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What’s new in WordPress 3.7, “Basie”

Brian Krogsgard

October 24, 2013

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2013

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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…

A new WordPress editing concept: Inline access

Mark Root-Wiley

September 26, 2013

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Previously mentioned on Post Status, there's a Front End Editor "Feature as Plugin" in the works. The idea of front end editing (aka "inline editing") has been around for a long time and may make it into Drupal 8. Medium…

Automatic updates for WordPress 3.7 are ready for testing

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2013

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Dion Hulse has been working on the automatic update functionality for WordPress 3.7, and he's ready for you to test it. His update on the Make WordPress Core blog has a lot of detail about how it works, and what…

First look at a front end editing concept for WordPress core

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2013

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Front end editing was highlighted as a possible "feature as plugin" concept last month. Now, some initial concepts and a (very raw) plugin are out with some ideas and concepts. It's a good time to have your say on how…

WordPress 3.6.1 security release is out

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2013

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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

Brian Krogsgard

August 29, 2013

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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

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2013

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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…

Contribute to the future of the WordPress admin dashboard

Brian Krogsgard

August 14, 2013

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Hate the WordPress admin dashboard? Now's a good time to voice your opinion. Dave Martin is looking into rethinking the dashboard, potentially for WordPress 3.8. He's put a survey on the Make WordPress Core blog where you can voice your…

Scared of WordPress core Trac? Try bug gardening.

Brian Krogsgard

August 13, 2013

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Helen Hou-Sandí has some advice for those of you that might be afraid of WordPress core's development processes. You could get involved with bug gardening, which essentially allows you to set milestones and make sure bugs aren't getting left behind…

The future of WPDB

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2013

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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

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2013

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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…