Title: Version 3.2
Published: May 19, 2019

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# Version 3.2

## In this article

 * [Highlights](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#highlights)
 * [User Features](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#user-features)
    - [General](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#general)
    - [Dashboard](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#dashboard)
    - [Posts](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#posts)
    - [Media](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#media)
    - [Links](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#links)
    - [Pages](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#pages)
    - [Comments](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#comments)
    - [Appearance](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#appearance)
    - [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#plugins)
    - [Tools](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#tools)
    - [Users](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#users)
    - [Multisite](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#multisite)
 * [Development, Themes, Plugins](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#development-themes-plugins)

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On July 4, 2011, WordPress **Version 3.2** “Gershwin”, named in honor of the composer
and pianist [George Gershwin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gershwin), was
released to the public. For more information on this enhancement and bug release,
read the [WordPress Blog](https://wordpress.org/news/2011/07/gershwin/).

For **Version 3.2**, the database version (**db_version** in **wp_options**) changed
to 18226, and the [Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/) revision was 18397.

 * [View Closed Tickets](https://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=3.2)

## 󠀁[Highlights](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#highlights)󠁿

 * **Refreshed Administrative UI** – Admin redesign
 * **New Default Theme “Twenty Eleven”** – Uses the latest [Theme Features](https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Features)
 * **Full Screen Editor** – Distraction free writing experience
 * **Extended Admin Bar** – More useful links to control the site
 * **Requirements Changes** –
    - [PHP](https://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#PHP) 5.2.4 or greater (old requirement–
      since [WordPress 2.5](https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.5) was PHP 4.3
      or greater)
    - [MySQL](https://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#MySQL) 5.0.15 or greater (old
      requirement – since [WordPress 2.9](https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.9)
      was MySQL 4.1.2 or greater)
 * **Enhanced Browser Compatibility** –
    - Drop Internet Explorer 6 support
    - Start End-of-life (EOL) cycle for Internet Explorer 7
    - Browse Happy notify users of out-of-date browser
 * **WordPress is Faster and Lighter** –
    - Faster page loads — We’ve gone through the most commonly loaded pages in WP
      and done improvements to their load time
    - Faster Upgrades — The update system now support incremental upgrades so after
      3.2 you’ll find upgrading faster than ever
    - Optimizations to WP_Filesystem — Updates over FTP are now much quicker and
      less error prone
    - Stream downloads to the filesystem — Improves update times and lowers the 
      memory footprint
    - Performance improvements for [wptexturize()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wptexturize)
    - Remove PHP4 compatibility including timezone support
    - More efficient term intersection queries
    - Some optimizations in the HTML sanitizer (kses)
    - Speed optimizations for [is_serialized_string()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_serialized_string)
    - Cache the Dashboard RSS Widgets HTML output to reduce unnecessary Ajax requests
      as well as the memory footprint
    - And many other improvements and tweaks

## 󠀁[User Features](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#user-features)󠁿

### 󠀁[General](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#general)󠁿

 * Admin Bar: Add a Themes submenu under Appearance, for consistency
 * Admin Bar: Add View Site/Dashboard links, ‘View X’ links in the admin, ‘View’
   action link for terms, new custom taxonomy string: view_item, defaulting to ‘
   View Tag’ and View Category’
 * Admin Bar: Support Edit link for Attachments
 * Switch from “Panel/SubPanel” to “Screen” in inline documentation and Codex links
 * Add collapse link to admin menu
 * Help Tab text updates
 * Favorites menu no longer exists
 * New Freedoms (rights) and Credits links at bottom of admin screens
 * Use monospaced font for HTML editor
 * Validate the HTML in the admin area
 * Make copying the PressThis bookmarklet code easier in WebKit browsers
 * Move copyright notices to license.txt
 * Refresh login form styles to match admin style

### 󠀁[Dashboard](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#dashboard)󠁿

 * Change View All Buttons into plain links
 * Show full set of status links in recent comments box
 * Drop “Change Theme” button
 * Update core UI changes; “Update Automatically” changed to “Update Now”, first
   core update is now a primary button
 * Core support for partial updates

### 󠀁[Posts](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#posts)󠁿

 * Change Menu Name from ‘Posts’ to ‘All Posts’
 * Show the sticky posts checkbox (“Stick this post to the front page”) Only when
   author has ‘[edit_others_posts](https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#edit_others_posts)‘
   [capability](https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities)
 * Updated styles for the Visual editor buttons
 * Full screen editor experience called Distraction Free Writing – accessed via 
   the Toggle Fullscreen mode tool in the Visual editor and fullscreen button in
   the HTML editor ([Trac Ticket 17198](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17198))
 * New sprite for the TinyMCE buttons
 * Fix pagination when searching or filtering posts

