June 30, 2008
WordPress 2.6 is around the corner, and as usual, there’s a bunch of changes, improvements, enhancements that have went into this version. In my opinion, this is an odd major release. While there are certainly major new changes that warrant a new major release, much of the release consists of various improvements generally saved for “dot releases”. Security and enhancement type stuff. The thinking is that WP 2.6 can be released so a WordPress 2.7 can come in the early fall timeframe and integrate new features developed in conjunction with the Google Summer of Code project.
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April 10, 2008
Anyone who’s been around WordPress for a “Digg effect” or other massive influx of traffic knows that it can be a real problem. From a technical standpoint, the problem is that PHP is entirely loaded into memory for every pageload. That includes the 99% of PHP that is not being used to actually render the [...]
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10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.7
November 18, 2008The saga of cheatsheets and reference sheets continues with this outline of the hot new WordPress 2.7 which will be released soon. Like WordPress 2.5, this is a radical release. Like WordPress 2.5, the bulk of the changes affect the WordPress admin. Unlike WordPress 2.5, however, this is not merely an update of the backend but a complete rebuilding.