Jen 4:03 pm on July 27, 2011

WordPress 3.3 Proposed Scope

This document will not be finalized until the conclusion of the IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. meeting today.� Per last week’s IRC meeting, the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team has reviewed the potential features/projects for 3.3. Only features that are assigned to someone by the end of today’s will be included in the official scope. Note: Assigning everything to Nacin does not count.

User Feature: Media Uploader (azaozz)

Definitely v1: Integrate Plupload into dashboard. (GSoC project)
Probably v2: Improve our image manipulation and gallery management.
Nice to have: Kill all thickbox usage, move everything inline.

User Feature/UIUI User interface: New User ExperienceÂ (jane, koop)

â« Feels Like the First Time â«

1st time install welcome screen – intro text and checklist of “steps” to get going.
1st time post-update welcome screen a la Mozilla.
1st time exposure popup for new features a la facebook, twitter, etc.

Note: Matt says WordPress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ is working on similar features there. Will connect with them and see if/where there is overlap and work with them when possible to free up some of Koop’s time.

UI: Responsive Adminadmin (and super admin) (saracannon with azaozz, koop)

Make the admin dynamically display nicely on devices of various screen sizes (including wider screens) and human interface mechanisms, such as touch. Plotting and specifics to happen on UI blog and in weekly UI meetings.

Performance: CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. files merge (especially RTL) / remove duplicate styles.

UI: Improve Admin Bar (koop, jane)

Continue the admin UI work started in 3.2 and work toward combining admin bar (in dashboard) with admin headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. to reduce duplication and save vertical space.

Internal: Performance Improvements (markjaquith, jon)

Permalinks
- #17177, #15915, #16687, others
- The permalink structure is highly desirable, but it doesnât scale beyond 50 pages or so.
- /%postname%/ permalinks without performance penalty
- /static-slug/%postname%/ permalinks without performance penalty
- Consider retiring verbose rewrite rules all together in favor of queries.
- Finally fix the issues relating to special characters in permalinks using an upgrade routine (#16036 and others)
Nav Menus
- #14134, #16799, possibly others
- Fix the issues around saving menu items.

APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.: MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. Improvements (ryan, koop, others)

register_meta, new caps, *_metadata_by_mid() (nearly done)
Nice to have: WP_Meta_Box (proof of concept posted)

API: Settings API Improvements (ryan, petemall, scribu, markjaquith)

Convert table markup to CSS
Nice to have:
- Make settings fields/forms/errors construction less painful
- Use the settings API in the Networknetwork (versus site, blog) Admin
- Kill options.php as a POST handler

Internal: Language Packs (nacin with SergeyBiryukov)

Merge in GSoC project. Will require quite a bit of development across GlotPress, api.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/, and core. (As in, needs additional owners.) In the next week we should come up with a plan of action for how it should all work, as there are currently many questions. (#18200)

Updates/Upgrades (nacin, dion, otto)

Internal:Â Partial build updates, version 2 – md5 verifications of files – nacin, dion
Feature: Ability to install child themes (in the theme directory) via the theme installer – otto
Enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature.: Core changelogs via the update check, to entice updates

Secondary Items

Deprecate IE7 in the Admin for 3.4

Everyone hates IE7. Itâs insecure. Letâs make it go away. Also, dropping IE6 didnât give us much beyond goodwill, because most of the hacks we needed for IE6, we also need for IE7. So we could actually clean up our CSS a bit if we dropped IE7.

Not happening for 3.3, will target 3.4.Â Once we hit freeze or RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). someone could start working on this to have it ready to go in the minute we open 3.4, to provide the maximum testing time.

API: Editor API improvement (azaozz)

Update/refactor Quicktags (mostly done) and combine all supporting functions.

User Feature: Press This

PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party now, target 3.4 for core.

Make Press This better in a nebulous and undefined way.
Browser extensions? (mitcho?)Â See also

Mixed Bag

These are things we really want, but no one is assigned to them. This is a great opportunity to earn some core cred by taking a greater role and spearheading development of a feature.

