I took the dive today and moved this site into WordPress 3.0 Development trunk way ahead of the feature freeze date. I been monitoring the commits, and while I haven’t done much except for the few patches I have submitted the code is very stable.
For those daring, go ahead and run the trunk. You’ll notice a speed difference with everything including the jQuery. Backup your site for when something fails or you need to revert!
One of the problems the core developers have of WordPress is the amount of testing that goes on. Since this is free/open source software, users usually do not try software that they can get free. When its paid software they fell like it’s an obligation to make sure that they are getting their’s money worth before having it officially released as the ‘offical’ version.
It doesn’t work that way for WordPress. Stephen Cronin has posted up some ideas on his website and one stands out that could work for WordPress.
The first meetup was very successful of the new year. Sun Microsystems came though for us and helped us out with some great space. Large room and three smaller room for other things. The main presentation hall held 113 people. We had close to the 78 people that RSVP to the event. Not sure of the real count, but we found out later the directions we had posted up brought people to the wrong location. (Fixed now..)
Today is the first meetup of 2010 for WordPress NYC Meetup Group. Registration was open for 3 weeks so if you are just finding about this now, sorry. I have been tweeting about it. The event happens tonight at 6:30pm at 101 Park Ave at the Sun Microsystems Building.
Right now there is no plans to have jQuery updated to 1.4.0 in WordPress 3.0. It is not impossible, but very unlikely due to fact that it does not cover the WordPress 3.0 Scope of Work.
Use jQuery at your own risk and if you do use it, unload jQuery 1.3 first before registering jQuery 1.4.
wp_deregister_script( 'jquery' );
wp_register_script( 'jquery', '<Location of jQuery 1.4>', false, '' );
I will bring this up at the next dev meeting, but as of right now there is no jQuery 1.4 in WordPress 3.0.x.
So I been working on behind the scenes on a new Widget version of my theme. It’s now live and it works great, but I had to make a number of modifications to the Widget system for it to work correctly.
Back story: The first post in this series is located here. The way the widget system is built right now is that when a Widget is outputted and you have custom design you want shown, you have to pass your design through the register_widget function inside functions.php, which then wraps around the widget output. I thought this was a very messy way to do it especially since it removes the ability for plugin author and user to make all the formatting look the same when the theme is updated or if the widget has custom formatting needed.
Since then, I published a trac ticket (#11387) that includes the entire patch of this system. (Some of the code has been moved to another trac ticket for version 3.0 feature.)
This new enhancement to the Widget API system allows two things:
- Allows theme authors to specify a “Widget Walker” that will output of the design/css/code of all widgets that a user will use look the same.
- Gives widget authors more control over their content not being manipulated as much.
On my site I had to create a new theme file called ‘widget.php’ just to override the Widget System that is officially in 2.9.1, but it’s working fine and I had seen no problems since I did this major update a few days ago. I am going to see if we can implement this in after 3.0.x because this will be a great feature for all those WordPress Muliuser sites that need all types of customization including sites that have different formatting for different pages.
Wow. That was fast. Not less than 72 hours ago we released RC1 of 2.9 and we got such a good response from testing that we decided to skip the two week testing period for a release of WordPress 2.9 “Carmen”. Early Holiday Present. So get it today using the automatic upgrade feature.
Expect WordPress 3.0 released around the spring time because of the large changes to the core including WPMU integration and more media stuff (yay!).
Have a very safe holidays!
A quick note: If you run a stand-alone version, not hosted on WordPress.com, be sure you have at least MySQL version 4.1.2. All backwards compatibility was taken out of 2.9.
