One of the refinements that was part of WordPress 3.3 is that posts that have certain characters within the post title are ignored thus, creating a cleaner permalink. Jeff Starr of Digging Into WordPress explains in better detail on what actually happens when you use those characters within the post title but further into the post, he also brings up the fact that WordPress can automatically detect duplicate post titles within the database and append a dash with a number to the end of the post title. However, as Dave Clements mentions in the comments, this could possibly lead to broken links:
I read something that’s a little concerning in your post. Let’s assume that I create test-post and then create test-post-2. I publish them both and then trash test-post. Are you saying that test-post-2 will automatically become test-post, potentially screwing up any links that have been published with the original permalink of test-post-2? Just wondering what impact this has.
Perhaps Otto could shed some light as to what happens regarding this scenario. Jeff Starr will be looking into it and will be reporting back his findings.
The time has finally arrived. WordPress 3.3. was released early this morning to the masses. Codenamed ‘Sonny’ which at a glance looks like sorry, 3.3 has a couple of great user oriented features with a ton of polish. While my WordPress upgrade experience went smoothly, I was immediately impressed with the welcome screen which in my opinion, is better at explaining new features in WordPress than most of the official release posts on the WordPress.org blog, minus the ones with published videos. Kudos goes out to all involved for the welcome screen as well as every other improvement that made it into WordPress 3.3. Let me know in the comments what you think of the new user experience polish that made it into this version.
Andrew Nacin who is one of the core developers of WordPress has published an extensive field guide for developers regarding WordPress 3.3. The guide contains links to relevant articles and discussions on the WordPress developers blog such as admin bar API changes, Javascript and editor changes, Help screen along with API changes, etc. All developers should take note of the links published by Andrew so you’re well prepared for the release. ∞
Aaron Brazell of Technosailor.com has come through once again with his traditional 10 things you should know post, this time covering WordPress 3.3. The article covers mostly the user experience side of WordPress 3.3 but Aaron also points developers in the direction of the ever changing Codex article for 3.3 that they should take note of. With four different beta releases and a pretty long development cycle, plugin and theme authors have no excuses for any incompatibilities that may arise due to lack of testing.
I’d say that the drag and drop media uploader will probably end up being the most talked about aspect of WordPress 3.3. After using a test version of WordPress for a little while, I’ve become quite fond of the new media uploader. ∞
Andrew Nacin who is one of the core developers of WordPress gave a presentation at the most recent meetup in New York City covering WordPress 3.3. The video is 35 minutes in length with Andrew going in-depth on many of the features that 3.3 will have such as the admin bar, drag and drop media uploading, post names for permalinks and more. The video is best viewed at full screen. Thanks to Steve Bruner for the hat tip.
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, I give you the news making headlines of the week. I also give you a rundown of what to look for in WordPress 3.3. Beta 1 and give you my experience thus far with some of the new features. The end of the show has a 3 minute audio sound byte from Schipulcon where the founders of Drupal and WordPress shared the stage to talk about Open Source.
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, I give you the news making headlines of the week. I also give you a rundown of what to look for in WordPress 3.3. Beta 1 and give you my experience thus far with some of the new features. The end of the show has a 3 minute audio sound byte from Schipulcon where the founders of Drupal and WordPress shared the stage to talk about Open Source.