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A few weeks ago, I put out a call for volunteers for deputies for WordPress 4.5. Today, I’m excited to announce two deputies: WordPress Committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers –…

A 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). for WordPress 4.4.1 is now available. This maintenance release is scheduled for Wednesday, January 6, but first it needs your testing. This release fixes…

Hi coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team folks! Thanks for all your hard work and contributions in 2015. Could you contribute few more minutes to fill in the 2015 contributor survey? It will help us establish some baselines around the contributor experience so…

Hi everyone. This is a quick update on the OAuth 1.0a Server pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and…

For the last REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”)…

In WordPress 4.3 and 4.4, additional labels have been made available for custom post types and custom taxonomies. These get passed in via the labels argument when using register_post_type() and register_taxonomy(). New post type labels in 4.3: featured_image – Overrides the “Featured ImageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page…

Howdy, all! I’m back, and we’re getting the Two-Factor Train rolling again! We had our first meeting yesterday at the usual time (22:00 UTC / 5pm Eastern) in #core-passwords. https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core-passwords/p1449784908000119 Following some critical feedback and discussions both at the Community Summit and at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re…

We gathered together after the marvelous release of 4.4. Many congrats to @wonderboymusic, his deputies @sergeybiryukov and @ocean90, and all contributors who helped out! See the full transcript for the entire chat. On 4.4 Post-mortem is planned for We walked through incoming tickets. The biggest issue mentioned was #34939, which affects Jetpack video in some…

As announced in the State of the Word this year at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US by @matt, there are seven…

As announced during the State of the WordState of the Word This is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/. this year, we have a brand new selection of release leads for 2016. Previously…