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.
Third version of the Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr amazing book Digging Into WordPress is released last week. I got my updated copy from Chris yesterday. I already reviewed first version of the book last year, so this is only a small reminder post.
Third benchmark is used to measure the performance on the actual website or blog side visible to all visitors. Since WP 3.0 has a new theme, test was expanded here to include both Kubrick and Twenty Ten themes under WP 3.0, and only Kubrick under WP 2.9.2.
After the first part of the benchmark of WordPress 3.0 versus 2.9.2, here is the second part focusing on the admin section of the WordPress and the execution on the client side. Part 3 is coming in a few days and it will be dedicated to testing on the blog side of the WordPress.
WordPress 3.0 has been released few days ago, and judging from the search queries that brought visitors to this website, the transition has not been without problems. So, here is the first part of WordPress 3.0 benchmark comparing this version to previous 2.9.2.
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.
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.
First impression is that even with 283 opened tickets for 3.0 milestone on WordPress TRAC, current version is fairly stable. And also, very important to notice is that WP 3.0 is faster and uses less resources than it’s predecessor. So far so good.
Even though WP 3.0 few weeks away from release, current development versions after Beta 1 are proven to be very stable. So I decided to upgrade Dev4Press to WP 3.0 and take advantage of some of the new features this latest WordPress has to offer.
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.
