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Happy Birthday: WordPress Turns 21

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 27 May 2024 10:34:00 +0000

21 years young and still going strong, WordPress powers nearly half of all Internet websites and is the most used CMS by a large margin over the competition, with a very active development cycle, showing no signs of slowing down.

20 Years of WordPress

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 26 May 2023 10:20:00 +0000

WordPress 0.7 was the first official version of WordPress, released on May 27, 2003. Yeah, we are celebrating 20 years of WordPress. Twenty Years. Incredible. Happy Birthday, WordPress, and we wish you many more! Writing about WordPress and its 20 ...

Widgets Panel with Block editor

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 10:21:28 +0000

After many delays and issues, the Widgets Panel has been replaced by the block editor in the new WordPress 5.8. While I like the idea, the final execution is mostly done badly and will (and already is) cause many problems to countless websites unaware of the changes.

Dev4Press plugins with WordPress 5.8

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:15:03 +0000

WordPress 5.8 has been released, bringing some major changes that will affect almost every existing plugin, and I imagine, it will break quite a few of them, mostly because of the new block-based replacement Widgets page.

WordPress: 18 Years

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 27 May 2021 08:00:00 +0000

On May 27, 2003, the first public version of WordPress had been released. It was version 0.7 that started this long journey of our favorite CMS, and today we celebrate the 18th birthday and over 40% of market share among all the internet websites.

Dev4Press plugins and WordPress 5.7

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 20:00:00 +0000

WordPress 5.7 'Esperanza' has been released today. As it stands now, all Dev4Press plugins are ready and fully compatible with the new WordPress version, with few plugins released to address some specific things new WordPress brings.

Getting ready for WordPress 5.5

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 07:56:10 +0000

In about two weeks WordPress 5.5 will be released. This version includes a lot of changes and new features, and it requires that plugins depending on those get updates before the 5.5 is actually released.

Plugins Compatibility with WordPress 5.3

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:25:00 +0000

WordPress 5.3 was released yesterday, and it includes significant changes to Block Editor (including new blocks), Admin Interface, new theme, PHP 7.4 support, admin email verification and much more. I am currently in the process of testing the stable version, ...

Dev4Press plugins preparation for WordPress 5.0

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:00:04 +0000

WordPress 5.0 with a brand new Block Editor, is scheduled for the second half of November 2018 with the accelerated release schedule, with the second Beta already released.

Gutenberg: Version 3.3 or Is it ready for the core?

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:00:18 +0000

Over the past 4 months, since my previous article on Gutenberg, soon to be WordPress core editor has reached the version 3.3, and there is more talk about including the Gutenberg in WordPress core with version 5.0. Is it ready for that?

Gutenberg: The current 2.4 state

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:00:04 +0000

Since September, when I have written about the Gutenberg 1.1 version, this plugin soon to be part of the WordPress core, has come a long way and it has reached version 2.4.

Gutenberg: The Good, The Bad and The…

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 10:00:14 +0000

I have waited for a while before I decided to write this review of the Gutenberg, I wanted to test editor that has come far in the development process. Now, with version 1.1 Beta, I think that editor is becoming ...

WordPress 4.8: Evans

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:48:49 +0000

WordPress 4.8, named after the jazz pianist and composer William John “Bill” Evans, is the first major update for WordPress in 2017 with longer development cycle compared to previous 3 years.

Happy Birthday: WordPress turns 14

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 27 May 2017 11:00:43 +0000

First public version of WordPress 0.70 was released May 27, 2003. It started as a fork from B2 blogging software, and over the past 14 years it has grown to most used CMS on the web.

WordPress XSS Vulnerability

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:16:39 +0000

This week was very busy in the world of WordPress: WordPress 4.2 was released yesterday, and massive potential security risk was discovered few days before exposing error in thousands of plugins to XSS vulnerability caused by lack of clarity in WordPress documentation.

How WordPress URL rewriting works?

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 06:00:12 +0000

On of the most important features WordPress has is permalinks rewrite engine that can create all those pretty links we are so used to with no query elements like question marks or ampersand. Did you wonder how permalinks work and what can you do to customize them? Read on.

Canonical Redirect: Problem and Solutions

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 18:00:05 +0000

You have noticed how WordPress can fix and redirect incorrect and incomplete URL's to your blog, and how different way you can link content will always redirect to one based on permalinks settings? That is called canonical redirect, and it is part of WordPress since version 2.3.

…And what WordPress actually needs?

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:50:31 +0000

It is not fair only to point out what is not good with upcoming WordPress, as I did yesterday. There are many things WordPress need, and for some reason all that is completely overlooked by core developers, so I will list all those things that will actually make WordPress better.

What will we get with WordPress 3.4?

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:00:03 +0000

WordPress 3.4 Beta was released next week, and it is a good time to see what to expect from new version. Right from the start, I must say that I am disappointed with current development of WordPress and that this new version makes even previous WordPress 3.3 looks good.

Slow adoption rate of new WordPress versions

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:10:44 +0000

New WordPress 3.3 is just around the corner, and no matter how good new version will be, in the next couple of months less than 15% of all WordPress websites will upgrade to 3.3. And if you look to the past versions of WordPress, you will see that adoption rate looks pretty bad.

Preview of upcoming WordPress 3.3

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:00:19 +0000

WordPress 3.3 is in development right now with feature freeze in effect, and it is expected to enter Beta phase in the next couple of weeks. For now, here is a preview of some of the features that will be part of this new version. WordPress 3.3 should be released in december 2011.

Waiting for WordPress 3.1

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:30:08 +0000

With new WordPress 3.1 coming out soon, it's time to check out all plugins and fix the potential problems and compatibility issues. But, this time, job of doing that is much more complicated than usually, mostly due to the changes in way WP 3.1 is loading jQuery and jQueryUI libraries.

WordPress 3.0

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:11:19 +0000

June 17 2010, day when long waited WordPress 3.0 code name Thelonious is released. After several beta and release candidates released over last 2 months, many, many bugs were fixed and right now WP 3.0 looks very stable and well worth the upgrade.

WordPress System Requirements

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:52:00 +0000

Every few months, about the time new WordPress is to be released, system requirements are again on the line and despite all discussions and facts presented by users, WordPress still maintains (the illusion) of support for PHP4, when that is far from the truth.

WordPress 3.0: Step in the right direction. But…

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:38:19 +0000

There is no doubt about it, WordPress 3.0 represents significant step forward for WordPress with merging with WPMU adding custom post types and many more minor elements that you will notices as soon as you install it. But I feel that this major releases is rushed.

First Impressions: WordPress 2.9

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:11:28 +0000

Over the weekend I have updated all my websites to use latest WordPress 2.9, and I tried to test as many features as I can on different setups, with many different plugins and overall this is great release, but as usual, it's not all good with this latest release.

WordPress 2.9

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:07:13 +0000

Finally, long awaited WordPress 2.9 has been released. Here is the overview of the most important new features and changes in this latest version, and trust me that there are many new interesting things. Also, read about Dev4Press plugins compatibility.