{"id":11253417,"date":"2019-05-19T07:36:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T07:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/?post_type=helphub_version&amp;p=11253417"},"modified":"2019-05-19T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T07:36:28","slug":"version-3-2","status":"publish","type":"helphub_version","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wordpress-version\/version-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Version 3.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 4, 2011, WordPress&nbsp;<strong>Version 3.2<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Gershwin&#8221;, named in honor of the composer and pianist&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Gershwin\">George Gershwin<\/a>, was released to the public. For more information on this enhancement and bug release, read the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2011\/07\/gershwin\/\">WordPress Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For&nbsp;<strong>Version 3.2<\/strong>, the database version (<strong>db_version<\/strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<strong>wp_options<\/strong>) changed to 18226, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/\">Trac<\/a>&nbsp;revision was 18397.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/trac.wordpress.org\/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=3.2\">View Closed Tickets<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Highlights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Refreshed Administrative UI<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; Admin redesign<\/li><li><strong>New Default Theme &#8220;Twenty Eleven&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; Uses the latest&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Theme_Features\">Theme Features<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Full Screen Editor<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; Distraction free writing experience<\/li><li><strong>Extended Admin Bar<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; More useful links to control the site<\/li><li><strong>Requirements Changes<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211;<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Glossary#PHP\">PHP<\/a>&nbsp;5.2.4 or greater (old requirement &#8211; since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_2.5\">WordPress 2.5<\/a>&nbsp;was PHP 4.3 or greater)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Glossary#MySQL\">MySQL<\/a>&nbsp;5.0.15 or greater (old requirement &#8211; since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_2.9\">WordPress 2.9<\/a>&nbsp;was MySQL 4.1.2 or greater)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Enhanced Browser Compatibility<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211;<ul><li>Drop Internet Explorer 6 support<\/li><li>Start End-of-life (EOL) cycle for Internet Explorer 7<\/li><li>Browse Happy notify users of out-of-date browser<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>WordPress is Faster and Lighter<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211;<ul><li>Faster page loads &#8212; We&#8217;ve gone through the most commonly loaded pages in WP and done improvements to their load time<\/li><li>Faster Upgrades &#8212; The update system now support incremental upgrades so after 3.2 you&#8217;ll find upgrading faster than ever<\/li><li>Optimizations to WP_Filesystem &#8212; Updates over FTP are now much quicker and less error prone<\/li><li>Stream downloads to the filesystem &#8212; Improves update times and lowers the memory footprint<\/li><li>Performance improvements for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Function_Reference\/wptexturize\">wptexturize()<\/a><\/li><li>Remove PHP4 compatibility including timezone support<\/li><li>More efficient term intersection queries<\/li><li>Some optimizations in the HTML sanitizer (kses)<\/li><li>Speed optimizations for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Function_Reference\/is_serialized_string\">is_serialized_string()<\/a><\/li><li>Cache the Dashboard RSS Widgets HTML output to reduce unnecessary Ajax requests as well as the memory footprint<\/li><li>And many other improvements and tweaks<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">User Features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">General<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Admin Bar: Add a Themes submenu under Appearance, for consistency<\/li><li>Admin Bar: Add View Site\/Dashboard links, &#8216;View X&#8217; links in the admin, &#8216;View&#8217; action link for terms, new custom taxonomy string: view_item, defaulting to &#8216;View Tag&#8217; and View Category&#8217;<\/li><li>Admin Bar: Support Edit link for Attachments<\/li><li>Switch from &#8220;Panel\/SubPanel&#8221; to &#8220;Screen&#8221; in inline documentation and Codex links<\/li><li>Add collapse link to admin menu<\/li><li>Help Tab text updates<\/li><li>Favorites menu no longer exists<\/li><li>New Freedoms (rights) and Credits links at bottom of admin screens<\/li><li>Use monospaced font for HTML editor<\/li><li>Validate the HTML in the admin area<\/li><li>Make copying the PressThis bookmarklet code easier in WebKit browsers<\/li><li>Move copyright notices to license.txt<\/li><li>Refresh login form styles to match admin style<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dashboard<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Change View All Buttons into plain links<\/li><li>Show full set of status links in recent comments box<\/li><li>Drop &#8220;Change Theme&#8221; button<\/li><li>Update core UI changes; &#8220;Update Automatically&#8221; changed to &#8220;Update Now&#8221;, first core update is now a primary