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Developers
WordPress development is led by Ryan Boren and Matt Mullenweg. Mullenweg and Mike Little were co-founders of the project.
The contributing developers include:
- Dougal Campbell
- Mark Jaquith
- Donncha Ó Caoimh
- Andy Skelton
- Michel Valdrighi
- Peter Westwood
Though much developed by the community surrounding it, WordPress is closely associated with Automattic, where some of WordPress's main contributing developers are employees.[24]
WordPress is also in part developed by its community, among which are the WP testers, a group of people who volunteer time and effort to testing each release. They have early access to nightly builds, Beta versions and Release Candidates. Upgrading to these versions, they can find and report errors to a special mailing list, or the project's Trac tool.
Sponsored themes
WordPress Template Hierarchy On 10 July 2007, following a discussion on the WordPress ideas forum[25] and a post by Mark Ghosh in his blog Weblog Tools Collection,[26] Matt Mullenweg announced that the official WordPress theme directory at http://themes.wordpress.net would no longer host themes containing sponsored links.[27] Although this move was criticized by designers and users of sponsored themes, it was applauded by some WordPress users who consider such themes to be spam.[28] The official WordPress theme directory ceased to accept any new themes, including those without sponsored links, shortly after the announcement was made. [29] Ironically, the closure of the official site and its consequent lack of up-to-date themes drove many people into downloading themes from unofficial sites which inserted their own spam links into all themes downloaded from them. [30] [31]
On July 18, 2008, a new theme directory opened at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/. It was styled along the same lines as the plug-ins directory.[32] Any theme that is uploaded to it will be vetted, first by an automated program and then by a human.
On December 12, 2008, over 200 themes were removed from the WordPress theme directory as they did not comply with GPL License requirements.[33][34] Today, author mentions are permitted in each theme but the official policy does not allow for sponsorships. As a result, several other theme directories have become popular.
iPhone and iPod Touch app
On 11 July 2008, with the launch of iTunes App Store by Apple, WordPress has also released its native app for iPhone and iPod Touch[35] The WordPress app has some of the features that the WordPress Admin panel has. This app works with WordPress.com and many WordPress.org blogs.[cit
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