WordPress 3.0 Beta first code review complete

As the WordPress community eagerly awaits the final release of WordPress 3.0 it is always good news when you see positive reviews from Alex King, the WordPress innovator with plugins like the widely used Twitter Tools, the Carrington theme framework, and the WordPress ShareThis plugin, on how things progressed. This is also pretty re-assuring as this is essentially the first comprehensive code review of this type that they have done for the upcoming version.

At the moment WordPress is going through a major transition from version 2.0 released in December 24th 2005 to WordPress 3.0 Beta and 3.0 final scheduled for release in May 2010 according to WPDevel.

For those who have seen the gradual ascent of WordPress into the platform it is now, Continue reading

WordPress 3.0 Beta Released, get it while its hot!

The long wait is now over, WordPress have announced via their blog that the new version WordPress 3.0 Beta is now available for download by the public. This is pretty exciting considering that we will also being seeing Drupal 7 some time soon too.

The final version of WordPress 3.0 is due out later in WordPress, but in a move to release early could also be beneficial for WordPress and the community for a number of reasons: Continue reading

WordPress Elastic themes generator from GSOC 09 is intriguing

A few days ago (Sunday 21st march) on the WordPress facebook blog they released this post about the Google Summer of code (GSOC)and WordPress 3.0 sneek peeks. The Official release by WordPress where there are a couple of announcements, but the one of particular interest that was from the GSOC 09 by Daryl Koopersmith, and is called Elastic Themes.

The WordPress elastic themes generator

The generator can best be desribed as, Continue reading