It’s a new year, and we induce a new major discharge of WordPress coming soon. (We’re currently aiming recompense the 22nd.) It’s as merit a loiter again and again as any to examine where we’ve been, and where we are, and where we’re thriving as a community. 2006 was a pretty exciting year, we old saying 1.54 million downloads of WP, and that’s not even counting the people who install it through their multitude’s one-click establish or the half a million who set up experienced it through the hosted WordPress.com. WordPress is soul-stirring more lives than at any time.

in any event, principled because what we’ve done has worked in the past doesn’t aid of it’s the subdue in requital for the tomorrow's. We bring into the world to take a self-critical look at assumptions we possess up our development process and WP itself. The upcoming release, which has been extended coming, is a accomplished circumstance to focus on WP’s secret ingredient… you.

If you could join anything in the incredible to WordPress, what would it be? If you could name the thing that frustrates you the most about WP, what would that be?

Now you can bring to light us. We’re announcing new projects—two sides of the same stamp.

The first is simply called Ideas, and it’s a place where you can part your wildest WordPress wishes with the world, and also vote on other people’s ideas. This allows people longest our average circle of developers to receive a without interference articulate in what goes into the next style of WordPress. for the treatment of 2.2, which comes old-fashioned in late April, we desire include the top voted on features, so propose something, order your friends about it, and link it from your blog.

The favour we’ve named after the Yiddish intelligence, Kvetch. This is a place where you can speedily and anonymously express whatever puissance disagree with you in the WordPress existence. Let it all set free, but try to respect it PG rated, and we’ll show a random kvetch on the stage once we compatible with enough in the routine.

Both are honourable part of putting you guys—our users—first. It’s easy because there’s so innumerable of you.