WordPress 4.2 “Powell”

WordPress 4.2 is out.  This release brings a whole lot of new features, bug fixes and improvements.  One that I’m most excited about (and thus testing right now) is the updated Press This bookmarklet for faster sharing, which now also works on the mobile (I have yet to try it though).

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Grouped tags and categories

Just a quick update on something that I wanted to do for quite a while now – I’ve joined the display of tags and categories.  They are still separated in the back-end for me to manage the posts easier.  I just figured out that for site visitors there’s no practical difference, and thus using two user interface elements where one can do the job is not ideal.  The code snippet that helped me do that was borrowed (and slightly modified) from this Codex page.  The only two change that I did were:

  • Skip the General category (or All, as it’s labeled in this case), since all posts belong to it anyway.
  • Skip post format taxonomy (as those are already encoded with post styling – colors and titles).

I’ve also thrown a copyright into the footer and a small welcome box to the sidebar, but those are just cosmetics.

WordPress 4.1 “Dinah”

WordPress 4.1 “Dinah” is out and available for download (this blog has just been updated).  This release features a new default theme – twentyfifteen,  Vine embeds, plugin recommendations, and complex queries for metadata, date, and terms – this one is for developers mostly.

2015-laptop-1024x533 Huge thanks to everyone involved!