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WordPress 3.8 brainstorming

Brian Krogsgard

August 8, 2013

Matt Mullenweg led the first WordPress 3.8 planning meeting today. A bunch of potential ideas were thrown out, and it's also been opened up on the Make Core blog. Go check out all of the options and get involved in…

WordPress 3.7 may include automatic minor version upgrades

Brian Krogsgard

August 7, 2013

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I must have missed this in Matt's State of the Word talk at WordCamp San Francisco, but Vid Luther of ZippKid has brought it to my attention that WordPress 3.7 may include an automatic upgrade feature for minor versions. Meaning,…

WordPress 3.6 “Oscar”

Japh Thomson

August 1, 2013

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The long-awaited release of WordPress 3.6 has arrived.

The history of WordPress book is on Github

Brian Krogsgard

July 26, 2013

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The history of WordPres book that Siobhan McKeown is leading is now on Github so folks can help edit, or even contribute. The official title is WordPress: Freedom, Community, and the Business of Open Source. Pretty cool that the history…

Contribute to core by scratching your own itch: an interview with Scott Taylor

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2013

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I'm obsessed with the interview series on Code Poet. The latest with core contributor Scott Taylor is one of my favorites to date. Scott is a developer at The New York Times, and formerly with eMusic. He brings a wealth…

WordPress 3.6 Release Candidate 1 is out

Brian Krogsgard

July 13, 2013

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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…