UXUX User experience: Dismissible admin notices – sorich87
UX: better management of workflow in editor (joe is currently editing this post any changes etc) – markjaquith
Design: HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. E-Mails – Leverage Wojtekâs GSoC work – westi
Death: remove (finally) compat functions from the widgets API and cleanup converting of old settings (will require copious unit tests first) – azaozz
UX: Don’t lose widgets on theme switch (#17979) – AaronCampbell

Christopher Wallace 4:19 pm on July 27, 2011

I’m wondering how moving the media upload stuff inline will affect third-parties that tap in to the image uploader.
- Gerry Ilagan 10:33 am on July 28, 2011
  
  I think it would be great if a new set of media upload functions are created so as not to disrupt current plugins and slowly phase out the old methods.
  
  It would also be great if the new media upload functions are “modularized” with exposed APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.’s so that developers can for example use media upload to select an image and assign it to a metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. field variable
- Daniel Chatfield 8:49 am on September 27, 2011
  
  I’m also worried about how that will affect current plugins. The thickbox definately needs replacing though (“insert into post “confuses users when there is no post to insert into and changing the text via javascriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. is very hacky).
Andrew Nacin 4:35 pm on July 27, 2011

If you want to help with anything, or wish to claim something out of the mixed bag, please post a comment.
Chris Wallace 4:38 pm on July 27, 2011

I’d be happy to take on the “UXUX User experience: Dismissible adminadmin (and super admin) notices” item from the mixed bag.
Andrew Ozz 4:41 pm on July 27, 2011

@sabreuse and @DH-Shredder can help with the CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. files merge and cleanup.
- Sergey Biryukov 4:59 pm on July 27, 2011
  
  I also volunteered for that, would be more than happy to help with RTL.
alex 4:44 pm on July 27, 2011

I can’t wait to see the 3.3 version.

I like very much the theme editor from Shopify. It’s ajaxified and it’s very easy to use. It will be great if the WP theme editor will be ajaxified, changing the files in the editor without refreshing the page.

I can help with that
- Daniel Chatfield 8:51 am on September 27, 2011
  
  I’m willing to help as well.
DH-Shredder 4:45 pm on July 27, 2011

Also certainly happy to assist with the Language Pack merge, if you need further hands.
Dougal 4:48 pm on July 27, 2011

There was mention in the chat about improvements to XML-RPC and Atompub. Also related, I think, was a GSoC project for an improved Android client app? I was going to get with @josephscott about some of the xmlrpc stuff.
- Joseph Scott 4:52 pm on July 27, 2011
  
  Lets go through the list of XML-RPC and AtomPub tickets, see which ones look viable for 3.3.
- Prasath Nadarajah 4:09 am on July 29, 2011
  
  I’d be happy to help. There are a lot of security leaks to be fixed in XMLRPC. I submitted a few patches. We could improve security in 3.3
- Prasath Nadarajah 5:41 am on August 16, 2011
  
  I have added tickets in the tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. for new functions and updated it with patches.
  please have a look.
Aubrey 5:00 pm on July 27, 2011

Having ran many websites for educational use, I would suggest continued support for IE7. Many Universities, especially here, have faculty/staff that use older browsers (even IE6). Just a thought and a perspective.
- Rami 9:44 am on July 28, 2011
  
  WordPress droped support for ie6 (and soon in ie7) only in the back-and, not in front-end.
  - Daniel Chatfield 8:52 am on September 27, 2011
    
    I wouldn’t support the drop of IE7 if it wasn’t for the fact that chrome frame can be installed without adminadmin (and super admin) rights. With chrome frame there is no need to support IE7 in the backend.
Mike Schinkel 5:16 pm on July 27, 2011

“Consider retiring verbose rewrite rules all together in favor of queries.”

Would love to hear an elaboration on what is planned for this?

