WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released (opens in new tab)

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77 pointskrogsgard10y ago16 comments

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Very nice new features especially the menu customization and preview. Some of my current clients will be very happy that they can finally see what the menu looks like without flying blind. Hopefully this also works with content blocks in menus as well.

anh7910y ago

The perfect thing of Wordpress is that it really helps to upgrade from (very) older version to the new one.

Yah, some months ago I upgraded a wordpress 2.3.3 (released in 2008, http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.3.3) to version 4.1 :) I only needed to fix some minor problems!

I will wait 5 years from now to see if I can move from this 4.1 to another one. Sorry Wordpress 4.3 ;)

coldtea10y ago

Actually since 4.something you can enable "auto-updates", and it will keep itself up to date.

I wouldn't suggest keeping in client machine on an older release, much less on a 2,3,4 or 5 year old release as you suggest, and leaving it in 2.3.3 until now is downright criminal with all the security fixes that have come out since then.

anh7910y ago

Wordpress ecosystem has many security issues. So upgrading doesn't mean it's secure. So I run my wordpress on laptop, compile all things to static contents thanks to httrack , and publish those static contents. No more nightmare, and the speed is amazing.

Of course, there is no more comments and dynamic contents. But I don't care ;)

growthmaverick10y ago

WordPress 4.3 named after Billie Holiday. Billie was an American jazz singer and songwriter. If we look at her life, it was a real struggle since her childhood. Attempted rape, protective custody, mother left, met again and became a prostitute. Arrested, sent to prison, served the due period and then started singing at night clubs. Her life was a chaos but she rose above the dirt and made her name in the Jazz singing.

WordPress 4.3 generated a lot of buzz since it was released. The most intriguing thing that I personally like was that Konstantin Obenland committed a release date for WordPress 4.3 and it was delivered on time.

Read more reactions from a blog post that we compiled at Cloudways blog.

http://www.cloudways.com/blog/wordpress-4-3-community-review...

arenaninja10y ago

I've only once had to keep a WP site up and running, and although the code has a ton of smell, most of my work there consisted of only a few clicks. I'm surprised at how effective Wordpress is as a platform, even if it's slow, and hope that they make a major version move to cleanup some of the cruft in their codebase soon. Dropping PHP4 constructors is a small step in the right direction, forcing plugin developers to do the same would be another. Kudos Wordpress, and thanks for the overview to the author (I'd never have bothered to read it otherwise)

Tortoise10y ago

So many people seem to dislike Wordpress but what alternatives are their if you want to host your own blog?

JayNeely10y ago

There are tons. Ghost, Moveable Type, Textpattern, Octopress, Statamic, Craft, PencilBlue, Dropplets, Anchor, Kirby, Expression Engine, Drupal, Lifetype, PivotX, Nibbleblog, Joomla, b2evolution, Publify, Jekyll, BlogEngine.net, Mezzanine... plenty more.

A01010y ago

Just for blogging? I'll stick with Ghost

McGlockenshire10y ago

Blogspam.

Here's the official announcement: https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/billie/

krogsgardOP10y ago

I wrote about a lot of developer facing features and linked to source materials to help folks get more information that are not blogspam at all. I appreciate your feedback on my work though, really; you're such a nice guy.

AlexeyBrin10y ago

I think the parent is referring to the fact that some browsers warn about your blog including unsafe scripts (try to load your link in Chrome or Firefox for e.g.). While this is concerning, I wouldn't go as far as qualifying the article as blogspam though.

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saddestcatever10y ago

Thanks for writing up your post. I'd say it certainly added some value that wasn't in the official release.

McGlockenshire10y ago

When I looked through the article, at first I saw nothing that was not covered in the official announcement.

But no, I didn't scroll far enough, there is indeed content there worth linking to. Therefore no, I was wrong, this is not blogspam, it just really looked like it.

Your snark and the downvote brigade are not appreciated.

andy_ppp10y ago

I have to say that the parent here is entitled to their view; I don't necessarily agree but I think a comment saying why you disagree (which some people and the article author have done) is better than down voting.

He adds in a link and some value even if you feel the sentament is negative...

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Labyrinth10y ago

anh7910y ago

The perfect thing of Wordpress is that it really helps to upgrade from (very) older version to the new one.

Yah, some months ago I upgraded a wordpress 2.3.3 (released in 2008, http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.3.3) to version 4.1 :) I only needed to fix some minor problems!

I will wait 5 years from now to see if I can move from this 4.1 to another one. Sorry Wordpress 4.3 ;)

coldtea10y ago

Actually since 4.something you can enable "auto-updates", and it will keep itself up to date.

anh7910y ago

Of course, there is no more comments and dynamic contents. But I don't care ;)

growthmaverick10y ago

Read more reactions from a blog post that we compiled at Cloudways blog.

http://www.cloudways.com/blog/wordpress-4-3-community-review...

arenaninja10y ago

Tortoise10y ago

So many people seem to dislike Wordpress but what alternatives are their if you want to host your own blog?

JayNeely10y ago

A01010y ago

Just for blogging? I'll stick with Ghost

McGlockenshire10y ago

Blogspam.

Here's the official announcement: https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/billie/

krogsgardOP10y ago

AlexeyBrin10y ago

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saddestcatever10y ago

Thanks for writing up your post. I'd say it certainly added some value that wasn't in the official release.

McGlockenshire10y ago

When I looked through the article, at first I saw nothing that was not covered in the official announcement.

But no, I didn't scroll far enough, there is indeed content there worth linking to. Therefore no, I was wrong, this is not blogspam, it just really looked like it.

Your snark and the downvote brigade are not appreciated.

andy_ppp10y ago

He adds in a link and some value even if you feel the sentament is negative...

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