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Highlights

• New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
• Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
• Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
• Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
• Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
• Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
• Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
• Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation

New Features

User Features

• New Theme Installer routines
• Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors
• Add Documentation(function) lookup to Theme and Plugin editors
• Use “Custom Header” for menu text and revise Default theme to reflect change
• Separate Comments into a separate postbox, from Discussion postbox, on the Edit Post screen
• Make tags accessible without Javascript on the edit screen
• Don’t ask for confirmation when marking a comment as spam
• Don’t notify post author of own comments
• Fix comment paging for static front page
• Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns as set via the Screen Options tab
• Make titles into links in Dashboard Right Now module (this was in 2.7.1)
• Improved Admin icons (grey-to-transparent shadows)
• Update Blue Admin Color Scheme
• Press This improvements UI, quoting fixes, plus ability for Contributors to use Press This
• Add a Cancel Upload button and a Delete link to Administration > Media > Add New
• Add column “Rating” in Administration > Links > Edit
• Improve installer to help people entering wrong email addresses
• Improved Widget user interface
• Allow editing of all plugin files (Ticket 6732)
• Improved Plugin search (this was in 2.7.1) on Administration > Plugins > Add New
• Per Page option for plugins
• Move “Install a plugin in .zip format” to new Upload tab under Administration > Plugins > Add New
• Show absolute date instead of relative date for scheduled posts
• Fix tags suggest for post quick edit and bulk edit
• Permalink editor changes and fix for pages
• Autosave post/page when pressing Control/Command+S
• Add toggle all button to the Gallery tab in the uploader
• Support more than one gallery on the same page
• Add per page option to Screen Options for comments, posts, pages, media, categories, and tags
• Overhaul of LiveJournal importer (also add define WP_IMPORTING)
• Import category descriptions for Administration > Tools > Import > WordPress
• Show Tools menu for all users so they can access Turbo
• Check for new version when visiting Administration > Tools > Upgrade
• In upgrade process, provide better explanation for database upgrade message
• Fix most popular link category list
• Add description field for Tags in Administration > Posts > Tags
• WAI-ARIA landmark roles to added to WordPress Default theme
• “Choose a city in the same timezone as you” for Timezone in Administration > Settings > General
• Remove My Hacks option from Administration > Settings > Miscellaneous
• Hide email addresses from low privilege users on Administration > Comments
• Allow case-insensitive logins
• Login and Registration pages noindex followed
• Give login screen proper iPhone viewport
• Enforce unique email addresses in Add/Edit users
• Make user_nicenames unique during registration
• Add “Send this password to the new user by email” option to Administration > Users > Add New
• Don’t set user’s Website url to http:// in Administration > Users > Add New
• Add password strength meter to Add User and Edit User
• Hide things that need to be available to screen readers via offscreen positioning
• Use invisible class for hiding labels and legends
• Use a semantic class name for text targeted to screen readers

