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What’s new in WordPress 3.7, “Basie”

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Brian Krogsgard
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

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

Understand WordPress internationalization and translation

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Brian Krogsgard
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

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

WordPress 3.7 Beta 1

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 3.7 Beta 1 is ready for testing. For such a quick release cycle, there are features in WordPress 3.7 that are going to be big for the platform. Andrew Nacin highlighted a few items in 3.7 Beta 1 that…

WordPress 3.6.1 security release is out

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 3.6.1 is out as a security release. Three security fixes were made, plus an additional security hardening measure. The security fixes affect all previous versions of WordPress. Check out the release details, and go update your sites.

Date queries in WordPress 3.7

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Brian Krogsgard
Alex Mills highlights the new date_query parameters just committed to WordPress core, slated for release with 3.7. It makes more complex queries to query posts within various date ranges much simpler. Congrats to Alex on the props, and I'm excited…

Rethinking WordPress widget administration

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Brian Krogsgard
The team at WebDevStudios has done some pretty complete visual mockups of what they view as an improved widget / sidebar management experience. I really like where they are heading. It's more visual and more consistent with where other parts…

The future of WPDB

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Brian Krogsgard
mysql_*() methods are deprecated in PHP 5.5 and it's time for WordPress move on and enable support for PDO or MySQLi. In this article I describe what I played with and what the next steps are for getting a better…

Art direction for publishing with WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
One of the most exciting conversations for WordPress 3.8, in my opinion, is around creating content blocks and art direction for editing with WordPress. This is probably the direction core is going to go for handling post formats, and any…
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