A little over eight years ago, WordPress 1.0 was announced. We hated it, really hated it. Frankly, we continued to hate it up until about a year ago when WordPress 3.0 was released. FINALLY, they got it to a point it could be considered as a viable alternative to custom programming and various other options for content management.

We didn't hate it without justification, we hated it because we couldn't make lean, mean and clean without touching WordPress code, or even when hooks came about, they where a little clunky and didn't work for our needs. With the thirteenth major release of 3.0, we have been able to produce stable, high-traffic sites for some high-end clients with ease.

This past year has been a crazy ride on the WordPress roller-coaster of awesomeness. With frameworks like Thesis, Pagelines and Genesis, we have even launched some sites in under a week. We wanted to give the WordPress, the 218 community contributors and WP itself some props for our first post on the new blog. Thank you to all of you.

P.S. If you wrote of WordPress a while ago, you might want to take another look for yourself.