It was just four years ago, at the end of September in 2007, that Michael Castilla launched WPCandy. For the next couple of years he and his team steered the ship, until I acquired it from them and relaunched the site just last year. So while it has only been one year since I adopted WPCandy, it still has a few years under its belt.
In just the last year we’ve come quite a ways: we’ve launched Pros and Pressed Ads, both of which I’m proud of. We’ve also built up a strong reputation as an unofficial WordPress news blog, which is awesome. There’s still more to come, of course, but I’d say for 12 months of work we’re not doing too shabby.
If you have ideas, and particularly if you’ve been a part of our community here for some time, please jump over into the forums and let us know what you’d like to see from WPCandy in the future.
From the forum:
How long have you folks been reading WPCandy? Do you have any favorites from the last year of the site?
Happy birthday
Happy Birthday WP Candy. As you sit back and reminisce about how far you have come throughout the years perhaps this throwback will entertain you:
http://web.archive.org/web/20081024235655/http://wpcandy.com/
Congrats Ryan! You guys are killing it, keep up the awesome work.
Joyeux Anniversaire !
You’ve come a long way WPCandy! Keep up the good work Ryan and Brian.
Happy Birthday WPCandy.
Congratulation guys!
It’s my birthday too!
Yes it is!
Happy Birthday, keep rocking!
Congrats Ryan, and to the others who are sure helped you along the way! Happy Birthday
Congrats and happy birthday!
Congrats, and thanks for your work! =D
Ryan you should have said on Skype I would have got you a cake (and then eaten it on a web cam) At least that way you would have (sort of) enjoyed it?!?!
Congrats though and I usually dip into WPCandy it every day just to see what is happening, kudos to you and the team and here is to many more years, Happy Birthday!
Pro
Can you make my slice of cake a big bit please?
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday WPCandy! Thanks for all you do for the WordPress community!
Happy Birthday! Thanks for your valuable contribution to the WordPress community. Keep up the good work.
Pro
Happy Birthday Ryan and the rest of the WPCandy team
Congrats WPCandy! Keep up the great work and hope you’ll bring more sweetness to the WordPress community!
Congratulations WPCandy team.. It’s absolutely amazing how you’ve taken the WordPress community by storm after the come back more then a year ago. Up to the next 5 years!
Happy belated birthday!
To many more years of excellent WordPress news and insight!!
Eric
Happy birthday to my favorite WordPress news site. I appreciate the work you (and your cohorts) do for us, Ryan.
Happy Birthday! it’s been awesome to watch you grow this site into what it is today. Keep up the good work and here’s to many more years!
Pro
Happy (belated) birthday! It’s so great to see WPCandy still going strong after so many years
There’s no doubt about that this blog is the best resource for WordPress goodies.
Happy birthday and keep up the great work with the site Ryan
Happy Birthday. The original owners must be proud and satisfied watching the progress of this site.
We’d all love to read their interview and thoughts on the progress.
Congrats! Four years of candy is pretty sweet.
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Pro
Happy Birthday! Thanks for all of the awesome news, reviews, podcasts, and tutorials, and for making it much easier to keep up with the latest WordPress happenings than it used to be.