One of the things that we’ve been thinking about doing is providing even more roundups for those that can’t keep up-to-date with all that is going on – and one of the larger areas of growth in the WordPress ecosystem are the incredible amount of WordPress plugins and themes that are released and updated every single day. And since we’re all about doing things daily, well, we might as well give it a go! You’ll find great roundups that list the “best of” and “top 10 __________” all over the place but what you don’t find is many that will […]
The WordPress Weekend Roundup
Wow. It’s like everybody and their mother decided to make the first week of the new year a blogging week! There have been a lot of updates this past week and even more that don’t directly related to WordPress and/or Automattic proper news, but we of course want to provide the best roundup possible so you can still be encouraged, find great resources, and be an even better WordPress uers! Let us know if we missed anything! For your knowledge, we have 36 links in this update, so don’t forget to hit “Next Page”!
Jetpack Moves to 2.1, Big Bug Fix Release, Tiled Galleries
Get a new notification in your dashboard yesterday and/or this morning to update Jetpack? Yup, it’s moved to 2.0.4 to 2.1.0 (and then 2.1.1) with a number of bug fixes that many of you have recognized and experienced. The list is long but here are some of the highlights for those that were having issues with 2.0.4 and the previous:
Need Testers for 3.5.1!
Andrew Nacin dropped a quick post that’s worth mentioning for those that want to spend a little time this weekend helping millions of people blog a bit better… test 3.5.1! Final release is tentatively scheduled for this Monday! Call for testers. WordPress 3.5.1 is now in beta and we could use your help. (Use either the 3.5 branch in SVN, the WordPress Beta Tester plugin, or the nightly build (zip).) There’s about 30 tickets currently resolved, and another few we’re still working on. Here’s the full report of those. In particular, we could use help testing multisite rewrite rules. There’s a comment with testing instructions on the ticket, #23073. […]
Aaron Campbell (Ranger) to Co-Lead WordPress 3.6
Finally, a co-lead to Mark Jaquith has been found for the WordPress 3.6 release! Yippee! Aaron Campbell, partner and CTO of Range, is not a new-comer to WordPress and should provide an excellent source of support after having contributed for more than 5 years to core and related products. We’re excited to see them team up together and work their WordPress magic, as we know they will. Aaron shares a few thoughts on their blog on some of the current ideas being tossed about for the 3.6 release:
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