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WordPress 3.4 is here and out the door. We’ve dubbed this release “Green” in honor of guitarist Grant Green whose soulful simplicity has kept many of us company during this release.

This release includes significant improvements to theme customization, custom headers, Twitter embeds, and image captions — here’s a short clip with the highlights:

For Users

The biggest change in 3.4 is the theme customizer which allows you to play around with various looks and settings for your current theme or one you’re thinking about switching to without publishing those changes to the whole world. For themes that support it, you can change colors, backgrounds, and of course custom image headers. We have more planned for the customizer down the road.

Throughout the rest of the admin you’ll notice tweaks to make your everyday life easier. For example, if you have lots of themes we’ve made it quicker to browse them all at once without paging. We’ve made it possible to use images from your media library to populate custom headers, and for you to choose the height and width of your header images.

We’ve expanded our embed support to include tweets: just put a Twitter permalink on its own line in the post editor and we’ll turn it into a beautiful embedded Tweet. And finally, image captions have been improved to allow HTML, like links, in them.

For Developers

There are hundreds of under-the-hood improvements in this release, notably in the XML-RPC, themes, and custom header APIs, and significant performance improvements in WP_Query and the translation system. The Codex has a pretty good summary of the developer features, and you can always dive into Trac directly.

We’ve also put together a busy developer’s field guide to the new APIs in 3.4.

There are many WordPress themes out there for people to use with their websites and we have noticed that a few of the themes incorporate their theme by creating a widget in the dashboard.  At the very least it would be nice if more WordPress theme developers created a widget with documentation on getting support for the plugin.
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Adding thumbnails to your themes blog page is now easier then ever with the release of WordPress 3.0. In the past at time you would have to go into the themes blog.php, page.php or index.php depending on how your theme was setup. But now  WordPress Popular Posts will attempt to generate a thumbnail from the first image attached to your posts. However, you can also select a custom thumbnail by enabling The Post Thumbnail functionality on your blog. All you have to do is add the following code to your themes functions.php file: (more…)

Normally when using WordPress and visiting the “Media” area in WordPress we have seen that there are various limits to the maximum upload file size. We have seen 20MB to 64MB all the way up to 200MB and greater. This depends on the hosting company that you are using and the limits that they decided to choose for the PHP MAX UPLOAD SIZE. (If you have root access you can set this to whatever you want to be). (more…)