Source: Make WordPress: Core

WP 4.2 will include a number of improvements in the way query classes handle ‘orderby’, particularly when used in connection with the ‘meta_query’ parameter. WP_Query has long supported the sorting of results by postmeta, using the following syntaxes: $q1 = new WP_Query( array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘foo’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’, ) ); $q2 = new WP_Query(…

Hi Everyone! It’s time for another run-down of 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 covers March 20, 2015 [31845] through March 28, 2015 [31915]. If you want to write the next WordPress Core Weekly summary, check out the schedule over at…

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…

Hello everyone. Remember us? Today, I can finally announce the release of version 1.2 of the WP REST API. A short nine months after our last release we have support for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, full request hijacking, JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily…

This is the jump-start post for the tenth week of the WordPress 4.2 release cycle. We entered the Beta 2 stage of development last week. We should transition to 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…

Hi Everyone! It’s time for another run-down of what’s going on in WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., directly from WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to…

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…

I recently started using Varying Vagrant Vagrants and xip.io for real device mobile testing of patches on tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets. I go through tickets with patches that change UIUI User interface and drop mobile and desktop screenshots of…

This is the jump-start post for the ninth week of the WordPress 4.2 release cycle. We entered the Beta 1 stage of development last week. We should transition to 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…

Just a quick note that I’ve published an overview of the background updates for plugins over on the Plugin Announcements blog – https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2015/03/14/plugin-automatic-security-updates/ If you’re a 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…