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Let’s cancel today’s weekly meeting, since the holidays are starting for some of us (and ending for some others). It can be open office hours* if anyone is around (I doubt I will be), but everyone (@johnbillion especially!) deserves a nice break for a great WordPress 4.1 release. It’s already been downloaded 2.5 million times,…

WordPress 4.1 includes 20 new fresh and clean icons. Thanks to @liljimmi, @melchoyce and @empireoflight. Media Icons Icon CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Class Code dashicons-controls-play f522 dashicons-controls-pause f523 dashicons-controls-forward f519 dashicons-controls-skipforward f517 dashicons-controls-back f518 dashicons-controls-skipback f516 dashicons-controls-repeat f515 dashicons-controls-volumeon f521 dashicons-controls-volumeoff f520 Posts Screen (updated) Icon CSS Class Code dashicons-align-left f135 dashicons-align-right f136 dashicons-align-center f134…

At the community summit, we discussed a coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. roadmap, initially a discussion about preprocessors in regard to their role in WordPress, both in the adminadmin (and super admin) and in bundled themes. Recently, there has…

After a few months off from working on the Menu Customizer to focus on improving the 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. APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows…

The release of WordPress 4.1 is imminent. By now, you should have already been testing and preparing your plugins and themes. I wanted to highlight a couple of posts here over the last few months on changes in WordPress 4.1.  This is by no means a complete summary of everything that has changed, but will…

Various issues which came up over the weekend have meant that we’ve decided to delay the release of 4.1 by another 24 hours. The new target release date is Wednesday 17th December. It doesn’t serve anybody well to delay things this late in the day, but it’s essential to ensure the late fixes which have landed in…

Just a quick reminder that there will be a meeting in #core today  to discuss new tickets that have been reported against RC1 and any other issues from the forums, etc. Drop a comment here if there’s anything specific to RC1 that you think needs discussing. #4-1

https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core/p1418245350000526 https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/12/10/release-candidate-and-todays-dev-meeting-agenda/ Misses RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). Decisions About page text will land tonight (Wednesday the 10th). Moving APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that…

If you’ve written a child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/ for Twenty Fifteen, please note that some of the new pagination functions have been renamed for…

4.1 was originally due for release today, but a few tickets in the 4.1 milestone have held things up a little. The 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 public. Also see alpha (beta). will be tagged…