Today, people all around the world are celebrating that five years ago today the first version of WordPress was released!
Of course, most people’s celebration is limited to Happy Birthday WordPress posts. It’s awesome reading them; most posts (subtlety) demonstrate the authors own participation in WordPress. We’re all the developers of WordPress!
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Category Archives: Open Source
5 Years of WordPress!
May 27, 2008 – 9:20 pm
democamp Victoria
April 2, 2008 – 4:41 pm
The first Victoria DemoCamp is tomorrow 5.30pm, Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 834 Johnson St. (Juliet Living Demo Space, a.k.a. the OLD peacock billiards place). DemoCamp is basically a hipster geek term for people coming together to give demonstrates (or presentations) (practice) on technology products or services (only needs to be loosely related to tech).
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WordPress 2.5 in the Wild!
March 29, 2008 – 12:06 pm
This morning at WordPress 2.5 release was released live at WordCamp Dallas! So gitty up and upgrade!
When you first try WordPress 2.5, it will feel like it has changed a lot, possibly for the worst (my wife Julia had her concerns). Change is hard. Take a deep breath, and be patient with yourself and WordPress [...]
Summer Starts Early Again For WordPress with GSoC
March 17, 2008 – 2:23 pm
I just received an email that our application to the Google Summer of Code has been accepted!
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Site Maps, SEO Alchemy?
March 16, 2008 – 2:10 pm
A site map seems like a really good idea, but if WordPress is on your team, you are already in great shape, and they offer no real benefit.
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I’m Biased, But Try Movable Type and Drupal
March 13, 2008 – 9:29 am
Anil Dash has written an article titled “A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide” on the official movabletype.com blog. It is full of misdirection, and, thankfully, overall it hasn’t been well received. What excites me is it has sparked some excellent discussions, and it’s a great launching point for more conversations.
I whole heartily recommend you try [...]
WordPress Google Summer of Code 2
March 7, 2008 – 3:29 pm
The Google Summer of Code is here again. I submitted our WordPress application today. Last year was awesome, and I think this year will be even way better!
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Media Library and WordPress Plugin Challenge
March 6, 2008 – 11:44 am
WordPress 2.5 will be the first release with more than a rudimentary image and media experience right out of the box. There are now add media buttons in the editor, the manage menu includes media library, and there is a gallery.
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Ubuntu Aptitude Giving Me Attitude
March 4, 2008 – 3:36 pm
The Ubuntu command line tool to install software aptitude wants to install a bunch of additional packages that aren’t required according to apt-get.
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Surfin’ WordPress 2.5 with Safari 3
February 29, 2008 – 3:52 pm
With the release of Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), the simple, elegant, fast web browser Safari 3 is here.
Very soon we will release WordPress 2.5, and about the same time WordPress.com will be updated.
With Safari 3 and WordPress 2.5 you should finally have a great experience if Safari is your preferred browser.
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