WordPress

  • WordPress.tv is Branching Out Into Beginner Tutorial Videos

    WordPress.tv is Branching Out Into Beginner Tutorial Videos

    WordPress.tv is expanding its video catalog beyond WordCamp session recordings. As most of the video content on the site centers around topics for developers and established users, the WPTV team is now actively soliciting submissions for more beginner video tutorials. Are you a proud member of the WordPress community, who creates (or would like to…

  • Menu Customizer Officially Approved for Merge Into WordPress 4.3

    Menu Customizer Officially Approved for Merge Into WordPress 4.3

    The Menu Customizer plugin was merged into WordPress trunk today and will be one of the headline features of the 4.3 release. Roughly a week ago the feature plugin was tentatively approved for merge, pending an a11y audit and PHP and JS tests. Following an overwhelming amount of negative feedback from the community, core contributors…

  • WordPress Core Contributors Call for User Testing on the Menu Customizer Plugin

    WordPress Core Contributors Call for User Testing on the Menu Customizer Plugin

    Ryan Boren published a post to the Make/WordPress Core blog this afternoon, titled Trust, Live Preview, and Menus in the Customizer. In it he clarified the reasons why he and several other core contributors are committed to iterating the customizer and identified the feature as a means of building user trust through live previews. Being…

  • A Primer on Writing Good Documentation

    A Primer on Writing Good Documentation

    This post was contributed by guest author Jeff Matson. Jeff is the head of documentation for GravityForms. He is the creator of the Heartbeat Control WordPress plugin and is a fan of the 90s. Often times, documentation is the most underrated piece of the development process. When we look at rockstars in the WordPress community,…

  • Menu Customizer Tentatively Approved for WordPress 4.3

    Menu Customizer Tentatively Approved for WordPress 4.3

    WordPress 4.3 release lead Konstantin Obenland posted notes from this week’s core development chat, confirming that the Menu Customizer plugin has been conditionally approved to merge. The approval is pending a few conditions that will be required before officially merging it: Complete a11y audit. Address possible blockers. Merge php tests. Add JS tests. One of…

  • Menu Customizer Officially Proposed for Merge Into WordPress 4.3

    Menu Customizer Officially Proposed for Merge Into WordPress 4.3

    Contributors on the Menu Customizer feature plugin are proposing its inclusion in WordPress 4.3. Nick Halsey posted the Customizer Team’s proposal last night, beginning with a summary of the purpose of moving menu management into the customizer: In the process, we hope to offer an updated design with improved user flow, a mobile-first interface, improved…

  • Why Cloudup is Not Replacing the WordPress Media Library

    Why Cloudup is Not Replacing the WordPress Media Library

    When Automattic acquired Cloudup in 2013, two of the most exciting parts of the announcement was replacing the WordPress media library with Cloudup and the ability to co-edit posts similar to Google Docs. We discussed the concept in early 2014 and readers were concerned about owning their data. Two years later, the WordPress media library and…

  • WordPress.org is Testing International Theme and Plugin Directories

    WordPress.org is Testing International Theme and Plugin Directories

    WordPress.org is making strides towards fully localizing the project’s official theme and plugin directories. Dion Hulse posted this morning that he has enabled localized theme directories for all Rosetta sites. For example, the Romanian themes directory is available at: ro.wordpress.org/themes/. Theme filters, directory sub-navigation, info and download buttons, and other aspects of the details page…

  • cPanel’s Site Software Addon Disables WordPress Auto Updates

    cPanel’s Site Software Addon Disables WordPress Auto Updates

    A little more than two months ago, Derek Munson, who goes by the username Drumology2001 published a thread in the WordPress.org support forums. While performing maintenance on several WordPress sites on his virtual private server, Munson discovered a number of them running outdated versions. Versions ranged from 3.9 to 4.1 with at least one site…

  • How to Restore the Link Title Attribute Removed in WordPress 4.2

    How to Restore the Link Title Attribute Removed in WordPress 4.2

    WordPress 4.2 is a week old and has been downloaded more than six million times. One of the first things I noticed after updating is the change to the Insert/edit link modal box. Instead of having to apply a title to the URL, the title is replaced with Link Text. The text that is highlighted…

  • How Barış Ünver Lives and Works with Censorship in Turkey

    How Barış Ünver Lives and Works with Censorship in Turkey

    Doc Pop of Torquemag.io has published a great article featuring WordPress developer, Barış Ünver. Ünver is 27 years old and a Tuts+ author living in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. In the article, Ünver describes what it’s like to live and work in Turkey. When asked whether WordPress being blocked in Turkey is a regular…

  • WordPress 4.2.1 Released to Patch Comment Exploit Vulnerability

    WordPress 4.2.1 Released to Patch Comment Exploit Vulnerability

    This morning we reported on an XSS vulnerability in WordPress 4.2, 4.1.2, 4.1.1, and 3.9.3, which allows an attacker to compromise a site via its comments. The security team quickly patched the vulnerability and released 4.2.1 within hours of being notified. WordPress’ official statement on the security issue: The WordPress team was made aware of…

  • Insight into the Jamaican WordPress Community with Bianca Welds

    Insight into the Jamaican WordPress Community with Bianca Welds

    Last week, I met Bianca Welds who lives in Jamaica. She’s used WordPress for more than 10 years and has knowledge of the developing tech scene in Jamaica. In this interview, we learn how she discovered WordPress, the Jamaican WordPress community, and if the country will ever host a WordCamp. How long have you used…

  • Why Some Sites Automatically Updated to WordPress 4.1.3

    Why Some Sites Automatically Updated to WordPress 4.1.3

    Since WordPress 4.2 was released, some users are questioning why their sites have automatically updated to WordPress 4.1.3. There’s no information about the release on the Make WordPress Core site or the official WordPress news blog. However, this Codex article explains what’s in 4.1.3 and the reason it was released. Fix database writes for esoteric…