WordPress 2.7 Beta 1

WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 has been released. I am going to test it with both the current version as well as the upcoming version to see if it works.

Also, the development of WordPress 2.7 is 2 weeks behind and hence 10th November will not be the release date for the final version, but rather a release candidate. The final version is expected to be at the end of November 2008.

Speaking of the final release, it will not be available on November 10th as originally scheduled. We are two weeks behind schedule at the moment. We need a little more time to finish the visual design, do a round of user testing against that finished design, and do a proper round of public beta testing. Our plan is to keep working as if Nov. 10 is still the release date. However, instead of releasing the final 2.7 on the 10th, we will make a release candidate available instead. The release candidate is intended to be a high-quality, almost-finished release that we are comfortable recommending for broad use. After Nov. 10, the focus will be on fixing high impact bugs turned up by those of you testing the release candidate. I suspect 2.7 will be ready for final release by the end of November. A specific date will be set as we progress through the public beta cycle and get a feel for how solid the release is.

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Kila Morton Wrote About Me

Kila Morton of PureBlogic has written an article about me and the article is being submitted to digg.

Lester Chan is a student. While attending school, he decided to start developing WordPress plug-ins to support himself. These plug-ins offer great functionality that extend the WordPress platform. For instance, at the bottom of this blog there is a rating system. Where did that come from boys and girls? Lester Chan! Need polls for your blog? Who can you turn to? Lester Chan! In fact, Lester has developed over a dozen plug-ins for WordPress users. These are plug-ins that make it easier for people like you and I to blog about what we love and make money blogging .

THANK YOU Kila Morton!

View: Lester Chan Makes Great WordPress Plug-ins For Your Blog

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WordPress 2.7 Released

WordPress 2.7 has been released after being delayed for about a week.

Here are some of the features according to the blog post:

Next you’ll begin to notice the new features subtly sprinkled through the new interface: the new dashboard that you can arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top, QuickPress, comment threading, paging, and the ability to reply to comments from your dashboard, the ability to install any plugin directly from WordPress.org with a single click, and sticky posts.

Digging in further you might notice that every screen is customizable. Let’s say you never care about author on your post listings — just click “Screen Options” and uncheck it and it’s instantly gone from the page. The same for any module on the dashboard or write screen. If your screen is narrow and the menu is taking up too much horizontal room, click the arrow to minimize it to be icon-only, and then go to the write page and drag and drop everything from the right column into the main one, so your posting area is full-screen. (For example I like hiding everything except categories, tags, and publish. I put categories and tags on the right, and publish under the post box.)

WordPress 2.7 also introduce the Automatic Core upgrade which unfortunately do not work for me. I am still very skeptical after automating web script upgrades. I prefer to do it the manual way so that I can control what I want.

I will release the updates to my plugins shortly.

Download: WordPress 2.7

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WordPress 2.3 Beta 1

WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 will be release later. Note that IT WILL NOT WORK with the current version of ALL my plugins as the whole /wp-admin/ folder had underwent some restructuring.

There WILL NOT be any more categories, link2cat, or post2cat tables. It will be replaced by terms, term_taxonomy and term_relationships. It means that my plugins MAY break as some of the functions uses direct query to those depreciated tables.

I will update the current development version of ALL my plugins to be compatible with WordPress 2.3 and above. If you are using the development version of my plugins for WordPress 2.2 after I updated all of them, it WILL BREAK.

I will post another entry once I have completed updating all of them to be compatible to WordPress 2.3.

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