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WordPress 3.6 Release Candidate 1 is out

Brian Krogsgard

July 13, 2013

Mark Jaquith has posted to the WordPress.org blog that the first Release Candidate is available for WordPress 3.6. You know the drill. Test it out, report bugs, etc, etc. Your feedback is valuable and this is one of the best…

New WordPress.org status blog

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

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Andrew Nacin announced this morning that they've launched a new "status" blog for WordPress.org that is not hosted in the same environment as the rest of WordPress.org. This is common practice for high-scale websites, and I'm happy to see it…

WordPress 3.5.2 released (maintenance and security release)

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

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WordPress 3.5.2 has just been released. As this is a maintenance and security release, there is no reason not to update right away. The releases fixes some fringe vulnerabilities and minor bugs.

A call to change WordPress widgets

Brian Krogsgard

June 20, 2013

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Jesse Friedman has written up how he thinks that WordPress widgets and widget areas should operate more like WordPress menus. I agree with him that currently, things like conditional sidebars can be a bit annoying. But I'd like to see…

If you’re serious

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2013

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Matt, If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing. I’m sure there are one or two others in the community who would be too. Mike Little's fateful comment on Matt Mullenweg's blog. A short history of…

Ten good years and a preview of the WordPress history book

Brian Krogsgard

May 31, 2013

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Matt Mullenweg posted a thoughtful tribute to the last 10 years of WordPress on the official .org blog. He gives a bit of history, highlights some moments from these years, and links to some other 10 year celebratory posts. He…

WordPress Core is Secure

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2013

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Jason Cosper writes on the WP Engine blog that people need to stop saying WordPress is not secure, because it is. WordPress Core is rarely cause for security concerns, and hasn't been for some time. However, due to WordPress' massive…

WordPress 3.6 Beta 2 released, post formats stay in

Brian Krogsgard

April 29, 2013

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WordPress 3.6 Beta 2 was released this evening. After the debate on whether post formats should be punted to 3.7, it appears they are here to stay in 3.6. They have been iterated on, and I like them much, much…

An excercise in design of the new post format UI

Brian Krogsgard

April 11, 2013

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Sara Cannon, Creative Director at Range, has put together a number of ideas for possible designs of the post format UI proposed in WordPress 3.6 beta 1. She goes through a number of options from putting the post formats in…

Shortcode attributes filter added in WordPress 3.6

Brian Krogsgard

April 5, 2013

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Mark Jaquith shares a nice new feature of WordPress 3.6 with his latest blog post: a shortcode attribute filter. So, if the person who registers the shortcode adds this third parameter, it makes it possible to extend the existing attributes…

WordPress 3.6 Beta 1 is out

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2013

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Time to test! It's great to see a beta out. I'm excited to check out the post format work that's gone into this release, amongst other things.

Rethinking the WordPress Admin

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2013

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Aside from all the flexibility WordPress gives us for warping and bending it to our will, the static nature of the admin really grinds my gears. There's been some progress on better admin styles and even some very impressive iterations…

WordPress 3.6 Beta 1 to be slightly delayed

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2013

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Mark Jaquith has outlined a revised plan for releasing 3.6 that's very pragmatic and I think a good move. Beta 1 is going to be delayed two weeks, and the final release around one week, so that the various stages…

Drastic changes to the WordPress UI

Brian Krogsgard

March 9, 2013

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Matt Mullenweg posted on the Make WordPress UI blog about some drastic changes that are being experimented with, by way of the MP6 plugin. I look forward to seeing how these evolve, and hope they extend beyond simple aesthetic changes…

Rethinking WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 18, 2013

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Caleb Mellas wishes WordPress had the intuitive interface and ease of use for CMSs that Square does for payments. It's a popular topic of late, and Caleb gives a strong argument that WordPress needs to simplify.

“Recently Active” plugins… how recent?

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

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WP Engineer looks into a fairly trivial, but interesting aspect of WordPress vocabulary. Just how recent of a span of time is WordPress identifying when it lists "Recently Active" plugins?

WordPress 3.6 Release Candidate 1 is out

New WordPress.org status blog

WordPress 3.5.2 released (maintenance and security release)

A call to change WordPress widgets

If you’re serious

Ten good years and a preview of the WordPress history book

WordPress Core is Secure

WordPress 3.6 Beta 2 released, post formats stay in

An excercise in design of the new post format UI

Shortcode attributes filter added in WordPress 3.6

WordPress 3.6 Beta 1 is out

Rethinking the WordPress Admin

WordPress 3.6 Beta 1 to be slightly delayed

Drastic changes to the WordPress UI

Rethinking WordPress

“Recently Active” plugins… how recent?

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