Archive for May, 2009

WordPress 2.8 Beta 2

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Download beta 2.  See changes since beta 1.

WordPress 2.8 Beta 1

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Download it, test it, file bugs.
What’s new? All of this.
Good hunting, all you testers.

Contributing to WordPress, Part IV: Ideas, Opinions, Feedback

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

“I wish they’d implement feature x.”
“Why won’t they put feature y into core? It’s rated really high in the Ideas forum!”
“It doesn’t matter what I think, all the decisions get made by an elite crime-fighting squad funded by an anonymous millionaire. Er, I mean the four core devs.”
These sentiments, and others like them, are the [...]

Contributing to WordPress, Part III: Usability Testing

Monday, May 4th, 2009

One of the reasons WordPress 2.7 was such a success is the amount of usability testing that took place during the development cycle. Starting with testing 2.5 and the Crazyhorse prototype and following with the 2.7 beta, the testing program looked at almost every feature and function in the application. That kind of thing? Takes [...]