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Hi everyone! I’m here today with some special news for everyone, rather than a standard release announcement. I have three things to announce instead. 🙂 Discovery Library for PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher A super cool thing that you might not know about…

Now an update for the hottest most buzz-worthy 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-driven single page application…

Just in time for 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, we have a new REST APIREST API The REST API is an…

In changeset 34330, we added a menu_id argument to wp_page_menu(), allowing theme authors to use a unique id with the containing menu div. It also means that, by default, the fallback menus have the same attributes as wp_nav_menu(). So wp_page_menu() and wp_nav_menu() now have the same menu_id. We made this change to help accommodate accessibilityAccessibility…

The 2015 community summit is next Wednesday and Thursday, December 2–3. There were a lot of great discussions last year, and I look forward to more this year and planning next steps for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Ahead of the community summit,…

Let’s do a scrub to push through the remaining 4.4 tickets on so we can get to 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). tomorrow, Wednesday the 25th. Please take a look through…

Hot out of the version controls, we have a new 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…

Hi, I’m Ryan McCue. You may remember me from such projects as the 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…

First and foremost: version 1.2.4 of the 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…

WordPress 4.4 will add native responsive image support by including srcset and sizes attributes to the image markup it generates. For background on this feature, read the merge proposal. How it works WordPress automatically creates several sizes of each image uploaded to the media library. By including the available sizes of an image into a srcset attribute, browsers can now choose to download…