After scarcely 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in only 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The claim haiku:

Three dot oh dot one
Bug fixes to have we smile
Update your WordPress

This upkeep recover addresses about 50 teenager issues. The contrast many of we contributed prior to to a recover of 3.0 helped have it a single of a many appropriate as well as many fast releases we’ve had.

Download 3.0.1 or refurbish automatically from a Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.

Note: If we downloaded 3.0.1 in a initial twenty mins of recover (before 2200 UTC), you’ll wish to reinstall it, that we can do right from your Updates screen. Our bad.

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WordPress 3.0.1

Our proceed with WordPress has regularly been to have it run on usual server configurations. We wish users to have coherence when selecting a horde for their changed content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs flattering most anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, shift over time, as well as we spasmodic have been means to reevaluate a little of a mandate for regulating WordPress. Now is a single of those times. You substantially guessed it from a pretension — we’re eventually ready to make known a finish of await for PHP 4 as well as MySQL 4!

First up, a proclamation that developers unequivocally caring about. WordPress 3.1, due in late 2010, will be a final chronicle of WordPress to await PHP 4.

For WordPress 3.2, due in a initial half of 2011, we will be raising a smallest compulsory PHP chronicle to 5.2. Why 5.2? Because that’s what a immeasurable infancy of WordPress users have been using, as well as it offers estimable improvements over progressing PHP 5 releases. It is additionally a smallest PHP chronicle that a Drupal as well as Joomla projects will be ancillary in their subsequent versions, both due out this year.

The numbers have been now, finally, strongly in preference of this move. Only around eleven percent of WordPress installs have been regulating on a PHP chronicle next 5.2. Many of them have been on hosts who await PHP 5.2 — users merely need to shift a sourroundings in their hosting carry out row to turn on it. We hold that commission will usually go down over a rest of a year as hosting providers comprehend that to await a newest versions of WordPress (or Drupal, or Joomla), they’re starting to have to lift a trigger.

In reduction sparkling news, we have been additionally starting to be dropping await for MySQL 4 after WordPress 3.1. Fewer than 6 percent of WordPress users have been regulating MySQL 4. The brand new compulsory MySQL chronicle for WordPress 3.2 will be 5.0.15.

WordPress users will not be means to ascent to WordPress 3.2 if their hosting sourroundings does not encounter these mandate (the built-in updater will forestall it). In sequence to establish that versions your horde provides, we’ve combined a Health Check plugin. You can download it manually, or make use of this handy plugin installation apparatus we churned up. Right now, Health Check will usually discuss it we if you’re ready for WordPress 3.2. In a destiny recover it will yield all sorts of utilitarian report about your server as well as your WordPress install, so cling to on to it!

In summary: WordPress 3.1, due in late 2010, will be a final chronicle of WordPress to await PHP 4 as well as MySQL 4. WordPress 3.2, due in a initial half of 2011, will need PHP 5.2 or higher, as well as MySQL 5.0.15 or higher. Install a Health Check plugin to see if you’re ready!

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PHP 4 as well as MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement

WordPress 3.0 Thelonious upheld 3 million downloads yesterday, as well as currently the plugin directory followed fit with a miracle of a own: 100 million downloads.

The WordPress community’s expansion over a years has been tremendous, as well as you wish to reinvest in it. So we’re receiving a subsequent dual months to combine on mending WordPress.org. A vital partial of which will be mending a infrastructure of a plugins directory. More than 10,000 plugins have been in a directory, each a single of them GPL concordant as well as giveaway as in both drink as well as speech. Here’s what you have in mind:

We wish to yield developers a collection they need to set up a most appropriate probable plugins. We’re starting to yield improved formation with a forums so you can await your users. We’ll have some-more census data accessible to you so you can investigate your user base, as well as over time you idea to have it simpler for you to manage, build, as well as recover localized plugins.

We wish to urge how a core program functions with your plugin as well as a plugin directory. We’re starting to concentration on ensuring seamless upgrades by creation a most appropriate probable determinations about compatibility, as well as suggest redundant improvements to a plugin installer. And you additionally wish to give you a improved developer apparatus set similar to SVN notifications as well as improvements to a bug tracker.

We’re additionally starting to examination with alternative good ideas to assistance a village assistance plugin authors. We wish it to be easy for you to suggest comments to plugin authors as well as a community, together with user reviews as well as improved feedback. We might examination with an embracing a cause routine for deserted plugins as a approach to reanimate dark gems in a directory. I’m not certain there is a improved approach to uncover how extendable WordPress is as well as how overwhelming this village is at a same time.

As Matt pronounced in a 3.0 recover announcement, a idea isn’t to have all undiluted all at once. But you consider incremental improvements can yield us with a good bottom for 3.1 as well as beyond, as well as for a tens of millions of users, as well as hundreds of millions of plugin downloads to come.

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100 Million Plugin Downloads as well as Counting

WordPress 3.0 Thelonious upheld 3 million downloads yesterday, as well as currently the plugin directory followed fit with a miracle of a own: 100 million downloads.

