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WordPress 3.4 Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 2 due to drop any moment, and we’re aim to do a final release of 3.4 early next week. Developers, this is your…

It’s that time in the release cycle, folks… credits! Here is a recycle of the post telling you to update your name for the credits screen. 🙂 Did you have at least one props on a commit in 3.4? If so, you’re listed on the Credits screen in the WP dashboard.* In the listing, your…

Apparently not all contributors follow the official wordpress.org announcement blog. A) That’s crazy. B) If you’re one of those people you missed https://wordpress.org/news/2012/05/calling-all-contributors-community-summit-2012/ and should go read it now. I’m leaving open the nomination/application form an extra day for the people who missed it. #community-summit

#16079 Automatic excerpts don’t work well with Chinese txt (word counting): Nacin is handling. Westi closed for 3.4. #20703 wp.getComments logs in the user (1 + #comments) times: Unit tests = fast track to commit. Ryan doing so. #20699 AJAX Actions now pass the action name as an arg: reverting to 3.3 behavior, Ryan will…

On Saturday, Matt posted to the WordPress Blog that the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly…

We’ve had some terrific progress made in the realm of supporting touch interfaces and tablet UIs for 3.4! The main areas that we’ve focused on for this release were improving touch support in the user interface, resolving incompatibilities for our target devices, and enhancing the UIUI User interface’s methods for adapting to more restrictive screen…

A change to api.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ temporarily broke the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is…

The pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org…

A few weeks ago I put up a survey for each of the contributor teams, with the goal of identifying a rep (or reps) for each contributing group. In most cases I lined up a primary rep and a backup. For core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of…

New version of Akismet pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free…