button<\/li><li>Core support for partial updates<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Posts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Change Menu Name from &#8216;Posts&#8217; to &#8216;All Posts&#8217;<\/li><li>Show the sticky posts checkbox (&#8220;Stick this post to the front page&#8221;) Only when author has &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Roles_and_Capabilities#edit_others_posts\">edit_others_posts<\/a>&#8216;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Roles_and_Capabilities\">capability<\/a><\/li><li>Updated styles for the Visual editor buttons<\/li><li>Full screen editor experience called Distraction Free Writing &#8211; accessed via the Toggle Fullscreen mode tool in the Visual editor and fullscreen button in the HTML editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/17198\">Trac Ticket 17198<\/a>)<\/li><li>New sprite for the TinyMCE buttons<\/li><li>Fix pagination when searching or filtering posts<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Media<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Add &#8216;Add New&#8217; button to edit media<\/li><li>Update the blip.tv oEmbeds<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Change Menu Name from &#8216;Links&#8217; to &#8216;All Links&#8217;<\/li><li>Add &#8216;Add New&#8217; button to edit links<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pages<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Change Menu Name from &#8216;Pages&#8217; to &#8216;All Pages&#8217;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Comments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>New comment bubble styling<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Appearance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>New Default theme &#8211; TwentyEleven &#8211; based on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/themes\/duster\">Duster<\/a>&nbsp;Theme (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/17198\">Trac Ticket 17198<\/a>).<\/li><li>Allow selecting previously uploader headers and randomly serving previously uploaded or default headers<\/li><li>Denote images that are headers or backgrounds in the media ui<\/li><li>Show hierarchy for pages and taxonomies in nav menus admin<\/li><li>Introduce new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Function_Reference\/is_multi_author\">is_multi_author()<\/a>&nbsp;template tag to make it easier for themes to have different behaviour when a site has more than one author<\/li><li>Be less specific about theme repo licenses (as they can vary in specifics). They are all compatible with the license WordPress uses<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plugins<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Allow plugins to disable screen options with filter<\/li><li>Be less specific about plugin repo licenses (as they can vary in specifics). They are all compatible with the license WordPress uses<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Change Menu Name from &#8216;Tools&#8217; to &#8216;Available Tools&#8217;<\/li><li>Press This bookmarklet redesign<\/li><li>UI refresh for Press This<\/li><li>Export commentmeta<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Users<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Change Menu Name from &#8216;Users&#8217; to &#8216;All Users&#8217;<\/li><li>Add &#8216;Add New&#8217; button to edit users<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Multisite<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Show access denied page and list a user&#8217;s sites if they visit an admin they don&#8217;t have permissions for rather than redirecting to the users&#8217; primary blog<\/li><li>Make &#8220;Space Used&#8221; gray instead of green in multisite Right Now box<\/li><li>Make user validation when adding a user via network admin consistent with adding a user elsewhere and provide better feedback for validation problems<\/li><li>Allow Pagination for Must-Use\/Dropin plugins; respect WP_CONTENT_DIR &amp; WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR for help text; move help text into WP_Plugins_List_Table<\/li><li>Rename network admin submenus to not clash with top level menus<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Development, Themes, Plugins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Add a per-post-type nav menu items filter for plugin control<\/li><li>Add an extra FTP_LANG_DIR override constant to short-circuit WP_Filesystem_Base::find_folder(WP_LANG_DIR)<\/li><li>Add .ics \/ text\/calendar to the whitelist of allowed file types<\/li><li>Add cache_domain argument to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Function_Reference\/get_terms\">get_terms()<\/a>&nbsp;to allow caching to a unique set of cache buckets; useful when taxonomy queries have been modified via filters and need their own cache space<\/li><li>Add menu id for admin-bar&#8217;s dashboard and view-site link<\/li><li>Add option_page_capability_$option_page filter<\/li><li>Add quotes to [value=&#8221;some&#8221;] selectors re: jQuery<\/li><li>Add theme feature strings for translation<\/li><li>Allow custom author elements such as email<\/li><li>Allow&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Function_Reference\/get_pages\">get_pages()<\/a>&nbsp;to support multiple post statuses<\/li><li>Allow plugins to control user and network admin canonical redirect<\/li><li>Allow plugins to hook into&nbsp;<code><a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/browser\/tags\/5.1.0\/src\/wp-admin\/update-core.php#L0\">wp-admin\/update-core.php<\/a><\/code><\/li><li>Allow querying empty meta values<\/li><li>Allow retrieving comments by post type, status, author, author, name, or parent. 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