The WordPress community’s expansion over a years has been tremendous, as well as you wish to reinvest in it. So we’re receiving a subsequent dual months to combine on mending WordPress.org. A vital partial of which will be mending a infrastructure of a plugins directory. More than 10,000 plugins have been in a directory, each a single of them GPL concordant as well as giveaway as in both drink as well as speech. Here’s what you have in mind:

We wish to yield developers a collection they need to set up a most appropriate probable plugins. We’re starting to yield improved formation with a forums so you can await your users. We’ll have some-more census data accessible to you so you can investigate your user base, as well as over time you idea to have it simpler for you to manage, build, as well as recover localized plugins.

We wish to urge how a core program functions with your plugin as well as a plugin directory. We’re starting to concentration on ensuring seamless upgrades by creation a most appropriate probable determinations about compatibility, as well as suggest redundant improvements to a plugin installer. And you additionally wish to give you a improved developer apparatus set similar to SVN notifications as well as improvements to a bug tracker.

We’re additionally starting to examination with alternative good ideas to assistance a village assistance plugin authors. We wish it to be easy for you to suggest comments to plugin authors as well as a community, together with user reviews as well as improved feedback. We might examination with an embracing a cause routine for deserted plugins as a approach to reanimate dark gems in a directory. I’m not certain there is a improved approach to uncover how extendable WordPress is as well as how overwhelming this village is at a same time.

As Matt pronounced in a 3.0 recover announcement, a idea isn’t to have all undiluted all at once. But you consider incremental improvements can yield us with a good bottom for 3.1 as well as beyond, as well as for a tens of millions of users, as well as hundreds of millions of plugin downloads to come.

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100 Million Plugin Downloads as well as Counting

It’s been summer for about a week now. Whether you’re on eighth month or blazing a midnight oil, in attendance a local/nearby WordCamp is a great approach to outlay a weekend. Meet alternative WordPress users, developers, designers & consultants, sense a small something, might be share a small of your own believe as good as knowledge, as good as mangle bread (or lift a toast) with brand brand brand new friends as good as collaborators. Here have been a WordCamps scheduled for this summer, along with what we know about them.

July 3: WordCamp Germany – Berlin, Germany. we adore it which they’re regulating BuddyPress for their eventuality site. They have mixed tracks, as good as what looks to be a great accumulation of sessions. It’s usually a couple of days away, so if you’re meditative of going, get your tickets now!

July 10: WordCamp Boulder – Boulder, Colorado, USA. This was WordCamp Denver final year, yet a organizers have motionless to brew it up as good as go behind as good as onward in between Denver as good as Boulder, which additionally has a abounding tech community. This year a venue is a Boulder Theater (so pretty!), as good as there will sessions for bloggers as good as devs alike, as good as a Genius Bar to assistance people get their WordPress sites all bound up. The orator lineup looks good, as good as we listen to they’re pumping up a wifi this year. I’ll be there, expected hunched over a cover with Lisa Sabin-Wilson (author of WordPress for Dummies as good as BuddyPress for Dummies) to speak about a WordPress User Handbook project, and/or hunched over a sketchbook with Kevin Conboy (designed a brand brand brand new lighter “on” state for admin menus in WordPress 3.0) to work out a brand brand brand new default WordCamp.org thesis (using BuddyPress). You can still get tickets!

July 17–18: WordCamp UK- Manchester, England, UK. The sailing WordCamp UK will be in Manchester this year, as good as is substantially a closest to BarCamp character of all a WordCamps, regulating a wiki to plan a little speakers/sessions as good as organizing a rest ad-hoc on a initial day of a event. I’ll be in attendance this a single as well, as good as am seeking brazen to saying WordPress lead developer Peter Westwood again. I’m additionally seeking brazen to assembly a little core contributors for a initial time in person, similar to Simon Wheatley as good as John O’Nolan. Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress, is on a organizing group of WordCamp UK. Tickets on sale now!

July 24: WordCamp Nigeria – Lagos, Nigeria. They’ve only had a placeholder page for a while, yet a organizer says a eventuality is still on, as good as a website will be launched tonight, so if you’re interested, check behind tomorrow.

August 7: WordCamp Houston – Houston, TX, USA. Houston, Texas, hearth of WordPress! Fittingly, Matt Mullenweg will be there to give a keynote. WordCamp Houston is regulating 3 marks — Business, Blogger as good as Developer — in approval of a actuality which people who have been meddlesome in regulating WordPress for their commercial operation might not essentially be bloggers or developers themselves. This used to get labeled as a “CMS” lane at prior WordCamps (including NYC 2009), yet with WordPress 3.0 ancillary CMS functionality out of a box, “Business” is a most some-more suitable label. Who wants to gamble on if there will be BBQ for lunch?

August 7 : WordCamp Iowa – Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Another placeholder page. Happening, not happening? I’ve emailed a organizer as good as will refurbish this post once we know more.

August 7–8: WordCamp New Zealand – Auckland, New Zealand. They haven’t voiced this year’s speakers or topics, yet they’ve been regulating polls to get village submit in to a program. Of note: in 2011 WordCamp New Zealand will be changeable seasons as good as will be in Feb instead, when a continue is nicer.

