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Here’s the agenda for Wednesday’s Dev Chat in the #core channel on Slack. RC1 was tagged just a little while ago, putting us back on trac for an April 22nd release. We also entered hard string freeze today. All coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds…

One new accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) feature in WordPress 4.2 is the…

Present: @danielbachhuber, @matth_eu Not much development done in the past week. Discussed HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. in our `description` attribute. User goal is to be able to use arbitrary formatting HTML in a field’s description. However, Underscores permits either no HTML or any…

This is the jump-start post for the thirteenth week of the WordPress 4.2 release cycle. Last week, we missed tagging RC1 after losing momentum on our ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. goals toward the end of the week. We also missed hitting the “hard” string freeze. CoreCore…

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 store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/ pluginPlugin…

Here’s the agenda for Wednesday’s Dev Chat in the #core channel on Slack. 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;…

Present: @danielbachhuber, @matth_eu, @obenland, @tnolte, @mattmedeiros v0.2.2 released today with a compat fix for WordPress 4.2. We had a bit of discussion about timeline for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. integration. There’s no rush, because Shortcake works just fine as a standalone pluginPlugin…

This is the jump-start post for the twelfth week of the WordPress 4.2 release cycle. We entered the Beta 4 stage of development last week. This week we’ll transition to Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the…

Over on Make/Design, @hugobaeta has posted about some subtle updates to the blues and grays of the default admin color scheme. Work on updating the adminadmin (and super admin) has been completed in #31234. For those who are using those colors in their development, particularly any large areas of colors such as backgrounds, you may…

Here we go again! It’s time to look at what’s going on in WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. This edition of WordPress Core Weekly covers March 28, 2015 [31916] through April 4, 2015 [32002]. Note: If you want to write the next WordPress Core Weekly summary,…