Tag: WordPress 3.8

On Contributing to WordPress Core

I’m honored to be featured on the WordPress 3.8 Credits page as a Contributing Developer/Recent Rockstar (Matt decided to list everyone in one big group this time instead of breaking it up, but the group is ordered randomly by a level of regularly active developers—the traditional “Contributing Developers”–and a level of developers who showed increased involvement and significant help in…

A screenshot of the Twenty Fourteen theme with the Fourteen Colors plugin, featuring a light gray contrast color and a light blue accent color

Custom Colors in Twenty Fourteen

Twenty Fourteen is WordPress’ shiny new default theme, released Thursday alongside WordPress 3.8. I worked with the Twenty Fourteen development team throughout the cycle, doing everything from proposing features to removing features to proposing design tweaks, fixing bugs, and testing the theme everywhere. Twenty Fourteen features black, white, and green as its primary colors. In September, I introduced an “Accent Color”…

WordPress 3.8 Is Going to be Awesome

WordPress 3.8 development is heating up, with huge developments in the last few days. MP6, the now-infamous visual redesign of WordPress, DASH, a much-needed refresh of that Dashboard screen that we all habitually ignore, THX, a gorgeous new theme-browsing experience, and many smaller components have been merged into WordPress trunk, the development branch, after being developed as plugins first. And…