The WordPress Evangelist

The 13th major update of WordPress is finally here! A little late coming, but more than welcome to all WordPress lovers. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s the merger of the two branches of WordPress and now it’s multi-site enabled.

I’m working on a Web project that’s built on WordPress 3.0 and that will take advantage of its multi-site functionality. It’s already live but not yet completed, and it’s on MINDANAW.net. It’ll be a site that will let dedicated bloggers of Mindanao have their own subdomained blogs. I’m still working on which plugins to deploy, as well as collecting WordPress themes (so far I’ve included free themes from Woothemes.com).

There’s going to be a catch, though: only blogs that commit to helping Mindanao, in one way or another, will be accepted. The service will be offered free of charge — just as long as the bloggers on board join the community in the advocacy of promoting peace & development in the Philippine South. I’ll announce the site’s launch once it’s ready via the Mindanao Bloggers Community site.

Kudos to Matt and his Automattic team for Thelonious (click the link to see a video of WP3.0).