August 20–22: WordCamp Savannah – Savannah, Georgia, USA. Disclaimer: we am utterly inequitable about Savannah, given I’m a single of a organizers. This will be a initial WordCamp in Savannah, as good as it’s being hold at a Savannah College of Art as good as Design River Club, an overwhelming venue which used to be a string room or something similar to that. Since Savannah doesn’t unequivocally have a cohesive WordPress village nonetheless (though a satisfactory series of people from Savannah attended WordCamp Atlanta progressing this year), this WordCamp is directed precisely at office building a internal community. We’ll have a internal meet-and-greet, unchanging sessions with on vacation speakers (lots of core contributors entrance to this one, as good as Matt), as good as on Sunday it will be multiple unconference/genius bar/collaborative workspace. Oh, as good as a potluck! We’ll additionally be regulating a pre-WordCamp seminar for people who have never used WordPress yet wish to get started, so which they’ll be means to follow a presentations as good as conversations dirty with WordPress-specific wording over a weekend. Ticket sales only opened, so get your tickets now.

For a schedule of all arriving WordCamps, revisit wordcamp.org. The autumn report is already packed! If we don’t see WordCamp in your area as good as have been meddlesome in organizing one, get some-more report as good as let us know.

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Summer of WordCamp

It’s been summer for about a week now. Whether you’re on eighth month or blazing a midnight oil, in attendance a local/nearby WordCamp is a great approach to outlay a weekend. Meet alternative WordPress users, developers, designers & consultants, sense a small something, might be share a small of your own believe as good as knowledge, as good as mangle bread (or lift a toast) with brand brand brand new friends as good as collaborators. Here have been a WordCamps scheduled for this summer, along with what we know about them.

July 3: WordCamp Germany – Berlin, Germany. we adore it which they’re regulating BuddyPress for their eventuality site. They have mixed tracks, as good as what looks to be a great accumulation of sessions. It’s usually a couple of days away, so if you’re meditative of going, get your tickets now!

July 10: WordCamp Boulder – Boulder, Colorado, USA. This was WordCamp Denver final year, yet a organizers have motionless to brew it up as good as go behind as good as onward in between Denver as good as Boulder, which additionally has a abounding tech community. This year a venue is a Boulder Theater (so pretty!), as good as there will sessions for bloggers as good as devs alike, as good as a Genius Bar to assistance people get their WordPress sites all bound up. The orator lineup looks good, as good as we listen to they’re pumping up a wifi this year. I’ll be there, expected hunched over a cover with Lisa Sabin-Wilson (author of WordPress for Dummies as good as BuddyPress for Dummies) to speak about a WordPress User Handbook project, and/or hunched over a sketchbook with Kevin Conboy (designed a brand brand brand new lighter “on” state for admin menus in WordPress 3.0) to work out a brand brand brand new default WordCamp.org thesis (using BuddyPress). You can still get tickets!

July 17–18: WordCamp UK- Manchester, England, UK. The sailing WordCamp UK will be in Manchester this year, as good as is substantially a closest to BarCamp character of all a WordCamps, regulating a wiki to plan a little speakers/sessions as good as organizing a rest ad-hoc on a initial day of a event. I’ll be in attendance this a single as well, as good as am seeking brazen to saying WordPress lead developer Peter Westwood again. I’m additionally seeking brazen to assembly a little core contributors for a initial time in person, similar to Simon Wheatley as good as John O’Nolan. Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress, is on a organizing group of WordCamp UK. Tickets on sale now!

July 24: WordCamp Nigeria – Lagos, Nigeria. Their site seems to have a virus, so no couple from here, yet if you’re in Nigeria as good as meddlesome in attending/getting involved, a discerning Google poke will get we to a organizers.

August 7: WordCamp Houston – Houston, TX, USA. Houston, Texas, hearth of WordPress! Fittingly, Matt Mullenweg will be there to give a keynote. WordCamp Houston is regulating 3 marks — Business, Blogger as good as Developer — in approval of a actuality which people who have been meddlesome in regulating WordPress for their commercial operation might not essentially be bloggers or developers themselves. This used to get labeled as a “CMS” lane at prior WordCamps (including NYC 2009), yet with WordPress 3.0 ancillary CMS functionality out of a box, “Business” is a most some-more suitable label. Who wants to gamble on if there will be BBQ for lunch?

August 7 : WordCamp Iowa – Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Another placeholder page. Happening, not happening? I’ve emailed a organizer as good as will refurbish this post once we know more.

August 7–8: WordCamp New Zealand – Auckland, New Zealand. They haven’t voiced this year’s speakers or topics, yet they’ve been regulating polls to get village submit in to a program. Of note: in 2011 WordCamp New Zealand will be changeable seasons as good as will be in Feb instead, when a continue is nicer.

August 20–22: WordCamp Savannah – Savannah, Georgia, USA. Disclaimer: we am utterly inequitable about Savannah, given I’m a single of a organizers. This will be a initial WordCamp in Savannah, as good as it’s being hold at a Savannah College of Art as good as Design River Club, an overwhelming venue which used to be a string room or something similar to that. Since Savannah doesn’t unequivocally have a cohesive WordPress village nonetheless (though a satisfactory series of people from Savannah attended WordCamp Atlanta progressing this year), this WordCamp is directed precisely at office building a internal community. We’ll have a internal meet-and-greet, unchanging sessions with on vacation speakers (lots of core contributors entrance to this one, as good as Matt), as good as on Sunday it will be multiple unconference/genius bar/collaborative workspace. Oh, as good as a potluck! We’ll additionally be regulating a pre-WordCamp seminar for people who have never used WordPress yet wish to get started, so which they’ll be means to follow a presentations as good as conversations dirty with WordPress-specific wording over a weekend. Ticket sales only opened, so get your tickets now.

