In a post published today by Scott Reilly, he announced that WordPress.org now offers Notifications throughout the site. Similar to how Twitter works, now anytime that your @username is mentioned somewhere on wordpress.org, you will receive a notification that you were mentioned. Notifications are currently enabled for the support forums and all of the make.wordpress.org [...]
Today marks the release of WordPress 3.0 for iOS (iPhone/iPad). As Isaac Keyet notes, there are some huge changes to the new release. Here’s a quick glimpse at those changes. What’s New Push Notifications for WordPress.com Swipe-to-moderate Toolbar Vastly improved performance, especially for iPad Translations (added for Chinese (Taiwan), Hungarian, and Polish [thanks for the [...]
I saw Andrew @Nacin testing some forum posts earlier today, but didn’t think much of it. Now I know why he was doing it :) As Nacin confirmed via Twitter, there have certainly been a couple upgrades to the WordPress.org Plugin Repository. Brand new! RT @Kraft: The “Support” tab on #WordPress.org plugin repo pages is [...]
Andrew Nacin, one of the core WordPress developers, announced that the WordPress.org site, along with bbpress.org, buddypress.org, api.wordpress.org, translate.wordpress.org, and probably a number of other sites, all have been moved to a nginx-powered web server — away from Litespeed and Apache. After doing some research among the three webservers, Apache, Litespeed, and Nginx, Ngninx certainly [...]
A huge thanks goes out to Nacin for making the announcement, that the WordPress plugin directory is now updating in near real-time (where it used to be every 15 minutes). But the real thanks goes out to Barry, one of the systems gurus over at Automattic, he’s the one that made the magic happen. Shoot [...]
WordPress.org is an invaluable resource to anyone that uses WordPress. The plugins directory, the themes directory, and the support system are one of a kind. Today, Matt Mullenweg announced a change coming to the WordPress Plugin Repository, but just as a test. Here is the first change that already went live: Make a 772×250 pixel [...]
Jonathan Dingman is a passionate blogger who loves writing about WordPress news, reporting on events, theme releases, awesome plugins, and more. He started using WordPress in 2004 and ran the first WordCamp NYC in 2008.