WordPress trunk news #12
No WordPress 3.4 updates this week, and the WordPress 3.4 beta 3 version is currently available. As per project schedule, the final two steps before WordPress 3.4 are release candidates RC1 and RC2. Target launch is May 9th.
At the time of writing, the WordPress 3.4 roadmap is at closed: 396 active: 92 total: 488 tickets, which is around 81% completed. Many XML-RPC privileges-type bugs fixed, we’ll probably be seeing more considering the terrific amount of new features in the XML-RPC server.
And now to trunk, what’s changed?
Hopeless themes
This changeset prevents themes with a missing stylesheet (style.css) to be visible in the built-in Theme Editor. Such themes are considered hopeless and are not eligible for editing anymore. Same goes for parent themes, these are checked, too, preventing children from being valid.
It’s a pity that the Editors are still made available, though.
4-year old bug squished
A bug that went unnoticed for around 4 years, since the introduction of default Gravatars has been caught, reported and patched. A missing ? prevented the size of the default Gravatar to be supplied.
Upgrade maintenance
Tidying up of old files has been reviewed, many old versions covered where unneeded files after upgrade have to be deleted.
Multiple screenshots dropped
Multiple screenshots was something probably many were looking forward to, however for now the functionality has been ripped out until further notice.
Uncluttered search UI
Notice anything different? Yep, the “Term”, “Author”, “Tag” dropdown is gone. The plugin search API already performs a weighted search and there is no need to specify the type of fields being searched apparently.
wp-register.php is out
The wp-register.php file has been deprecated 6 years ago and now is the time to let go of it completely.
Faster load
I personally get around 3000 spam comments a week and this proves to be quite a performance hog on some administration panel screens. This changeset fine-tunes how the latest comments are retrieved in order to make the dashboard faster.
Deprecated require_if_theme_supports
require_if_theme_supports has been deprecated. Its functionality is very simple, it leverages the current_theme_supports function to require a file. The functionality can be re-implemented without any pain whatsoever if some of your code uses it.
That’s about it. See you soon.
