WordPress 3.4 Field Guide for Developers
WordPress 3.4 Release Candidate 2 due to drop any moment, and we’re aim to do a final release of 3.4 early next week. Developers, this is your last pre-release opportunity to test your plugins and themes.
For 3.3, I wrote up a field guide of things developers need to know. For 3.4, I get to crowd-source it:
Custom Headers and Backgrounds. Chip Bennett posted a great summary of the API changes on the make/themes blog. Amy Hendrix posted about flexible custom headers. If you are a theme developer, I would strongly suggest you follow the make/themes P2.
Live Previews (The Customizer). You’ll want to read Otto’s definitive post on the subject, How to leverage the Theme Customizer in your own themes.
New WordPress XML-RPC API. If you’re interested in the new APIs for custom content types and taxonomies, check out the Codex page, put together by Max Cutler. Max also recapped the bug fixes, test coverage, and other changes on his blog.
Internationalization/Localization Changes. There’s a document on the translators P2 that outlines the numerous changes here.
That’s all we have for now! If there’s something we missed that deserves a writeup for developers, leave a comment and I’d be happy to make sure it gets written up here (under the field guide tag).
Scott Kingsley Clark 5:10 am on June 7, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Not sure how big this was, but the page template in folders handling within themes is pretty cool!
Julien Desrosiers 9:14 pm on June 7, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks for this short recap. Didn’t know about the XML-RPC API.
dentviifelipeveiga 9:45 pm on June 9, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Interesting changes. Finally WordPress is giving the due attention to its international customers. Worray!
Brad Dalton 6:41 am on June 14, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
The video on this page doesn’t work and comments are off on that page https://wordpress.org/news/2012/06/green/
Ian Dunn 9:50 pm on June 16, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
It looks like there are some changes in network-wide activation that break a commonly-used technique in plugins. See http://wpgetready.com/2012/06/wordpress-3-4-and-multisite/ for details.
Ian Dunn 11:02 pm on June 16, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20995
Fred Jaillet 12:53 pm on June 20, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hello,
I wanted to prevent the community Hypercache and DB Cache causes a complete crash after updating to version 3.4 … Yet all extensions are disabled.
Andrew Nacin 5:55 pm on August 31, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
This was a known issue with the DB Cache plugins that the authors fixed shortly after release.
StormGate 9:34 am on July 5, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Useful post, the update broke a few of my woofoo themes for about an hour (they fixed the bug quickly) – Definitely big improvements in 3.4.