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  • Matt Mullenweg Announces Tech and Design Leads for New Focus-Based Development Cycle

    Matt Mullenweg Announces Tech and Design Leads for New Focus-Based Development Cycle

    WordPress core development is kicking off in 2017 with the new focus-based development process that Matt Mullenweg announced during the 2016 State of the Word. The new approach to releases shifts WordPress from the familiar time-based release cycle to one that is more project-based. The idea is that design and user testing will lead the…

  • W3Techs Ranks WordPress as the Fastest Growing CMS of 2016

    W3Techs Ranks WordPress as the Fastest Growing CMS of 2016

    W3Techs published its Web Technologies of 2016 report today, compiling technologies that saw the largest increase in usage last year. The survey pulls data from the top 10 million sites (according to Alexa rankings) and compares the number of sites for each technology by measuring the difference from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2017.…

  • WP-CLI Gets Official WordPress.org Support

    WP-CLI Gets Official WordPress.org Support

    The WP-CLI open source project will be coming under the WordPress.org umbrella in 2017. After recent talks with Daniel Bachhuber, WP-CLI’s official maintainer, Matt Mullenweg announced WordPress’ support for the project, calling it “one of the highest impact developments for WP in many years.” The wp-cli.org website will soon be migrated to WordPress.org and a…

  • WordPress.org Launches Homepage Redesign

    WordPress.org Launches Homepage Redesign

    WordPress.org made its new homepage redesign live today. The meta team worked quickly to put the new design in place in time for the holidays. “While this is only the first iteration, the plan is to continue design and development to create something truly amazing,” Mark Uraine said in the announcement. “This is the first…

  • Nadia Eghbal Publishes Guide to Financial Support for Open Source

    Nadia Eghbal Publishes Guide to Financial Support for Open Source

    If you want to make a living in the world of open source software, Nadia Eghbal has created a guide that explores various models for funding your work. Eghbal, who has written extensively on sustainability and open source, recently authored a white paper published by the Ford Foundation called “Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor…

  • Wallace: A Free WordPress Theme Built on the WP REST API and Angular

    Wallace: A Free WordPress Theme Built on the WP REST API and Angular

    Bradley Kirby released version 1.0 of his Wallace WordPress theme today. The theme is built using the WP REST API and Angular 2. Kirby has been working on Wallace for the past two years and has rewritten it several times in order to keep pace with changes in the REST API and Angular. If you…

  • The WordPress.org Homepage is Getting a Redesign

    The WordPress.org Homepage is Getting a Redesign

    A WordPress.org homepage redesign is now in the works with a strong focus on marketing to new users. As the face of the open source project, the site is long overdue for some design attention. Mark Uraine, a designer at Automattic, posted on the Make/Meta blog about how quickly the project is coming together: “During…

  • WP-CLI Project Launches Patron Support Model to Fund Ongoing Development

    WP-CLI Project Launches Patron Support Model to Fund Ongoing Development

    WP-CLI contributors have been working towards a more sustainable future for the project throughout 2016. Daniel Bachhuber, the project’s official maintainer, has launched an experiment to fund ongoing maintenance and new development, asking potential patrons, “How much is WP-CLI worth to you?” Options for contributions range from $100/yr – $7500/yr. This particular funding experiment is…

  • WordPress.com Launches VR Content, Coming Soon to Jetpack

    WordPress.com Launches VR Content, Coming Soon to Jetpack

    WordPress.com announced today that users can now upload and publish VR content on their sites, including 360° photos and 360° videos. Regular photos and panoramas are also now viewable in VR. The VR gear tested so far includes Cardboard, Gear, Daydream, Rift, and Vive. Uploading VR content works just like adding normal pictures and videos.…

  • Matt Mullenweg Proposes WordPress Growth Council

    Matt Mullenweg Proposes WordPress Growth Council

    During the last WordSesh event held in August 2016, Matt Mullenweg joined the community for a session where he spoke about the growth of WordPress and his thoughts on confronting the project’s external threats. Mullenweg floated the idea of a WordPress Growth Council – a collection of individuals and organizations interested in contributing to WordPress’…

  • Harare, Zimbabwe Hosts Its First WordCamp

    Harare, Zimbabwe Hosts Its First WordCamp

    WordCamp Harare, the first ever WordCamp in Zimbabwe, was held over the weekend at the Harare City Library. Harare was selected out of 182 applicants as one of the three locations for the WordCamp Incubator Program. The experimental program launched in February 2016 with the goal of bringing WordCamps to new locations around the world…

  • Bluehost Network Outage Hits Customers with 12 Hours of Downtime

    Bluehost Network Outage Hits Customers with 12 Hours of Downtime

    Over the weekend, Bluehost experienced a severe, widespread network issue that caused customer sites to go down. The incident began Friday evening and continued into the night. As WP Tavern is hosted on Bluehost, we were watching the situation with keen interest, finally clocking the downtime at 12 hours before our site was back up.…

  • GoDaddy Acquires WP Curve, Aims to Become a One-Stop Shop for WordPress Professionals

    GoDaddy Acquires WP Curve, Aims to Become a One-Stop Shop for WordPress Professionals

    WP Curve, a WordPress services business that focuses on completing small jobs for customers, announced this week that GoDaddy has acquired the company. Founders Dan Norris and Alex McClafferty bootstrapped WP Curve in 2013 and have processed 105,000+ jobs through its pipeline. “WP Curve complements GoDaddy’s expanding WordPress offering including Managed WordPress and the recent…

  • WordPress 4.7 is the First Release to be 100% Translated into Urdu

    WordPress 4.7 is the First Release to be 100% Translated into Urdu

    WordPress 4.7 was released yesterday with translations for 52 languages, thanks to the volunteer efforts of its vibrant community of translators. For the first time, WordPress is 100% translated into Urdu, the national language of Pakistan. Urdu is spoken by 100 million people in several different areas of the world, including India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and…