WordPress 2.8.1 beta 2 – Are you a plugin author?

Saturday, June 27th, 2009 at 6:22 am

Just downloaded the latest beta version of WordPress for the new upgrade for the 2.8 version. WordPress is “begging” for plugin authors to check their plugins on this. From their post…

We especially suggest, recommend, and beg that plugin developers test their plugins against beta 2 and let us know of any issues. Notable fixes in beta 2:

* Translation of role names fixed
* mp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title
* Upload error messages are now correctly reported
* Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed
* Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed
* SSH2 filesystem requirements updated
* Switched back to curl as the default transport
* Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload

Now so far all the plugins I normally use seem to be working fine but for any of you that have created plugins take the time to test them with the new beta release. This way you will save your self some grief from people that have problems and provide more value to your customers.

Looks like this is very close to being a full release and I will keep you updated.

Mike Paetzold