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One of the development efforts in the WordPress 4.3 cycle was improving the way that passwords are chosen and changed. Before, people had to start from scratch when choosing a password. They were presented with an empty box, and had to use a really terrible tool for generating secure passwords: the human brain. Here’s how things…

WordPress 4.3 adds the ability for site owners to manage their site’s favicon on desktop and mobile. Site Icons work out of the box, are theme independent, and don’t require theme support. There are four sizes that WordPress supports by default: 32x32px favicon. 180x180px app icon for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and…

WordPress 4.3 contains some important changes to the Panels and Sections APIs. These won’t impact basic usage – add_section() and add_panel(), for example – but could potentially have compatibility issues for any custom panels or sections that override default methods. If you have themes or plugins that create custom sections or panels, please be sure…

This is the jump-start post for the twelfth week of the WordPress 4.3 release cycle. We’re in the final stages of the release, by Wednesday we want to be able to present our Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final…

Next week’s meeting will be on — two hours later than this week’s meeting, to try and not drop it at 4am for some of our people. Log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core-passwords/p1437678027000327 Folks in attendance: @georgestephanis @bjornjohansen @swissspidy @stevenkword @aaroncampbell @jeffmatson @extendwings @cconover @julien731 @deltafactory @tomdxw @valendesigns Reviewed rough plans with authentication provider classes and who is working…

Howdy! We’ve made quite a bit of progress in 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 as part of the 4.3 cycle and…

Earlier today, we released WordPress 4.2.3, which includes a relatively large security fix that affects 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…

Here are several adjustments we did: Instead of updating on enter/return, it will now refresh when you stop typing. For word count, it will exclude a lot more characters that shouldn’t be counted as words. For character count, we no longer exclude any of these characters. This means that numbers and common western punctuation are no…

Hi everyone! This is a break from your regularly scheduled release posts. We’re looking to gather some feedback on the lead up to merging into coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., to assess what your thoughts are on the APIAPI An API or Application…

Here’s the agenda for tomorrow’s Dev Chat in the #core channel on Slack. During BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final…