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Core Dev chat notes for March 23
Agenda Schedule Notes, Status Updates, RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.. Schedule Notes Release…
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Week in Core, Mar 15 – Mar 22 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 [37001-37060]. Here are the highlights: 59 commits 30 contributors 57 tickets created 3 tickets reopened 47 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on…
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Release Candidate and Meeting Time Reminder
Schedule Per the schedule, WordPress 4.5 Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). will be released in the hours following Wednesday’s weekly dev meeting, which is at . For those on Daylight…
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Implementing Selective Refresh Support for Widgets
WordPress 4.5 includes a new CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. framework called selective refresh. To recap, selective refresh is a hybrid preview mechanism that has the performance benefit of not having to refresh the…
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Core Dev chat notes for March 16
Agenda Schedule Notes, Status Updates, Let’s Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.! Schedule Notes 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…
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Week in Core, Mar 8 – Mar 15 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 [36889-37000]. Here are the highlights: WordPress 4.5 Beta 3 released! 111 commits 42 contributors 87 tickets created 12 tickets reopened 86 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and…
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Beta 4, RC, and Core Dev Meeting Time
Schedule Per the schedule, WordPress 4.5 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…
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Fields API — Where we’re at
Over the past few months, we’ve been working towards one of the most wide-reaching APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.’s to be suggested for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run…
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Performance improvements for images in WordPress 4.5
WordPress 4.5 includes a few performance enhancements for images. Increased image compression for custom sizes WordPress 4.5 increases the amount of compression applied to intermediate sizes by changing the default quality in WP_Image_Editor from 90 to 82. As noted in the proposal for this change, this results in a noticeable reduction in file sizes with little change in visual…
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Embeds Changes in WordPress 4.5
After the introduction of the embeds feature in WordPress 4.4 there have been a few significant changes in 4.5 to make embeds more robust and easier to customize. 🎉 Embed Code Adjustments Tickets: #35804, #35894 There were two minor changes to the <iframe> embed code: The iframeiframe iFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is…