Vote for 2.9 Media Features





Vote for 2.9 Media Features

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Last Wednesday, the core development team and a number of contributing developers met in the IRC #wordpress-dev channel to talk about which features should be included in version 2.9, which is now entering the development phase. We’ve been planning to focus on media features in 2.9 for some time, and ...


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Contributing to WordPress, Part IV: Ideas, Opinions, Feedback

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

“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 an anonymous millionaire. Er, I mean the four core devs.” These sentiments, and ...


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Contributing to WordPress, Part III: Usability Testing

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

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. ...


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WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 1

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

We’ve started work on the first maintenance release to 2.8.  2.8.1 will fix a handful of bugs that turned up in 2.8.  Today we’re releasing the first beta of 2.8.1.  Download it, and check out the bugs fixed so far.  Here are some of the notable issues that are fixed ...


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WordPress 2.8 Release Candidate 1

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

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.


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