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  Today in WordPress world – 24/02

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  WordPress 2.7 Update Core

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  Auto Upgrading to Nightly Builds

  304 readersWP’s automatic upgrade can be used to automatically upgrade to betas and nightly builds for the development branch or the latest stable branch.  To get onto a development upgrade path you must first make a small change to wp-includes/version.php. The current release of WP is 2.8.  If you peek in the version.php file, you will

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  How To Add Support For Menus In Your WordPress Theme

  1730 readersAre you running WordPress 3.0 yet? If so, you might have come across a nifty little addition called Menus. You’ll find it on your admin Dashboard in the Appearances section, and here’s a little screenshot of how it looks: As you can see, I’ve set up a new menu named “Lorraine Menu” here, and added various

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  Today in WordPress world – 27/07

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  Green Tea – Free WordPress Theme

  275 readersToday’s free WordPress theme is designed by Roshan of CSSHeaven.org (you might know him from his RamblingSoul themes). I ported the static template to WordPress and packed it with WordPress 3.0-specific features, including custom menus, headers, and backgrounds. More on that below. WordPress 3.0 Menus As stated above, this theme includes WordPress 3.0 menu support

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  WordPress 2.9 Brings Plugin Compatibility Check To Updater

  1492 readersWith the release of WordPress 2.9 expected over the next weeks, it is time to dig a little deeper and discover new features. Since the translation string freeze no new features will be added anymore. Since some days I noticed on another blog where I run the latest nightly developer build, that the new plugin

• Backwards Compatible WordPress 3.0 Functions

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