Tag Archives: Beta

Post thumbnails changes

By Dougal | Published: December 11, 2009

If you visited my site in the last 9 hours and found it displaying nothing but an error message, my apologies. It’s part of the danger of running my site out of the WordPress SVN trunk (i.e., beta code), and taking advantage of new features.

My site automatically pulls in the latest code changes from SVN at midnight. And it seems that sometime yesterday, all of the post_image_* functions were renamed to post_thumbnail_*, and I failed to wrap one of my function calls with function_exists() protection. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged downtime, features, functions, images, Themes, thumbnails, WordPress | 8 Comments

WordPress 2.9 Features

By Dougal | Published: October 16, 2009

This site is now running on WordPress 2.9-rare (which is our “pre-alpha” designation, for those of you who don’t know). WP 2.9 is in “feature freeze”, which means no new features will be considered for this version, and the developers will concentrate on finishing up the existing new features and any outstanding bugs. So far, it appears that all of my plugins are working just fine.

The main new features I’ve actually seen so far are the addition of the “Post Thumbnail” box in the writing screen, the new “trash” status for posts, pages, and comments, and the image editor in the Media Library. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged alpha, cms, content management, content types, Development, embeds, features, Flickr, hulu, images, Media, Metadata, oembed, Plugins, qik, testing, Themes, thumbnails, viddler, vimeo, viper, viper007bond, Widgets, WordPress, youtube | 82 Comments

What’s the buzz?

By Dougal | Published: June 1, 2009

Here’s a quick post, just to let everybody know that I’m still alive.

During my long silence here, a lot of things have been happening in the WordPress community. First and foremost is the upcoming WordPress 2.8 release. There are several nifty new features in there. The most notable (for me) are probably:

Built-in theme browser/installer
Drag-n-drop widget management
Syntax highlighting when using theme/plugin editor
Image cropping in media uploader
New theme functions for author metadata
New OOP WP_Widget framework for plugin authors
More support for custom taxonomies
New combined i18n/escaping theme functions
Script loading improvements

The first four are the main “visible” features for this release. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged cms, Development, features, taxonomies, Themes, webdev, Widgets, WordPress | 9 Comments

WordPress 2.7.1-beta1 tagged in SVN

By Dougal | Published: February 3, 2009

There hasn’t been an official announcement yet, but I noticed that SVN was tagged with WordPress 2.7.1-beta1 the other day. Though there have been many patches in the 2.7 branch since the last release, most of what I’ve seen appears to be pretty minor bugfixes (though one patch jumps out at me). [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged patches, Releases, svn, testing, WordPress, wp27 | 6 Comments

WordPress 2.7 RC 2

By Dougal | Published: December 10, 2008

WordPress 2.7 RC 2 is now available. There have been nearly 150 bugfixes since RC1, including improvements to the backend styling, RTL fixes, core and plugin updater fixes, improvements to categegory and tag handling, and much more. Barring any major new bugs being discovered, this will likely be the last release candidate before the official 2.7 release. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged bugfixes, Releases, testing, ui, updater, WordPress | 4 Comments

WordPress iPhone App beta testing

By Dougal | Published: November 10, 2008

Do you use WordPress? Do you have an iPhone? Or do you just like beta testing cool apps? You could help beta-test the upcoming WordPress for iPhone 1.2 release.

The catch is, you can’t test unreleased apps on an actual iPhone. Instead, you have to download the (free) SDK, and run the code in the iPhone simulator. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Apple, apps, iPhone, Programming, sdk, testing, usability, WordPress | 12 Comments

WordPress 2.6.2-beta1

By Dougal | Published: August 29, 2008

It looks like there’s going to be another point-release of WordPress coming soon. WordPress version 2.6.2-beta1 was just branded in svn a short while ago. . [...]

Posted in Announcements, Community, WordPress | Also tagged bugfix, Releases, Software, WordPress | 28 Comments

WordPress 2.6.1-beta1

By Dougal | Published: August 7, 2008

I’m surprised that I haven’t seen mention of this from other channels yet (official or unofficial), but two days ago, SVN revision 8561 of the WordPress 2.6 branch was labled as WordPress version 2.6.1-beta1. The log messages reveal that most changes since the 2.6 release are minor bug and typo fixes. . [...]

Posted in Announcements, Community, WordPress | Also tagged Atom, AtomPub, Blogging, bugfix, Bugs, cms, Software, ssl, WordPress | 17 Comments

Update on WordPress blog APIs

By Dougal | Published: June 30, 2008

I mentioned previously that the XML-RPC and Atom blog APIs would be disabled by default when WordPress 2.6 is released. This was a matter of some debate within the community, and there has been some clarification:

The APIs will not be automatically disabled for sites upgrading from older versions. [...]

Posted in Announcements, Atom, Blogging, Community, WordPress | Also tagged API, Atom, AtomPub, delicious, Flickr, posting, Services, tools, WordPress, xml-rpc, xmlrpc | 30 Comments

WordPress 2.6 Beta 1

By Dougal | Published: June 24, 2008

Last night Ryan Boren announced the release of WordPress 2.6 Beta 1. At first glance, you probably wouldn’t notice much difference between versions 2.5 and 2.6. The two biggest new features are Post Revisions, which saves a history of edits made to each post, and support for Gears, which greatly speeds up working with the admin screens.

Other changes of note: