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WordPress Core Team Announces Release Leads for WordPress 4.3 and 4.4
photo credit: DSC01356 – (license) Andrew Nacin announced on the Make Core blog that Konstantin Obenland will lead the release of WordPress 4.3, while Scott Taylor will lead 4.4. Obenland’s latest...
View ArticleWhat Do You Want to See in WordPress 4.4?
Scott Taylor, who is leading the development cycle for WordPress 4.4, published a post on the Make WordPress Core site asking people what they’d like to see in WordPress 4.4. The post has generated a...
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First Look at the Twenty Sixteen Default WordPress Theme
WordPress 4.4 is the last scheduled major release of the year and with it will come a new default theme to replace Twenty Fifteen. On the Make WordPress Core site, Tammie Lister published an image...
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WordPress 4.4 to Possibly Rearrange Fields to the Comment Form
WordPress plugin and theme developers need to take note of an important change in WordPress 4.4 that rearranges the comment form. In WordPress 4.4, the comment form is arranged so that the text area is...
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WordPress 4.4 Removes the View Post and Get Shortlink Buttons From the Post...
In WordPress 4.4, the View Post button in the post editor is disappearing in favor of a clickable permalink. Four years ago, Scribu, who is a former WordPress contributor, created ticket #18306. In the...
View ArticleWPWeekly Episode 208 – A Nod to the King
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I discuss the death of Alex King who was a pillar of the WordPress project. King passed away a few days ago from colon cancer. We share stories of...
View ArticleWordPress 4.4 to Deprecate the wp_title Function
A year after WordPress 4.1 introduced a new way to display titles in themes, WordPress 4.4 will deprecate wp_title(). With the change, plugin authors will be able to check for theme support and use a...
View ArticleWordPress 4.4 Beta 1 Released
After more than eight weeks in development, WordPress 4.4. beta 1 is available for testing. With over 1,600 commits since WordPress 4.3’s release, it’s important that 4.4 be tested by as many people as...
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Joe McGill Explains How Responsive Images Work in WordPress 4.4
One of the key features in WordPress 4.4 is responsive images. Joe McGill, who is helping to merge the feature to core, joined me for a thirty minute interview to explain how it works. When users...
View ArticleWPWeekly Episode 211 – Kyle Maurer Co-founder of Real Big Marketing
In this episode, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Kyle Maurer, Co-founder of Real Big Marketing. Maurer grew up in rural Michigan working on farms without much knowledge of the IT industry. He...
View ArticleWordPress 4.4 Streamlines Content Sharing
For the last six years, WordPress has been an oEmbed consumer, adding support for services with nearly every major release since 2.9. In WordPress 4.4, it switches roles and is an oEmbed provider....
View ArticleA Field Guide to Major Features in WordPress 4.4
The WordPress 4.4 field guide is available and covers all of the major features in WordPress 4.4. The guide explains what the features are and more specifically, links to posts that explain how they...
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WordPress 4.4 “Clifford” Featuring Responsive Images, Twenty Sixteen, and More
After four months of intense development led by Scott Taylor, WordPress 4.4 “Clifford” named after jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, is available for download. This release features responsive images,...
View ArticleWPWeekly Episode 216 – WordCamp US 2015 Recap Roundtable
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Michele Butcher, Nikhil Vimil, Kiko Doran, and Chris Wiegman as we recap the first annual WordCamp US. We discuss the venue and...
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How to Fix Images Not Loading in WordPress 4.4 While Using SSL
If you notice images don’t load after upgrading to WordPress 4.4 and you use SSL on the frontend, you’re not alone. In a thread on the WordPress.org support forum, Brokkr explains the crux of the...
View ArticlePoll: Have You Used the oEmbed Feature for Posts?
When WordPress 4.4 “Clifford” was released in December of 2015, it turned WordPress into an oEmbed provider. This made it easy for sites running on WordPress 4.4 or later to have its content embedded...
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WordPress 4.4 Removes the View Post and Get Shortlink Buttons From the Post...
In WordPress 4.4, the View Post button in the post editor is disappearing in favor of a clickable permalink. Four years ago, Scribu, who is a former WordPress contributor, created ticket #18306. In the...
View ArticleWPWeekly Episode 208 – A Nod to the King
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I discuss the death of Alex King who was a pillar of the WordPress project. King passed away a few days ago from colon cancer. We share stories of...
View ArticleWordPress 4.4 to Deprecate the wp_title Function
A year after WordPress 4.1 introduced a new way to display titles in themes, WordPress 4.4 will deprecate wp_title(). With the change, plugin authors will be able to check for theme support and use a...
View ArticleWordPress 4.4 Beta 1 Released
After more than eight weeks in development, WordPress 4.4. beta 1 is available for testing. With over 1,600 commits since WordPress 4.3’s release, it’s important that 4.4 be tested by as many people as...
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