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A viral game that’s inspired copious clones has exposed the complexities of copyrightingapps— and the shamelessness of greedy imitators. Wordlehas attracted more than 2 million daily players since its launch in November. The puzzles challenge you to guess a five-letter word, but you can only play one of them a day — an appealing constraint in an era of ruthlessly addictive games. Another of its charms is that Wordle’s creator, Josh Wardle, made the browser-based game completely free....

WordPress 3.0, the most recent self-hosted version of the world’s most popular blogging platform WordPress has surpassed 30 million downloads today, crossing the barrier earlier this morning. WordPress employs acounter on its website, counting each and every download of the WordPress software, and with WordPress 3.1 on the horizon its staggering to think just how many blogs there are in use, hosted in numerous countries around the world. WordPress 3.0 broke the20 million barrierin October, adding 10 million extra users in just under three months, but it isn’t the only WordPress property performing well for the Automattic, the company created by its founder Matt Mullenweg....

According to aWordPress development update, the next release of the popular blogging platform is all about dropping support for outdated technology and making the software run faster. The new version of WordPress will now require PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5 at a minimum, and users running Internet Explorer 6 will be asked to upgrade to a newer browser in the admin interface asking them to upgrade to a newer browser. “We probably can’t drop much CSS, as IE7 shares a lot of the issues....

Matt Mullenweg says that while there are no concrete plans for WordPress 3.3 just yet, it’s likely that the team will focus on improving the media uploaders and the updating systems,WPCandy reports. There are no clues as to what will be improved when it comes to the uploader, though I can personally think of a few things — dealing with plenty of media in a post can really slow post production down....

Popular open-source blogging software platform WordPress is today celebrating eight years since it released the first version of its self-hosted blog software, a time where the latest stable version nears 11 million installs on third-party servers. A year ago, WordPress creator and Automattic founder Matt Mullenwegposted to the official blogto commemorate seven years in the blogging market, announcing milestones from its previous year. The company had facilitated over 10 million theme downloads, doubled plugin downloads to 60 million and received assistance from over 1,500 people via its Trac developer community....