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Weekly Dev Chat Agenda for July 20 — Thirteen Weeks Later
Agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : WordPress 4.6 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes…
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Additional register_meta() changes in 4.6
In the last 2 weeks, the direction of register_meta() has changed significantly from the original write-up. There was a meeting to discuss some of the changes and a recap of that discussion. Some other discussion after that meeting led to a much more simplified version of register_meta() that is now shipping in 4.6. Here’s what registering metaMeta Meta…
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Week In Core, July 12 – July 19 2016
Welcome back the latest issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., covering changes [38040-38110]. Here are the highlights: 71 commits 40 contributors 82 tickets created 7 tickets reopened 78 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on…
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Comments in 4.6 can now be cached by a persistent object cache
The ‘comment’ cache group was made non-persistent in [7986], to address the difficulty of reliable cache invalidation. This meant the comment cache values were only held for the current page load, and lost on reload or navigation. The comment APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with…
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This Week in 4.6: July 18 – 24
This is the jump-start post for the thirteenth week of the WordPress 4.6 release cycle. BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the…
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External library updates in 4.6
The following are external libraries that have been updated during the 4.6 release cycle. Masonry Masonry was updated to version 3.3.2 from version 3.1.4 (#32802). Notable changes: jQuery events are now triggered. CommonJS is supported. Percentages can now be used for horizontal positions. Various browser compatibility issues are now resolved. Full Changelog: https://github.com/desandro/masonry/releases imagesLoaded imagesLoaded…
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Introducing admin_print_footer_scripts-$hook_suffix in 4.6
The admin_print_footer_scripts action hook is the last chance to localize adminadmin (and super admin) scripts; but it is a generic one. If you ever wanted to do something for specific admin pages only, you would either have to hook into another dynamic action, or hook into admin_print_footer_scripts and check the $hook_suffix (which is not even…
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register_meta() Discussion Recap (July 14, 2016)
As announced yesterday, there was a discussion today covering the future of register_meta(), something that has been in progress for WordPress 4.6 in #35658. This is a recap. 🙂 Attendees: @helen, @ocean90, @rachelbaker, @mikeschinkel, @jsternberg, @sc0ttclark, @richardtape, @swissspidy, @joemcgill, @seancjones, @achbed, @jeremyfelt Chat log. Overview In #35658, register_meta() uses object subtypes when registering metaMeta Meta…
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Dev Chat Summary: July 13th, 2016
WordPress 4.6 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 3 and…
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register_meta() discussion on Thursday, July 14
Howdy! There will be a meeting in #core at to discuss the changes in register_meta() for the 4.6 release. The dev notes have been published, but there is still work to be done to ensure things are great. Of particular interest is a proposal to change to a CURIE like notation when working with the registration of…