WordPress 3.0

Most of you who follow WordPress development should already be aware of the merge between WP and WPMU, which will be seen in the release of WordPress 3.0. Unfortunately there’s still a limited amount of info available, but I’ll share some of what I’ve been able to find.

Project Development Found on “WordPress Development Updates” :

February 18, 2010 Update: to include the new menu system, we are pushing back all dates by 2 weeks, per updated schedule below.

Per recent development chats, we’ve worked out a project schedule for 3.0. The plan:

January 7, 2010
  • Identify major features slotted for 3.0
  • Begin merging MU files into trunk
  • Begin development of new default theme
  • Begin development of custom post types feature
  • Begin development of menu management feature
  • Patch bugs
  • Work on patches for small enhancements
January 18, 2010
  • MU file merge should be complete
  • Cutting edge types can start banging on the new MU integration
  • Continue alpha development
February 15 March 1, 2010 Feature freeze
**From this point forward, there will be no more commits for enhancements or feature requests in this release cycle, only bug fixes.**
March 1 22, 2010 Begin public beta
March 29 April 12, 2010 Begin RC
April 13 May 1, 2010 Launch WordPress 3.0

Test WordPress trunk with a test install of WordPress MU:

(Posted by WPmuGuruhttp://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/to-test-wordpress-trunk-with-a-test-inst/)

-Download trunk from the link at the bottom of http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk
-make a backup copy of your wp-config.php and .htaccess
-do a manual upgrade of the install replacing the WordPress (MU) code to the files extracted from the zip
-the only original files that should remain from your WordPress MU install are those in wp-content, wp-config.php & .htaccess

More Information for you reading pleasure:

Menu Management by WooNavhttp://www.woothemes.com/2010/02/woonav-integrated-in-wp-30/

WooNav from Woothemeshttp://www.woothemes.com/2010/02/woonav-integrated-in-wp-30/

Important steps when testing WP 3.0 Alpha and Betahttp://wordpress.org/support/topic/365622

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