I almost missed it, but the 25th was exactly one year after the fateful comment from Mike that started the chain of events that brought WordPress into being. Look how far things have come from that comment to the world-class blogging software we have now. The longest journey begins with a single step.
To help grow the number of stylesheets available for the default WordPress template, we’re sponsoring a CSS Style Competition for WordPress (with prizes!) through February 6, 2004.
Tell your neighbors, tell your friends… get those creative juices flowing and send in your designs!
The latest WordPress 1.0.1 is now available. This is the fastest, most stable, and most secure WordPress ever.
The 2004 Bloggies nominations are up and I noticed that the WP-powered Kitta.net is nominated for Best Design. She has some very respectable competition, so please keep her in mind when you’re voting. If I missed any other WP sites let me know and I’ll add them here.
Oskar var Rijswijk writes about the leader of the Dutch socialist party starting a weblog and using WordPress. I’m not familiar with the politics of the region, and I can’t read a word on the site (except “WordPress”) but his first post already has 122 comments. So go check out the new Jan Marijnissen Weblog. Adam Curry covers it as well.
Update: Oskar wrote in the following extra information “Adam Curry did not only cover it – het initiated it: he made him do it (meeting him in his Radio Show in The Netherlands, and offering Jan in return to become a meber of his party). Quite a stir in the Dutch blogger community… ” Thanks for the clarification!
Things have been pretty crazy here around Houston with events preparing for the Super Bowl. From Snoop Dogg to Janet Jackson, everyone is coming and hotels have been sold out for months. It’s expected that between 50 and 100 thousand people are going to be looking for a place to stay. In response to the demand people are renting out their houses and apartments to Super Bowl visitors, often at very high prices.
I was very surprised the new Super Bowl Rentals .com running WordPress! I thought this would be a good oppurtunity to support a WordPress entrepreneur and point out their novel use of the comment system, which I haven’t seen done before. So go check out super bowl rentals.
The release candidate for version 1.0.1 is now available in the usual place. The 1.0.1 release fixes all known issues with 1.0, has several speed and efficiency improvements, more robust XFN support, improved importers all around, and a few other miscellaneous features. To upgrade from 1.0 simply overwrite your old files and run wp-admin/upgrade.php.
There has been some talk of cruft-free URIs again of late, so I thought I would post step-by-step directions for WordPress 1.0. Pay close attention, this will be very difficult.
/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/..htaccess file.If you made it this far, you should know that we recognize this process is overly complicated, and we are working to eliminate Step 3 in the future.
Update: Mark Pilgrim has some instructions for Movable Type users.
Nightly builds are now available at https://wordpress.org/nightly/ . If you’re reporting a bug from a nightly build in the forums please let us know the date of the build.
I am proud to announce that WordPress 1.0 is now available. As the version number indicates, this is a major step for us and a great deal of effort has gone into it.
mod_rewrite is currently required for this functionality. /category/category-name if you have the new permalink option enabled. wp-config.php, is now able to be set up through the browser. If you don’t have the proper permissions for that, we have improved instructions to make everything easy for you. Also vastly improved is our new intelligent upgrade code. If you’re upgrading from any previous version of WordPress you can just run upgrade.php and it will intelligently update the database.rel values through an easy interface very similar to the XFN Creator. wp-admin directory and you’re good to go.
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