“Screen Options” for the post, page, comment, and media management pages now allows setting the number of items to show per page.
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Ryan Boren
Image header cropping now uses Jcrop.
John Myrstad, 
John Myrstad and 2 others are discussing. 
John Myrstad
Would be nice to include a cropping like the Scissors plugin which use Jcrop…
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John Myrstad
Frank
@Robert: Thanks a lot
Ryan Boren
Soliciting feedback on new Widgets API
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amfprod
Not related to the API, but I really hope when the new widgets page is updated it comes OUT of the Appearance tab and becomes its own tab. This really should’ve happened from the start. Widgets are too hidden away.
Charles
It’s good for WordPress, but not for me. The new Widgets API means I need update more than 10 widgets in the near future… …
Denis de Bernardy
Apart from trac ticket #9703, which is deadly, it’s working well so far.
One missing feature would be a WIDGET_DEBUG mode, that would place the server’s feedback in a special div tag at the bottom of the page — without needing to edit the WP code base and use a js debugger. Debugging a new widget’s upgrade scripts is mostly impossible without such a thing.
Also, last I checked anyway, it broke old style multi-widgets. If it still does, it would be sweet that it didn’t — else, quite a few plugins will need to be rewritten. But that might be asking for the moon. 
Lloyd Dewolf (Budd)
Vladimir Prelovac contacted me wondering if any WordPress developers are interested in a free PDF copy of his new book WordPress Plugin Development – Beginner’s Guide with the hopes you will publish a review.
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Steven Bradley
I’ll absolutely publish a review of the book if I can have a chance to read it.
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Dan M.
I’m definitely up for that.
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Ajay
Makes perfect sense… everyone will review it
Ryan Boren
Converting default widgets to the new widgets API.
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GaMerZ
I did convert it using the API, tested and works http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/2009/03/17/new-wp_widget-class-in-wordpress-28/
Jeffro
Now if I remember correctly, weren’t we able to configure certain widgets to have multi instances in WordPress 2.3? Is that the way this will work in WordPress 2.8?
GaMerZ
Yeap, but now, almost all widgets support multi instances if it is done with the new WP_Widget class
Ryan Boren
2.8 will land some time in April. People seem pretty happy with 2.7 so we’re taking time to work on some areas that need extra attention, like widgets.
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Omar
sweet!
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amfprod
Thank god! Widgets need a complete overhaul!
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James
I’m with you. I don’t understand what was wrong with the old 2.3 way of doing things. It was easier to get an overview of what was where in your sidebars (since I use 2 on my main blog, but would love to have 5 (2 sidebars, 3 widgetized footer areas)).
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Kirk M
Great to hear. I’m currently running 2.8 bleeding in a local sandbox and I like what I see and hear about already, especially the improved DB efficiency. Can’t have enough of that. Also looking forward to the overhauled widgets interface as the last “rebuild” unfortunately missed the mark by a long shot (but not every overhaul turns out right despite the best of intentions).
Fine work so far.
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Jeffro
I wish Andrew the best of luck revamping the widget management area. I’m predicting a system that is between the one for WordPress 2.3 and the one we currently have. By the way, really liking the syntax highlighter as well as the function lookup in the theme/plugin editors.
Ramoonus
april is over, releasedate in 4 weeks?
amfprod 9:51 pm on March 30, 2009 Permalink |
Woo! This is an excellent addition.
Baris Unver 10:45 pm on March 30, 2009 Permalink |
relevant thing: it’d be better if you “delete” the items (with jQuery), not “hide” them. the “wp.com stats” widget on dashboard still tries to load stats, even if it’s hidden.