CommunityJanuary 27, 2012
Year of the Meetup
We hereby declare 2012 as the Year of the WordPress Meetup. You’ll want to get in on this action. So what is a WordPress Meetup? Basically, it’s people in a community getting…
By Jen · 4 min read
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CommunityJanuary 17, 2012
Internet Blackout Day on January 18
WordPress.org is officially joining the protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act that is coming before the U.S. Senate next week. As I wrote in my post a week ago, if…
By Jen · 1 min read
CommunityJanuary 10, 2012
Help Stop SOPA/PIPA
You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project —…
By Jen · 3 min read
CommunityDecember 11, 2011
Core Team Meetup Time
It’s almost that time again, when the WordPress core development team gets together in person to review the year’s progress and talk about priorities for the coming year. Next…
By Jen · 1 min read
CommunityNovember 11, 2011
Taking WordPress to War
Today is the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the (20)eleventh year, and in several parts of the world, it is a holiday related to war. In the U.S., where I live, it is…
By Jen · 1 min read
CommunitySeptember 15, 2011
Software Freedom Day + Hackathon
Saturday, September 17 is Software Freedom Day. To that end, a few announcements about this weekend’s hackathon and WordCamp Portland. 3.3 Hackathon WordPress 3.3 is about to hit…
By Jen · 3 min read
CommunitySeptember 14, 2011
A Tale of Two WordCamps
This coming weekend, two WordCamps will be going on simultaneously — yep, it’s WordCamp season again! This weekend will be the first of many this autumn with multiple WordCamps.…
By Jen · 1 min read
CommunitySeptember 2, 2011
Vote for WordPress Sessions at SXSW
Each year, members of the web community from around the world submit session proposals to the South by Southwest Interactive conference, an event that played a role in the birth…
By Jen · 4 min read
CommunityAugust 19, 2011
State of the Word
This has been an exciting year for WordPress. We’ve grown to power 14.7% of the top million websites in the world, up from 8.5%, and the latest data show 22 out of every 100 new…
By Matt Mullenweg · 1 min read
CommunityAugust 12, 2011
WordCamp SF Livestream!
The annual WordPress conference, WordCamp San Francisco, starts in fewer than 8 hours. The sold out event — three full days of programming for bloggers, developers, theme…
By Jen · 1 min read
CommunityJuly 16, 2011
Best WordCamp Speakers?
As we complete speaker selection for the annual WordPress conference (a.k.a. WordCamp San Francisco), it’s clear that even though there were more than 200 speaker applications,…
By Jen · 1 min read
CommunityMay 31, 2011
WordCamp San Francisco Call for Speakers
The annual WordPress conference, WordCamp San Francisco (home of the very first WordCamp), is now accepting speaker applications. Past speakers have included core WordPress…
By Jen · 1 min read