A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
WordPress 3.6 “Oscar”
The latest and greatest WordPress, version 3.6, is now live to the world and includes a beautiful new blog-centric theme, bullet-proof autosave and post locking, a revamped revision browser, native support for audio and video embeds, and improved integrations with Spotify, Rdio, and SoundCloud.
Got a Great Idea for WordPress 3.8? Have Your Say
If you’ve got a feature idea for WordPress, get ready to pitch it this week.
Co-founder Matt Mullenweg will host the first planning meeting for WordPress 3.8 on UTC Thursday, 8 August 2013 at 6pm in #wordpress-dev on Freenode.
Web Hosting Review: So Just Who is the Best?
There are hundreds of thousands of web hosts out there and choosing just one is no easy task.
So to help you get your head around what’s out there, we posted comprehensive reviews of five of the most popular web hosts – Page.ly, Bluehost, Go Daddy, DreamHost and WP Engine – over the past two weeks.
A New Frontier for Core Development | Make WordPress CoreMake WordPress Core
As a part 3.7, we’ll be leading an effort to revamp and streamline our development workflow. We’re going to bring all of our core components—our code, our tests, and our tooling—under one roof. Developers will be able to use and improve the tools we’re already working with day-to-day, and we’ll be able to add new tools to make working with WordPress even easier.
The State of WordPress Education
In his annual State of the Word address, Matt Mullenweg gave a number of interesting statistics relating to WordPress over the last year. Some were good, but others, not so good.
On the “good” side of the ledger was the increase, of 2.2%, of total sites now using WordPress, a number that brings usage up to 18.9%.
7 Reasons Why WordPress Made PHP Popular, not PHP Frameworks
Read this article to learn about an opinion why this claim is unfounded and PHP popularity has more to do with WordPress than with PHP at one language may be more popular than PHP Frameworks.
