Source: Make WordPress: Core

A specification defines how a part of the web platform works. For example, CSS is a spec, which browsers look to when implementing their layout engines. A feature is drafted in spec, which serves as a prop to push forward discussion on how the feature should work. The spec author focuses on understanding and explaining the theoretical, and typically is not the implementer. An implementer might try to get a…

In addition to the ~35 defects that were fixed in this release, there were also ~17 features and enhancements that were made. What follows are some highlights, starting with some smaller enhancements and then listing out full posts that document the larger features. Setting-less Controls (#35926) Sometimes controls need to be added which don’t directly have associated…

New in 4.5 is the ability for users to add a logo to their sites (if their theme has declared support for it). It’s an addition to the Custom HeaderHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is…

Agenda Schedule Notes, Status Updates, Road to 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…

WordPress 4.5 includes several ancient 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. fixes and a few enhancements in the Comments component. We have…

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 [36801-36888]. Here are the highlights: WordPress 4.5 Beta 2 released! 88 commits 42 contributors 82 tickets created 19 tickets reopened 90 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug…

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 of…

Howdy! The 4.5 release cycle was relatively quiet for multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site, though we still managed to knock out…

There is a new and improved inline links dialog in the Visual Editor, see #33301. When the users type in the URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org field, it uses jQuery UIUI User interface Autocomplete to search for local posts and…

This post summarizes some of the changes to the script loader and script/style dependencies in WordPress 4.5. Individual stylesheets instead of wp-admin.min.css Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.: #35229 Currently, WordPress generates and ships relatively large 235KB wp-admin.min.css and wp-admin-rtl.min.css files which are created from source files which we…