It is time once again to poke WordPress with a sharp stick. WordPress 3.3 Beta 4 has been released, and all major tickets have been closed. Along with the bug fixes come some subtle UI tweaks, more real text (instead of placeholders), and jQuery 1.7.1. The developers feel that they are “very close to a release candidate,” so now’s the time to start poking, prodding, and breaking as many things as you can. If you run into any bugs, don’t forget to report them and contact the support forum if you need help.
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WordPress 3.3 Beta 3 has been released. WordPress 3.3 is quickly on its way to its first release candidate. New features have been frozen, and over 200 fixes have been made since the last beta release. Plugin and theme authors are encouraged to test their code against the latest beta release, especially if their plugins or themes use jQuery in core as that has been upgraded to the 1.7 release.
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/10
WordPress 3.3 Beta 1 has been released. While this release isn’t ready for live usage yet, it’s time for plugin and theme developers to test their products against the upcoming 3.3 release, and time for you curious folks with test installations to get a sneak peek at what’s new. Along with a few miscellaneous fixes, WordPress 3.3 adds a new media uploader, an improved admin bar, and fancy fly-out menus in the Dashboard. Users of this first beta release are encouraged to report any bugs that they find and visit the support forums for help as necessary.
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Theme Releases for 10/4
WordPress 3.2 has been downloaded over 9 million times since it was released last July. That means that there has almost been 100,000 downloads of WordPress 3.2 each day, once again calling out to the rapid adoption rate that WordPress sees with each major release. At this rate, WordPress 3.2 will soon exceed the 15 million count that WordPress 3.1 reached just before WordPress 3.2 was released. If you aren’t using WordPress, start today and contribute to the counter’s rise!
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Plugin Releases for 9/28
iThemes is launching an outstanding program designed for educators, “focusing on delivering high-quality web design tools and training to the education community.” To get the ball rolling, they’re asking for only 100 qualified educators to apply before October 1st. Those who are accepted into the beta run will receive over 150 high-quality themes, over 20 plugins, 300 hours of professional training, and more as the year continues. Not only is WordPress the most popular blogging platform today, it’s also become quite popular as a class resource. Many teachers are setting up P2-themed blogs for class discussion or simply using WordPress as a base (with no blog element) to provide class-related documents, movies, and more. As someone who was raised in a family of educators, it’s great to see a company like iThemes stepping up to provide such an all-in-one program to help other educators get started with WordPress, and it’s […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/19
If you’re the kind of person who loves playing with statistics over the weekend, you’re going to love this! The anonymous results from the survey mentioned in this year’s State of the Word have been made available. There’s a lot of fascinating info to collect from the data. The piece that interests me the most is already detailed in the post itself: 6,800 self-employed respondents were responsible for over 170,000 sites personally, and charged a median hourly rate of $50 . . . If each site took only 3 hours to make, that’s $29.5M of work at the average hourly rate. Yes, that’s an impressive amount of money to be generated by folks using a free blogging platform. Which fascinating stats were you able to collect?
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/15
The State of the Word is given each year at WordCamp San Francisco. It’s basically an address to the entire WordPress community from Matt Mullenweg, sharing some favorite moments from WordPress’s past and some looks into its future, and this year’s State of the Word did not disappoint. Fortunately, the video was published rather quickly this year, so those of you who missed it can enjoy it now. Here are some highlights in no particular order: A survey was issued to the community, and out of 18,000 responses, 2,800 make their living through WordPress, and consultants charge an average of $58 per hour. This year, 22% of newly registered domains are running WordPress. Future versions will include a responsive admin interface which resizes perfectly on all screen sizes, even smart phones. Drag-and-drop media uploads are planned for a future version. Upcoming releases will feature a more guided experience for new […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Theme Releases for 7/28
The plans for WordPress 3.3 have been laid. There’s a lot to get done before the potential November 15th release date, but it seems like we can definitely look forward to an improved media uploader, an informative welcome screen for first-time users, improved Dashboard performance, further admin bar improvements, permalink performance improvements, partial build update improvements, and various API improvements. If you can’t wait for WordPress 3.3, or just want to contribute to your favorite blogging platform, now is the perfect time to get involved!
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Now that WordPress 3.2 is out of the way, the development schedule for WordPress 3.3 has been posted. We can look forward the overall enhancements and fixes to be confirmed next week on July 27th, with the first beta possibly landing on September 21st, and a potential final release date of November 15th. If you have been on the sidelines about contributing to WordPress, now’s the time to get involved. Find a ticket to fix, submit a patch for your own feature request, or just help out around the forums and documentation. No matter what you choose to do, make this the first release where you can proudly say, “I helped with that.”
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James began using WordPress in 2004. Being new to WordPress (and blogging in general), he quickly found the WordPress Support Forums and basically never left. James currently resides in sunny Southern California, where he enjoys bringing happiness to millions of WordPress.com users.
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