WordPress News

WordPress 3.8.2, 3.7.2, and 3.9 Release Candidate 1 have been released

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2014

All of your websites are ready for updates. There is a security and maintenance release ready for WordPress 3.8.2 and WordPress 3.7.2. It's being released for both 3.7 and 3.8 due to the auto-updating feature released in WordPress 3.7. One…

WordPress core proposal: portability

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2014

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The biggest feature lacking in WordPress is portability. We have an exporter for post content, but this exporter omits settings, widgets, theme options, and a large swath of data necessary for truly moving a site from server A to server…

WordPress 3.9 Beta 1 released

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2014

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WordPress 3.9 Beta 1 is out and ready for you to test. There are loads of enhancements that you can see a basic description of and hop into the tickets on Trac where they were hashed out. I'll be covering…

HTML5 galleries to land in WordPress 3.9

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2014

Make WordPress

Since WordPress 3.6, it's been possible for theme developers to optionally add HTML5 support for search forms, comment forms, and comment lists. With WordPress 3.9, that optional support will be extended to galleries. The new default gallery markup will use…

Recommendations for improving WordPress comments

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2014

BusinessMake WordPress

There are a number of things that concern me in regard to WordPress comments. They are one of those features that I have a love hate relationship with. Comments are great for active, well moderated communities. I genuinely enjoy receiving…

Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2014

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…