I have a working low-level pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party that sits in front of parse_request that parses a tree of URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org routing instructions to determine what values to set in $wp->query_vars; otherwise everything else is handled by WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. The plugin is coded to be reasonably peformant, especially compared to the current rewrite rules system, and can easily be optimized via hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same. to improve performance down any pattern or path branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch"., and its code footprint is currently much smaller than the code that handles rewrites. It provides almost full flexibility for URL routing and follows other WordPress conventions as closely as possible (i.e. you use the same format for URLs as you do in the permalinks page, i.e.:

register_url_path( ‘%category_name%/%name%’ );

It also provides tree-oriented metadata that would make automatically generated breadcrumbs and sitemaps easy to implement in core.

I have been planning to release as part of a planned package of plugins for improvement WordPress’ use as a CMS but would be happy to provide it as a base for inclusion in WordPress core if the team is interested.
- scribu 8:52 pm on July 27, 2011
  
  It would be awesome if you could upload it to one of the rewrite tickets.
  - Mike Schinkel 10:32 pm on July 27, 2011
    
    Cool. I’ll add some inline docsinline docs (phpdoc, docblock, xref) and upload ASAP.
  - Mike Schinkel 7:40 am on July 28, 2011
    
    Done: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18276
- William Lindley 6:06 pm on August 15, 2011
  
  Is there any hope for non-unique yet hierarchically unique slugs, so I can have /railway/stations/ma/springfield and /railway/stations/oh/springfield and /railway/stations/il/springfield …? Currently these have to be …/ma/springfield-ma, /oh/springfield-oh, and so on, despite the full path being unique. We have waited a long time for this!
  - Mike Schinkel 5:35 am on August 18, 2011
    
    Hi @William Lindley:
    
    Looks like coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. won’t be addressing that issue anytime soon (as per my discussions with Andy Skelton and Nacin at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. SF) but you can address those types of URLs using the approach in the attachment to the tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #18276. If you need help with it, contact me directly.
Wojtek Szkutnik 5:27 pm on July 27, 2011

I will be developing the Enhanced Emails project after GSoC as well, I don’t know if it’s 3.3 or 3.4 material but I will definitely be working on it until it makes it to the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
Amy 5:28 pm on July 27, 2011

Also interested in helping out with Settings APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. work – @sabreuse
Trevor Sullivan 5:39 pm on July 27, 2011

Better Adminadmin (and super admin) UIUI User interface performance would be fabulous … one major reason I use Windows Live Writer to compile articles.
Brian Layman 6:05 pm on July 27, 2011

There are a couple coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. related defect fix tickets I really hope to see in 3.3 to eliminate some core hacks that I’ve had allow older sites to run again under 3.1+. Would be cool if this could be brought up in the IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. chat.

I think that putting https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17998 in is going to be extremely helpful for large sites. I would really like to see that put in and it is a single line change that eliminates hours/days from the normal upgrade process on large networks.

And since we are doing testing on permalinks, I think it would be a great time to look at https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18079 . That fixes WordPress so that it once again allows path based blogblog (versus network, site) networks which broke sometime in the 3.0 release and is preventing some people from upgrading. If this can go in, I can do the search for other $base uses as Nacin recommends and update the patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing..
iamfriendly 6:16 pm on July 27, 2011

With regards to the ‘first time exposure popup’ has anyone seen this : http://tympanus.net/codrops/2010/12/21/website-tour/ — looks pretty damn cool and could be useful?

I’d be interested in helping out with this…?
- Wycks 8:54 pm on August 13, 2011
  
  I hope this gets looked at, this plugins UIUI User interface for image handling is very good.
Eric Marden 8:22 pm on July 27, 2011

Rejoice!
arena 11:50 pm on July 27, 2011

When using the_editor in a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, really difficult to remove the ‘fullscreen’ option !
- Alex Mills 12:24 am on July 28, 2011
  
  #17994
Subh 5:27 am on July 28, 2011

The point ” Deprecate IE7 in the Adminadmin (and super admin) for 3.4 ” should be considered carefully as Most of the Govt. organisations, Schools, some banks etc. always use IE and IE7 is the default for them. Yes, if we think from the developers’ perspective, then everybody hates IE7, but from the users’ perspective its needed…
- avcascade 7:03 pm on July 31, 2011
  
  Define “most of govt organizations, schools, some banks”
  
  IE 7 was released in 2006. It’s half a decade old now. That makes it obsolete. Governments and large corporations running Windows XP or Server 2003 can upgrade to IE 8. And a great many have.
  
