WordPress itself: releases, features, and notes from running this site on it since 2003.
I was interviewed by Jeff Chandler and Marcus Couch of WordPress Tavern for WordPress Weekly Episode 164. In it, Marcus and I chat from Singapore about my work, where my 23 plugins in the directory have amassed 12,241,325 downloads.
WordPress 4.0 has been released, named 'Benny' after jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman. Led by Helen Hou-Sandi with many contributors, this release set a new record with 275 credited contributors. Highlights include a beautiful, endless media grid for managing uploads.
Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic, stopped by Singapore on 4th June 2014 as part of his Summer Tour spanning cities like Seoul, Jakarta, Tokyo, and Sydney. I'd known Matt since b2 days but finally met him.
WordPress 3.0, named Thelonious, has been released. The thirteenth major release and the result of half a year of work by 218 contributors, it's available to download or upgrade in-dashboard, headlined by a sleek new default theme, Twenty Ten.
WordPress 2.9 was released on 19th December 2009. Highlights include a global undo and Trash feature, so an accidentally deleted post or comment can be restored, finally doing away with those annoying are-you-sure confirmation messages we used to endure.
WordPress 2.7 has been released, a week late. Per the announcement, you'll notice new features sprinkled subtly through the interface, including a new dashboard you can rearrange by drag and drop to surface the things that matter most.
WordPress 2.6 has been released. New features include post revisions with wiki-like edit tracking, Press This for posting from anywhere on the web, a turbo mode to speed up blogging, theme previews, a word count and captions under your images.
I spoke on Developing Plugins for WordPress at the Singapore PHP User Group's June 2008 meetup on Wednesday, 18th June. It was my second time speaking there, after the December 2007 meetup covering the same topic.
WordPress 2.5 has been released, and WordPress.org now sports a refreshed look based on the redesigned admin backend. New features include a cleaner, faster dashboard, dashboard widgets, multi-file uploads with a progress bar, EXIF extraction and post search.
I spoke on WordPress Plugin Development with PHP at the Singapore PHP User Group's December 2007 meetup on Wednesday, 12th December. It was my first time speaking publicly, so I was quite nervous and spoke very fast.
WordPress 2.2 has been released, and as usual I've updated GaMerZ.WordPress to it. Among the goodies, WordPress Widgets let you easily rearrange and customise areas of your blog, usually sidebars, with simple drag-and-drop.
Straight from WordPress.org: an important security issue was brought to the team's attention, and they've worked diligently to release a new stable version, 2.0.2, addressing it. The release contains several bug fixes and security fixes. Upgrade promptly, everyone.
WordPress 2.01 was released two days ago, fixing about 114 bugs. You can now specify an upload directory and whether to use date-based storage, caching has been fixed under certain PHP environments, and permalinks now work in odd setups.
WordPress 2.0 has finally been announced on the official site, with details about the changes. In the meantime, I've updated all eight of my plugins to be compatible with WordPress 2.0, including WP-Stats 2.00, which displays your blog statistics.
WordPress 1.5.1 has been released today. Among the changes: login and feed fixes for IIS, faster gettext internationalisation, improved i18n string coverage, extended ping support, paging on the Manage Posts page, and URI-safe accent stripping for Latin Extended-A characters.
WordPress 1.5 was released a few days back, a fairly major release compared with the jump from 1.0 to 1.2. This site still runs 1.2, and I'll upgrade once I find time to make all my many plugins 1.5-compatible.
I spent a few hours yesterday upgrading this site to WordPress 1.2, adapting all my hacks. It was fairly easy, as the API didn't change much. I love the new plugin architecture, just drop it in and activate.