These are my slides from presenting at the August 1st, WordPress Birmingham meetup, where I discussed new features in WordPress 3.2.

1. “Gershwin”
3.2
Brian Krogsgard
What’s new.
8.01.11
What’s next.
(maybe)

2. Light. Fast2.Clean.Sexy2
• 3.2 development lead - Mark Jaquith,
• faster release cycle (4 months)
• Focus on speed, usability, legacy support
• PHP, MySQL, browsers.

3. Default as in theme not as in debt

4. UI Oh My

5. No more excuses.

6. Seriously.

7. PHP 4 is so 2004.

8. One-step guide to #fail
• PHP 5.2.4 by the numbers*
• 0.9% - 4.3 • 0.4% - 5.2.3
• 5.1% - 4.4 • 8.3% - 5.3
• 6.0% - 5.1 • 76.4% - 5.2.4+
• 0.7% - 5.2 Learn why you need to upgrade
• 0.4% - 5.2.1
• MySQL 5.0.15
*Source: Sucuri Security

9. Browsers beware

10. Crazy fast updates
3.2 --------------- 3.2.1

11. Contributor Love

12. You can take our lives...

13. Only the surface...

14. Just some examples...
• jQuery 1.6.1 and jQuery UI 1.8.2 bundled**
• Pending pages
• is_multi_author()
• show_in_admin_bar() & name_admin_bar() for post type args
• Admin bar tweaks
• “Update Automatically” now = “Update Now”
• No 404 for empty post type archives
• get_screen_icon()
• More than 400 tickets closed on Trac

15. A little 3.3 please
• 8/31 Contributor feature freeze
• 9/7 Lead feature freeze
• 9/21 Beta 1 goal
• 10/15 RC 1 goal
• 11/15 Target 3.3 release date*
*I bet a dollar it comes out on Thanksgiving

16. 3.3 Proposed Scope
• Media stuff
• Install / update / new features welcome screens
• Responsive admin & css file cleanup
• Permalinks!!!
• Tableless settings API
• Child themes!
• IE7 (3.4 likely..)
• HTML emails
• Keep widgets on theme switch

17. GIVE ME MORE
• wpdevel.wordpress.com
• make.wordpress.org/ui
• make.wordpress.org/themes
• @wpdevel
• WP-SVN mailing list (beware)
• WP-Hackers
• WPCandy ; )

18. krogsgard@gmail.com
krogsgard.com
@krogsgard
skype: ‘krogsgard’

19. “Gershwin”
3.2
Brian Krogsgard
What’s new.
8.01.11
What’s next.
(maybe)