The Word Press

For a while now, I’ve been referring to the WordPress news media as the “Word Press”. When I was leading the 4.2 release, I made a special point of trying to keep the Word Press informed on what we were doing.

Anyway, the name stuck (in my own mind at least).

So who are the current Word Press you ask? Well, the big players right now are (in no particular order):

There are also a few more sites I’d consider to be part of the  Word Press, though all of them seem to have fallen out of date. They are:

And In aggregator land, the big players currently include:

Old News

Over the years, there have also been several other prominent members of the Word Press that have dropped off or folded for various reasons.

The big three that spring to mind are:

  • WP Candy, (Ryan Imel)
  • Weblog Tools Collection (Mark Ghosh)
  • WP Daily (John Saddington) – though it’s worth noting that Torque acquired and now hosts the archives for WP Daily

Do you have a favorite WordPress news site/blog/feed/newsletter you think is missing from this list?

Slides for my WordCamp Cape Town talk on “making WordPress”

From the talk page on the WordCamp Cape Town site:

In this session, Drew will be sharing insight into how a WordPress release happens, including an overview of all the moving parts, teams, organization, and execution. A lot of people have this idea that the core team is solely responsible for new versions of WordPress getting released, which couldn’t be further from the truth – it’s an intricate ballet of multiple contributor teams coming together and executing a broad vision.
He will talk about how a release cycle is structured, how and where the decision-making happens, as well as all of the various contributors and teams that play their own part in a successful release. It’s very much opening the black box of how a release works.

Slides for my workshop on querying creatively for WordCamp Cape Town 2015

From the workshop page on the WordCamp Cape Town site:

We’re at a point now where we have these incredibly powerful query classes in WordPress core that allow you to really tailor down to whatever criterion you want. In this workshop, Drew will provide some real-world examples of some crazy stuff you can do with queries – it’s very much a “sky’s the limit” kind of situation. Queries are really interesting and powerful, and a lot of people are intimidated by advanced queries, even with the abstraction layers that WordPress has put in place.