Development, Themes, Plugins

• Improved database performance
• Drop post_category column from wp_posts table, and link_category column from wp_links schemas
• Fix delete statements to ensure data integrity when innodb and foreign keys are used
• Enforce consistent ID types to allow for foreign keys to be defined between tables
• Add Sticky to list of post states
• Add a filter to the post states list
• Introduction and widespread use of transient and related filters
• Add filters so AIM, Yahoo, and Jabber IM labels, in user profile, can be changed
• Add hook “after_db_upgrade”
• Add hooks for the Users, Categories, Link Categories, Tags and Comments table columns
• HTTP API updates and fixes
• Add support for blocking all outbound HTTP requests
• Updated List of HTTP status codes (Ticket 9297)
• Use SimplePie for widget and dashboard feeds
• Switch to pomo lib. Support gettext contexts. Deprecate long form functions
• TinyMCE 3.2.4.1
• Use Jcrop 0.9.8 for cropping
• Update pclzip to 2.8
• Update PHPMailer to 2.0.4
• Update SWFUpload to 2.2.0.1
• Improved performance for script loading
• Improved archive and calendar queries
• Cron spawning improvements
• Timezone enhancements for PHP 5
• Add WP_Widget class and move native widgets into WP_Widget
• Allow other taxonomies (e.g. post categories) to be used with wp_tag_cloud (Changeset 10554)
• Add echo argument to wp_tag_cloud()
• Allow a plugin to control how many posts are displayed on edit pages
• Add “style” and “html” arguments to wp_list_authors (Ticket 4420)
• Add “exclude_tree” argument to wp_list_categories and make exclude behave like exclude_tree when hierarchical is specified–this was actually a 2.7.1 change (Ticket 8614)
• New Template Tag, the_modified_author (Ticket 9154)
• Enhanced support for custom taxonomies
• Put page title before blog name in admin title (Ticket 9028)
• Use https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/ for the WordPress.org secret-key service
• Various phpDoc updates
• Refactor filters to avoid potential XSS attacks
• XMLRPC improvements
• Improved mysql2date coding
• Make authentication more pluggable
• Switch to using the ID when calling get_avatar internally to support caching plugins
• Allow plugins to provide a canonical redirect_url even if WordPress does not provide its own
• Drafts have post_date populated now, so look for a zeroed out post_date_gmt to determine non-scheduled nature
• Fixes to query_posts (obey post_type, drop orderby=category, use group by for meta key queries, remove meta_value from selected fields)
• New orderby=none parameter for use with query_posts
• Allow a plugin to filter the classes applied in wp_list_pages()
• Functions (get_adjacent_post_rel_link() and adjacent_post_rel_link()) to display relational links for adjacent posts in the head (Ticket 8703)
• Add the sticky post grey background to the default theme
• Proxy support
• Let a plugin filter the expanded capabilities returned by map_meta_cap
• Allow the update period to be filtered in RSS/RDF feeds
• Store field types in wpdb object
• Add tag description functions tag_description and term_description
• Add page class to get_body_class()
• Deprecate get_catname()
• Use comments_open() and pings_open() in WordPress Default and Classic themes
• Add wp_trim_excerpt() filter
• Consolidate plugin/theme/core upgrade/install functions
• Add page-id-x class to body for pages
• Return empty list in wp_list_bookmarks() if requested bookmark category does not exist
• Allow menu reordering via plugin
• Add hook for updating user profile
• Add redirect argument to wp_loginout
• Add wp_lostpassword_url (Ticket 9932)
• Add get_the_author_meta() and the_author_meta() functions
• Deprecate the_author_ID, the_author_login, the_author_firstname, the_author_lastname, the_author_nickname,the_author_email, the_author_url, the_author_aim, the_author_yim, the_author_mns, the_author_description and all their “get_*()” functions. (The full list at wp-includes/deprecated.php)
• Let plugins use screen layout columns
• Add labels to titles and text inputs
• Add hook for adding info to plugin update message
• Don’t do core version check from front page loads
• Allow a plugin to vary the comment cookie lifetime (or even remove the cookies altogether)
• Allow plugin to replace just the default help while preserving the contextual help
• New escaping naming convention Ticket 9650
• Deprecate wp_specialchars() in favor of esc_html(). Encode quotes for esc_html() as in esc_attr(), to improve plugin security (ref. Development Updates)
• Deprecate sanitize_url() and clean_url() in favor of esc_url_raw() and esc_url() (ref. Development Updates)
• Add number/offset arguments to get_pages() (same parameters can be used for wp_list_pages()
• Make login more pluggable
• Add the_widget() function to output a generic widget anywhere in a template (Ticket 9701)
• Allow plugins to override tz support enable/disable
• Fix combining category and tag queries
• Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
• Recognize Expression Web 2 as IIS
• Allow multiple search form templates
• Introduce sanitize_html_class() and use it to give categories, tags, users etc meaningful classnames where possible but fallback to the id if necessary (Ticket 8446)
• Allow a different role to be set for users when they are created in a call to wp_insert_user()
• Improve Filesystem method choice for ‘direct’; introduce FS_METHOD constant
• Add a hook in print_footer_scripts as in print_head_scripts
• Add a comment_moderation_headers filter
• Move upload_dir filter to before directory is created, so plugins can have a better effect
• Pass name to sidebar, footer, and header get actions
• Upgrader improvements, including move curl to last position and fockopen to 2nd position due to higher compatibility
• Updated Trac

Advanced Features

JS script loader Improvements

• jQuery 1.3.2
• Improvements to the script loader: allows plugins to queue scripts for the front end head and footer, adds hooks for server side caching of compressed scripts, adds support for ENFORCE_GZIP constant (deflate is used by default since it’s faster)
• Load the minified versions of the scripts by default, define(‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true); can be used to load the development versions
• Remove events from categories chechboxes in quick edit to speed up page unload
• Make simple form validation and ajax-add new categories compatible with jQuery 1.3.1
• Load farbtastic.js has to be loaded in the head
• Note: see Lester Chan’s Loading Javascript in Footer blog and Andrew Ozz’s Script Loader Updates blog

New Widgets API

WP_Widget is a class that abstracts away much of the complexity involved in writing a widget, especially multi-widgets.

• Basically, you extend WP_Widget with your own class that provides a constructor and three methods — widget(), form(), and update().
  • widget() — outputs the actual content of the widget.
  • update() — processes options to be saved.
  • form() — outputs the options form.
• A widget is registered by passing the name of the widget class to register_widget().
• All widgets written with WP_Widget are multiple instance capable.
• Options
  • Options for old single-instance widgets ported to WP_Widget will be upgraded to the new multi-option storage format, which is simply a multi-dimensional array keyed by instance ID.
  • Options for widgets using the old multi-instance pattern should work as is.
  • If your widget has custom option storage needs, you can provide your own get_settings() and save_settings() methods.
• The WP_Widget source can be viewed here (read the phpdoc for moreinfo on usage):http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/widgets.php
• You can see examples of how to use it here: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/default-widgets.php
• If you author any widgets, try porting them to WP_Widget and give your feedback on what can be improved an Trac Ticket 8441.
• Props to the MultiWidget class, on which WP_Widget is based: http://blog.firetree.net/2008/11/30/wordpress-multi-widget/
• The above extracted from Ryan Boren’s wp-hackers post.

See also Widgets API.

Menu reordering via plugin

• Example plugin demonstrates menus with Dashboard, Posts, and Comments in the first menu group. The remaining menus follow in their usual order.
• When filtering the order array, any menus that are not mentioned in the array will be sorted after ones that are mentioned.
• Unmentioned menus are sorted in their usual order, relative to other unmentioned menus.
• Information extracted from Ryan Boren’s comments on Trac Ticket 9652

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