Refreshed
Been hanging out with a few WordPress.org hackers — Scott, Nacin, and Otto — the last few days in a BBQ-fueled haze of hacking to make...
Shikhar singh
May 20, 20122 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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Lucky Seven
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...
Shikhar singh
May 28, 20102 min read
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WordPress Foundation
It is with extremely great pleasure that I point you to the first post at the new WordPress Foundation site. Not only am I excited about...
Shikhar singh
Jan 22, 20101 min read
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Themes are GPL, too
If WordPress were a country, our Bill of Rights would be the GPL because it protects our core freedoms. We’ve always done our best to...
Shikhar singh
Jul 2, 20094 min read
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Showcase
Today we launched the WordPress Showcase, a display of some of the best and brightest WordPress users, who are using it to do a whole lot...
Shikhar singh
Nov 1, 20081 min read
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Theme Directory
It’s been a long time since themes.wordpress.net stopped accepting new themes. Since then most theme authors have been distributing...
Shikhar singh
Jul 18, 20082 min read
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New Faces
If you follow WordPress development closely you’ve probably noticed a few new faces around lately, or to be more accurate a few old faces...
Shikhar singh
Sep 24, 20071 min read
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Preparing for 2.3
In just a few short days WordPress 2.3 will be coming out with tons of new features that (hopefully) will make you want to upgrade right...
Shikhar singh
Sep 22, 20071 min read
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WebWare 100 Winner
The results are in, and WordPress is the winner of the Webware 100 in the Publishing category. Thanks to everyone who voted, but thank...
Shikhar singh
Jun 19, 20071 min read
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Plugin Directory
One of the greatest things about WordPress has always been the amazing number of high-quality plugins available for the platform. I...
Shikhar singh
Mar 16, 20072 min read
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Ideas and Kvetch!
It’s a new year, and we have a new major release of WordPress coming soon. (We’re currently aiming for the 22nd.) It’s as good a time as...
Shikhar singh
Jan 9, 20072 min read
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Browsing Happy with WordPress
You can get the full details from the Web Standards Project press release, but to make a long story short WordPress.org will be taking...
Shikhar singh
Jun 2, 20051 min read
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WordPress Hosting
It seems like every few days a post comes up on the support forums about hosting — people asking for recommendations, talking about...
Shikhar singh
Apr 14, 20051 min read
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The WordPress Plugin Repository
We are proud to announce wp-plugins.org, the WordPress Plugin repository. A need was felt for a set of common tools, and a common...
Shikhar singh
Jan 11, 20052 min read
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