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Posted by Blogger on February 5th, 2012
Year of the Meetup
Posted by Jane Wells on January 27th, 2012
We hereby declare 2012 as the Year of the WordPress Meetup. You’ll want to get in on this action. meet·up \m?t-?p\ noun A meeting, especially a regular meeting of people who share a particular interest and have connected with each other through a social-networking Web site: a meetup for new moms in the neighborhood; a meetup to plan the trip; a meetup for WordPress users.1 So what is a WordPress Meetup? Basically, it’s people in a community getting together — meeting up — who share an interest in WordPress, whether [...]
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Posted by A Googler on January 24th, 2012
As we mentioned in our Connect to Google+ post a few weeks ago, we’ve been hard at work to bring you new ways to grow your blog and engage with your readers using Google+.
Today we’re happy to introduce the +1 counter, which allows you to quickl…
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Posted by Jane Wells on January 17th, 2012
WordPress.org is officially joining the protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act that is coming before the U.S. Senate next week. As I wrote in my post a week ago, if this bill is passed it will jeopardize internet freedom and shift the power of the independent web into the hands of corporations. [...]
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Posted by A Googler on January 11th, 2012
You may have noticed that we’ve rolled out a number of improvements to Blogger recently. The folks over at Technorati referred to it as a “rampage”. Call it what you like, we’re definitely having fun giving Blogger the makeover it’s long dese…
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Posted by Jane Wells on January 10th, 2012
You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and [...]
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Posted by Ryan Boren on January 3rd, 2012
WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Thanks to Joshua H., Hoang T., Stefan Zimmerman, Chris K. and the Go Daddy security team for responsibly disclosing the bug to our security team. Download 3.3.1 or visit [...]
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Posted by Matt Mullenweg on December 12th, 2011
The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, and in this third major iteration we’ve added significant [...]
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Posted by A Googler on December 12th, 2011
Back in October we made it possible for Blogger in Draft users to use their Google+ profile on their blog. This option is now available to all Blogger users, and as a result, we’re starting to roll out the first of many Google+ features.
Starting toda…
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