Check out these 2 videos from Andrew Nacin, the first is a 45 minute discussion on WP_Query. Certainly not for the faint of heart but it should provide food for thought. The second video is an interesting 38 minute review of what’s happened in WordPress from 2010-2012 and what’s coming down the pipe. Enjoy after the jump!
Freakin’ crap. The editorial flow for 3.6 was the feature that I was most looking forward to in the upcoming 3.6 release, especially with all the editorial work that we do here on WP Daily. And I know that many of you also shared similar excitement with the coming addition to core as it would significantly increase your productivity and content management. Alas, it was heartbreaking to hear that it’s been dropped – the justifications are reasonable and I’m not that upset but I may pour out a little liquor for my editorial flow homies. Mark Jaquith broke the sad news yesterday: I’ve […]
Last week, the folks over at jQuery announced that they have open sourced their entire website, including content, and made it avaliable on GitHub. And even more exciting, the jQuery website now runs on WordPress! Of course, being the creative hackers that they are, this is no ordinary WordPress install. The jQuery team sought out a way to make it easy for people to edit content without having to awkwardly access the admin panel or download the entire site for local devlopment. jQuery.com content exists in static form for the most part, in either Markdown, static HTML or XML format. […]
There’s been a lot of confusion surrounding Automattic Inc., the WordPress Foundation, WordPress.org/WordPress.com and everything else in between. So much so that most people unfortunately use all of it interchangeably which is the wrong thing to do. I want to clearly state that there are distinct differences between all of them and that it’s worth knowing what you’re talking about when you start jumping into the muddy waters that is licensing, the GPL, ownership, and developing a WordPress-centric business. At the center of all of this is really the WordPress Foundation so by establishing this we can clearly take a look […]
Ever bought a stationary bike the entire family was ecstatic about using, only to see it turn into an expensive clothes rack? Then a few years later you finally decide to get serious about it and start spinning? In WordPress Universe, post formats are like that bike. The main problem with post formats is that they make theme developers do a lot of guess work. If you search Post formats Codex page, you’ll find words could and may thirteen times (combined), should is there only once, not a perfect implementation of Decisions not Options principle. The whole idea behind post formats was to create a […]
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. […]
Jane Wells has finalized the counts and votes for Team Reps for each of the areas and it looks like we’ve got some final numbers and names for those that will be representing the WordPress community and development in 2013. We are still waiting on a few areas for commitment and finalization but we’ll update this list when those go through! Congrats to those that have been chosen and a big THANK YOU since your time and commitment to us and the greater WordPress community really matters a lot. And here they are:
WordPress 3.5 only dropped this month, but things are moving on quickly. We’re expecting to see 3.5.1 around January 2 to resolve the few issues that came up, and already we’re starting to talk about the development cycle for WordPress 3.6. Andrew Nacin was the lead for the 3.5 cycle, and now the reins pass back to Mark Jaquith for 3.6. Mark is also looking for applicants to step up as a backup lead for this cycle, should he be unavailable for any reason. Mark has said he’s planning for this release to focus on content editing, specifically relating to autosave, […]
No worries here but it seems the core team, after a few issues with TinyMCE last night, has decided to have another Release Candidate prepped and then at least a 24 hour freeze with changes to the trunk. They are asking people to boot it up, test it, and see if you can break it. In fact, Andrew Nacin shares exactly what needs to be reviewed:
Just checked @rescuetime. I’ve worked more than 50 hours of the last 72. Hello, Thursday! (And WordPress 3.5, be done already…) — Andrew Nacin (@nacin) December 6, 2012 The WordPress Team has been working over-time to launch WordPress 3.5 – in fact, the last ticket was knocked off the list yesterday so it could be here any moment now. Guys like Andrew Nacin has been working for more than 50 hours in the past 72 – you need to get some sleep!
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