For a schedule of all arriving WordCamps, revisit wordcamp.org. The autumn report is already packed! If we don’t see WordCamp in your area as good as have been meddlesome in organizing one, get some-more report as good as let us know.

Go here to see a original:
Summer of WordCamp

Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, a thirteenth vital recover of WordPress as well as a perfection of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now accessible for download (or upgrade inside of your dashboard). Major brand brand brand brand new facilities in this recover embody a voluptuous new default thesis called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have brand brand brand brand new APIs which concede them to simply exercise law backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no some-more record editing), post types, as well as taxonomies. (Twenty Ten thesis shows all of which off.) Developers as well as network admins will conclude a long-awaited merge of MU as well as WordPress, formulating a brand brand brand brand new multi-site functionality which creates it probable to run a singular blog or 10 million from a same installation. As a user, we will adore a brand brand brand brand new lighter interface, a contextual assistance on each screen, a 1,217 bug fixes as well as underline enhancements, bulk updates so we can ascent fifteen plugins at once with a singular click, as well as blah blah blah only watch a video. (In HD, if we can, so we can locate a Easter eggs.)

If you’d similar to to hide a WordPress 3.0 video debate in your blog, duplicate as well as pulp this formula for a tall peculiarity version:

<embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.21" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" wmode="transparent" seamlesstabbing="true" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" overstretch="true" flashvars="guid=BQtfIEY1&amp;width=640&amp;height=360&amp;locksize=no&amp;dynamicseek=false&amp;qc_publisherId=p-18-mFEk4J448M" title="Introducing WordPress 3.0 &quot;Thelonious&quot;"></embed>

For a some-more extensive demeanour at all which has softened in 3.0 check out 3.0’s Codex page or a long list of issues in Trac. (We’re perplexing to keep these proclamation posts shorter.) Whew! That’s a lot packaged in to a singular release. we can’t consider of a improved approach to flog off a 3.X cycle we’ll be in for a subsequent dual as well as a half years.

The Future

Normally this is where I’d contend we’re about to begin work on 3.1, though we’re essentially not. We’re starting to take a recover cycle off to concentration on all of a things around WordPress. The expansion of a village has been breathtaking, together with over 10.3 million downloads of chronicle 2.9, though so most of a bid has been focused on a core program it hasn’t left most time for anything else. Over a subsequent 3 months we’re starting to separate in to ninja/pirate teams focused on opposite areas of a around-WordPress experience, together with a showcase, Codex, forums, profiles, refurbish as well as harmony APIs, thesis directory, plugin directory, mailing lists, core plugins, wordcamp.org… a possibilities have been endless. The idea of a teams isn’t starting to be to have things undiluted all at once, only improved than they have been today. We consider this investment of time will give us a most stronger infrastructure to grow WordPress.org for a most tens of millions of users which will stick on us during a 3.X recover cycle.

It Takes a Village

I’m unapproachable to admit a contributions of a following 218 people to a 3.0 recover cycle. These have been a folks which have WordPress what it is, whose partnership as well as tough work capacitate us to set up something larger than a total of a parts. In in a sequence of a alphabet order, of course.