### 󠀁[Media](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#media)󠁿

 * Add ‘Add New’ button to edit media
 * Update the blip.tv oEmbeds

### 󠀁[Links](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#links)󠁿

 * Change Menu Name from ‘Links’ to ‘All Links’
 * Add ‘Add New’ button to edit links

### 󠀁[Pages](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#pages)󠁿

 * Change Menu Name from ‘Pages’ to ‘All Pages’

### 󠀁[Comments](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#comments)󠁿

 * New comment bubble styling

### 󠀁[Appearance](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#appearance)󠁿

 * New Default theme – TwentyEleven – based on [Duster](https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/duster)
   Theme ([Trac Ticket 17198](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17198)).
 * Allow selecting previously uploader headers and randomly serving previously uploaded
   or default headers
 * Denote images that are headers or backgrounds in the media ui
 * Show hierarchy for pages and taxonomies in nav menus admin
 * Introduce new [is_multi_author()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_multi_author)
   template tag to make it easier for themes to have different behaviour when a 
   site has more than one author
 * Be less specific about theme repo licenses (as they can vary in specifics). They
   are all compatible with the license WordPress uses

### 󠀁[Plugins](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#plugins)󠁿

 * Allow plugins to disable screen options with filter
 * Be less specific about plugin repo licenses (as they can vary in specifics). 
   They are all compatible with the license WordPress uses

### 󠀁[Tools](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#tools)󠁿

 * Change Menu Name from ‘Tools’ to ‘Available Tools’
 * Press This bookmarklet redesign
 * UI refresh for Press This
 * Export commentmeta

### 󠀁[Users](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#users)󠁿

 * Change Menu Name from ‘Users’ to ‘All Users’
 * Add ‘Add New’ button to edit users

### 󠀁[Multisite](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#multisite)󠁿

 * Show access denied page and list a user’s sites if they visit an admin they don’t
   have permissions for rather than redirecting to the users’ primary blog
 * Make “Space Used” gray instead of green in multisite Right Now box
 * Make user validation when adding a user via network admin consistent with adding
   a user elsewhere and provide better feedback for validation problems
 * Allow Pagination for Must-Use/Dropin plugins; respect WP_CONTENT_DIR & WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR
   for help text; move help text into WP_Plugins_List_Table
 * Rename network admin submenus to not clash with top level menus

## 󠀁[Development, Themes, Plugins](https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-3-2/?output_format=md#development-themes-plugins)󠁿