  An organization that managed to get from IE 6 to IE 7 should be able to get to IE 8.
  
  In the last few months, IE 7 has seen a significant drop in use. By the time WordPress 3.3 is out, usage will have declined further.
  
  http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201102-201107
  
  Deprecating backend support for IE 7 seems like a good move.
  - iamfriendly 10:34 pm on August 17, 2011
    
    I can’t disagree any more, to be honest. Saying organisations “can upgrade” doesn’t mean they WILL upgrade.
    
    The largest company in Europe – the NHS – by default, uses IE6. They “think” they are unable to move away from it because of 2 reasons: 1) outdated tech support people who are too lazy/incapable/busy to upgrade millions (and I do mean millions) of systems from IE6 and 2) There is an inherent cost involved in upgrading all of these machines, like it or not, they are locked down, so they need an administrator to update them, which takes time and as we all know, time = money.
    
    Completely dropping IE6 support from the adminadmin (and super admin), for me, was an error. I’m busy trying to write a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party which makes the dashboard of 3.2 actually usable in IE6. I’m not having much luck.
    
    Dropping support for IE7 is *probably* a bad move, also. Many of the military machines here in the UK use IE7 as do many council computers (local government).
    
    Don’t just completely drop support for IE 6/7. At least create some sort of basic – I don’t care how ugly – and functional back end. I’m all for looking forward and I’d rather IE6/7/8 never existed, but they do and some people are stuck with them.
    
    In this instance progressive enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. is a *much* better idiom than graceful degradation. Sadly, with 3.2, there was no grace or progression.
  - Subh 5:30 am on August 18, 2011
    
    You can not force a client to upgrade their Browser… also they don’t know how to upgrade… Their are some employee in organizations who don’t even know about all these things… they just use the computer given by the authority which runs Windows XP and the default browser in it. If the website doesn’t open they start saying this application is faulty, they don’t understand that this is developed in WordPress which is not supporting your browser version and all.
    
    So it will be a bad move to completely drop support for IE7.
  - Daniel Chatfield 8:55 am on September 27, 2011
    
    Chrome frame can be installed without adminadmin (and super admin) rights – most people who will be administering a website will know about upgrading browsers. I was a little surprised at how IE6 support was dropped and perhaps a redirect to page informing people about the choices of browser and why we have dropped support would be better than the mess that currently appears.
Wayne 8:47 am on July 28, 2011

One thing i’d really like, is to allow more than 2 columns on custom post typeCustom Post Type WordPress can hold and display many different types of content. A single item of such a content is generally called a post, although post is also a specific post type. Custom Post Types gives your site the ability to have templated posts, to simplify the concept. editor screens.

2 columns makes sense for traditional posts, but sometimes i have custom post types that are just a bunch of metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. boxes and it looks bizarre squashed into 2 columns 🙂
Tina Thompson 1:21 pm on July 28, 2011

THANK HEAVENS that the media handler is FINALLY being addressed. Without a doubt it is my number one issue on the backend of any site that I manage, as it is slow, limited and just a general PITA.
Jan Fabry 6:06 pm on July 28, 2011

“Improve our image manipulation and gallery management” – is there a TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. or another place where I can follow this topic? I’m very interested in it (and maybe even able to help).
- scribu 10:48 am on August 1, 2011
  
  #18206 for a start.
Rafael 9:14 pm on July 28, 2011

Have you considered something like this pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party for the Section User Feature: Media Uploader -> Probably v2: Improve our image manipulation and gallery management.

http://www.mihaivalentin.com/image-pro-wordpress-image-management/
BjornW 12:32 pm on July 29, 2011

