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WordPress release is coming with new features

WordPress is very popular CMS which is widely used in the web world. There are millions of websites build using wordpress CMS. Every month there is new update and new version is coming. Last month wordpress released the 3.7 wordpress version. New release will be 3.8 wordpress version coming with new features. It is very focused and important wordpress release by WP Team.

WordPress release with new features is coming . Last month wordpress released 3.7 wordpress version. New release will be wordpress version with new feature.

WordPress release with new features

In wordpress 3.8 version there are very important UI changes will be planned in new upcoming version. Team is planning to release the new version in 2013 December End. Many New features available for testing by development environment. If you want to download the development version and test it then use following URL:

To test WordPress trunk with a test install:

To check out the latest WP codebase, try this checkout command:

svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/

For More information Check URL.

New Fancy and great UI changes in WordPress Admin

The MP6 plugin included in the  WordPress core in 3.8. It was used in WordPress.com sites, If you want to use it your current wordpress then download the plugin. It will change the WordPress admin interface a modern, optimized, and polished new look that it deserves.

wp-3-8-admin-ui WordPress release with new features
WordPress release with new features

The current admin UI came with two color, MP6 uses Open Sans font which will be shipped with WordPress 3.8. MP6 also brings great improvements to buttons, forms, and the overall appearance of the admin interface making it prettier and user friendly.

Great Themes preview Experience

Theme preview the one to most used the important feature of wordpress CMS. Now in current wordpress version we are seeing lot of text content along with theme preview images.  WordPress.com itself uses some nice wordpress plugins like theme experience plugin (codename Thx38) Now wp development team is adding this plugin feature in to the core feature. This wp plugin will change the theme screens in WordPress admin area. It has larger theme screenshots and clean UI interface. Theme search is moved to the top right corner of the screen. To try this as a plugin on WordPress 3.7 or earlier, you would need to install MP6 plugin first.

wp-3-8-theme-screens WordPress release with new features
WordPress release with new features

New Look to Dashboard

WP dev team changed the dashboard screen totally in 3.8 release. If you earlier used the  Dashboard plugin by @lessbloat then you will know about the new look of dashboard. Dashboard plugin is also included into the core code of wp. They removed the unwanted widget and added some useful and quick widgets in dashboard.

For example, the incoming links widget will be removed. ‘Right now’ widget will be replaced by ‘Activity’ widget. QuickPress on the dashboard screen will be renamed to Quick Draft and will be much simpler.

wp-3-8-dashboard-screen

New Fast and Easier Widget Area Manager

Widgets are used every where is wp cms. We use the widget in header, footer, sidebar, post area. Now we can drag and drop the widgets. Using multiple widget is sometimes it becomes difficult to drag and drop a widget into the multiple sidebars. Along with the WordPress new version 3.8, The Widgets UI will allow admin to easily choose the sidebar they want to add a widget to without dragging it across different sidebars. The new widget interface will be very user friendly.

wp-3-8-widget-chooser

There are many bug fixes and other small features are coming in 3.8 version. I am really waiting for the new wordpress version. I am looking for better user and role management in wordpress so it will became full featured CMS like Drupal. WordPress is improving but still lot of new ideas and features needs to include in wordpress still. That is a path.

Ref Links:

http://www.wptavern.com/breaking-new-features-selected-to-merge-into-wordpress-3-8-core

http://www.wptavern.com/wordpress-3-8-development-heats-up-with-discussion-of-new-core-features

http://www.wptavern.com/wordpress-3-8-merge-window-closed-new-features-now-locked-in

http://wpmu.org/wordpress-3-8-features/

wordpress 3.5 is Worst Update in release History

WordPress news, wordpress 3.5 is Worst Update in release History. we have high traffic site.  we updated our 3 of sites to 3.5 and sites goes down after wordpress update.

wordpress 3.5 is Worst Update in release History

I faced lots of issues due to this update. To figure out the issue I spent the hours.
After that I finalized to downgrade the wordpress version to 3.4.2

WordPress really did something messy in this release.

I downgraded my wordpress 3.5 to 3.4.2 wordpress release. Now my sites are stable.
I took help from following articles.

http://iblog4dollars.com/2013/01/02/wordpress-problems-how-to-downgrade-from-wordpress-3-5/

Some points are not mentioned in above article. Which is as follows:
Keep your wp-config.php, .htaccess and robots.txt file
Do not forget about sitemap.xml files.

wordpress 3.5 is Worst Update in Wordpess release History
wordpress 3.5 is Worst Update in Wordpess release History

WordPress 3.0.3 released with Fixes issues

Some time before on 8th December WordPress released the New version which is 3.0.3. What wordpress is saying about this release.

WordPress 3.0.3 released with Fixes issues in the XML-RPC remote publishing interface

Wordpress 3.0.3 released with Fixes issues
WordPress 3.0.3 released with Fixes issues

This release fixes issues in the remote publishing interface, which under certain circumstances allowed Author- and Contributor-level users to improperly edit, publish, or delete posts.

These issues only affect sites that have remote publishing enabled.

Remote publishing is disabled by default, but you may have enabled it to use a remote publishing client such as one of the WordPress mobile apps. You can check these settings on the “Settings → Writing” screen.

With this release they Improved the capabilites checking in the XMLRPC code. They modified the following files.

wp-includes/version.php
xmlrpc.php
readme.html
wp-admin/includes/update-core.php

Enjoy the wordpress 3.0.3 version.

WordPress 3.0.1 is released

Today WordPress released the WordPress 3.0.1 version. You can download latest wordpress from follwoing link

WordPress 3.0.1 is released

Download

This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best and most stable releases we’ve had.

Download 3.0.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.

The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 3.0.1) is available in two formats from the links to your right. If you have no idea what to do with this download, we recommend signing up with one of our web hosting partners that offers a one click install of WordPress or getting a free account on WordPress.com.

Note: If you downloaded 3.0.1 in the first 20 minutes of release (before 2200 UTC), you’ll want to reinstall it, which you can do right from your Updates screen.