Wordpress Launches Plugin Directory

March 16th, 2007 blogging

Wordpress has finally launched a plugin directory on their site and it rocks! You can comment on and rate plugins, and it’s very easy to navigate.

For users, this means:

• There is now a central place to find and download WordPress plugins.
• You can get a much better idea about plugin quality and compatibility from the site.
• In the future you’ll be able to get notification inside of WordPress about plugins you use that have updates.

For developers, you now have:

• Exposure to the millions of people who visit WordPress.org every month.
• Free SVN hosting for GPL plugin development at wp-plugins.org. (Like always.)
• Automatic download packages and free hosting of those.
• Statistics about how many people are using and downloading your plugins.
• Prominent links to your homepage, and the ability to specify a Paypal donation link from your plugin page.

Wordpress Plugin Directory

Critical Wordpress Update!

March 6th, 2007 blogging

In case you haven’t already heard, Wordpress 2.1.1 may have had some malicious code in it. If you downloaded it and upgraded in the past couple days, download and install 2.1.2 right away and see the post on the Wordpress site for further info.

If you’re a Dreamhost user, you can update via the “one-click installs” section of your control panel.

Wordpress 2.1 Released

January 22nd, 2007 blogging

Wordpress released version 2.1 “Ella” a few hours ago. I haven’t had the chance to thoroughly read through all the updates, but I’m probably going to install it soon. Here are some bullet points on the new version:

• Autosave posts
• New visual editor with spellcheck
• Any page can be set as the front page
• Faster, due to more efficient database code
• More AJAXy goodness

Here’s a link to the official Wordpress 2.1 page, and Aaron Brazell’s post, The 10 Things You Should Know About Wordpress 2.1.