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Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2014

WordPress 3.9 hasn't quite reached beta, but many of us are already looking ahead to WordPress 4.0. I know, I know: 4.0 is no more significant than 3.9 or any other major release. It just so happens that WordPress' twenty-third major…

Track progress of “features as plugins”

Brian Krogsgard

December 13, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

I tried to find something like this yesterday and had a hard time. I stumbled across it today finally: a list of current "features as plugins" that are being worked on, along with helpful information on their status. This will…

The design of WordPress 3.8

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

Matt Thomas goes into detail on design considerations for MP6, which became the new look of WordPress in 3.8. Also, it's just so impressive how many people were involved in this project. Excellent wrap-up by Matt.

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

WordPress 3.8, "Parker", has just been released. WordPress 3.8 is the result of four months of hard work by 188 core contributors. Named after Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist and bepob innovator. WordPress 3.8's development was led by WordPress co-founder, Matt…

Commit messages can be poetry, too

Brian Krogsgard

December 11, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Ryan Boren, WordPress Lead Developer and Bug Whisperer, decided to create a poem on the importance of eliminating trailing whitespace in his latest commit to the WordPress codebase. The Pinking Shears stir from their slumber, awakened by what may seem,…

WordPress 3.8, “almost”

Brian Krogsgard

December 4, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.8 Release Candidate 1 is out. This means that the next major version of WordPress is getting close. I was pretty entertained by Matt Mullenweg's slug of "3-8-almost" in the announcement post. As he notes, it's definitely time to…

WordPress through the ages

Brian Krogsgard

December 4, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

Jeff Matson has gathered up screenshots of every major design change of the WordPress admin and default themes on Inmotion Hosting's blog. It's fairly interesting to take a bird's eye view on the evolution of the visible aspects of WordPress.

A core plugin team is forming to tackle a better meta data UI

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Eric Andrew Lewis started a new topic this morning on the Make WordPress Core blog to introduce a new core plugin team. The Post Meta team's goal will be to improve the "developer’s experience from the back-end – creating input…

I can haz braces?

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress core is debating a change to always require braces, even for one line, in PHP if statements. Looks like the +1's are winning. That's a good thing in my opinion. Is this the most detail oriented thing I've ever…

WordPress 3.7.1 is out

Brian Krogsgard

October 29, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.7.1 is out with eleven bug fixes. If you are already on WordPress 3.7 and you are eligible for auto-updates, they will start rolling out soon. If you want to find out if you're eligible for auto-updates, you can…

Disable automatic upgrades in WordPress, the right way

Brian Krogsgard

October 25, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

The number one point of concern since yesterday's release of WordPress 3.7 is about auto-updates and the proper way to disable them or enable them for non-default situations. Andrew Nacin gives a clear pathway for doing so, with all the…

What’s new in WordPress 3.7, “Basie”

Brian Krogsgard

October 24, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.7, "Basie", has just been released. It's been named in honor of Count Basie. The WordPress 3.7 development cycle is the quickest turnaround between major versions of WordPress ever. You may not notice a whole lot of sexy new…

WordPress 3.7 RC1 released

Brian Krogsgard

October 18, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.7 RC1 has been released, which means the official release of WordPress 3.7 is near. Auto-updates have been refined a bit, and based on some tweets I saw from Andrew Nacin and reports of Beta testing, they are very…

Potential roadmap for WordPress Multisite

Brian Krogsgard

October 11, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

If you use WordPress Multisite or have interest in it, you'll want to read Andrew Nacin's potential roadmap for the future of the project. It's very promising, and he touches on many of the pain points for the current use…

Understand WordPress internationalization and translation

Brian Krogsgard

October 3, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Internationalization (i18n) and translation is one of those fuzzy gray areas for many of us in the WordPress community, especially amongst Americans. We're simply not very accustomed to a multilingual society, therefore we sometimes erroneously don't think about internationalization of our code…

How WordPress evolves without breaking everything

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2013

DevelopmentMake WordPress

This is a great flash talk by Andrew Nacin, where he discusses the decision making process for evolving WordPress while maintaining backward compatibility. Included are some explanations of the struggles with terms, term meta, and more. This was part of…

Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0

Track progress of “features as plugins”

The design of WordPress 3.8

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

Commit messages can be poetry, too

WordPress 3.8, “almost”

WordPress through the ages

A core plugin team is forming to tackle a better meta data UI

I can haz braces?

WordPress 3.7.1 is out

Disable automatic upgrades in WordPress, the right way

What’s new in WordPress 3.7, “Basie”

WordPress 3.7 RC1 released

Potential roadmap for WordPress Multisite

Understand WordPress internationalization and translation

How WordPress evolves without breaking everything

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