You have built up a great base already with the site, it just needs a rebrand and reboot to keep growing and really become a serious WordPress resource website.

Firstly get rid of the Tavern! A tavern is a place to drink beer, get drunk and pick up chic’s, not to discuss WordPress. Get rid of tavern from the website name and change it to something more professional, family friendly, and related to WordPress. Maybe think of name that is more magazine style.

Get rid of the ugly brown, western cowboy color scheme, and update the design to something more appealing and professional.

Focus on writing posts that help solve problems, add value or inspire people. Not many people really care about what happened in latest WordPress developers chat or that the theme repository now as x number of WordPress themes etc. I’m sure the site would grow more if you focus on creating posts that help people solve WordPress issues and problems, or inspire people with posts such as inspirational design, features, modifications, creative uses of WordPress etc. Or even posts that interview prominent WordPress people, interviews or articles how people or companies have used WordPress to solve their web design needs etc.

Rather than just being a WordPress news site – be a WordPress inspiration and resource site. That really adds value.

You have the community aspect covered in the forum, maybe consider a job boards section for people looking for and offering WordPress related services.

I think you have really done well to built the site up to this point – but with a rebrand and re-focus you can really take it too the next level.