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Project Icon Winners Announced
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Congratulations to Ben Dunkle and Verena Segert (that’s BD and VS to those of you who voted), the winning designers of our WordPress 2.7 icon design contest. Read all about it on the development blog and see how your votes stacked up to the rest.
Go to The Results of Project Icon.
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The Results of Project Icon
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The community has voted, and the votes have been tallied. The winner of Project Icon, with 35% of the votes, is Entry ID “BD,” otherwise known as Ben Dunkle. Congratulations, Ben! The runner-up was VS, otherwise known as Verena Segert, so we’ll be attaching that set to the alternate color palette that is selectable from […]
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WordPress 2.7 Beta 3
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WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 has been released for your testing pleasure. Here are some of the changes since Beta 2 (over 160 changes in total):
Numerous style improvements and refinements.
All admin notices now go under the page title.
PHP Notice fixes.
Dashboard widget options now properly save.
Menu fixes.
New design for Quick Edit.
Canonical feed URL fixes.
Walker fixes.
An update […]
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Vote for the new WordPress icons
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If you watched the WordPress 2.7 trailer or checked out the screenshots that were posted a couple of weeks ago, you probably noticed the use of icons in the new left-hand navigation. A handful of designers have submitted icon sets in a competition to choose the new icons. Read all about it on the development […]
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WordPress 2.7: Project Icon
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Earlier in the beta period, we put out a call here on the development blog for designers in the WordPress community who might be interested in designing custom icons for the 2.7 admin interface. Over a dozen icon designers from around the world responded, so rather than choose just one, we decided to turn the […]
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October Wrap-Up
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In October, we celebrated our first billion-impression month, and continued plugging away on WordPress 2.7 — along with a couple of other fun projects, to be announced.
Here are last month’s stats:
323,786 blogs were created.
343,832 new users joined.
4,085,148 file uploads.
1995.86 gigabytes of new files.
531 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
8,862,195 comments.
1,309,045 logins.
1,088,583,200 pageviews […]
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If WordPress 2.7 Was A Movie…
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This would be our trailer. Check out some of the upcoming new features and design changes in this sneak preview video, including how to customize your dashboard, the new comment reply feature, the new navigation system, and the customizable posting screen. When you’re finished watching, take the poll below the video to tell us which […]
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WordPress 2.7 Beta 2
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WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 is ready. Here is a quick rundown of changes since beta 1.
The Upload button didn’t always show. Fixed.
JS on the Dashboard broke for blogs with no comments, causing several UI elements to “freeze”. Fixed.
Recent Drafts Dashboard module didn’t show correct times. Fixed.
Various Autosave fixes.
Redirect after deleting a page from the editor […]
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The Votes Are In
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Here’s how you voted in our U.S. Presidential Election poll yesterday:
Barack Obama and Joe Biden: 69%
John McCain and Sarah Palin: 24%
Ralph Nadar and Matt Gonzalez: 3%
Robert Barr and Wayne Root: 2%
Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente: 1%
Charles Baldwin and Darrell Castle: 1%
And here are the actual results, as of 12 p.m. PST today:
Barack Obama and Joe […]
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Cast Your Virtual Ballot
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We’re flexing our polling muscles today and conducting a little experiment in the process.
The national election for the 44th President of the United States is in full swing, and we want to know how you’re voting.
Take a minute to answer this poll and tell us who you’re voting for. Or, if you don’t live in […]
