WordPress 3.3.2 was just released. As this is a security release, and also contains bugfixes, it is very important to get your installs upgraded! Check out the WordPress blog post for full details. Also, Beta 3 of version 3.4 is out for those of you who are testing.
The announcement was made earlier today! Do you have a testing environment yet? If not, I’d recommend you get one! I have one set up in a subdomain off of my personal blog! I leave it open to the public (I use it to show solutions to people’s problems on the forums, or here) but Iit looks a mess right now, I have the early stages dev version of the 2012 theme on it. That being said, here’s the gist of WP 3.4:
Andrew Nacin made a nifty announcement recently. I know a few of you guys are really keen on keeping your themes sorted out into various folders. Well, now you can keep all of your page templates in their own folder (1 level deep) and they will be detected automatically! Read his post for all the deets, but also read that caution… moving any existing templates will unassign them from any pages they may be assigned to.
This morning, VoodooPress reached 1000 approved non-spam comments! For a little WordPress site, just hanging out in our corner of the web doing our own thing, I think that’s a pretty great milestone! Thanks to everyone who joins in the discussions here for helping VoodooPress grow. I know many people have been helped through those comments, thanks!
I’ve been experimenting a fair bit with these Android app maker services. There are quite a few that produce quality results. One thing to keep in mind, if you want a truly stunning custom app, you’ll have to learn to make one, or pay somebody. It’s just too much for a plugin or website to handle, especially for free. That being said, I made an app using the JoeMobi service/plugin, and I’m pretty happy with it! Here’s the gig:
WordPress just pushed out an upgrade to version 3.3.1. This one is a necessary upgrade which contains essential security fixes. Please take some time and get your sites up to date so you can benefit from the bug and security fixes.
I just completed my first ever hosting switch from GoDaddy to Bluehost. Aside from a couple of easy to fix errors, it went off without a hitch. Since I’d never done this before, I was pretty concerned. I wanted to do it a year ago, but wasn’t sure I could handle it. Now I’m mad I didn’t do it sooner. The process is a little time consuming, but it isn’t hard. I’m going to try to recount how I did everything, and hopefully this can help you out!
Just noticed preliminary talks on the WordPress developers blog, the next core theme, 2012, will be a part of the next major WordPress release, version 3.4. What are you looking for in a new core WordPress theme? Any special features?
The WordPress Android app just got updated. I wanted to test it out. Total overhaul, post format support, and all sorts of other goodies. Just wanted to give it a quick test, I’m pretty happy with the update!
I already see numerous people discussing the lack of a direct link to their dashboard in the new toolbar. It’s there, honest. Click your site name. From the dashboard, that link goes to your site front end. From the front end, that link goes to your dashboard.
Don’t hate it because it’s new. It’s just different, it works great. It is confusing at first to those of us used to a different way of doing things. But it’s simple for the new person, it won’t be confusing if it’s the only behaviour they know.
Give the toolbar some love, try it out, grow to use it and enjoy it. I see so many people trying to kill it, etc. It is helpful, useful, and very cool. If you just take a few days to get used to how it works, it will be very helpful. It’s not going away, and it can be quite helpful.
