WordPress News

Interview with Scott Taylor, WordPress 4.4 release lead — Draft Podcast

Brian Krogsgard

December 9, 2015

In this episode of the Post Status Draft Podcast, Joe and Brian interview Scott Taylor, a WordPress Core Committer and the Release Lead for WordPress 4.4, and then talk about WordCamp US and Matt Mullenweg's State of the Word.

WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, released

Brian Krogsgard

December 8, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, has been released. Clifford includes infrastructure for the WordPress REST API, taxonomy and comment improvements, as well as the new Twenty Sixteen default theme, the ability to embed posts anywhere, and much more.

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

DesignMake WordPress

WordPress 4.3, "Billie", has been released. Billie includes four major user-facing features that most website owners will experience on a semi-regular basis, and many other enhancements, bug fixes, and developer features.

The trojan emoji

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2015

DevelopmentMake WordPress

Andrew Nacin, lead developer of WordPress, just finished a talk at Loopconf, where he talked about a series of related WordPress security fixes that spanned two years, with the final fix included into WordPress core under the guise of emoji support.

WordPress 4.2, “Powell”, released

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 4.2, “Powell”, has been released. The release was lead by Drew Jaynes and includes contributions from 283 community members.

Andrew Nacin has joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

Andrew Nacin now works at the U.S. Digital Service, the federal government service that aims to "redefine public service for a new generation." Nacin continues his role as WordPress lead developer, but is stepping back from working on the project full time.

The WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2015

DevelopmentMake WordPress

The WordPress REST API is a huge initiative and feature plugin being developed for the core WordPress project. But it can be a bit confusing if you don't know much about it yet. Let's discuss what this project is, why it's important, and how to get involved.

WordPress lead developer changes

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

Yesterday and today there has been some significant news for the WordPress project. We now have two new lead developers, and two long-time leads are stepping down after outstanding tenures assisting with steering the ship.

Ideas for small improvements to the new Distraction-Free Writing

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2015

DesignMake WordPress

Distraction-Free Writing in WordPress changed in 4.1. It's now an extension of the regular post editor, and it's had some critics and resistance (like all new WordPress features). I took some of the complaints to see if they could be integrated into the DFW editor to make the feature better.

WordPress 4.1, “Dinah”

Brian Krogsgard

December 18, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 4.1, "Dinah", has just been released. WordPress 4.1 is the result of months of work and includes a number of excellent new features. WordPress 4.1 was led by John Blackbourn, who did an outstanding job. Two hundred and eighty three…

Contribution as culture

Brian Krogsgard

October 1, 2014

BusinessHosting

This post spends a lot of time analyzing and referencing two other blog posts. Excuse me for that, but also be sure to read both, as they are relevant for this post and also interesting in their own right. Matt…

Post formats are slowly dying, and that’s okay

Brian Krogsgard

August 22, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

Post formats were introduced in WordPress 3.1. They were, and still are, little more than an organizational feature that allows themes to support ten custom content formats such as asides, links, quotes, video, and audio. They are just a taxonomy…

WordPress and Drupal teams collaborate for simultaneous security releases

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress and Drupal are both releasing security updates today that affect all supported versions of the two popular CMS platforms. Nir Goldshlager, a security researcher and part of the Salesforce.com Product Security Team, discovered a PHP-level vulnerability that could result…

The state of handling custom metadata in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 7, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress has a table for handling metadata of posts. Quite simply, it's a good place to store "stuff" that relates to a post, but doesn't belong in one of the standard parts of the posts table. Metadata can be nearly…

WordPress 3.9, “Smith”

Brian Krogsgard

April 16, 2014

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.9, "Smith", has just been released. It is named after James Oscar "Jimmy" Smith. WordPress 3.9 is the hard result of hard work from 267 contributors. The WordPress 3.9 release was led by Andrew Nacin and Co-led by Mike…

WordPress 3.8.3 fixes a bug with “Quick Draft”

Travis Northcutt

April 14, 2014

Make WordPressSecurity

Last week's 3.8.2 security release introduced a bug where drafts written with the Quick Draft tool in the dashboard were not saved. That bug is fixed with today's 3.8.3 release. What's really interesting about this release is that not only is…