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The Gutenberg Handbook shows JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com examples in two syntaxes: ES5 and ESNext.…

The remaining feature tickets in the milestone have been successfully committed! Thank you everyone for helping us get there. 🙂 During preliminary testing prior to the release, however, several folks discovered an issue with the new package signing feature, which would cause subsequent WordPress updates to fail (#46615). Out of an abundance of caution, I’ve…

This is a cumulative update for #core-privacy office hours and bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrubs held in March 2019. Office…

WordPress 5.2 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. 1…

This is the last GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ release that will be entirely included in WordPress 5.2 and…

Following the post on Site Health mechanisms released in WordPress 5.1, the feature labelled “Fatal Error Protection” (see #44458) was reverted, resulting in it not ending up as part of that release. This was necessary due to several security concerns, partly discovered by the team, partly by third-party security experts: A bad request could be…

Below is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 4:00 PM CDT: Announcements 5.2 updates Feature freeze tomorrow (Mar 21) Target release in ~6 weeks (April 30) Task coordination Calls from component maintainers Open Floor If you have anything to propose for the agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please…

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 20th March 2019, 14:00 GMT. GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ 5.3…

Below is a of the discussion from this week’s JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com chat (agenda,…

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting, held in the #core-editor SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel, on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 14:00 UTC. BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form…