 * Add a per-post-type nav menu items filter for plugin control
 * Add an extra FTP_LANG_DIR override constant to short-circuit WP_Filesystem_Base::
   find_folder(WP_LANG_DIR)
 * Add .ics / text/calendar to the whitelist of allowed file types
 * Add cache_domain argument to [get_terms()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_terms)
   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
 * Add menu id for admin-bar’s dashboard and view-site link
 * Add option_page_capability_$option_page filter
 * Add quotes to [value=”some”] selectors re: jQuery
 * Add theme feature strings for translation
 * Allow custom author elements such as email
 * Allow [get_pages()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_pages)
   to support multiple post statuses
 * Allow plugins to control user and network admin canonical redirect
 * Allow plugins to hook into `[wp-admin/update-core.php](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/5.1.0/src/wp-admin/update-core.php#L0)`
 * Allow querying empty meta values
 * Allow retrieving comments by post type, status, author, author, name, or parent.
   Fetch only published posts for recent comments widget
 * Allow taxonomies to be queried by $_GET parameters on non-taxonomy url’s
 * Allow [WP_Query](https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query) ‘post_status’
   parameter to accept an array, as well as a singular value and comma separated
   list
 * Apply ‘editable_slug’ filter to parent page slugs in [get_sample_permalink()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_sample_permalink)
 * Apply ‘editable_slug’ filter in [post_slug_meta_box()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/post_slug_meta_box)
 * Centralize pagination bound exceeding redirects for list tables
 * Change esc_url_raw references to esc_url
 * Check return value of [wp_check_browser_version()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_check_browser_version)
   and make return value consistent
 * Code readability improvements
 * Default WP_LANG_DIR to `WP_CONTENT_DIR/languages` when `wp-includes/languages/`
   doesn’t exist
 * Deprecate [wp_clone()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_clone)
   but left the function in `[wp-includes/load.php](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/5.1.0/src/wp-includes/load.php#L0)`
 * Don’t 404 for empty [post type](https://codex.wordpress.org/post_type) archives
 * Don’t load themes functions.php for upgrades
 * Don’t refresh the admin menu after page load, apply the user-state from PHP, 
   fix behaviour after folding the menu
 * Don’t set fields to empty values in [_wp_translate_data()](https://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Function_Reference/_wp_translate_data&action=edit&redlink=1)
 * Don’t show broken ‘View’ links when a custom post type is not publicly queryable
 * Don’t use array calling for post_status in [wp_edit_attachments_query()](https://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Function_Reference/wp_edit_attachments_query&action=edit&redlink=1)
   to prevent any use of the deprecated query_string filter (as in, don’t use it)
 * Ensure all theme searching is done case-insensitive
 * Fix handing of super admins that don’t have a blog in get_dashboard_url() and
   login
 * Fix mistaken use of publicly_queryable in when public was what was intended for
   [register_post_type()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type)
 * Fix notice when invalid taxonomy is passed to [wp_tag_cloud()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_tag_cloud)
 * Hide update bubble counts for users who can’t perform the update
 * Introduce [get_screen_icon()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_screen_icon)
 * Introduce [is_multi_author()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_multi_author)
   to check if more than one author has published posts for this site
 * Introduce ‘name_admin_bar’ label and ‘show_in_admin_bar’ (Add New menu) argument
   for [Post Types](https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types)
 * Introduce Stream-To-File for the WP_HTTP API – reduces memory consumption during
   file downloads; implemented in [download_url()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/download_url)
   for upgraders
 * Introduce [wp_http_supports()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_http_supports)
   as replacement for the http_transport_(get|post)_debug hooks
 * Introduce _WP\_MAX\_MEMORY\_LIMIT’_ constant for the high memory limit set when
   image processing and unzipping; ensure it is always filterable by plugins as 
   well as configurable in wp-config.php
 * Introduce [WP_Meta_Query](https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Meta_Query)
   and relation support
 * Pass image URL’s to thickbox via L10n in script-loader.php; allows thickbox to
   be used on any page in the install without defining the image URL variables
 * Properly handle https in ixr client
 * Provide more arguments to the widgets on the 404 page so as to avoid notices
 * Rename duplicate ‘delete_post’ and ‘deleted_post’ actions to ‘before_delete_post’
   and ‘after_delete_post’
 * Remove support for the PHP HTTP Extension from WP_HTTP. The PHP HTTP Extension
   is a wrapper around libcurl and [fopen()](https://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Function_Reference/fopen&action=edit&redlink=1)
   providing limited configuration and is supported on a minority of servers due
   to its non-default inclusion
 * Return false from [is_page_template()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_page_template)
   if the template is default
 * Set is_* flags for AND taxonomy queries
 * Set the mb_string internal encoding to ISO-8859-1 whilst uncompressing archives
   using PclZip; fixes ‘PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid block size’ errors
   on systems utilising mbstring.func_overload
 * Stop themes and plugins from overriding the admin bar CSS
 * Support Chrome Frame
 * Update jQuery to 1.6.1
 * Update jQuery UI to 1.8.2
 * Update json2.js
 * Update _old_files
 * Update phpass
 * Update phpmailer and smtp to 5.1
 * Update pop3 class
 * Update TinyMCE to 3.4.2 ([Trac Ticket 17086](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17086))
 * Update wp_mail to correctly call the Address adding functions on PHPMailer for
   To, CC, BCC and preserving support for full RFC2822 address specifications
 * Updated [PHPdocs](https://codex.wordpress.org/Inline_Documentation) for wpdb 
   class, XML-RPC functions, HTTP API, [add_submenu_page](https://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Function_Reference/add_submenu_page,&action=edit&redlink=1),
   [wp_templating_constants()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_templating_constants),
   [wp_check_browser_version()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_check_browser_version)
 * Use the post type object in [get_posts_by_author_sql()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_posts_by_author_sql)
   and add a post type parameter to [count_many_users_posts()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/count_many_users_posts);
   pub_priv_sql_capability filter is considered deprecated
 * Validate post status against capabilities in [Press This](https://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This)
 * Verify certificate matches both the common name and the p rovided hostname; WP_HTTP_Curl
   requires CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST be either 2 or false
 * When upgrading plugins/themes, if the new destination folder is different from
   the previous folder, delete the old folder upon upgrade
 * XML-RPC add support to wp.getPostFormats to provide a list of the currently supported
   post formats in addition to the complete list
 * XML-RPC allow Pages to have a status of pending
 * XML-RPC include the post status in the response for mt.getRecentPostTitles calls
 * XML-RPC introduce a special wp_die handler for XMLRPC requests to ensure we send
   an XML response

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