Source: Make WordPress: Core

Welcome to the Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., with updates from weeks 2 & 3: Aug. 31 – Sept. 12, 2015, changesets [33821]–[34092]. It’s been a busy couple of weeks in Core, with almost too many changes to count (for the record, this one covers…

We’re constantly refining the oEmbed feature plugin and have been receiving some very good feedback over past seven days. The following things changed in 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…

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: : Twenty Sixteen – go help out! https://github.com/WordPress/twentysixteen/issues Gardening projects – no component should have more than 200 tickets https://make.wordpress.org/core/components/ CustomizerCustomizer…

Since [34177], the show_ui argument for post types is now enforced to correct unexpected behaviour whereby the post type listing screen and post editing screen for post types with show_ui set to false were still accessible via a manually entered URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a…

Things have been moving along fast with Twenty Sixteen. There have have been two, short, half-hour meetings so far, where we scrub through the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories…

For the last few months, WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. has been getting ready for the upcoming release of PHP7. PHP7 is bringing a host of improvements to PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP…

Here’s the agenda for today’s Dev Chat in the #core channel on Slack. Time/Date: : Another busy week, lots to discuss: Project Schedule https://make.wordpress.org/core/version-4-4-project-schedule/ What happened last week TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. Gardening Media/User Testing REST APIREST API The…

Another week, another status update for the oEmbed feature plugin! The following things changed in 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 PHP…

HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands./2 was finalized by the IETF earlier this year. This update…

Our current documentation for version 2 of the WP 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…