From the monthly archives:

January 2012

Year of the Meetup

by Jane WellsJanuary 27, 2012 Community

We hereby declare 2012 as the Year of the WordPress Meetup. You’ll want to get in on this action. So what is a WordPress Meetup? Basically, it’s people in a community getting together — meeting up — who share an interest in WordPress, whether they be bloggers, business users, developers, consultants, or any other category of person able to say, “I use WordPress in some way and I like it, and I want to meet other people who can say the same.

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Create a Shaker-Style Kitchen

by This Old House: Kitchen And BathJanuary 18, 2012

Historically influenced furnishings and handcrafted accents conceal the thoroughly modern amenities of this cooking-and-eating area

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Internet Blackout Day on January 18

by Jane WellsJanuary 17, 2012 Community

WordPress.org is officially joining the protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act that is coming before the U.S. Senate next week. As I wrote in my post a week ago, if this bill is passed it will jeopardize internet freedom and shift the power of the independent web into the hands of corporations. [...]

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Help Stop SOPA/PIPA

by Jane WellsJanuary 10, 2012 Community

You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and [...]

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WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release

by Ryan BorenJanuary 3, 2012 Releases

WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Thanks to Joshua H., Hoang T., Stefan Zimmerman, Chris K., and the Go Daddy security team for responsibly disclosing the bug to our security team. Download 3.3.1 or visit [...]

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