Source: Make WordPress: Core

WordPress lead developers Ryan Boren (@ryan) and Peter Westwood (@westi) started contributing to WordPress more than a decade ago. Ryan and Peter, along with Mark and Matt, served as the foundation for much of the early years. For some time now, Ryan and Peter have avoided weighing in on technical matters. Very simply, when you…

Here’s the agenda for Wednesday’s Dev Chat in the #core channel on Slack. Time/Date: : Lead Promotions – Congrats @helen & @dd32! Feature Updates: 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. Theme Switcher – @celloexpressions/@markjaquith Press…

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 January 25th, 2015 [31282] through February 3rd, 2015 [31331]. If you’re interested in helping out with these updates, comment below, or pingPing The act…

I’m pleased to announce that Dion Hulse (@dd32) and Helen Hou-Sandí (@helen) are now lead developers of the WordPress project. The two are already highly respected leaders in the community. Dion has architected some of the most important code in WordPress over the years. He started by building the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece…

I haven’t written up notes from the last two 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, so this is a compilation…

We’ve made lots of progress in the past week and will be holding another meeting tomorrow, , in #core-customize SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. The accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments…

Attendees: @jdgrimes @danielbachhuber @samuelsidler @matth_eu @bobbingwide @michaelarestad Full conversation: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core/p1422914584001521 tl;dr: Background: Fusion (a media company using WordPress) is using shortcodes increasingly to embed content within other content. Given the historically bad UXUX User experience for shortcodes, we thought we’d invest a bit of development effort. The primary pain points for shortcodes we’re solving are discoverability…

This is the jump-start post for the third week of the WordPress 4.2 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 is scheduled to open in a week and half on February 11th, and…

Over on make/flow, we’ve been flow testing coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., posting visual records, and opening tickets tagged make-flow. During 4.2, we’re going to highlight a couple of these flow tickets every week, with an emphasis on mobile. Here is a small…

Discussed TinyMCE status will be added in the next day or so by @azaozz Media embeds UXUX User experience for adding PT to home screen Extensions (pushed to a future release) PT fallback icon (if site doesn’t have an icon) Usability testing on current PT and other similar extensions/bookmarklets Nightly updates to the repo (DONE!…