WordPress 3.4 Beta 1 has been released. As always, this is still in development and not meant for use on live sites, but the team is planning for a final release in May if all goes as planned. This beta includes a few notable additions over the current stable release, including a new theme customizer and previewer, the ability to select header and background images from the library, support for flexible custom header image sizes, and a much improved theme browser with the ability to install child themes from the official directory. This is not yet meant for live sites, but please do take a few swings at it on a test installation. If you find any bugs, please report them, and contact the support forums if you need any help.
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WordPress has been around for quite a while now and sure has grown from the small following that it had in the early days. To that end, WordPress educator Lorelle VanFossen has collected an impressive amount of stats and data regarding the usage of WordPress today. Some highlights from the article include 98 version releases of WordPress to date, more than 100 books published on WordPress since 2006, 65 million WordPress downloads since version 3 was released in June of 2010, 14.7% of the top million websites are powered by WordPress, an average of 2.5 million pages served to 352 million people per month on WordPress.com, and (out of 2 job sites) an average of 8,615 WordPress-related are jobs posted each month. That’s just a small sampling of what Lorelle has to offer. Head on over to her article for an incredibly informative read.
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Are you looking for a way to easily manage tasks either for yourself, your team, or perhaps even your entire company? Well, now you can with WordPress! All you need is the P2 Theme and the handy Resolved Posts plugin. We use project-specific P2s for roughly 90% of our communication at Automattic, and the Resolved Posts plugin has made it incredibly easy to stay on top of bugs, recommendations, and even simple tasks. P2 is the perfect theme for collaboration within a team or company, as it allows anyone to easily write a post with threaded comments visible on the main page. The Resolved Posts plugin allows you to easily mark a post as unresolved or resolved along with some handy styling for identifying the status of tasks at a glance. If you’re looking for a new way to manage your tasks, give P2 and the Resolved Posts plugin a try […]
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WordPress is one of the simplest self-hosted blogging platforms around, but working with multisite is a different beast altogether. Sure, there are a few online guides and tutorials, but this is just one of those things you should really read up on before diving in. Mika Epstein, one of the top volunteers in the WordPress Support Forums, has just published WordPress Multisite 101, a pay-what-you-want eBook available in EPUB and PDF formats. The suggested donation for the book is $5, but depending on how useful you find it, there’s nothing stopping you from sending $10, $20, maybe even $100, or the inevitable nothing if that’s how you roll. The book covers everything from getting started to running your own network, and you will always have the forums if you need further assistance.
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If you’re a WordPress plugin developer, you may have received an email from an address other than WordPress.org notifying you that your plugin had been removed. These emails are fake and designed to gather your login information for unknown nefarious reasons. Emails from the WordPress.org Plugin Repository are always sent from a WordPress.org email address, so if you receive an email from elsewhere claiming official WordPress.org Plugin Repository business, delete it immediately. If you have already fallen victim to this phishing attack, you should change your passwords as soon as possible.
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Twenty Twelve, the next great WordPress default theme, has unfortunately been removed from the 3.4 development cycle and pushed back to 3.5. There is no specific reason given for the change, but it seems likely that the team would rather focus on the core functions as WordPress 3.4 draws closer to its inevitable April release. If you already have Twenty Twelve activated and are using trunk, make sure that you activate another theme before upgrading to the latest, as Twenty Twelve will be removed. If you want to continue to use Twenty Twelve, you can grab it from GitHub for now.
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After several years of success with Google Summer of Code, WordPress was not accepted as a mentoring organization for 2012. The reasons for this are not clear, and at this point it’s not worth speculating until the WordPress team hears back from Google during an upcoming feedback meeting. Despite this momentary hitch in their plans, the core WordPress developers are not throwing out the idea of a developing version 3.5 as a mentorship-focussed release without Google’s backing. We’ll have more news on this as it becomes available.
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Posterous, a popular hosted blogging platform, has been acquired by Twitter. The team behind Posterous assures that the service will not be disrupted, but will give “ample notice if [they] make any changes to the service,” and Sachin Agarwal (Posterous founder and CEO) is now a Product Manager for Twitter. It is not yet clear if Twitter intends to make use of the Posterous service or if this acquisition was intended to just bring the talent behind Posterous to Twitter’s ever-growing platform. If you’re concerned about the future of your Posterous Space, it’s not too late to switch to a self-hosted WordPress installation (where you have full control over your content) with this importer. If you prefer a hosted environment, like Posterous, you can move to WordPress.com following this handy guide.
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Are you looking for a super-simple quick reference for WP_Query and all of its parameters? Loosely described, WP_Query is how WordPress displays posts defined by a variety of parameters, and keeping that of the available parameters can be a monumental task. It’s easy to forget all that you can do with WP_Query if you aren’t working with it every single day. Of course, this brings me to this handy Gist. It’s nothing flashy, but it is a super-simple text file listing and describing all the WP_Query parameters. I’m not sure how long this will be around, so you might want to download it ASAP for reference when you need it.
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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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