Source: Make WordPress: Core

We’ve made lots of improvements to the TaxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. component for WordPress 4.4. Let’s round ’em up, pardner!🐴 Term MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For…

WordPress 4.1 introduced a way for themes to support a new way of rendering the document title, letting CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. handle its generation and output. The next step followed just recently (#31078), deprecating wp_title() and replacing it with a more…

Here are my agenda items for today’s Dev Chat in the #core channel 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/. Time/Date: : 1 week til BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial…

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 office hours are held every Tuesday at 20:00 UTC in #core-multisite. The next will be .…

As mentioned in the initial shortcodes roadmap post, the main purpose of this roadmap is to find the best way for improving the shortcodes APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. and moving it forward.…

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 Sept. 28 – Oct. 11, 2015, changesets [34659]–[35029]. Here are the highlights: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/10/07/%F0%9F%8E%89-one-more-committer-for-4-4/ See that ↑ right there? That’s an oEmbed. And it’s loaded from inside this…

A few improvements have been made to user searching and user management in WordPress 4.3 and the upcoming 4.4. Here’s an overview: 4.3: Performing a search on the Users screen now searches the user’s username, email address, display name, nicename, and URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a…

Present: @sc0ttkclark, @nicholas_io, @tomharrigan, @ericlewis, @potatomaster Logs: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core-fields/s1444021200000000 I just got 100 hours from 10up to work on Fields API! I will be working on getting the WP 4.3 CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. changes…

This is the third draft of the ShortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site. APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with…

A small change to add_rewrite_rule() in [34708] means that in the upcoming WordPress 4.4 an array can be passed as the second parameter instead of a query string. Previously: add_rewrite_rule( ‘foo/([^/]+)/bar/([^/]+)/?$’, ‘index.php?post_type=foo&name=$matches[1]&taxonomy=bar&term=$matches[2]’ ); Now: add_rewrite_rule( ‘foo/([^/]+)/bar/([^/]+)/?$’, array( ‘post_type’ => ‘foo’, ‘name’ => ‘$matches[1]’, ‘taxonomy’ => ‘bar’, ‘term’ => ‘$matches[2]’, ) ); While this isn’t the…