TinyMCE 4.0 in WordPress 3.9
The newest WordPress release, which is planned to be published in April, will contain a new version of the editor. The editor’s API has been changed, hence it is worth checking the compatibility of your plugins with this latest editor – theoretically there will be retroactive support for functionalities from version 3.x of the API, but it’s better to be safe than sorry by testing and checking after updating.
Comparing WordPress.org and Github as a host platform for plugins
Well, in this case the decision seems to be fairly trivial – put a developer version of the plugin on Github and stable releases on WordPress.org ;) though I have to admit that Github develops dynamically and offers more and more interesting tools, such as traffic data on the repository page, as mentioned in the article.
An interesting way to create icons for social networking websites
Here’s an easy and interesting way to create a menu that uses social icons. With this method, the problem with deciding whether this functionality should be in the theme or in the plugin disappears.
List of potential changes in WordPress 3.9
As you can see, the potential changes will concern improving areas introduced in WordPress 3.8 as well as new features – a widgets customizer screen that’s to be added to the theme customizer, that let’s you customize widgets and get realtime previews of changes, as well as an update to the entries editor (TinyMCE 4.0).
WordPress 3.8.1 released
Late thursday evening the new WordPress version, 3.8.1, which solves issues discovered after the release of WordPress 3.8, has been published. The biggest problem was connected with embedding Tweets using oEmbed, which appeared after 14th January 2014 due to changes in the Twitter API.