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• WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 2

  5986 readersThe second release candidate for WordPress 3.3 is now available! As the first release candidate was well-received, we think we’re really close to a final release. Primarily, we’ve ensured that new toolbar (the admin bar in 3.2) has a consistent appearance across all browsers, and the API for developers is now final. You can check our

• WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate

  2316 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

• WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 3

  5943 readersThe third (and hopefully final!) release candidate for WordPress 3.3 is now available. Since RC2, we’ve done a handful of last-minute tweaks and bugfixes that we felt were necessary. Our goal is to release version 3.3 early next week, so plugin and theme authors, this is your last pre-release chance to  test your plugins and themes  to find any compatibility

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  WordPress 3.0 Beta Rounds Are Here

  3959 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

• 3.0 RC3

  2922 readersA weekend present, in haiku: Last call; final bugs Itch, scratch, contort; calmly wait For now: RC3 That’s right. What will hopefully be the final release candidate, RC3, is now available for download and testing. Plugin developers: test your plugins!

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  Backup WordPress Before Upgrading to 3.0

  2841 readersOur iThemes developer Chris Jean just did a blog post about WordPress 3.0 being released that has some good information about this blockbuster release for WP. It’s one of the most highly anticipated releases yet … with custom menus, custom post types, and the WPMU now Multi-Site merge. We’re very pleased to see Chris Jean’s name

• WordPress 3.2 Release Candidate 2

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• WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 2

  2579 readersThe second release candidate for WordPress 3.1 is now available. The requisite haiku: Rounding up stragglers Last few bugs for 3.1 Go test RC2 As I outlined in the announcement post for RC1, release candidates are the last stop before the final release. It means we think we’re done, and we again have no bugs

• BuddyPress 1.2 Release Candidate

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