Source: Make WordPress: Core

We’re going to be holding weekly multilingual discussions in the the core channel in WordPress.org Slack every Monday at 16:00 UTC, commencing the Monday 20th July. We’ll be continuing the discussions we began at the contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at…

The editor initialization was updated. The main change is that the content for both Visual and Text editors is prepared/escaped the same. We used to run the content through the PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher wpautop() when the default editor was TinyMCE. This…

Development leading up to the first 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 product; however, design changes often occur as part of…

Dev Dependency updates for 4.3 have been completed today as off about 2 hours ago. If you encounter an error when running grunt due to a missing module, `npm install` or ‘npm update` should fix things right up for you.

Here’s the agenda for tomorrow’s Dev Chat in the #core channel on Slack. Time/Date: : 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…

In [33041] and [33054] for #31168, we’ve turned comments off on new pages by default. I know many of you have done the “make a bunch of pages, fill them out, realize comments are turned on, go back into the adminadmin (and super admin), turn off comments” dance. Now when you make a page, you…

A new theme template has been added to the theme hierarchy as of r32846: singular.php.  This template follows the rules of is_singular and is used for a single post, irregardless of post type.  It comes in the hierarchy after single.php, page.php, and the variations of each. Themes that used the same code for both of those…

This is the jump-start post for the ninth week of the WordPress 4.3 release cycle. Beta2 will land on Wednesday. Our target until then is to get the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. count in the 4.3 milestone down to 90. Priority Tickets this week: #16434 All…

PHP7 is slated for release later this year. One of the changes is that PHP4 style constructors are deprecated. In order to prepare WordPress to support PHP7, these constructors have been deprecated in WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. This is a quick…

Here are a few cool things that recently landed in trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running “trunk”, then you are on the latest revision.. They are available right now in the nightly build. Install the nightly, and try them…