Category Archives: wordpress

WordPress is 7!

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Owen

Did you know that WordPress is 7 years old? I was reading a post called Lucky Seven on the WordPress blog that talks about how the first release of WordPress was 7 years ago. And it’s now supported by a … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.0 RC

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Owen

The Release Candidate of WordPress 3.0 is now out for everyone to download and try. You may have seen the betas come available, but a Release Candidate is as close to the final version as you can get. In fact, … Continue reading →

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Tried out Twenty Ten?

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Owen

Image via CrunchBase There’s a great new theme that’s the default theme for WordPress called Twenty Ten. It has some great features and goes a long way towards providing plain vanilla installs with a great look and feel that is … Continue reading →

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WordPress Summer of Code 2010

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Owen

WordPress is taking part in Google’s Summer of Code 2010. It’s a programme that allows students to spend Summer working with an Open Source project, with Google paying the stipend for them if the “internship” is successful. WordPress is one … Continue reading →

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Did you go to the BBQ?

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Owen

Image via Wikipedia One of the disadvantages of not living in the US is that I don’t get to go to all the cool stuff. Last weekend, the WordPress team threw a BBQ that everyone was invited to. It was … Continue reading →

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WordPress for Android 1.0.2

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Owen

There’s a new version of the WordPress application for Android. Here are the improvements on the previous version: Support for https (including self-signed certs) Connection issue fixes for self-hosted WordPress sites Fix for local drafts not showing if the user … Continue reading →

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Optimise your WordPress Performance

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Owen

photo credit: jefferyalbergo & the neon cat I came across a great article that talks about some performance improvements that one can put into place on a WordPress blog. The headline things to look at are: Enable WordPress caching Use … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.9.2

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Owen

There’s a new drop of WordPress which fixes a small bug some of you may have been exposed to. Here are the details of the fix: Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at … Continue reading →

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The WordPress Foundation

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Owen

It’s great to see that the WordPress team has set up the WordPress Foundation with the express aim: The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to the projects we support. People and businesses may come … Continue reading →

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Some new WordPress sites

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Owen

With WordPress 2.9 downloaded almost 2.5 million times so far, you can easily imagine how many new WordPress sites get deployed every day. That number is probably just a subset of the number of WordPress sites out there, after all, … Continue reading →

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