WordPress Dev Chat For 3-11-10 ![rw-book-cover]() 🔗 **Source:** [WordPress Dev Chat For 3-11-10](https://wptavern.com/wordpress-dev-chat-for-3-11-10) > [!note]+ Document Notes > --- > tags: [devchat, developer, meeting, releases, wordpress, wp-tavern-archive, wp-tavern-2010] > author: Jeff Chandler > source: WP Tavern > reference: https://wptavern.com/wordpress-dev-chat-for-3-11-10 > date created: 2026-04-17 13:16 > --- > # WordPress Dev Chat For 3-11-10 > ## 📝 Summary > - The WordPress development team held a status meeting covering UI design work, theme finishing, menu patches, and custom background/header features for WordPress 3.0. > - Jane was conducting testing at South By South West while the UI group worked on design comps and remaining interface elements. > - Multiple tickets were discussed in depth including internationalization issues, sanitization improvements, and database variable initialization problems. > - The meeting focused on resolving blockers and high-priority issues to prepare WordPress 3.0 for release. > ## 💬 Comments (0) > No comments. > --- [](https://www.wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/wordpresslogo.png)**Status check up first** The UI group is tackling a few design things while Jane is performing some testing at South By South West. After the testing is completed, all lingering UI will be done for WordPress 3.0. Ryan Boren stated that themes needed to be finished in the GUI, land the big menu patch and tidy off custom background and header stuff. The UI group will soon have comps on the background/header stuff. Ptah Dunbar has been doing a good job tackling the menu items and they are almost there. Mark Jaquith will try to sneak in additional post thumbnail support for WordPress 3.0. **Tickets That Were Discussed In Depth** The next part of the meeting focused on specific tickets that were brought up for discussion. I’m just going to link to the tickets and let you read the log file for in depth discussion on these items. wpmuguru: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12357> high, blocker, 3.0, nacin->nbachiyski, new, Strings we need to hard code and WP\_I18N prefix miqrogroove: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9591> high, normal, 3.0, Denis-de-Bernardy->ryan, reopened, sanitize\_title\_with\_dashes() and remove\_accents() improvements for i18n permalinks westi: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4739> high, major, future, einare->westi, closed, Some icelandic/Norwegian/Danish letters do not work in page slugs miqrogroove: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10041> high, normal, 3.0, miau\_jp->Unassigned, reopened, like\_escape() should escape backslashes too miqrogroove: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10607> normal, normal, 3.0, UnderWordPressure->westi, reopened, return variable $new\_array in wp-includes/wp-db.php is not initialized miqrogroove: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11711> normal, normal, 3.0, miqrogroove->ryan, new, tag\_id Doesn’t Work in WP\_Query miqrogroove: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11845> normal, normal, 3.0, miqrogroove->Unassigned, new, mod\_rewrite Should Not Be Used to Check Existence of index.php miqrogroove: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12136> normal, normal, 3.0, nacin->wpmuguru, reopened, Improve MS rewrite rules nacin: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12416> high, blocker, 3.0, Denis-de-Bernardy->ryan, new, “\*\_option(), \*\_transient() and \*\_meta() functions should all expect unslashed data.” I also asked about the email that will be sent out to plugin authors in order to get a heads up on the changes which may effect compatibility. The email will be sent out before the release of WordPress 3.0 but the text of that email will also be announced on the WordPress developer blog. To read the log file associated with this meeting, [click here](https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=wordpress-dev&day=2010-03-11#m89345) and scroll up. #### How To Participate: If you want to suggest a development oriented topic to be discussed at the next meeting, you can by visiting the [WordPress development](http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/) updates blog. If you would like to participate in the chat next week, install IRC or an IRC compatible client and connect to the following IRC server. **chat.freenode.net** or any random server on the Freenode network and then join this channel at 3:30PM Eastern time or [20:30 UTC Thursdays](http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=30&sec=0&p1=0). **#wordpress-dev**. Category: [WordPress](https://wptavern.com/category/wordpressorg)Tags: [devchat](https://wptavern.com/tag/devchat), [developer](https://wptavern.com/tag/developer), [meeting](https://wptavern.com/tag/meeting), [releases](https://wptavern.com/tag/releases), [wordpress](https://wptavern.com/tag/wordpress), WordPress Dev Chat For 3-11-10, Jeff Chandler, 01kpe73797fs4afy7wkxb5fxw1.