Source: Make WordPress: Core

On Thursday of last week, we had an Authentication chat in #core-passwords — truth be told, the discussion spilled over into Friday and a bit on Saturday as well. I delayed posting this summary a bit to make sure there wasn’t anything else about to be said that I’d miss. Spoiler alert: we didn’t decide…

In order to improve page load performance, I propose that the default image compression setting be changed from 90 to 82 in WordPress. Let’s get into why. Background The default quality setting for resized images in WordPress has been 90 since the image_resize() function was shipped in version 2.5. This setting creates images with much larger file sizes…

We met last week to discuss PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher unit testing, and will meet again on February 26th 7PM UTC in #core on 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/ to continue…

Agenda Schedule Notes, Status Updates, Open Floor Schedule Notes Today is the feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins merge deadline! CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to…

WordPress trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running “trunk”, then you are on the latest revision. upgrades Backbone and Underscore to the latest versions (they were last updated two years ago in [27233]). Backbone is upgraded from 1.1.2 to 1.2.3 and…

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 [36505-36540]. Here are the highlights: 35 commits 37 contributors 67 tickets created 3 tickets reopened 52 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on…

As announced previously, for the next two weeks only, 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 will be held daily  to  and  …

We had a lively discussion about our PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher unit tests today. Our goal here is to make writing unit tests a straight-forward, understandable experience by updating the PHP Unit Test handbook page. During the meeting, we landed on some practical changes…

On , we had our regularly scheduled 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. scrub. As a reminder, for the 4.5 release, tracTrac…

Hi everybody! Welcome back to 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 from February 2nd [36471] – February 9th [36504], changesets [36471-36504]. Here are the highlights: 34 commits 19 contributors with props 114 tickets created 13 tickets…