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Automattic Looking to Add 60+ to Their Team in 2013

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January 8, 2013

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2012 was a big year for Automattic, as shared by Matt Mullenweg. Not only did they add more staff but they’ve done so much both on the WordPress.com side as well as the WordPress.org. We’ve covered a few of these highlights previously. In 2012, here are some of the highlights that he made note of: Automattic grew by 48 to their current team. Over 40,000 commits to the various repositories with about half of them on WordPress.com. Saw an incredible growth in terms of unique visits (75MM). 2 acquisitions (one announced and one yet to be). Looking to add at […]

Wikipedia to Start Using MariaDB over MySQL

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January 7, 2013

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WordPress can be installed on a number of different databases outside of the dominant MySQL but it typically takes a certain level of expertise and even a bit of digital finagling. But without question, most people will find MySQL to be the defacto choice and should serve their needs well. But over the past few years we’ve seen a number of major MySQL sites and players migrate onto other database systems for a variety of different reasons, typically surrounding performance and quickly followed by simply preference – and there’s nothing wrong with the migrations in and of themselves but I’m […]

Need Testers for 3.5.1!

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January 5, 2013

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Andrew Nacin dropped a quick post that’s worth mentioning for those that want to spend a little time this weekend helping millions of people blog a bit better… test 3.5.1! Final release is tentatively scheduled for this Monday! Call for testers. WordPress 3.5.1 is now in beta and we could use your help. (Use either the 3.5 branch in SVN, the WordPress Beta Tester plugin, or the nightly build (zip).) There’s about 30 tickets currently resolved, and another few we’re still working on. Here’s the full report of those. In particular, we could use help testing multisite rewrite rules. There’s a comment with testing instructions on the ticket, #23073. […]

Aaron Campbell (Ranger) to Co-Lead WordPress 3.6

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January 4, 2013

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Finally, a co-lead to Mark Jaquith has been found for the WordPress 3.6 release! Yippee! Aaron Campbell, partner and CTO of Range, is not a new-comer to WordPress and should provide an excellent source of support after having contributed for more than 5 years to core and related products. We’re excited to see them team up together and work their WordPress magic, as we know they will. Aaron shares a few thoughts on their blog on some of the current ideas being tossed about for the 3.6 release:

Steven Sinofsky: New Blog on Product Dev, Shipping

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January 4, 2013

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Steven Sinofsky, very famous for retiring in November of last year after years of incredible work at Microsoft, specifically with the Windows Division, has launched a new blog using WordPress focused on product development and the art of shipping, which is one of the things that Matt Mullenweg is incredibly passionate about. Sinofsky shares a few thoughts about the future of the blog and it’s content: The title comes from something impressed upon me early in my career, which is that learning as an engineer comes from the process of starting, then finishing, and iterating on products–getting products to market […]

WordPress.com Released 65+ Themes in 2012

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January 4, 2013

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Krista over at WordPress.com recently shared some neat facts and figures about the previous year and one of them includes the fact that WordPress.com released over 65 new themes in that calendar year. The napkin math here is over 5 new themes a month! Pretty impressive numbers considering how much time and energy and effort required to create new themes (and then review them and get them ready for primetime). There were some incredible improvements beyond just the theme choices as custom design was introduced as an upgrade, doubling of space provided, introduction of SASS and LESS, better WordPress stats, […]

Interested in Starting a WordCamp? Get Mentored!

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January 4, 2013

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Or, at least that’s the proposal. You see, the number of WordCamps are growing every single year and we’re very excited about that but the truth is that starting, launching, and executing a successful WordCamp can be a very daunting task, especially for first-time event planners. I know this for a fact since my wife has planned a number of events (that is a stressful period and time when she’s “right” in the middle of it) and I’m also helping to plan the WordCamp here in Atlanta, GA (and it’s a challenge!). But wouldn’t it be neat if there was […]

Love WordPress Newbies? Then Join Welcome Wagon Team!

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January 4, 2013

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One of our goals here at WP Daily is to help WordPress dominate the blogging and CMS world by promoting and sharing how effective this publishing platform really is, for not just bloggers but small businesses, enterprises, non-profits, education and government institutions, and more. To do that it is absolutely necessary that we win them early, with open arms, and with the support they need so that adoption can be even more successful. The proposed new WordPress Welcome Wagon initiative is aiming to do just that – and they need your help! As Andrea Rennick explains to those that may be unfamiliar with the […]

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