Committers: azaozz (Andrew Ozz) (prof), dd32 (Dion Hulse) (prof), donncha (Donncha O Caoimh) (prof), iammattthomas (Matt Thomas) (prof), josephscott (Joseph Scott) (prof), markjaquith (Mark Jaquith) (prof), matt (Matt Mullenweg) (prof), nacin (Andrew Nacin) (prof), nbachiyski (Николай Бачийски) (prof), ryan (Ryan Boren) (prof), westi (Peter Westwood) (prof), as well as wpmuguru (Ron Rennick) (prof). Contributors: aaroncampbell (Aaron Campbell) (prof), akerem (prof), alexkingorg (Alex King) (prof), amattie (prof), ampt (Luke Gallagher) (prof), andrea_r (prof), andreasnrb (Andreas Nurbo) (prof), anilo4ever (Angelo Verona) (prof), apeatling (Andy Peatling) (prof), apokalyptik (Demitrious Kelly) (prof), arena (André Renaut) (prof), barry (Barry Abrahamson) (prof), batmoo (Mohammad Jangda) (prof), beaulebens (Beau Lebens) (prof), belg4mit (prof), bigdawggi (Matthew G. Richmond) (prof), blepoxp (Glenn Ansley) (prof), brentes (Brent Shepherd) (prof), briancolinger (Brian Colinger) (prof), bumbu (prof), caesarsgrunt (Caesar Schinas) (prof), camiloclc (prof), CAMWebDesign (prof), carbolineum (prof), caspie (prof), catiakitahara (Cátia Kitahara) (prof), CharlesClarkson (Charles Clarkson) (prof), chdorner (Christof Dorner) (prof), chrisbliss18 (Chris Jean) (prof), chrisscott (Chris Scott) (prof), cnorris23 (Brandon Allen) (prof), coffee2code (Scott Reilly) (prof), computerwiz908 (prof), cyberhobo (Dylan Kuhn) (prof), dancole (Dan Cole) (prof), Daniel Koskinen , deepak.seth (Deepak Seth), demetris (Δημήτρης Κίκιζας) (prof), Denis-de-Bernardy (prof), dimadin (Milan Dinić) (prof), dndrnkrd (Dan Drinkard) (prof), docwhat (prof), dougwrites (prof), dphiffer (Dan Phiffer) (prof), dragoonis (prof), dremeda (Dre Armeda) (prof), dtoj , dougal (Dougal Campbell) (prof), duck_ (Jon Cave) (prof), dxjones (David Jones) (prof), eddieringle (Eddie Ringle) (prof), edward mindreantre (Edward Hevlund), eoinomurchu (prof), empireoflight/Ben Dunkle (prof), ericmann (Eric Mann) (prof), etiger13 (Eddie Monge Jr.) (prof), filosofo (Austin Matzko) (prof), firebird75 (prof), frankieroberto (Frankie Roberto) (prof), Frumph (Philip M. Hofer) (prof), garyc40 (Gary Cao) (prof), gautam2011 (prof), Gary Ross (Gazzer) , GDragoN (Milan Petrovic) (prof), greenshady (Justin Tadlock) (prof), GIGALinux (Dennis Morhardt) (prof), hakre (prof), rough (prof), iandstewart (Ian Stewart) (prof), ipstenu (Mika Epstein) (prof), jacobsantos (Jacob Santos) (prof), jamescollins (James Collins) (prof), jane (Jane Wells) (prof), jbsil (Jesse Silverstein) (prof), jdub (Jeff Waugh) (prof), jeffikus (Jeffrey Pearce) (prof), jeffstieler (Jeff Stieler) (prof), jeremyclarke (Jeremy Clarke) (prof), jfarthing84 (Jeff Farthing) (prof), Jick (James Dimick) (prof), jmstacey (Jon Stacey) (prof), jobjorn (Jobjörn Folkesson) (prof), johanee (Johan Eenfeldt) (prof), johnbillion (John Blackbourn) (prof), johnjamesjacoby/jjj (John James Jacoby) (prof), johnjosephbachir (John Joseph Bachir) (prof), johnl1479 (John Luetke) (prof), johnonolan (John O’Nolan) (prof), JohnPBloch/wmrom (John Bloch) (prof), joostdevalk/yoast (Joost de Valk) (prof), jorbin (Aaron Jorbin) (prof), joshtime (prof), jshreve (prof), junsuijin (prof), kallewangstedt (Karl Wångstedt) (prof), keighl (Kyle Truscott) (prof), kevinB (Kevin Behrens) (prof), koopersmith (Daryl Koopersmith) (prof), kpdesign (Kim Parsell) (prof), ktdreyer (Ken Dreyer) (prof), kurtmckee (Kurt McKee) (prof), laceous (prof), lancewillett (Lance Willett) (prof), lloydbudd (Lloyd Budd) (prof), lriggle (prof), markauk (prof), markmcwilliams (Mark McWilliams) (prof), markoheijnen (Marko Heijnen) (prof), markup (Sasha Mukhin) (prof), mattsains (prof), matveb (Matias Ventura) (prof), mdawaffe (Michael Adams) (prof) , mentel_br (prof), messenlehner (Brian Messenlehner) (prof), miau_jp (prof), Michael (Michael Heilemann) (prof), MichaelH (prof), mikeschinkel (Mike Schinkel) (prof), Miloslav Beňo , minusfive (prof), miqrogroove (Robert Chapin) (prof), misterbisson (Casey Bisson) (prof), mitchoyoshitaka (mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)) (prof), MMN-o (prof), momo360modena (Amaury Balmer) (prof), morganestes (Morgan Estes) (prof), mrmist (David McFarlane) (prof), mtdewvirus (Nick Momrik) (prof), nadavvin (prof), Nao (Naoko McCracken) (prof), nathanrice (Nathan Rice) (prof), neoxx (Bernhard Riedl) (prof), niallkennedy (Niall Kennedy) (prof), ninjaWR (Ryan Murphy) (prof), noel (Noël Jackson) (prof), nomulous (Fletcher Tomalty) (prof), ocean90 (Dominik Schilling) (prof), Otto42 (Samuel Wood) (prof), pedger (prof), PeteMall (prof), pampfelimetten (prof), pnettle (prof), PotterSys (Juan) (prof), prettyboymp (Michael Pretty) (prof), ptahdunbar (Ptah Dunbar) (prof), ramiy (prof), RanYanivHartstein (Ran Yaniv Hartstein) (prof), reaperhulk (Paul Kehrer) (prof), reko (prof), remi (Rémi Prévost) (prof), rlerdorf (Rasmus Lerdorf) (prof) , rmccue (Ryan McCue) (prof), rooodini (prof), rovo89 (prof), ruslany (prof), sc0ttkclark (Scott Kingsley Clark) (prof), scottbasgaard (Scott Basgaard) (prof), ScottMac (prof), scribu (prof), SergeyBiryukov (Сергей Бирюков) (prof), ShaneF (prof), sillybean (Stephanie Leary) (prof), Simek (Bartosz Kaszubowski) (prof), simonwheatley (Simon Wheatley) (prof), simosx (Σίμος Ξενιτέλλης) (prof), sirzooro (Daniel Frużyński) (prof), sivel (Matt Martz) (prof), skeltoac (Andy Skelton) (prof), snumb130 (Luke Howell) (prof), solarissmoke (Samir Shah) (prof), sorich87 (prof), ssandison (prof), stencil (prof), stephdau (Stephane Daury) (prof), tai (prof), TECannon (Tracy Cannon) (prof), technosailor (Aaron Brazell) (prof), tenpura (prof), thales.tede , TheDeadMedic (prof), thee17 (Charles E. Frees-Melvin) (prof), thetoine (Antoine Girard) (prof), tinkerpriest (c.bavota) (prof), TobiasBg (Tobias Bäthge) (prof), tomtomp (prof), tychay (Terry Chay) (prof), typeomedia (prof), uglyrobot (Aaron Edwards) (prof), UnderWordPressure (prof), usermrpapa (prof), Utkarsh (Utkarsh Kukreti) (prof), validben (Benoit Gilloz ) (prof), Viper007Bond (Alex Mills) (prof), vladimir_kolesnikov (Vladimir Kolesnikov) (prof), willmot (Tom Willmot) (prof), wahgnube (prof), waltervos (Walter Vos) (prof), wds-chris (Christopher Cochran) (prof), williamsba1 (Brad Williams) (prof), wnorris (Will Norris) (prof), xibe (Xavier Borderie) (prof), yoavf (Yoav Farhi) (prof), zeo (Safirul Alredha) (prof), znarfor (François Hodierne) (prof), as well as zoranzaric (Zoran Zaric) (prof).

