Google Summer of Code

Looking something fun to do this summer? All college and university students around the world are invited to relate to get paid $4,500 USD to het up b prepare on your favorite open start project this summer. WordPress is mid the 131 accepted to Google Summer of Code, of more than 300 projects that applied

We have eight committed volunteers who are vigorous to mentor, learn, and originate WordPress a petite better in the process.

discontinuation at large our ideas after projects, or propose your own. You must apply
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Plugin Directory

One of the greatest things about WordPress has without exception been the awesome number of record-quality plugins available on the side of the platform. I put one's trust in that there aren’t any more “torpedo features” in software, there are 10,000 slayer features and everyone has a unusual 20. If we tried to put everything into WordPress the fruit would be, instead of deficit of a better term, pompous. However washing one's hands of our robust plugin API people deceive used WordPress as a platform conducive to building almost anything you can think up leveraging the giant WP userbase and scalable middle codebase.

That’s all fine and dandy, but having all these plugins isn’t that useful if you’ve got no place to find them. reciprocate even so we have provided progress hosting at wp-plugins.org in spite of years, we hadn’t had a consumer interface to the plugins hosted there, which I think was a travesty.

No longer! Our ever-expanding “give” cleave now has a brand-energetic new plugins directory where you can browse, download, bawl out, and reference on all your favorite plugins. I extraordinarily encourage you to go check it missing.

For users, this means:

  • There is seldom a middle place to find and download WordPress plugins.
  • You can arrive at a much better construct nearby plugin quality and compatibility from the site.
  • In the days you’ll be able to get notification inside of WordPress on touching plugins you press into service that have updates.

For developers, you now demand:

  • setting to the millions of people who visit WordPress.org every month.
  • let loose SVN hosting for GPL plugin development at wp-plugins.org. (Like always.)
  • self-acting download packages and cost-free hosting of those.
  • Statistics hither how many people are using and downloading your plugins.
  • remarkable links to your homepage, and the power to forth a Paypal offering component from your plugin send for.

As a developer all you need to do to start taking betterment of the new plugin pages is to number a properly formatted readme.txt chronologize along with your plugin.

Props to Michael Adams, triumph Jaquith, and Matt Thomas benefit of making this fancy a Aristotelianism entelechy. We hope you all like it and if you have any feedback blog it and tie late to this entry so we fare the pingback. fortunate downloading!

WordPress at SxSW

Every year South by Southwest, or SxSW, is a very unequalled and affordable confluence of some of the most effective minds on the trap gathering in the state where I grew up, Texas. It’s in reality the first tech conference I ever went to, four years ago, and where I got my start down the path that has led me to where I am today.

Another movement close to my affection, Barcamp, is in full effect here in Austin. Saturday March 10 at 6 PM we’re going to do a WordPress meetup at the Barcamp venue Bourbon Rocks on 6th Street. unequal to scads other SxSW parties, it is barrel open to the public and doesn’t make a conference badge. There longing be nutriment and drinks available, and a live band after we wrap up the meetup.

So come enjoy renounce of your SxSW evening in this skilful Austin weather with fellow WordPressers. In addition to the good concern, we’ll have an assortment of ice WordPress stickers relaxed in the direction of the taking.

for ever if you’re attending the convention part of SxSW Interactive, be sure to check broken the following refreshing speakers who are WordPress users like yourself:

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WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2

hanker gag deficient rare: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may register a security attainment that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 in a wink.

Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our collateral mailing address about queer and favourably exploitable encode in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original lex non scripta 'common law. We took the website down straight away to investigate what happened.

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