WordPress 2.7 Beta 2

WordPress Development Blog: WordPress 2.7 Beta 2

WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 is ready. Here is a quick rundown of changes since beta 1.

The Upload button didn’t always show. Fixed.
JS on the Dashboard broke for blogs with no comments, causing several UI elements to “freeze”. Fixed.
Recent Drafts Dashboard module didn’t show correct times. Fixed.
Various Autosave fixes.
Redirect after deleting a page from the editor [...]

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WordPress 2.7 Beta 1

WordPress Development Blog: WordPress 2.7 Beta 1

The first public beta of WordPress 2.7 is here at last. Join the thousands of people already testing 2.7 by downloading 2.7 Beta 1. As previously mentioned on this blog, 2.7 is bringing a new visual design. This design is almost completely implemented, but there are still a few areas that aren’t quite finished in [...]

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Stoyan Stefanov’s Blog: Best open-source PHP CMS 2008

PHPDeveloper.org: Stoyan Stefanov’s Blog: Best open-source PHP CMS 2008

Stoyan has once again been tasked with helping Packt Publishing find the best open-source PHP CMS for 2008:

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Calling All WordPress-loving Icon Designers

WordPress Development Blog: Calling All WordPress-loving Icon Designers

Have you seen the getting-prettier-all-the-time menus in 2.7-almost-beta? They really are. Getting prettier all the time, I mean. Once we drop in the fonts and do a little brushing up of edges and colors, the menu system is going to be smooth. The last thing we’ll need to do to is replace the icons we’ve [...]

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WordPress 2.6.3

WordPress Development Blog: WordPress 2.6.3

A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately. 2.6.3 is available for download right now. If you don’t want to download the whole [...]

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The Visual Design of 2.7

WordPress Development Blog: The Visual Design of 2.7

It’s finally here, the moment you’ve all been waiting for! The long months of your tolerance and forbearance as you suffered through the inelegance of our hacked-together, leftover Crazyhorse interface are almost at an end. (Was it really that painful?)
The visuals you have been craving are finally finished enough to show, and have been [...]

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WordPress 2.7 Wireframes

WordPress Development Blog: WordPress 2.7 Wireframes

For those of you who have been downloading the nightly builds or contributing code to 2.7, you’ve noticed how quickly features are being added, small layout changes are gradually being implemented, and the application is morphing before your very eyes. For the most part, the response has been extremely positive, but even the people who [...]

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Cal Evans’ Blog: Upgrading WordPress

PHPDeveloper.org: Cal Evans’ Blog: Upgrading WordPress

Cal Evans has yet again upgraded his WordPress install and has list his quick and dirty process in a new post to his blog.

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WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2: Search box, Favorites menu, Future Publish

WordPress Development Blog: WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2: Search box, Favorites menu, Future Publish

Another round of mini-mockups and multiple choice questions awaits the first 5000 respondents. WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2 is now available to take your opinions regarding:

Where to put the search box
Where to put the Add New Post button/favorites menu
How to label the Future Publish/Edit Timestamp function

The survey (hosted by the good guys over at PollDaddy.com) [...]

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Francois Zaninotto’s Blog: Designing a CMS Architecture

PHPDeveloper.org: Francois Zaninotto’s Blog: Designing a CMS Architecture

A recent post from Francois Zaninotto has been getting a lot of attention recently. It’s his look at what would be needed to design a complete CMS and the full architecture behind it.

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