Bonus

If you’ve done it this far, check out my 2010 State of a Word debate at WordCamp San Francisco, it’s jam-packed with report on a expansion of WordPress, 3.0, what we’re formulation for a future, as well as a truth of WordPress.

See a rest here: 
WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”

Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, a thirteenth vital recover of WordPress as well as a perfection of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now accessible for download (or upgrade inside of your dashboard). Major brand brand brand brand new facilities in this recover embody a voluptuous new default thesis called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have brand brand brand brand new APIs which concede them to simply exercise law backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no some-more record editing), post types, as well as taxonomies. (Twenty Ten thesis shows all of which off.) Developers as well as network admins will conclude a long-awaited merge of MU as well as WordPress, formulating a brand brand brand brand new multi-site functionality which creates it probable to run a singular blog or 10 million from a same installation. As a user, we will adore a brand brand brand brand new lighter interface, a contextual assistance on each screen, a 1,217 bug fixes as well as underline enhancements, bulk updates so we can ascent fifteen plugins at once with a singular click, as well as blah blah blah only watch a video. (In HD, if we can, so we can locate a Easter eggs.)

If you’d similar to to hide a WordPress 3.0 video debate in your blog, duplicate as well as pulp this formula for a tall peculiarity version:

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For a some-more extensive demeanour at all which has softened in 3.0 check out 3.0′s Codex page or a long list of issues in Trac. (We’re perplexing to keep these proclamation posts shorter.) Whew! That’s a lot packaged in to a singular release. we can’t consider of a improved approach to flog off a 3.X cycle we’ll be in for a subsequent dual as well as a half years.

The Future

Normally this is where I’d contend we’re about to begin work on 3.1, though we’re essentially not. We’re starting to take a recover cycle off to concentration on all of a things around WordPress. The expansion of a village has been breathtaking, together with over 10.3 million downloads of chronicle 2.9, though so most of a bid has been focused on a core program it hasn’t left most time for anything else. Over a subsequent 3 months we’re starting to separate in to ninja/pirate teams focused on opposite areas of a around-WordPress experience, together with a showcase, Codex, forums, profiles, refurbish as well as harmony APIs, thesis directory, plugin directory, mailing lists, core plugins, wordcamp.org… a possibilities have been endless. The idea of a teams isn’t starting to be to have things undiluted all at once, only improved than they have been today. We consider this investment of time will give us a most stronger infrastructure to grow WordPress.org for a most tens of millions of users which will stick on us during a 3.X recover cycle.

It Takes a Village

I’m unapproachable to admit a contributions of a following 218 people to a 3.0 recover cycle. These have been a folks which have WordPress what it is, whose partnership as well as tough work capacitate us to set up something larger than a total of a parts. In in a sequence of a alphabet order, of course.

