WordPress News and Updates

This page will show you the most recent news and updates for WordPress content management system and WordPress templates.

WordPress Templates News and Updates

Kwicks slider for WordPress.

April 25 2012 | Category: WordPress Updates

From now you can find WordPress templates that use Kwicks jQuery slider plugin.

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WordPress 3.2 is now available

March 26 2012 | Category: WordPress Updates

On 4th of July WordPress theme announced new release of WordPress engine. All our WordPress 3.x templates are compatible with WordPress 3.2…

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WordPress widgets positions screenshot

March 26 2012 | Category: WordPress Updates

Today we’ve added new feature to WordPress templates preview pages. Now you can see WordPress Widgets Positions template screenshot displaying possible widget positions.…

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WordPress themes. No Tables! Widgets support added

March 26 2012 | Category: WordPress Updates

September 25, 2006 all wordpress themes now support widgets. The coding was improved too – no tables!…

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WordPress. Dropdown menu

January 27 2011 | Category: WordPress Updates

All WordPress templates starting from #28310 will have a dropdown menu included. …

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Updated as of 06/22/2007

November 15 2010 | Category: Updates & Innovations, WordPress, WordPress Updates

All the Word Press templates starting from the #15327 are coded in a new CSS scheme.

This new style has less coding and is rather simple. Now there is no need to have a separate style sheet for IE which means one way of coding for all the browsers. From today, the templates have a better look in Adobe® Dreamweaver® …

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WordPress 2.1 New Features

November 15 2010 | Category: WordPress, WordPress Updates

We are proud to offer you the WordPress Themes that are compatible with the new features of WordPress 2.1!
WP 2.1 has added a bunch of useful functions that were not available in the previous versions (please, check http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags for more detailed info). Now, there are even more tools for making a reliable and multifunctional BLOG.
For the reason …

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WordPress 3.0 compatible templates.

September 04 2010 | Category: WordPress Updates

Starting from the template #30531 WordPress templates are compatible with WordPress 3.0

Highlights

  • WordPress and WordPress MU have merged – allowing the management of multiple sites (called Multisite) from one WordPress installation.
  • New default theme “Twenty Ten” – takes full advantage of the current features of WordPress.
  • New Custom Menu Management feature – allows creation of custom menus combining posts,

    • …

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WordPress templates sample pages and dump.sql

June 11 2010 | Category: WordPress Updates

All WordPress templates starting from #29400 are provided with the updates sample sub-pages and included dump.sql file

New sample pages allow you to see more WordPress features available and have few more page layouts available

The included dump.sql file will let you make your instaled template same as at the template preview in few clicks

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WordPress Goes 2.9 And So Do We!

December 23 2009 | Category: WordPress Updates

Today we’re happy for WordPress team and community. And our team would like to congratulate WordPress key developers on their fresh release of WordPress version 2.9! The new version had over half a million downloads already! Want to know what’s so special about WP 2.9? A few of the headline features to be mentioned are global undo/trash, built-in image editor, …

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WordPress News and Updates

Plugin Directory Refreshed

19 May 2012, 6:56 pm
Been hanging out with a few WordPress.org hackers — Scott, Nacin, and Otto — the last few days in a BBQ-fueled haze of hacking to make plugin directory better. There are over 19,000 plugins listed and they’re really the heart and soul of WordPress for many people, so they deserve a little tender loving care. [...]

Calling All Contributors: Community Summit 2012

15 May 2012, 10:36 pm
Each year, the WordPress core development team meets in person for a week to work together and discuss the vision for WordPress in the coming year. As annual events go, it’s easily my favorite. Don’t get me wrong, I love attending WordCamps and local WordPress meetups (which are awesome and you should try to attend [...]

WordPress 3.4 Beta 4

3 May 2012, 2:52 am
Less bugs, more polish, the same beta disclaimers. Download, test, report bugs. Thanks much. /ryan #thewholebrevitything

WordPress 3.3.2 (and WordPress 3.4 Beta 3)

20 April 2012, 3:10 pm
WordPress 3.3.2 is available now and is a security update for all previous versions. Three external libraries included in WordPress received security updates: Plupload (version 1.5.4), which WordPress uses for uploading media. SWFUpload, which WordPress previously used for uploading media, and may still be in use by plugins. SWFObject, which WordPress previously used to embed [...]

WordPress 3.4 Beta 2

12 April 2012, 3:52 am
Howdy, folks! Another week, another beta. Since we released Beta 1 last week, we’ve committed more than 60 bug fixes and feature adjustments based on testing and feedback. If you’ve been testing Beta 1, please update to Beta 2 to make sure things are still working for you. If you are a theme or plugin [...]

WordPress 3.4 Beta 1

5 April 2012, 2:07 am
WordPress 3.4 is ready for beta testers! As always, this is software still in development and we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. If you break it (find a bug), please report it, and if you’re a developer, try to [...]

WordPress Takes SXSW 2012!

6 March 2012, 4:19 pm
The South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) holds a special place in the history and heart of WordPress. Though the conference has changed in the years since I first met Matt in the hallway in 2003 — before WordPress even had a name — it’s still arguably one of the most influential events in our [...]

Year of the Meetup

27 January 2012, 8:17 pm
We hereby declare 2012 as the Year of the WordPress Meetup. You'll want to get in on this action. So what is a WordPress Meetup? Basically, it's people in a community getting together — meeting up — who share an interest in WordPress, whether they be bloggers, business users, developers, consultants, or any other category of person able to say, "I use WordPress in some way and I like it, and I want to meet other people who can say the same.

Internet Blackout Day on January 18

17 January 2012, 11:18 pm
WordPress.org is officially joining the protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act that is coming before the U.S. Senate next week. As I wrote in my post a week ago, if this bill is passed it will jeopardize internet freedom and shift the power of the independent web into the hands of corporations. [...]

Help Stop SOPA/PIPA

10 January 2012, 7:18 pm
You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and [...]