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
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…
Scared of WordPress core Trac? Try bug gardening.
Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressWordPress News
Helen Hou-Sandà 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
Make WordPressWordPress News
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
DesignMake WordPress
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…
WordPress 3.8 brainstorming
Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressWordPress News
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
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,…
WordPress 3.6 “Oscar”
Japh Thomson
Make WordPressWordPress News
The long-awaited release of WordPress 3.6 has arrived.
The history of WordPress book is on Github
Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressWordPress News
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
Make WordPressWordPress News
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
Make WordPressWordPress News
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
Make WordPressWordPress News
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
Make WordPressSecurity
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
Make WordPressWordPress News
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
Make WordPressWordPress News
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
Make WordPressWordPress News
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…
