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WordPress core proposal: portability

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Brian Krogsgard
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The biggest feature lacking in WordPress is portability. We have an exporter for post content, but this exporter omits settings, widgets, theme options, and a large swath of data necessary for truly moving a site from server A to server…

WordPress 3.9 Beta 1 released

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Brian Krogsgard
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WordPress 3.9 Beta 1 is out and ready for you to test. There are loads of enhancements that you can see a basic description of and hop into the tickets on Trac where they were hashed out. I'll be covering…

HTML5 galleries to land in WordPress 3.9

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Brian Krogsgard
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Since WordPress 3.6, it's been possible for theme developers to optionally add HTML5 support for search forms, comment forms, and comment lists. With WordPress 3.9, that optional support will be extended to galleries. The new default gallery markup will use…

Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0

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Brian Krogsgard
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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…

The design of WordPress 3.8

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Brian Krogsgard
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Matt Thomas goes into detail on design considerations for MP6, which became the new look of WordPress in 3.8. Also, it's just so impressive how many people were involved in this project. Excellent wrap-up by Matt.

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

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Brian Krogsgard
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WordPress 3.8, "Parker", has just been released. WordPress 3.8 is the result of four months of hard work by 188 core contributors. Named after Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist and bepob innovator. WordPress 3.8's development was led by WordPress co-founder, Matt…

Commit messages can be poetry, too

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Brian Krogsgard
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Ryan Boren, WordPress Lead Developer and Bug Whisperer, decided to create a poem on the importance of eliminating trailing whitespace in his latest commit to the WordPress codebase. The Pinking Shears stir from their slumber, awakened by what may seem,…

WordPress 3.8, “almost”

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Brian Krogsgard
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WordPress 3.8 Release Candidate 1 is out. This means that the next major version of WordPress is getting close. I was pretty entertained by Matt Mullenweg's slug of "3-8-almost" in the announcement post. As he notes, it's definitely time to…

WordPress through the ages

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Brian Krogsgard
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Jeff Matson has gathered up screenshots of every major design change of the WordPress admin and default themes on Inmotion Hosting's blog. It's fairly interesting to take a bird's eye view on the evolution of the visible aspects of WordPress.

I can haz braces?

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Brian Krogsgard
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WordPress core is debating a change to always require braces, even for one line, in PHP if statements. Looks like the +1's are winning. That's a good thing in my opinion. Is this the most detail oriented thing I've ever…

WordPress 3.7.1 is out

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Brian Krogsgard
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WordPress 3.7.1 is out with eleven bug fixes. If you are already on WordPress 3.7 and you are eligible for auto-updates, they will start rolling out soon. If you want to find out if you're eligible for auto-updates, you can…
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