WordPress 3.5 "Elvin"
About WordPress 3.5
General Info
WordPress 3.5 "Elvin" is the 19th version of WordPress. It was named after the jazz musican Elvin Jones.
This version was released 7 years ago, on December 11th 2012. It had a lifespan of 233 days (~8 months).
Version 3.5 had 2 minor version, the last one released 6 years ago on June 21st 2013.
This is a very old version of WordPress, it is no longer supported.
The entire 3.5 branch with all its minor versions was downloaded 33,743,691 times.
Release Announcement
WordPress 3.5 “Elvin”
Minor Versions
3.5.1 | January 24, 2013 | Maintenance and Security Release |
3.5.2 | June 21, 2013 | Maintenance and Security Release |
Release Video
New Media Manager

Beautiful Interface
Adding media has been streamlined with an all-new experience, making it a breeze to upload files and place them into your posts.Picturesque Galleries
Creating image galleries is faster with drag and drop reordering, inline caption editing, and simplified controls for layout.New Default Theme
Introducing Twenty Twelve
The newest default theme for WordPress is simple, flexible, and elegant. What makes it really shine are the design details, like the gorgeous Open Sans typeface and a fully responsive design that looks great on any device. Naturally, Twenty Twelve supports all the theme features you’ve come to know and love, but it is also designed to be as great for a website as it is for a blog.
Retina Ready
So Sharp You Can’t See the Pixels
The WordPress dashboard now looks beautiful on high-resolution screens like those found on the iPad, Kindle Fire HD, Nexus 10, and MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Icons and other visual elements are crystal clear and full of detail.
Smoother Experience
Better Accessibility
WordPress supports more usage modes than ever before. Screenreaders, touch devices, and mouseless workflows all have improved ease of use and accessibility.More Polish
A number of screens and controls have been refined. For example, a new color picker makes it easier for you to choose that perfect shade of blue.
Under the Hood
Meta Query Additions
TheWP_Comment_Query
and WP_User_Query
classes now support meta queries just likeWP_Query.
Meta queries now support querying for objects without a particular meta key.
Post Objects
Post objects are now instances of aWP_Post
class, which improves performance by loading selected properties on demand.
Image Editing API
TheWP_Image_Editor
class abstracts image editing functionality such as cropping and scaling, and uses ImageMagick when available.
Multisite Improvements
switch_to_blog()
is now significantly faster and more reliable.
XML-RPC API
The WordPress API is now always enabled, and supports fetching users, editing profiles, managing post revisions, and searching posts.External Libraries
WordPress now includes the Underscore and Backbone JavaScript libraries. TinyMCE, jQuery, jQuery UI, and SimplePie have all been updated to the latest versions.WordPress 3.5 Core Developers
WordPress 3.5 Core Contributors
WordPress 3.5 Development
Minimum Requirements
MySQL version 5.0.15 or greater.
Trac
Milestone 3.5 closed trac tickets.
WordPress 3.5 trac revision [23169].
WordPress 3.5 database version 22441.
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External Libraries
Retrieve data from DisplayWP Rest API
Source
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