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Mike Pratt on BuddyPress – Social Networking in a Box
At a recent Dallas Fort Worth WordPress meetup, Mike Pratt gave a presentation on how he’s using WordPress and BuddyPress to build his very own social network: … there are a ton of excellent needs and reasons to use BuddyPress to take your site and turn it into the community it is begging to become. [...]
PixoPoint: WordPress.com For a Full Site
Really interesting case study posted by Ryan Hellyer of PixoPoint on how his firm, using CSS and a couple of upgrades, built a full site on WordPress.com for the Red Devils of the New Zealand Ice Hockey League: Ryan described the initial scope: Their original site consisted of hard coded .html files as a simple [...]
How-to: Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress
From Harvard Law’s Dan Collis-Puro, a how-to on optimizing your WordPress MU install, using Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress: We put an nginx caching proxy server in front of our wordpress mu install and sped it up dramatically – in some cases a thousandfold. I’ve packaged up a plugin, along with installation [...]
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One of the most eagerly anticipated WordPress releases in recent memory is now available for download (or just 1-click upgrade from within your dashboard).
So what’s new ?
Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten.
Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation.
As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video. (In HD, if you can, so you can catch the Easter eggs.)
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WORDPRESS 3.0 , very cool, simple and Powerfull. I LOVE WP
Big congrats on the huge release! The new feature sets are quite terrific. The 2010 theme is very strong. WordPress 3.0 will inspire awe.
Congratulations to the fantastic WordPress Team and Testers
Wow, this is huge. Best update ever by far.
What a pleasent surprise. 3.0 made it finally. Coming back from the local Social Media Club I was googling for WordPress running on Nginx and discovered both. This really made my day.
The best just got better. Love the Twenty Ten theme – Clean and awesome.
Congratulations! …and thank you very much
Awesome Awesome Awesome new features!!! WordPress is the best! I use it for nearly every site I build for clients and myself.
It was definitely time for a new default theme too.
awesome.
Awesome, congratulations to everyone that has contributed to this great achievement.
Very VERY exciting.. Great update and look forward to playing with it and learning mroe about it..
Right now, I can;t even figure out how to work on the mult-site feature.. I'll find it once i get through that video
Congratulations to all involved in creating, documenting, or fixing bugs in this important release. You deserve a round of thanks from all of us!
Congratulations guys. I am so happy with this announcement, and rather proud of you all. I've been around since 1.2
(i think?)
came out, which isn't exactly the beginning, but it was so just the beginning. So much so that I was actually implementing *inside* my own framework I was building. Eventually, you guys brought it to the point where I simply moved on to an all-wp implementation, and my life has been sweeter ever since.
Now with version 3.0, it's like watching a child you watched grow up finally graduate high school *sniff*
so where's the party?!
Finally
This week we have been using for 6 years and still love it. Thank you WP.
I love WordPress… have several sites based on WP. But I'd like to wait few days before upgrade them- to check if all my plugins would work properly.
Congratulations!…………………………………………
I couldn't view HD version of video… could it be a overload problem?
No overload issues with the video. Did you receive any error message ?
Wow, great version, WordPress 3.0! After upgrading, my broken page fixed automatically. Great works, thanks.
Updated like a charm!
Is WP 3.0 available for both WordPress.com and WordPress.org? Also, if using WordPress.com is this part of the automatic upgrade or are bloggers responsible for downloading the software upgrade on their own?
@tina — WordPress.com is running WordPress 3.0 in multi-site mode. Automattic takes care of maintaining and always updating the code for WordPress.com – often daily — so there is no need for manual upgrades.