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  • New WordPress Trac Features Have Been Ported to bbPress and BuddyPress

    New WordPress Trac Features Have Been Ported to bbPress and BuddyPress

    So far, 2014 is the year for making over WordPress Trac. Over the past couple weeks and during the holidays, Andrew Nacin has implemented a host of new features that make it easier for contributors to collaborate with one another, get better ticket notifications and work more efficiently with new reports and keywords for sorting…

  • Why You Shouldn’t Be Worried About Screwing Up When Contributing To WordPress

    Why You Shouldn’t Be Worried About Screwing Up When Contributing To WordPress

    In the WordPress 3.9 development chat that was held on Wednesday, January 15th, a number of topics were discussed ranging from features that people are working on to announcing the date for the release of WordPress 3.9. One of the most interesting topics, however, centered around first time contributors using trac to create tickets and patches.…

  • Tax Day Release: WordPress 3.9 to Drop on April 15

    Tax Day Release: WordPress 3.9 to Drop on April 15

    The date for the WordPress 3.9 release has now been set for April 15th, which coincides with tax day in the US. American developers may want to do their taxes early, because the 3.9 release schedule will be keeping everyone busy. Tentative dates for the 4.0 and 4.1 releases are mid-August and early December, respectively.…

  • Official Git Mirror Now Available for WordPress Core Development Repository

    Official Git Mirror Now Available for WordPress Core Development Repository

    Andrew Nacin announced official git mirrors for WordPress this afternoon on the WordPress make/core development blog. These are read-only mirrors that correspond to the WordPress core development SVN repository. Git mirrors are also now available for BuddyPress, bbPress, GlotPress and the old core.svn “build” repository: git clone git://develop.git.wordpress.org/ git clone git://buddypress.git.wordpress.org/ git clone git://bbpress.git.wordpress.org/ git…

  • Cultivating a Culture of Respect in the WordPress Community

    Cultivating a Culture of Respect in the WordPress Community

    The WordPress project is going through some growing pains. After 10 years there are millions of people around the world using this software and interacting with one another on a daily basis. The vast majority of these interactions are positive and respectful and for a long time we haven’t needed any kind of official code…

  • 10 Free Chrome Extensions for WordPress Users

    10 Free Chrome Extensions for WordPress Users

    In December of 2013, w3schools reported that Chrome has captured 55.8 % of the global market share of top web browsers, with Firefox at 26.8% and IE coming in at 9.0%. With Chrome usage on the rise and now dominating the web, we’d like to highlight a few tools that will help WordPress users detect…

  • WordCamp Miami to Celebrate 5th Anniversary in May 2014

    WordCamp Miami to Celebrate 5th Anniversary in May 2014

    David Bisset has been organizing WordCamp Miami for the past five years. That’s a long time in WordPress years! WordCamp Miami will celebrate its five year anniversary May 23-25, 2014. The first WordCamp Miami was held in 2010, spreading the phenomenon of WordCamps to one of the largest metropolitan areas in the US. Every single…

  • Planning For Upcoming WordCamps in 2014

    Planning For Upcoming WordCamps in 2014

    We’re entering the time of year when everyone opens their calendars and starts planning for the new year. The dates for WordCamp San Francisco 2014 were just announced this week to be set for October 25-26. The dates and times for pre and post-WordCamp events have not yet been decided, so the organizers urge you…

  • I Contributed To The Core Of WordPress and You Can Too

    WordPress 3.8 was released just a few days ago. There were 188 contributors that helped make WordPress 3.8 a reality. I’m proud to say that I was among those 188 contributors. I never thought I’d be able to make the list but thanks to some help, I was able to contribute in my own way.…

  • 10 Great Gift Ideas for WordPress Geeks

    Many people around the world are already in the thick of celebrating a host of international holidays, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and more. If you’re celebrating a holiday involving gifts and you’re not sure what to buy the beloved WordPress geek in your life, we have a few suggestions. Even if you don’t celebrate any…

  • WordPress 3.8 “Parker” Released

    WordPress 3.8 “Parker” has been released, named for jazz artist Charlie Parker. Version 3.8 has been in the oven for 49 days. This marks the second release that contains features that started off as plugins first, a development practice we’ve covered on WPTavern at great length. It’s important to note that after upgrading to WordPress…

  • A Look Back At WordPress Through The Years

    Inmotionghosting has a great historical timeline showing images of the front and backend of WordPress starting with 1.0 up to version 3.8. Through these images, you can see the natural progression of features, designs, and layouts WordPress has gone through during the past 10 years. For many within the WordPress community, a post like this…

  • Warning: WordPress.com’s Falling Snow Feature May Make Your Site Inaccessible

    Yesterday, I explained how to make it snow on your website if you have the Jetpack plugin activated. After publishing the article, Mark Root-Wiley commented with a link that explains why the snow animation on websites is not a good idea. According to the website After Gadget which is hosted on WordPress.com, the snowflake animation…

  • WordPress 3.8 Developers Prepare Code For Hard Freeze

    WordPress 3.8 Developers Prepare Code For Hard Freeze

    WordPress 3.8 RC1 was released today ahead of the hard freeze scheduled for Dec. 5th. Strangely, this coincides with an arctic cold front that will be sweeping across the US the very same day. In sending out 3.8 RC1, Matt Mullenweg said, “The focus is on identifying any major issues and resolving them as soon…