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WordPress 2.8 Release Candidate 1
With Release Candidate 1, we think WordPress 2.8 is ready and complete. Download it, test it, and tell us what you think. If you don’t uncover any bad bugs, 2.8 will be released on Wednesday the 10th.
If you’re interested in what has changed since beta 2, consult the changelog.
Summary of #wordpress-dev IRC meetup for 20090603
Next Wednesday, June 10th, is the target date for the release of
WordPress 2.8. Tickets against the 2.8 milestone that are not
blockers will be postponed to another release.
WP 2.9 will require MySQL 4.1.2 or greater. This is raised
WordPress 2.8 Beta 2
Download beta 2. See changes since beta 1.
WordPress 2.8 Beta 1
Download it, test it, file bugs.
What’s new? All of this.
Good hunting, all you testers.
Contributing to WordPress, Part IV: Ideas, Opinions, Feedback
“I wish they’d implement feature x.”
“Why won’t they put feature y into core? It’s rated really high in the Ideas forum!”
“It doesn’t matter what I think, all the decisions get made by an elite crime-fighting squad funded by
Contributing to WordPress, Part III: Usability Testing
One of the reasons WordPress 2.7 was such a success is the amount of usability testing that took place during the development cycle. Starting with testing 2.5 and the Crazyhorse prototype and following with the 2.7 beta, the testing program looked at almost every feature and function in the application. That kind of thing? Takes [...]
Make Friends with BuddyPress
What if there was software with the elegance and extensibility of WordPress but all the features you’ve come to expect from social networks like Facebook? Now there is: check out BuddyPress.
BuddyPress is an official sister project of WordPress. The idea behind it was to see what would happen to the web if it was as [...]
Design Tweaks Poll Results
The poll is closed, the votes are counted, and the results are interesting. The table below shows the actual breakdown of the poll votes, of which there were 2,651. As you can see, there were four main contenders: Dean J. Robinson’s Fluency-based submissions (two variations), the existing 2.7 interface, and Matt Thomas’s comp (MT), which [...]
Design Tweaks Vote
Comps for the header/nav design tweaks are in, and the results are mixed. Some people just moved a few things around, while others proposed a new style altogether. We won’t make any major changes to style in 2.8, but if the vote leans toward a submission that proposes it, we’ll do some user testing and [...]
Design Tweaks: Who’s In? (An idea in three acts)
ACT I
Jane: It is a thorn in my side that the blog name header is above the “dashboard” nav section in the admin, since in MU installations and with plugins (like stats), things in the Dashboard section span multiple blogs. Makes more sense for the header to head only the per-blog content area.
Mark: I agree [...]