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WordPress.org Announces First Ever Worldwide Contributor Day

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January 22, 2016

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Need plans for next weekend? Gather some developer friends, a computer, and a pizza, and participate in WordPress.org’s first ever worldwide contributor weekend. Every month, WordPress.org will announce a theme and anyone, regardless of skill level is encouraged to try their hand at contributing. This month, the challenge is centered around the Support Team. You can either gather with a group of people or participate alone, but the objective is to answer 20 questions throughout the weekend. If you don’t get through all 20, that’s okay, just getting your feet wet is enough. The idea is to try to answer the […]

New Guidelines For Naming Plugins Announced By WordPress.org

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October 7, 2015

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On Monday, Pippin Williamson announced that WordPress.org is changing their guidelines for acceptable plugin names for plugins submitted to the official repository. Going forward, plugin developers will not be able to use a trademarked product name or term, company name, or other plugins’ name as their plugin’s name or slug — unless you are representing the company who owns the trademark or plugin in an official capacity or have written permission from the company. If you fail to meet these guidelines, your plugin will be rejected. To verify you work for, own, or represent the company in question, you must submit […]

Samuel Sidler’s Improvement List

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July 23, 2013

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Samuel Sidler, brand new “Ninja Wrangler” for Audrey Captial, released a Digestable WordPress.org Project List. Let’s break his priorities down to the barebones for the sake of conversation: Ongoing Open Source Stats General Design Improvements   Immediate Increasing WordPress and WordPress.org participation Improving make.wordpress.org   Short Term Support and documentation hubs Profile improvements   Medium Term Themes Directory Redesign Improvements for the i18n Community Improve WordPress.org Home Page Support Forum Improvements   Long Term Plugin/Themes Directory Workshops (i.e. learn.wordpress.org) jobs.wordpress.net “Ideas” Improvements Mailing List Page Redesign     Thoughts? Reactions? Do you think he left anything out? 

2 Things I Learned Moving from WP.com to WP.org

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May 10, 2013

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When I started blogging earlier this year, I wasn’t ready to make an investment on a paid hosting provider so I started a free WordPress.com blog. Free is better right? Not necessarily. With WordPress.com I sacrificed the amazing plugins and themes from the thousands of developers out there and control over advertisements and the lack of support for JavaScript/HTML embeds, except from “secure” sources such as Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo,  SoundCloud, and a few others. I also can’t host a video or audio file on WordPress.com without spending $50+ for the VideoPress and more storage “upgrades”. After gathering 36 WordPress.com followers, […]

The Difference: WordPress Foundation and Automattic, Inc.

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January 29, 2013

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There’s been a lot of confusion surrounding Automattic Inc., the WordPress Foundation, WordPress.org/WordPress.com and everything else in between. So much so that most people unfortunately use all of it interchangeably which is the wrong thing to do. I want to clearly state that there are distinct differences between all of them and that it’s worth knowing what you’re talking about when you start jumping into the muddy waters that is licensing, the GPL, ownership, and developing a WordPress-centric business. At the center of all of this is really the WordPress Foundation so by establishing this we can clearly take a look […]

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