2795 readersHaikus from Jane on her 39th birthday: Practice makes perfect is what they say about things, but sometimes it’s not. In this case it is not practice but refinement, and then more testing. You can help WordPress! Now: 3.1, beta 2 is here; needs testing. But! Remember this: Only install on test sites, as YMMV.
2575 readersBackupBuddy is a great plugin. In fact, recently, it’s become even better now that it has support for Amazon S3 for off site backups and the FTPS protocol. Another staple in the PluginBuddy store is the PluginBuddy Mobile plugin. This plugin enables you to use the built-in style manager you create mobile-ready themes for iPhones
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11502 readersTesters, Beta 3 is now available! You know the drill: use a test install, see what you can break, and report any bugs you find. There have been 200 commits since Beta 2, but at this point, betas are not adding new features — it’s all about fixing bugs, making things a little prettier, and
3886 readersAlmost three weeks ago WordPress released WordPress 3.0 beta1. At the time of that release the estimated release date for WordPress 3.0 was set at May 1st. Unfortunately that date was not a set as we’d hoped it to be. There’s been a lot of discussion about the the new WordPress 3.0 menu functionality over
3487 readersFollowing the successful post-WordCamp San Francisco code sprint, we are now ready to release the second beta of WordPress 3.0. Things to test: Revised menu user interface Changes to the WordPress exporter and importer to make it more flexible Already have a test install that you want to switch over to the beta? Try the
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9631 readersWordPress 3.3 Beta 3 has been released. WordPress 3.3 is quickly on its way to its first release candidate. New features have been frozen, and over 200 fixes have been made since the last beta release.
Plugin and theme authors are encouraged to test their code against the latest beta release, especially if their plugins or
3938 readersI don’t think there has ever been a WordPress release update I’ve been so eagerly waiting on as the final release of WordPress 3.0. Well, perhaps other than the jump from 1.5 to 2.0 when pages were added to the equation. This time around again we’ve got a world of goodies which I already talked
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1932 readersJoost de Valk has contributed a lot to WP: if you are running a WordPress blog, chances are high that you run at least one of his plugins.
Today, you can get the chance to test a SEO plugin, still in Beta but with lots of impressive features already!
Basically the plugin will gather already existing functionalities
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2119 readersThe first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.1 is now available. An RC comes after the beta period and before final release. That means we think we’re done. We currently have no known issues or bugs to squash. But with tens of millions of users, a variety of configurations, and thousands of plugins, it’s possible
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5741 readersThe march toward 3.3 continues!
With all our major tickets closed, we are very close to a release candidate. In Beta 4 we’ve fixed a bunch of bugs, cleaned up the UI, added real text in some of the screens that still had placeholder text in Beta 3 (post-update screen, the Dashboard welcome area, new feature