As others already have mentioned ditching IE7 sounds nice, except many big(ger) organizations, corporations and goverments still use IE7 and will not update soon. I’d like to suggest to support IE7 for now.
redwall_hp 3:54 am on July 30, 2011

I have a UIUI User interface suggestion: how about dropping the grey background on the Dashboard widgets and metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. boxes? It looks kind of ugly. I think making it white, like in previous versions, would look a lot better. (I’ve already tested it with Firebug, and it looks a lot more pleasant to me.)
Chelsea Otakan 8:50 pm on July 30, 2011

Could we do some settings UIUI User interface improvement in addition to the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. stuff? If that fits in here, I’d love to work on it :]
- Andrew Ryno 12:21 am on July 31, 2011
  
  I’d love to help on it as well. I think the UIUI User interface part of the settings will wait until after they work on the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. a bit. Since all the markup will be generated by the APi.
Andrew Ryno 12:23 am on July 31, 2011

I would love to help get rid of Thickbox. I don’t really care if it takes up all my time and stops me from working on other tickets. It needs to be done and if azaozz is going to work on other media stuff, this would be the best time.
Andrés Sanhueza 5:50 pm on July 31, 2011

Regarding permalinks, when one adds a custom slug to the default posts, they get added for everything else (categories, tags, attatchment, date archives, etc.). This will be fixed in some way?
Sylwia 6:51 pm on July 31, 2011

Great news about the picture gallery!
Chris 2:42 pm on August 8, 2011

Seriously, do you hate everyone that works at big companies?

I love WordPress, but the way that IE6 has been totally, utterly blocked from functioning means I can’t access it on half the NHS computers.

Luckily, the other half of them use IE7, which is fine… unless you blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. that too.

Make it look horrible, make it work slowly, have a ten foot banner that plays MIDI tunes: just don’t make it totally non functional!
- Jane Wells 2:48 pm on August 8, 2011
  
  You should be able to use Chrome Frame with IE6 to get access. Does the NHS know you’re using their computers to update your WordPress site? 🙂
  - iamfriendly 2:55 pm on August 8, 2011
    
    The point Chris is making, and it’s a valid one, is that several of the websites of NHS organisations *run* on WordPress. I’ve set several of them up! They are stuck with IE6, not through their own choices, but because of the expense of upgrading.
    
    Using Chrome Frame means you need to install it. Installing it normally needs administrator rights. Now, I know that Google has updated Chrome frame so that you don’t need adminadmin (and super admin) rights to install it now, but most people (the vast majority) do not realise they can do this. Hell, not even NHS sysadmins know this. They also do not realise that installing Chrome Frame wont affect other sites.
    
    I’ve begun an ‘NHS education’ for all of our clients, but the pickup is massively slow – they see the words update/install/upgrade and all they really is is ‘this is going to cost me money’.
    
    The NHS is the largest organisation in Europe. Hampering them using WordPress is a grave error in my opinion. Even worse, many sites that already use WordPress can’t be upgraded to 3.2 and so, in the future are going to become possible targets for attack.
    
    I’m all for moving forward and increasing browser awareness. I’m all for modern web standards. I’m all for ‘let’s kill IE6 asap’. I’m also all for making sure that my sites are accessible and usable to my clients and ensuring that they are secure. Throw us a bone?
  - Jane Wells 2:59 pm on August 8, 2011
    
    @iamfriendly: If someone wrote a page in the Codex that explains about Chrome Frame not needing adminadmin (and super admin) rights, then wrote a patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. to amend the IE6 warning box in the admin to include a link to that page, Id support it.
  - Chris 3:02 pm on August 8, 2011
    
    Oddly enough they don’t seem to mind me editing my medical education blogblog (versus network, site) when working as a medical educator 😛
    
    At the WordPress user group I’m in, we honestly felt that the attitude of WP to IE6 was cocky. Fair enough, don’t “test” it thoroughly, but make it, at minimum, just about functional.
    
