WordPress 3.0.1 is out. With a heap of bug fixes… and nothing particularly major (it’s all good!) this will doubtless be a pretty stable and long lasting release! Tweet This Post
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Attention theme developers: In case you missed this little change, WordPress 3.0 makes it extremely easy to add feed links to your theme. Previously, the process involved adding a long tag to your header file. Now all you have to do is add this to your theme’s functions.php file: add_theme_support( ‘automatic-feed-links’ ); Much cleaner way [...]
Perhaps you haven’t had time to jump head first into WordPress 3.0. Maybe you haven’t even upgraded your site. There are so many new features that it may be a little overwhelming. Don’t worry. You’re not behind, especially if you’re using BuddyPress. BP version 1.2.5 came out today with numerous bug fixes for WordPress 3.0. [...]
I love when template tags get shorter, don’t you? Whereas previously we might use bloginfo(‘url’) or get_option(‘site_url’), WordPress 3.0 has some new template tags: The new home_url template tag retrieves the home url for the current site. Here’s the default way to use it: <?php home_url(); ?> Check out more variants on home_url in the [...]
WordPress 3.0 makes custom post types much more approachable than ever before. What previously required extensive hacks to accomplish can now be done directly within the WordPress dashboard. Check out Easy Post Types, an exciting new plugin that allows you to create custom post types on the fly and manage custom fields and categories for [...]
Upgrading WordPress can be an exhilarating process if everything goes smoothly. However, getting stuck in the middle without a clue of what to do can be extremely frustrating, to say the least. We’ve been monitoring WordPress user’s experiences and have prepared a compilation of resources that will save you a few headaches. If you have [...]
This is a common problem among WordPress users upgrading to 3.0 since the package size is bigger than previous versions. You may see something like this: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted Solution: Increase Memory Limit: One way to do this is to add this line to your wp-config.php file: define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M'); [...]
by Aaron
After more than 6 months of development, WordPress 3.0 is out! Many of you will be anxious to update right away, but there are some important things you should know first: General Info WordPress MU has been merged into regular WP, which means whether or not you need multiple blogs (sites now) you will download [...]
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Late last night WordPress 3.0 RC1 was pushed out and we knew you’d need an upgrade guide, since it’s not a one-click process. There are a few steps to getting your WPMU site working with 3.0 but this guide will help to make the process as simple and smooth as possible. To Upgrade or Not [...]
BuddyPress developer Rich Fuller has been busy this past week updating plugins for BP 1.2.4 and creating new functionality that many users will be excited about. Over the weekend, I tested the new updates for the very useful BuddyPress Restrict Group Creation. As an administrator, this tool gives you the ability to finely tune your [...]