Committers: azaozz (Andrew Ozz) (prof), dd32 (Dion Hulse) (prof), donncha (Donncha O Caoimh) (prof), iammattthomas (Matt Thomas) (prof), josephscott (Joseph Scott) (prof), markjaquith (Mark Jaquith) (prof), matt (Matt Mullenweg) (prof), nacin (Andrew Nacin) (prof), nbachiyski (Николай Бачийски) (prof), ryan (Ryan Boren) (prof), westi (Peter Westwood) (prof), as well as wpmuguru (Ron Rennick) (prof). Contributors: aaroncampbell (Aaron Campbell) (prof), akerem (prof), alexkingorg (Alex King) (prof), amattie (prof), ampt (Luke Gallagher) (prof), andrea_r (prof), andreasnrb (Andreas Nurbo) (prof), anilo4ever (Angelo Verona) (prof), apeatling (Andy Peatling) (prof), apokalyptik (Demitrious Kelly) (prof), arena (André Renaut) (prof), barry (Barry Abrahamson) (prof), batmoo (Mohammad Jangda) (prof), beaulebens (Beau Lebens) (prof), belg4mit (prof), bigdawggi (Matthew G. Richmond) (prof), blepoxp (Glenn Ansley) (prof), brentes (Brent Shepherd) (prof), briancolinger (Brian Colinger) (prof), bumbu (prof), caesarsgrunt (Caesar Schinas) (prof), camiloclc (prof), CAMWebDesign (prof), carbolineum (prof), caspie (prof), catiakitahara (Cátia Kitahara) (prof), CharlesClarkson (Charles Clarkson) (prof), chdorner (Christof Dorner) (prof), chrisbliss18 (Chris Jean) (prof), chrisscott (Chris Scott) (prof), cnorris23 (Brandon Allen) (prof), coffee2code (Scott Reilly) (prof), computerwiz908 (prof), cyberhobo (Dylan Kuhn) (prof), dancole (Dan Cole) (prof), Daniel Koskinen , deepak.seth (Deepak Seth), demetris (Δημήτρης Κίκιζας) (prof), Denis-de-Bernardy (prof), dimadin (Milan Dinić) (prof), dndrnkrd (Dan Drinkard) (prof), docwhat (prof), dougwrites (<a title="dougwrites at WP Profiles"
href=”http://profiles.wordpress.org/dougwrites”>prof), dphiffer (Dan Phiffer) (prof), dragoonis (prof), dremeda (Dre Armeda) (prof), dtoj , dougal (Dougal Campbell) (prof), duck_ (Jon Cave) (prof), dxjones (David Jones) (prof), eddieringle (Eddie Ringle) (prof), edward mindreantre (Edward Hevlund), eoinomurchu (prof), empireoflight/Ben Dunkle (prof), ericmann (Eric Mann) (prof), etiger13 (Eddie Monge Jr.) (prof), filosofo (Austin Matzko) (prof), firebird75 (prof), frankieroberto (Frankie Roberto) (prof), Frumph (Philip M. Hofer) (prof), garyc40 (Gary Cao) (prof), gautam2011 (prof), Gary Ross (Gazzer) , GDragoN (Milan Petrovic) (prof), greenshady (Justin Tadlock) (prof), GIGALinux (Dennis Morhardt) (prof), hakre (prof), rough (prof), iandstewart (Ian Stewart) (prof), ipstenu (Mika Epstein) (prof), jacobsantos (Jacob Santos) (prof), jamescollins (James Collins) (prof), jane (Jane Wells) (prof), jbsil (Jesse Silverstein) (prof), jdub (Jeff Waugh) (prof), jeffikus (Jeffrey Pearce) (prof), jeffstieler (Jeff Stieler) (prof), jeremyclarke (Jeremy Clarke) (prof), jfarthing84 (Jeff Farthing) (prof), Jick (James Dimick) (prof), jmstacey (Jon Stacey) (prof), jobjorn (Jobjörn Folkesson) (prof), johanee (Johan Eenfeldt) (prof), johnbillion (John Blackbourn) (prof), johnjamesjacoby/jjj (John James Jacoby) (prof), johnjosephbachir (John Joseph Bachir) (prof), johnl1479 (John Luetke) (prof), johnonolan (John O’Nolan) (prof), JohnPBloch/wmrom (John Bloch) (prof), joostdevalk/yoast (Joost de Valk) (prof), jorbin (Aaron Jorbin) (prof), joshtime (prof), jshreve (prof), junsuijin (prof), kallewangstedt (Karl Wångstedt) (prof), keighl (Kyle Truscott) (prof), kevinB (Kevin Behrens) (prof), koopersmith (Daryl Koopersmith) (prof), kpdesign (Kim Parsell)
(prof), ktdreyer (Ken Dreyer) (prof), kurtmckee (Kurt McKee) (prof), laceous (prof), lancewillett (Lance Willett) (prof), lloydbudd (Lloyd Budd) (prof), lriggle (prof), markauk (prof), markmcwilliams (Mark McWilliams) (prof), markoheijnen (Marko Heijnen) (prof), markup (Sasha Mukhin) (prof), mattsains (prof), matveb (Matias Ventura) (prof), mdawaffe (Michael Adams) (prof) , mentel_br (prof), messenlehner (Brian Messenlehner) (prof), miau_jp (prof), Michael (Michael Heilemann) (prof), MichaelH (prof), mikeschinkel (Mike Schinkel) (prof), Miloslav Beňo , minusfive (prof), miqrogroove (Robert Chapin) (prof), misterbisson (Casey Bisson) (prof), mitchoyoshitaka (mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)) (prof), MMN-o (prof), momo360modena (Amaury Balmer) (prof), morganestes (Morgan Estes) (prof), mrmist (David McFarlane) (prof), mtdewvirus (Nick Momrik) (prof), nadavvin (prof), Nao (Naoko McCracken) (prof), nathanrice (Nathan Rice) (prof), neoxx (Bernhard Riedl) (prof), niallkennedy (Niall Kennedy) (prof), ninjaWR (Ryan Murphy) (prof), noel (Noël Jackson) (prof), nomulous (Fletcher Tomalty) (prof), ocean90 (Dominik Schilling) (prof), Otto42 (Samuel Wood) (prof), pedger (prof), PeteMall (prof), pampfelimetten (prof), pnettle (prof), PotterSys (Juan) (prof), prettyboymp (Michael Pretty) (prof), ptahdunbar (Ptah Dunbar) (prof), ramiy (prof), RanYanivHartstein (Ran Yaniv Hartstein) (prof), reaperhulk (Paul Kehrer) (prof), reko (prof), remi (Rémi Prévost) (prof), rlerdorf (Rasmus Lerdorf) (prof) , rmccue (Ryan McCue) (prof), rooodini (prof), rovo89 (prof), ruslany (
“http://profiles.wordpress.org/ruslany”>prof), sc0ttkclark (Scott Kingsley Clark) (prof), scottbasgaard (Scott Basgaard) (prof), ScottMac (prof), scribu (prof), SergeyBiryukov (Сергей Бирюков) (prof), ShaneF (prof), sillybean (Stephanie Leary) (prof), Simek (Bartosz Kaszubowski) (prof), simonwheatley (Simon Wheatley) (prof), simosx (Σίμος Ξενιτέλλης) (prof), sirzooro (Daniel Frużyński) (prof), sivel (Matt Martz) (prof), skeltoac (Andy Skelton) (prof), snumb130 (Luke Howell) (prof), solarissmoke (Samir Shah) (prof), sorich87 (prof), ssandison (prof), stencil (prof), stephdau (Stephane Daury) (prof), tai (prof), TECannon (Tracy Cannon) (prof), technosailor (Aaron Brazell) (prof), tenpura (prof), thales.tede , TheDeadMedic (prof), thee17 (Charles E. Frees-Melvin) (prof), thetoine (Antoine Girard) (prof), tinkerpriest (c.bavota) (prof), TobiasBg (Tobias Bäthge) (prof), tomtomp (prof), tychay (Terry Chay) (prof), typeomedia (prof), uglyrobot (Aaron Edwards) (prof), UnderWordPressure (prof), usermrpapa (prof), Utkarsh (Utkarsh Kukreti) (prof), validben (Benoit Gilloz ) (prof), Viper007Bond (Alex Mills) (prof), vladimir_kolesnikov (Vladimir Kolesnikov) (prof), willmot (Tom Willmot) (prof), wahgnube (prof), waltervos (Walter Vos) (prof), wds-chris (Christopher Cochran) (prof), williamsba1 (Brad Williams) (prof), wnorris (Will Norris) (prof), xibe (Xavier Borderie) (prof), yoavf (Yoav Farhi) (prof), zeo (Safirul Alredha) (prof), znarfor (François Hodierne) (prof), as well as zoranzaric (Zoran Zaric) (prof).

