WordPress 2.8 Release Candidate 1

By Santiago on June 10, 2009

With Release Candidate 1, Automattic think WordPress 2.8 is ready and complete. Download it, test it, and tell us what you think. If you don’t uncover any bad bugs, 2.8 will be released on Wednesday the 10th. YEAH!!

If you’re interested in what has changed since beta 2, consult the changelog.

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WordPress 2.8 Beta RC1

By Michael Castilla on June 8, 2009

Well, it looks like WordPress 2.8 is (or at least close to being) on track for it’s release date Wednesday, June 10th. Feel free to download Release Candidate 1 here, and let us know what you think!

Also, check out some other resources on WordPress 2.8 -

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5 Useful WordPress Functions You Didn’t Know Existed

By Santiago on June 4, 2009

Deep within the source code of WordPress lies an endless list of useful functions just waiting for you to use them in your theme or plugin. The problem is, most people don’t know they exist, probably because the Codex is ridiculously underdeveloped, and most people hate looking through source code. Luckily for you, reading the WordPress source code is a hobby of Nathan Rice.

Nathan, compiled a list of some of incredibly and useful funtions:

1. wp_mail()

2. wp_loginout()

3. clean_url()

4. wpautop()

5. wp_rss() / get_rss()

Don forget visit the original article to read the detailed functions code.

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How to allow your visitors to send your articles by email to their friends

By Santiago on May 27, 2009

Many websites allow their visitors to send their articles to friends, so why not implement it on your WordPress blog? The following article contain an easy solution to do it.

To achieve this recipe, simply open your single.php template and paste the following code within the loop, where you want the “Email this” link to be displayed:

<a href="mailto:?subject=<?php the_title();
?>&amp;body=<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Send this
article to a friend!">Email this</a>

That’s all. Please note that it will only allow visitors using a mail software as such as Thunderbird or Outlook to email their friends.

via: wprecipes

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WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 Released

By Santiago on May 17, 2009

After long 5 months of development work WordPress Team has released first beta version of WordPress 2.8. However WordPress 2.8  Beta 1 is suggest for testing purpose only and should not be deployed on your live blogs. Due to time constraint many features was left out of WordPress 2.7 and it was decided to get them in WordPress 2.8. Hence we may expect big changes as well as several new features in WordPress 2.8.

List of Big Changes in WordPress 2.8:

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