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Holla! We just released this minor point releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor…

The past week we’ve been committing significant updates to 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…

It’s been a couple of weeks. We’ve been heads down getting stuff done. So, where are we at? Here’s the existing dashboard: Here’s what our new dashboard looks like: What’s changed? We removed one widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also…

Been a while since last tagged release, but it’s not been quiet on the MP6 dev front. Major new items aside from a plethora of bugfixes include: A bunch of new dashicons A spiffy new widgets page by Shaun Andrews from his Widgets project Improvements to customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into…

Hi there, WordPress community. The MP6 team has been working on adding color schemes in the past couple weeks. Now, we’d like to get your input about which color schemes you want to see make it into the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.…

Accomplished this week 1) Fairly quiet week. Some progress on our planning spreadsheet. 2) No IRC chat this week. None next week either. Our next chat will be in #wordpress-ui. 3) @ryelle coded up the new “Right Now” widget. 4) I made a few adjustments to the structure of the plugin. 5) @kraftbj made a…

We’ve been busy building and improving the plugin. We are approaching the point of a full feature prototype, which will allow us to start testing smaller incremental changes. I committed the first pass at the browse themes screen based on the mockups we’ve discussed before: By the way, we are running a bit short on…

We had our weekly chat yesterday. If you weren’t there, you can always check out those cool log things. A few highlights: We adopted the Widget Customizer 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…

Couldn’t make it last week? Check out the chat log. Design updates This past week, we’ve had some new designs pop up: @joen presented these in chat: http://cl.ly/image/2K3U0p3H0t2B http://cl.ly/image/3J2n332l4341 I made some quick riff on them: http://cl.ly/image/1H120H3R461F @joen worked on some more mockups based on his earlier idea: http://cl.ly/image/0u1M3D401F3x http://cl.ly/image/2g3u2Z061C2Z I tried a different approach:…

Accomplished this week 1) I updated our planning spreadsheet. 2) We held our weekly IRC chat last Tuesday. @joen shared: Along with the following thoughts: Far right column is for mini widgets. The added whitespace adds balance, centers the middle columns. Is reminiscent of the “Publish” box on the Write section. We pulled back on…