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Doc Pop’s News Drop: The revised Gutenberg roadmap

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September 18, 2017

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Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. WordPress 5.0 and the Gutenberg Editor are still coming, just a little later than we may have originally hoped. In this week’s video, we talk about the revised suggested roadmap for Gutenberg, WordPress 4.9, and other future releases. One quick note, shortly after we edited this video, Matt Mullenweg shared this post about the Gutenberg team’s decision to move away from React and use a different library, which Matt states will […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Should WordPress auto-update older versions?

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September 11, 2017

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Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. In this week’s News Drop we talk about a recent discussion on the WordPress Slack channel about auto-updating sites using versions 3.7-4.0. Love WordPress news but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. If we could theoretically update out of date and at-risk WordPress sites to newer and safer versions, without necassarily getting the consent of the site’s current owner, should we? That’s the question Aaron Jorbin asked recently on […]

Taking A Closer Look At XML-RPC

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Sufyan bin Uzayr

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December 16, 2015

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XML-RPC is one of the oldest, and possibly lesser used, components of WordPress. In fact, it has been around since day one, and will probably continue to stick around for many days to come. In this article, we take a closer look at what XML-RPC is, and what it does, in reference to WordPress. What Is XML-RPC? XML-RPC is a not a WordPress-only innovation. In fact, it was a part of the original b2 software, from which WordPress was forked. However, earlier versions of WordPress had it turned off by default. Starting WordPress 3.5, functionality for XML-RPC has been turned […]

WordPress 4.1 Welcomes a New Class of Committers

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Jay Hoffmann

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September 30, 2014

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With WordPress 4.0 released, it’s time to once again look to the future, WordPress 4.1. Over the weekend, Andrew Nacin announced our new release lead for 4.1, Jack Blackbourn, and a couple of guest committers that are coming along for the ride. John Blackbourn has been a core committer to WordPress for the better half of a decade, and has made some pretty incredible contributions to the WordPress community — with valuable blog posts, and plugins like Query Monitor, User Switching, and WP Crontrol. Blackbourn will be joined by a new group of guest committers, with a few names you’ve […]

Important Updates for Plugin Developers in WordPress 3.9

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Jay Hoffmann

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April 15, 2014

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The WordPress update ready to drop this week will lack the flair and pomp that accompanies some of the more extensive updates. It will mostly feature a few UI enhancements in the Post Editor, a better theme preview, and a few stability and security improvements. But, if you’re a plugin developer, there are a couple of things to pay attention to in the update. Consider this a heads up. PHP’s MySQL Functions Deprecated As of PHP 5.5 the MySQL extension is officially deprecated, which means it will no longer be supported in WordPress. Instead, WordPress will be switching to the […]

Core Trac Gets Some Improvements

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Jay Hoffmann

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January 7, 2014

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One of the biggest barriers of entry for new users looking to contribute to WordPress core development is Core Trac, the bug and issue tracker for WordPress. Thanks to the efforts of Andrew Nacin, that barrier of entry has been lowered a bit with some great improvements in the new year. Trac has had a bit of a facelift, both aesthetically and functionally, to make it a bit easier to navigate and use. Thought it might be good to check in and let you know what’s new. The most obvious change is the few design tweaks that were made. The […]

Features As Plugins: How Are We Doing?

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Jay Hoffmann

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December 18, 2013

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WordPress 3.8, now released in its redesigned glory, was the first WordPress version to make use of the new feature as a plugin development process. I think now might be a good time to take stock of the new initiative and see how it’s been going. Feature as a Plugin? What’s That? Well hello curious WordPresser. Feature plugins were formalized in the development process last August. In truth, the idea has been around for a while, but it is now the official methodology of the WordPress core team. Basically, new features are developed in plugins first, then rolled into core […]

Widget UI Refresh for WordPress Core

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Sue Laren

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August 19, 2013

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Hold onto your hats, a key component of WordPress is getting a makeover! The goal is to have it included as part of the 3.8 release tentatively scheduled for December, 2013. The target? Widget management, and the widget user interface—introducing a whole new way of working with widgets. Have you ever been frustrated by the current setup, dragging and dropping widgets to the sidebar, possibly scrolling and “dropping” a widget in the process? Have you learned workarounds to make widgets behave the way you want them to, or added plugins for conditional placement? Maybe you haven’t given widgets much thought […]

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