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I missed posting the 4.3 post mortem recap before I went on vacation, so without further ado: We discussed the 4.3 release in 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/, where I asked for things that should be improved and things that went well, in…

Planning for the future is a necessary and important part of the WordPress development process. As we consider the future of WordPress – both as a whole and individual features – we publish proposed roadmaps to encourage greater discussion and give insight into the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress.…

With the proposed merge 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 “database”…

The biggest hurdle in the introduction of metadata for taxonomy terms (#10142) is compatibility with existing plugins and customizations. In this post, I’ll outline the most significant concerns, along with recommendations for next steps. This post has two audiences: authors of publicly available plugins and developers of client sites. I’ve just completed a scan of…

Today I just tagged version 0.8.0 of the oEmbed feature plugin. Despite the small version number the 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…

Welcome to the Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. — Week Four, with super-exciting news from around WordPress-land, and Core changes and updates for Sept. 13–21, 2015 (commits [34093]–[34361]). This week’s core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress,…

Hello everyone! This is the post you’ve all been waiting for. 🙂 We on 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…

A long time ago in a WordPress far, far away sites were customized via the use of a my-hacks.php file. Then 2005 came along and brought with it a new developer feature: Plugins and Themes. For the last ten years, there has been an option to continue using my-hacks.php. Following the WordPress philosophy Decisions, not Options,…

For those who don’t follow along with Make/Design and are interested in exploring some UIUI User interface/UXUX User experience ideas and projects, I just posted a few possibilities as a prompt of sorts. There are a number of needs, from strategy to interface design to front-end build to whatever back-end changes need to happen to…

We’ve made a good chunk of progress in the 4.4 cycle thus far and are starting to go in a direction that can be better defined through a handful of objectives. Let’s go through them: WP_Network has been comitted to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds…