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WordPress 2.7 Hits 1 Million Downloads – For the past two weeks, people have been keeping tabs on the WordPress download counter to see when it would hit 1 million downloads. Well, the wait is over and WordPress 2.7 hit 1 million downloads on January 9th. I imagine that once the majority of users end up with WordPress 2.7 or higher which contains the automattic core upgrade function, 1 million downloads will be reached at a record pace.- http://www.miroslavglavic.ca/blog/wordpress/1000000-wp

A Smaller Number – Matt Mullenweg has announced a small but noticeable change on WordPress.com. The stats counter used to show the total number of blogs on WordPress.com as well as how many new posts and words for the day. With the recent change, the total number of blogs hosted on WordPress.com has been changed to show the total number of active bloggers. This number is an average over the last few days and provides a more accurate statistic with regards to the activity taking place on the domain. – http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/a-smaller-number/

Subscribe To Comments – Subscribe to comments which is a popular plugin used on the self hosted version of WordPress has found it’s way onto WordPress.com. Subscribe to comments provides a checkbox in the comments form that when checked, will notify the end user when a new comment has been published keeping everyone in the loop. The feature is enabled by default meaning there is nothing to configure.- http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/subscribe-to-comments/

Plugin Of The Week – Maintenance Mode – Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end. When the maintenance mode is activated, a custom defined message is show to site visitors – http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/maintenance-mode/

I invite you to head on over to WPTavern.com and bookmark the site. WPTavern will be a WordPress centric site containing news, reviews, videos, and my WordPress Weekly podcast as well as a forum. Hope to see you there when the site launches in public beta next month.

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