Despite the date, this is a genuinely serious post.
I don’t want to join most other blogs in publishing a useless list of features that will be coming to WordPress 3.o. Instead, I thought I’d do it a bit differently. Recently I interviewed Adii, Nathan Rice, Alex Cragg, Cory Miller and Ian Stewart. In that post I asked “what in 3.0 are you looking forward to working with?” today’s post will have a look at what 3.0 is going to do for themes.
Menu Manager
Adii, Ian, Nathan and Cory all said they were most looking forward to working with the new custom navigation in 3.0. Nathan said:
“It’s going to be one of the 3.0 killer features, for sure.”
I’m not entirely sure that this is even a mild concern outwith the design community itself.
I would say that over 95% of the people I know have a screen resolution of 1280 or lower. Plenty of everyday people are still plugging along with 15″ screens at 1024 for their desktop environment at work and home. And that doesn’t even begin to address the increasing use of notebooks with 10″ – 13″ screens and smart phones, all making designs of 1280+ unnecessary and, in fact, extremely unheplful unless they degrade nicely at lower resolutions.
I think you’ve missed the point. Even if lots of people you know have >1024 screens, doesn’t mean that lots of people don’t.
In some cases 1280+ makes a lot of sense; WPShout, for example has an audience where c90% of readers use 1280+ screens so I can justify having a massive sidebar and a wide layout.
Looking forward to 3.0 especially custom posts looks very exciting.
The new 2010 theme reminds me of the standard theme you get with concrete5
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Hey Alex,
I tested the 2nd feature today as wp 3.0 beta 1 came out today. But I also feel bad about those plugins which did a great job like Flutter and Magic Fields. They will be definitely dead as their main feature will come bundled with wp.
Im looking forward to the menu manager the most I guess. The custom background images will be handy for my wpmu users for their blogs I guess although I guess theres alot fo room for them messing up a theme :S It can only improve though
Awesome. The first two are what I’m really looking forward to. It’s going to be super awesome!