Joseph Scott’s Blog

To answer my own question, it took just over 4 months to go from 3 million blogs to 4 million. The sign up rate continues to increase, if that trend continues WordPress.com will hit 5 million in less than 4 months (end of December?).

The next big line to cross? Breaking 40 million page views a day.

Here are my slides from my presentation at the Utah Open Source Conference - 2008 on WordPress Performance & Scalability:

I’ve had a few requests for the slides from my WordPress APIs talk at WordCamp San Francisco last weekend. A few minutes on SlideShare and here they are:

It’s very brief, time was limited.

It’s been a month since that the theme directory was announced and opened to the public. In that time we’ve added more than 150 themes (with many more working their way through the review process), that have been downloaded over 200,000 times.

Bluehost is the latest sponsor of WordCamp Utah. On top of that they’ll have some of their staff attending the conference as well. This is a great opportunity for you to talk face to face with the folks at Bluehost.

Ian Stewart has an interview up about the WordPress Theme Directory: Matt Mullenweg & Joseph Scott Discuss The WordPress Themes Directory.

Details for the WordCamp Utah Schedule are now up:

Saturday 27 September 2008
9:25 AM         Registration
10 AM   WordPress 2.7 and Beyond - Matt Mullenweg
11 AM   WordPress As A CMS - Richard Miller
12 AM   Lunch
1 PM    Good vs. Great Design - Cameron Moll
2 PM    Podcasting - Thom Allen
3 PM    SEO Tips For Your Blog - Ash Buckles
4 PM    Writing WordPress Plugins - Alex King

I’m also happy to announce a new sponsor, Alex King’s Crowd Favorite. Thanks Alex!

A few facts about Earthquakes to start off your week.

From USGS Earthquake Facts.

You can see the latest Earthquakes in the US and the World, the answer to the question: “Are Earthquakes Really on the Increase?” and Earthquake facts and statistics about the frequency of Earthquakes.

Registration for WordCamp Utah is now open! The cost is $20 and includes the lunch and the uber official WordCamp Utah 2008 t-shirt.

Final schedule for the speakers is nearly complete, they include: Matt Mullenweg, Richard Miller, Cameron Moll, Thom Allen, Ash Buckles and Alex King.

Space is limited so the time to sign-up is now.

I’ll be speaking at the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference on WordPress Performance and Scalability. UTOSC is at the Salt Lake Community College this year, August 28-30.

Registration for WordCamp San Francisco 2008 is open and there are more 140 people on the attendees list already. The final schedule should be posted soon.

I’ll be there, be sure to say hi.

I got a warning today about the smtp.gmail.com SSL cert, turns out it expired today: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:58:07 AM US/Mountain. If you’ve got a contact with the Gmail team can you let them know? Thanks.

Version 1.4.1 of the Prologue WordPress theme is now available. Prologue is in the theme directory now, so if you aren’t into using Subversion this is the easiest way to grab the new version. Here’s the list of changes since the 1.3 release:

If you’ve been having problems with WordPress 2.6 and Prologue please give this version a try before sending in any new problem reports.

The word is that PHP 5.3 will bring some significant speed improvements. Who wouldn’t want their Wordpress site to be 15% faster?

Raanan has outlined the near future of the WordPress for iPhone app. The most interesting part though? The source code for the app is now available at http://iphone.svn.wordpress.org/. You can also browse the repository via Trac at http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/browser.

If you’ve found a bug or have a new feature to suggest, go file a new ticket. User authentication is done with WordPress.org accounts.