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Subtle changes to the admin color scheme

Brian Krogsgard

April 6, 2015

Hugo Baeta posted this weekend on the Make WordPress Design blog, noting some upcoming changes in WordPress 4.2 to the default color scheme. The changes are subtle, making the blues bluer and the blacks have small shades of blues. I…

Query improvements for orderby and meta_query

Brian Krogsgard

March 30, 2015

Boone Gorges gives details of improvements for the orderby and meta_query parameters for WordPress queries, on the Make WordPress Core blog. The parameters make queries utilizing them more powerful and less "opaque", as Boone put it. The changes have been…

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.

Helen Hou-Sandí and Dion Hulse added as WordPress lead developers

Brian Krogsgard

February 3, 2015

Helen Hou-Sandí and Dion Hulse have been added as WordPress lead developers. Straight from Andrew Nacin's announcement on Make WordPress Core: The two are already highly respected leaders in the community. Dion has architected some of the most important code…

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…

WordPress is an army

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2014

WordPress News

I'm going to make an analogy and it isn't a perfect one. That's the thing with the vast majority of analogies. This is an overly long and perhaps unnecessary post to dissuade us from writing or caring about "top" lists…

WPArmChair now has its own mobile app, powered by BuddyPress and AppPresser

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

WPArmchair is a pet project by David Bisset. An avid WordCamp fan, he's regularly created microsites for WordCamps, so that attendees and folks at home can follow along, viewing tweets and pictures based on WordCamp hashtags. Now, WPArmchair is taking…

Where to learn WordPress development

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2014

WordPress News

I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I'd share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered…

Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2014

Make WordPressWordPress News

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…

A core plugin team is forming to tackle a better meta data UI

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

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…

What’s new in WordPress 3.7, “Basie”

Brian Krogsgard

October 24, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

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…

Understand WordPress internationalization and translation

Brian Krogsgard

October 3, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

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…

Automatic updates for WordPress 3.7 are ready for testing

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

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…

WP Weekend Phoenix to merge back into WordCamp Phoenix

Brian Krogsgard

September 13, 2013

WordPress News

It's been confirmed that WP Weekend Phoenix is merging back into an official WordCamp as WordCamp Phoenix. I first heard about the announcement on Twitter and confirmed with Andrea Middleton today. As you may recall, I posted about WP Weekend…

Contribute to the future of the WordPress admin dashboard

Brian Krogsgard

August 14, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

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…

WordPress 3.7 may include automatic minor version upgrades

Brian Krogsgard

August 7, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

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,…

Subtle changes to the admin color scheme

Query improvements for orderby and meta_query

The WordPress REST API

Helen Hou-Sandí and Dion Hulse added as WordPress lead developers

WordPress 4.1, “Dinah”

WordPress is an army

WPArmChair now has its own mobile app, powered by BuddyPress and AppPresser

Where to learn WordPress development

Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0

A core plugin team is forming to tackle a better meta data UI

What’s new in WordPress 3.7, “Basie”

Understand WordPress internationalization and translation

Automatic updates for WordPress 3.7 are ready for testing

WP Weekend Phoenix to merge back into WordCamp Phoenix

Contribute to the future of the WordPress admin dashboard

WordPress 3.7 may include automatic minor version upgrades

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