Lester Chan's WordPress Plugins Development Blog
WordPress 3.9 has been released!
Some notable new features:
The next milestone will be WordPress 4.0 =)
I will be releasing my plugin updates for WP-DBManager, WP-DownloadManager, WP-Email, WP-Polls and WP-PostRatings to use WordPress 3.9 Dashicons and fix the TinyMCE 4.0 display issue.
Download: WordPress 3.9
(52 votes, average: 3.69 out of 5)WordPress 2.8.3 has been released and similar to WordPress 2.8.2, this is a security fix.
Unfortunately, I missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1. Luckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs. Several folks in the community dug deeper and discovered areas that were overlooked. With their help, the remaining issues are fixed in 2.8.3. Since this is a security release, upgrading is highly recommended
Changelog: WordPress 2.8.3
Download: WordPress 2.8.3
Download: Modified files since WordPress 2.8.2
(295 votes, average: 3.68 out of 5)I have completed whatever I need to code for the remaining 4 plugins for Wave 2 release.
WP-Ban and WP-DBManager basically undergo only cosmetic changes to suite WordPress 2.5 layout.
I have added a few minor additions to WP-PostViews. The changes are documented in the Changelog tab in the readme.html file include in the zip
The plugin which undergo the most changes is WP-DownloadManager. It is the longest changelog that I have ever done. I also added a new search feature into WP-DownloadManager. You can see it in action in the Downloads Page.
See Lester Chan’s WordPress Plugins June 2008 Update (Wave 2).
(85 votes, average: 3.68 out of 5)WordPress 2.8 has been released!
Here is the quote from Matt:
I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.
Major New Improvements
First and foremost, 2.8 is way faster to use. We’ve changed the way WordPress does style and scripting.The core and plugin updaters in previous versions of WordPress have been such a success we decided to bring the same to themes. You can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.
If you make edits or tweaks to themes or plugins from your dashboard, you’ll appreciate the new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor. Also there is now contextual documentation for the functions in the file you’re editing linked right below the editor.
If you were ever frustrated with widgets before, this release should be your savior. We’ve completely redesigned the widgets interface (which we didn’t have time to in 2.7) to allow you to do things like edit widgets on the fly, have multiple copies of the same widget, drag and drop widgets between sidebars, and save inactive widgets so you don’t lose all their settings. Developers now have access to a much cleaner and robust API for creating widgets as well.
Finally you should explore the new Screen Options on every page. It’s the tab in the top right. Now, for example, if you have a wide monitor you could set up your dashboard to have four columns of widgets instead of the two it has by default. On other pages you can change how many items show per page.
Download: WordPress 2.8
View: WordPress 2.8 Changelog
(82 votes, average: 3.68 out of 5)For some reasons, the core permalink structure of WordPress 2.5 has been changed just before it is being released (the problem is not there with WordPress 2.5 RC1).
If you get a 404 on WP-Email and WP-Print posts/pages, you need to get the latest development version of the respective plugins. Refer to the post above this.
I also wished I have more time to spend updating my plugins, but as my school is nearing the semester end, all my projects deadline are also coming and so are the end of semester exams. I can’t fork out any valuable time to update all my plugins for WP 2.5 and hence, 1st June 2008 should be the day I will roll out the updates to my plugins as my last paper is on 6th May 2008.
But in the mean time, I will try my best to address all issues related with my plugins and WordPress 2.5.
(62 votes, average: 3.68 out of 5)