Bonus

If you’ve done it this far, check out my 2010 State of a Word debate at WordCamp San Francisco, it’s jam-packed with report on a expansion of WordPress, 3.0, what we’re formulation for a future, as well as a truth of WordPress.

View strange post here:
WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious"

As Matt teased earlier, a initial recover claimant (RC1) for WordPress 3.0 is right away available. What’s an RC? An RC comes after beta as well as prior to a last launch. It equates to we consider we’ve got all done: all facilities finished, all bug squashed, as well as all intensity issues addressed. But, then, with over twenty million people regulating WordPress with a far-reaching accumulation of configurations as well as hosting setups, it’s wholly probable which we’ve longed for something. So! For a dauntless of heart, greatfully download a RC as well as exam it out (but not on your live site unless you’re additional adventurous). Some things to know:

• Custom menus have been finished! Yay!
• Multi-site is all set.
• The demeanour of a WordPress admin has been lightened up a small bit, so we can concentration some-more on your content.
• There have been a ton of changes, so plugin authors, greatfully exam your plugins now, so which if there is a harmony issue, we can figure it out prior to a last release.
• Plugin as well as thesis *users* have been additionally speedy to exam things out. If we find problems, let your plugin/theme authors know so they can figure out a cause.
• There have been a integrate of known issues.

If we have been contrast a RC as well as come opposite a bug, we can:

• Report it on a wp-testers mailing list
• Join a dev discuss as well as discuss it us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev
• File a bug sheet on a WordPress Trac

We goal we suffer personification with a 3.0 RC as most as we’ve enjoyed creation it for you. Enjoy!

Download WordPress 3.0 RC1

Read a strange here: 
WordPress 3.0 Release Candidate

As Matt teased earlier, a initial recover claimant (RC1) for WordPress 3.0 is right away available. What’s an RC? An RC comes after beta as well as prior to a last launch. It equates to we consider we’ve got all done: all facilities finished, all bugs squashed, as well as all intensity issues addressed. But, then, with over twenty million people regulating WordPress with a far-reaching accumulation of configurations as well as hosting setups, it’s wholly probable which we’ve longed for something. So! For a dauntless of heart, greatfully download a RC as well as exam it out (but not on your live site unless you’re additional adventurous). Some things to know:

• Custom menus have been finished! Yay!
• Multi-site is all set.
• The demeanour of a WordPress admin has been lightened up a small bit, so we can concentration some-more on your content.
• There have been a ton of changes, so plugin authors, greatfully exam your plugins now, so which if there is a harmony issue, we can figure it out prior to a last release.
• Plugin as well as thesis *users* have been additionally speedy to exam things out. If we find problems, let your plugin/theme authors know so they can figure out a cause.
• There have been a integrate of known issues.

If we have been contrast a RC as well as come opposite a bug, we can:

• Report it on a wp-testers mailing list
• Join a dev discuss as well as discuss it us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev
• File a bug sheet on a WordPress Trac

We goal we suffer personification with a 3.0 RC as most as we’ve enjoyed creation it for you. Enjoy!

Download WordPress 3.0 RC1

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WordPress 3.0 Release Candidate