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A new “Get WordPress” landing page is in the works

Brian Krogsgard

May 2, 2016

A couple of months ago, Mark Uraine described the thinking behind what is now likely to be a new landing page at WordPress.org/get: For quite a while now, the meta team has been interested in improving the download and mobile pages…

WordPress 4.5, “Coleman”, released

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2016

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 4.5, "Coleman", has just been released. The release includes new inline editing features, custom logo support, customizer enhancements, and some under the hood changes that you'll like.

If you have grumbles about the…

April 8, 2016

Design

If you have grumbles about the WordPress.org plugin repo in terms of its design and user experience, you might want to check out some wireframes recently done by the plugin team. So far, I like the general way things are…

The WordPress REST API endpoints aim for stable 2.0

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2016

Ryan McCue has posted an update on Make WordPress Core that aims to bring the WordPress REST API plugin to a stable 2.0 version, which would be an official sign of enforcing non-breaking changes from then on. The team has…

Make WordPress Great Again

Brian Krogsgard

March 21, 2016

The 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is out. It's got a ton of data and it's been shared around a good bit already. In terms of WordPress, it appeared on the "winners" list in terms of "trending tech", but the survey notes…

Scott Kingsley Clark posted an update of…

March 15, 2016

Scott Kingsley Clark posted an update of the Fields API on the Make WordPress Core site. It's a good summary of what the current API can do and what you can do to help. "Every area needs review," Scott remarks. The…

Selective refresh paves a path for frontend editing

Brian Krogsgard

February 16, 2016

The selective refresh feature plugin for the customizer makes for a better customizer experience. Weston Ruter summarized the feature on Make Core, and describes its functionality in depth. But also hints at what it makes possible. Currently, postMessage enables live…

WP Reasons is the first production…

December 17, 2015

WP Reasons is the first production of the new Make WordPress Marketing blog, and it's a flyer with reasons to use WordPress. I like.

Marketing added to Make WordPress network

Brian Krogsgard

December 15, 2015

A Marketing subsite has been added to the Make WordPress network. Sara Rosso -- the Director of Marketing at Automattic -- made the call for the new channel, and will be one of the moderators. She cited the WordPress Security whitepaper (created…

Put your WordPress posts in your WordPress posts

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

One of the feature plugins for WordPress right now is an oEmbed API. I spent a little time playing with it and talking to its maintainer, Pascal Birchler. The plugin has some interesting potential use cases, and really works quite well.…

Language packs for WordPress themes and plugins

Brian Krogsgard

September 1, 2015

Sam Sidler announced today on Make WordPress Plugins that WordPress plugins will soon be able to utilize the WordPress.org language pack feature that ships with WordPress core. Language packs were introduced to core in WordPress 3.7. As I noted then:…

WordPress 4.3 field notes are out and…

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2015

WordPress 4.3 field notes are out and has a definitive list of links to the Make WordPress posts you need to read behind the variety of new features.

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

Business

There has been a big kerfuffle the last few days in the community of theme authors and theme reviewers on WordPress.org. The theme review team discovered that some themes are skirting (knowingly or not knowingly) some old-standing rules around content creation.…

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.

WordPress 4.2 field notes

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

Aaron Jorbin has a helpful post on Make WordPress Core that offers notes on some developer centric changes in 4.2 that folks should know about. I'll cover a few of these items more on the main blog, and some I've…

WordPress REST API security update, due to exposed revisions and draft posts

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2015

Security

From the Make WordPress Core blog: This release fixes a serious information disclosure vulnerability, which allowed for unpublished content and post revisions to be retrieved via the REST API. and This release was coordinated by the REST API team and…

A new “Get WordPress” landing page is in the works

WordPress 4.5, “Coleman”, released

If you have grumbles about the…

The WordPress REST API endpoints aim for stable 2.0

Make WordPress Great Again

Scott Kingsley Clark posted an update of…

Selective refresh paves a path for frontend editing

WP Reasons is the first production…

Marketing added to Make WordPress network

Put your WordPress posts in your WordPress posts

Language packs for WordPress themes and plugins

WordPress 4.3 field notes are out and…

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

WordPress 4.2, “Powell”, released

WordPress 4.2 field notes

WordPress REST API security update, due to exposed revisions and draft posts

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