Source: Make WordPress: Core

A day late, but I didn’t want to start another week without one: This is the jump-start post for the seventh week of the WordPress 4.3 release cycle. The feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins merge window…

https://make.wordpress.org/core/components/ That page lists our components and their maintainers. I use this page when determining which component to use when creating tickets and when picking triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. tags for make/flow posts. The component pages linked from there offer useful information…

A previous write-up explains how you can help test and capture the network admin UI. Here’s a specific version for how you can help during contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to…

In the next couple months, we’re going to focus on converting the Dashicons icon font in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. to SVG. The process of adding and updating the Dashicons font is an incredibly labor intensive, tedious process that is currently limited…

Agenda, Slack log. Menu 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. Status Update (#) @westonruter The a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The…

A couple of weeks later than intended, a brief update on the site icon functionality which has been touted as a potential feature for 4.3. The site icon functionality aims to provide an adminadmin (and super admin) UIUI User interface (via the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You…

Here’s the agenda for today’s Dev Chat in the #core channel on Slack. Time/Date: : Menu 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. Status Review – @westonruter Feature Updates Adminadmin (and super admin) UIUI User interface…

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. Today’s chat log Overall 4.3…

Work on the taxonomy roadmap, started in earnest during the 4.1 dev cycle, continues to chug along for WordPress 4.3. We’ve been focusing on the elimination of shared terms: terms in different taxonomies that share the same term_id and thus the same row in the wp_terms database table. In 4.1, we stopped creating shared terms.…

Present: @danielbachhuber, @matth_eu, @goldenapples 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. UIUI User interface v0.4.0 will be shipping tomorrow (June 9th) or Wednesday (June 10th). Here are all of the issues.…