Tag Archives: Version 2.5

Yahoo! Answers Philippines Uses WordPress

by Austin Matzko on June 5, 2008 at 10:11 am

… as WordPress Philippines points out. Oddly enough, Yahoo!’s blog is using WordPress 2.3.1, even though it started in May and WordPress 2.5 was released in March.

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WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate

by Austin Matzko on March 18, 2008 at 6:28 am

The first release candidate for WordPress 2.5 has been announced. That means that work on this major upgrade to WordPress, whose release is now over a week delayed, is starting to wrap up. However, activity on the lists shows that there is still quite a bit of bug-fixing that remains.

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Adding Advanced Options Boxes in WordPress 2.5

by Austin Matzko on February 25, 2008 at 9:58 pm

The upcoming WordPress 2.5 has a completely-redesigned admin backend. Plugin authors who add custom fields to the “Write Post” and “Write Page” pages will need to change their methods to work with the new design. Ozh explains how to use add_meta_box() with the new design to add those custom fields. He has a simple, straightforward [...]

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What You Won’t See in WordPress 2.5

by Austin Matzko on February 11, 2008 at 9:37 pm

One of the WordPress lead developers, Ryan Boren, announced today that WordPress 2.5 was going into “feature-freeze.” That means that the remaining month until 2.5′s March 10 release will be spent fixing the bugs in existing 2.5 features, not adding more. And that’s a lot of bugs, as much of the admin redesign hasn’t yet [...]

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