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Go Get A Blavatar
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Today’s post is dedicated to Chuck Norris: the man, the myth, the legend, and the star in our demo of a brand-new feature: Blavatars.
“What-atars?” you say. Blavatars! Blog + avatars.
As the incomparable Nikolay explains in the video below, your blavatar automatically becomes your favicon: the little icon that displays next to your blog’s URL in […]
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November Wrap-Up
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Howdy! — or should I say “g’day, mate!” since I’m in Sydney for WordCamp Australia? November was a fun month, and the final month of development for WordPress 2.7 — coming very soon. It’s been an exciting process, and we think you’ll become a big fan of the changes that you’ll see in your dashboards.
Here […]
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WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1
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With the release of RC1, we’re in the final leg of development before the release of 2.7. 280 commits since beta 3 have polished the new admin UI (including new menu icons created by the winners of our icon design contest) and fixed all known blocker bugs.
We think RC1 is ready for everyone to try […]
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Thanksgiving 2008
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From us at WordPress to you in the States: Happy Thanksgiving!
Today, we’ll be passing the turkey and stuffing, and sharing what we’re thankful for. Such as…
Jane: “Puppies and rainbows.”
Heather: “Good friends, good food, and good websites.”
Matt: “The internet.”
What about you?
What has motivated, inspired, enlivened, awakened, and otherwise comforted and thrilled you in 2008? […]
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WordPress 2.6.5
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WordPress 2.6.5 is immediately available and fixes one security problem and three bugs. We recommend everyone upgrade to this release.
The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from […]
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Project Icon Winners Announced
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Congratulations to Ben Dunkle and Verena Segert (that’s BD and VS to those of you who voted), the winning designers of our WordPress 2.7 icon design contest. Read all about it on the development blog and see how your votes stacked up to the rest.
Go to The Results of Project Icon.
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The Results of Project Icon
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The community has voted, and the votes have been tallied. The winner of Project Icon, with 35% of the votes, is Entry ID “BD,” otherwise known as Ben Dunkle. Congratulations, Ben! The runner-up was VS, otherwise known as Verena Segert, so we’ll be attaching that set to the alternate color palette that is selectable from […]
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WordPress 2.7 Beta 3
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WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 has been released for your testing pleasure. Here are some of the changes since Beta 2 (over 160 changes in total):
Numerous style improvements and refinements.
All admin notices now go under the page title.
PHP Notice fixes.
Dashboard widget options now properly save.
Menu fixes.
New design for Quick Edit.
Canonical feed URL fixes.
Walker fixes.
An update […]
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Vote for the new WordPress icons
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If you watched the WordPress 2.7 trailer or checked out the screenshots that were posted a couple of weeks ago, you probably noticed the use of icons in the new left-hand navigation. A handful of designers have submitted icon sets in a competition to choose the new icons. Read all about it on the development […]
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WordPress 2.7: Project Icon
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Earlier in the beta period, we put out a call here on the development blog for designers in the WordPress community who might be interested in designing custom icons for the 2.7 admin interface. Over a dozen icon designers from around the world responded, so rather than choose just one, we decided to turn the […]
