Archive for the 'Community' Category

100 Million Plugin Downloads and Counting

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

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 to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major [...]

Summer of WordCamp

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

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 experience and knowledge, and break bread (or [...]

Do Not Neglecting the People

Friday, June 18th, 2010

RSUD Badung – Badung Regional Hospital – reorganization plan into an international hospital as well as tourism hospital viewed it as a strategic thing to do in order to raise health quality service. Although people from Badung Regional Council also warned the government not to neglecting health quality service exist today in the realization process [...]

Expanding the Theme Review Experiment

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

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 [...]

WordCamp San Francisco 2010

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

A week from today on May 1, hundreds of WordPress users, developers, designers and general enthusiasts will descend upon San Francisco for the 4th annual WordCamp SF. Since that first WordCamp in 2006, back when WordPress was on version 2.0 (Duke), the number of people using WordPress to power their web publishing — from personal [...]

Coming up on Beta 2: Sprint!

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

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 over 200 bugs in the 3.0 milestone, and we can use all the help we can get on fixing these problems. If you’re a developer, take a look at the list [...]

GSoC Application Deadline is Today!

Friday, April 9th, 2010

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 working on your application? Double check your time zone here. No late applications will be accepted. There are a lot of potential projects on our Ideas list, so if you’ve been [...]

Pattaya Thailand Mayor Visiting Denpasar

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Pattaya Thailand mayor, Itthipol Kunpcoms and his group observe closely the management of save community system belongs to Denpasar City Government, Bali.
That observation conducted after met with Denpasar Mayor, Ida Bagus Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra in his office, Denpasar, Tuesday.
Kunpcoms Mayor said that he was impressed and amazed with “one roof” service system applied by Denpasar [...]

Tweet, Tweet!

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

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 time you might have spent reading this post to go play outside (or an equivalent) instead.
Okay, so, Twitter! When all those apps started popping up using the Twitter API, things [...]

Summer of WordPress 2010: Act II

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Scene: A college classroom
Professor: So. Out of the 20 students in the class, half wrote WordPress Summer of Code proposals good enough to receive an A. How many of you are planning to apply for the program?
Jack, a student: I am. They opened applications today.
Sophie, a student: I am. And that sentence was grammatically terrible.
Jack: [...]