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Capricorn, my first WordPress theme has been downloaded more than 1000 times W00t!

Matt Mullenweg, WordPress founder is in Dubai! There’ll be a meetup and here are the details:

Who: Matt, and other WordPress users.
What: WordPress user meetup with Matt.
When: Friday, January 2nd 2009.
Where: Montgomery Golf Course – Dubai, UAE.
Why: To meet Matt and other fellow WordPress users.
RSVP to this event.

Why do I live in Abu Dhabi again? (Another city in the UAE) All the cool stuff happens in Dubai, lol.

Wow, I thought that they’d start working on 2.8 sometime in February or something Go WP Devs!

Everyone knows by now that WordPress 2.7 is packed with new features. Now that it’s available (almost 600,000 downloads as I write this!), it’s time to start working on 2.8. There were dozens of things that got tabled during 2.7 due to time constraints, and there are a lot of high-rated features in the Ideas forum, so there are a lot of potential features under consideration.

Right now, the lead developers are thinking the top priorities for 2.8 will be widget management, theme browser/installer and performance upgrades. The rest of the development time will be taken up with bug tickets and additional features/enhancements from a prioritized list. To that end, we’ve posted a new survey for you to help us prioritize features for 2.8. The list pulls from the developers’ “2.7 leftovers” list as well as the most popular features from the Ideas forum. Just rank each feature and tell us your top pick (up to three). You also have the option of adding comments or additional suggestions, but this is not mandatory. For your response to count, you must rank all of the features in the list. The survey has only one page.

Note that media features are not included in this list as we will be posting a separate survey for media-specific features soon.

Cast your votes any time this week, but as always the sooner the better. This survey will close at noon on December 31, 2008 UTC.

In the new year, we will be reviving scheduled IRC developer chats, where the lead developers will discuss the week’s progress on feature development, providing opportunities for people to ask questions or make suggestions. These will be held early in the day on Wednesdays (U.S. Wednesday), and the specific time will be posted here on the development blog once it’s been finalized.

As a related aside, we spent a significant amount of time during 2.7 development sifting through Trac tickets that really shouldn’t have been there. Feature ideas and requests do not belong in Trac, they belong in the Ideas forum. Please reserve Trac for reporting bugs and things that need fixing (typos, code enhancements, etc.). If you are asking for a new UI, a new feature, or a new approach to coding something, that’s not an enhancement, it’s a new feature. New features will be entered into Trac by developers once it has been determined that the feature should be included in core. To help speed up development, moving forward we will close Trac tickets that are actually feature requests, with the comment that they should be posted in the Ideas forum instead. Please help the developers maximize their time by following this guideline.

Thanks for your help!

WordPress 2.7 is out! Sooner than I though, I thought it would come out around the end of December. There is a post on the WP Dev Blog, that outlines everything. Thanks WordPress for this awesomeness of a blog publishing tool!

WordPress 2.7 RC2 has been released. Woo!

There comes a time in every WordPress release when it’s ready for the world , to come out of its cocoon and feel the light of the world on its wings for the first time.

It’s not quite that time yet, but we’re as close as we’ve ever been, hence the immediate availability of 2.7 Release Candidate 2, or RC2 for short.

Of course if you were already testing 2.7, you can just use the built-in core updater (Tools > Upgrade) to download and install RC2 for you (and later upgrade you to the final release when it’s available) but if not you can use the download link above.

We feel this release is pretty much exactly what we’re going to ship as 2.7, barring any final bugs or polish tweaks that you report or we find.

WordPress.com just went 2.7, and this is the reason I’m on self-hosted WordPress.

I got 2.7 on the 1st of November, today it’s the 5th of December, so lets see — that’s 30 + 5 hmm.. 35!

35 days after the first beta came out, WP.com users get 2.7. If, if! I was on WP.com, I wouldn’t be able to stand 2.6 after I read how great 2.7 is. I’ve got nothing against WP.com, I’m just saying - I’m grateful that I’m on self-hosted.

No real purpose for this post, just needed to get it out of my system, lol.

Well I was looking through Google, searching for whose using my themes and I came across Matthew O’ Malley, who modified the theme Capricorn and made it more interesting.

Just thought I’d post this to demonstrate a crap theme, modified to look awesome!

I’m not a big fan of the WordPress 2.7 Icons, so I found the plugin Tangofy.

Now what that does is replace the 2.7 icons with icons from Firefox, GNOME and Tango.

Get Tangofy

The WP Dev Blog has announced that RC1 is public, just updated.

With the release of RC1, we’re in the final leg of development before the release of 2.7. 280 commits since beta 3 have polished the new admin UI (including new menu icons created by the winners of our icon design contest) and fixed all known blocker bugs.

We think RC1 is ready for everyone to try out. Please download RC1 and help us make the final release the best it can be. As always, back up your blog before upgrading.

Get RC1.

WordPress 2.6.5 has been released as posted on the WordPress dev blog. It contains a security fix and 3 bug fixes.

I gotta update Snapo569 — it’s on 2.6.3