Well, I said this just over a year, ago, but I’m finally motivated to pull this site out of the mothballs and start blogging here again.  I make my living working with WordPress fulltime, but I find I rarely use WordPress, as my personal site runs on Habari. I am perpetually running across cool tidbits as well as my own discoveries of extending features, so I might as well start documenting them here again and eat my own dog food. This will be a work in progress over the next week or so, if you see anything wonky or have any suggestions for something to cover, feel free to leave a comment!

Maybe not an identity exactly, but four years in, I think I’ve come up with a logo idea that doesn’t quite suck. One of my original theme’s header used a subway station of sorts, and that’s always been the general idea I wanted to convey, that WP Station was just a stop along the WordPress network. At the time, there weren’t many sites that focused on WordPress. I can only recall Weblog Tools Collection, and at the time, it wasn’t even WordPress specific. I had only been using WP for a few months when I started the site, heck, I’d only discovered the world of blogging the year before. I was beginning to collect links to themes and plugins, as well as keep up with updates and development – this was long before wordpress.org/extend – and decided it might be useful to the community to share what I was finding.

Over time, more sites started popping up doing the same, concentrating on getting subscribers, gaining in popularity, to the point I felt what I was doing was no longer useful. Eventually, the official plugins section was added to wp.org, as well as the updates directly via the admin plugins page, making my type of posts moot.

Couple all of that with the explosion of development in the WP community, and I simply could not commit the time necessary to continue blogging in the same manner as before. Life also began to get in the way, and the site slowly drifted into stagnation. The reality though was by that point the site was generating enough money via various ads that I couldn’t pull the plug. I was still using WP for work, and would occasionally post something I’d stumble across, thinking that I would start back blogging about WordPress. However, my spare time was moving towards other interests. Still, the revenue was enough to pay for those interests, so I kept the sign on.

Now that I’ve begun working with WPMU, and taking on a roll developing blog networks, I’m beginning to have a clearer vision of where I’m headed professionally, and where I’d like to take this blog. So once again, hopefully, WP Station will be a destination that WordPress travelers will find it to be a useful stop in their travels.

A little late to the party, but I’ve set up WP Station on Twitter. Not too active yet, however, but I’ll be working on following more WP devs and users, as I also work on a redesign and resurrection of WP Station.

If anyone is bored and wants to work up a logo for WP Station, I might find some way of repaying you, albeit my budget is limited. Certainly links and what not would be included.

someone steps away from a vibrant, constantly evolving open source project for year, and decides to step back in on some level? Apparently a lot. I had a lot of personal issues with certain aspects of the community, and decided to step away, rather than join the chorus of those that simply slagged the powers that be, however, that animosity has waned, and I want to now see where things are. There are certainly plenty more current, and heavily followed sites out there dedicated to WordPress news, not to mention, since the inception of this site, the official WordPress site has added the plugins repository, so finding new and updated plugins are much easier. I still need to find a niche, or some use for this site, and over the course of the next few weeks I hope to do so. I certainly want to update the design, perhaps to a more magazine style theme, and while doing that, and other tweaks, I’ll find a new voice to utilize this space. If anyone is still reading this, I’d love to hear suggestions on what might be worthwhile to cover.