    I have tried and tried to get Chrome Frame running at work, but the admins still managed to blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. it.
    
    “Throw us a bone” says it all. I don’t want you to promote IE6, but you are choosing to show the finger to a huge potential market, to what gain? I refuse to believe WP 3.2 couldn’t run just as slickly with a conditional IE6 stylesheet changing about 3 settings.
  - Chris 3:03 pm on August 8, 2011
    
    @Jane – the warning box gets turned off on every install I send out – if you’ve got novice users, the last thing you want them to see is a massive panic box hehe.
  - iamfriendly 3:03 pm on August 8, 2011
    
    @Jane I know a hint when I see one. That’s actually a tremendous idea. I’ll go about compiling the copy for that page on the codex.
    
    @Chris do you want to help with that? (Or anyone else for that matter). Once the page is up, the patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. to the IE6 warning box is simple.
  - iamfriendly 4:55 pm on August 15, 2011
    
    https://codex.wordpress.org/User:Iamfriendly/Information_About_Google_Chrome_Frame_for_Internet_Explorer_Users
    
    OK, so have made some amends – would be interested to hear if that’s the sort of thing that would be useful. @Chris & @Jane would love to hear what you think?
iamfriendly 4:21 pm on August 8, 2011

Very early draft, but… feedback?

https://codex.wordpress.org/User:Iamfriendly/Information_About_Google_Chrome_Frame_for_Internet_Explorer_Users
- iamfriendly 4:22 pm on August 8, 2011
  
  Bah, sorry this should be a reply to the above thread about Google Chrome Frame. Anyone able to move it? (Also, looks like the title is too long, shall I just rename to “Google Chrome Frame” ?)
arena 8:41 am on August 9, 2011

Nothing about Twenty twelve theme (which might be the last wp theme hé hé !) ?
- Wojtek Szkutnik 8:44 am on August 9, 2011
  
  I would go for it just for the sake of having such a terrific default theme name 🙂
Jeremy 4:13 pm on August 26, 2011

Hello all,

The Blogblog (versus network, site) Team at The New York Times has two editor-specific features that we would like to add to WP 3.3.

We recently developed a lockout feature for WordPress. This feature notifies you if you attempt to edit a post, and another member of your team is currently in the post. You have the options to read only, preview, and if you are an Adminadmin (and super admin), steal the lock. If you are editing a post, and you walk away from your computer or you have moved to another tab, you are given a brief time period to keep the lock, otherwise it saves your work and puts you in read only mode. If a post is currently being edited, a small lock icon appeas on the All Posts screen. Hovering over the icon reveals the details of who is editing the post.
We also built a very useful notes area in a WordPress post. This allows editors to leave notes to each other about the specifics of a given post. Our editors use it to indicate if a post needs another editing pass, or if a post is waiting on a photo from the photo desk. Or sometimes information from the reporter on what the progress of a story is. If a post has a note attached, a small icon appeas on the All Posts screen. Hovering over the icon reveals the note. This helps an editor to scan multiple posts at once and check on progress and manage the day.
We are also very interested in contributing our Live Blogging solution to WordPress.

All of these were developed for our newsroom, and have proven to be really useful for us.
- Andrew Ozz 7:39 pm on August 29, 2011
  
  This sounds great. Post lock improvements are scheduled for 3.3, there’s a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. too: #18515. Perhaps we can implement your solution there.
  
  The post notes area sounds very interesting too. Perhaps it won’t benefit the majority of sites (most seem to have 1-2 users only) but seems it will be a very welcomed addition for all multi-user sites.
  - Jeremy 9:40 pm on August 29, 2011
    
    It might make sense for a feature like NOTES to turn on when there are over regular X users on a site.
Eric 12:33 am on September 2, 2011

/%postname%/ permalinks without performance penalty

does that mean you’ll fix all performance penalty for any permalinks that start with dynamic text like /%categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging.%/ with base . ? or are you guys just fixing domain.com/%postname%/
- Andrew Nacin 3:09 am on November 16, 2011
  
  All of them were fixed.