WordPress Help

Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.

  • “Screen Options” for the post, page, c…

    “Screen Options” for the post, page, comment, and media management pages now allows setting the number of items to show per page. #ui

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  • Image header cropping now uses Jcrop.

    Image headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look…

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  • Soliciting feedback on new Widgets API

    Soliciting feedback on new Widgets APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. #widgets

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  • Vladimir Prelovac contacted me wondering …

    Vladimir Prelovac contacted me wondering if any WordPress developers are interested in a free PDF copy of his new book WordPress Plugin Development – Beginner’s Guide with the hopes you will publish a review. #books

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  • Converting default widgets to the new wi …

    Converting default widgets to the new widgets API. #widgets

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  • 2.8 will land some time in April. Peopl …

    2.8 will land some time in April. People seem pretty happy with 2.7 so we’re taking time to work on some areas that need extra attention, like widgets.

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  • Working through the long list of tickets …

    Working through the long list of tickets with patches – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/14

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  • Script loader updates

    There are several updates to the script loader currently in WordPress 2.8-bleeding-edge that enhance and optimize loading of external JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the…

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  • Some nice comments here – http://wphacks …

    Some nice comments here – http://wphacks.com/still-no-wordpress-271/ .

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  • Optimizing script loading, implementation

    The “first run” of the script loading optimization is in trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running “trunk”, then you are on the latest revision.. It uses both methods: splits the scripts queue in head and footer parts, then concatenates…

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