Source: Make WordPress: Core

What’s happening? #open-update-thread

https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core/p1417640435005108 Hits Focus rolled out to wordpress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never…

Working on a new default theme is always an opportunity to improve coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.’s Theme APIs too. With the release of Twenty Fifteen there are quite a few improvements that made it in: Archive Template Tags Theme authors get to use…

Let it out in the OUT. #open-update-thread

https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core/p1417035664004117 https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/11/26/agenda-for-november-26th-dev-chat/ Misses 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; however, design changes often occur as part of the process.…

Agenda for today’s dev chat in #core Slack (). Splitting terms #30335 – move into feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins Remaining tickets for 4.1 (>80) – bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements,…

Background reading: #30335 and the notes on shared term splitting in https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/11/20/dev-chat-summary-november-19th/. As part of the work on the taxonomy roadmap in 4.1, shared terms (terms which are shared across more than one taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies.…

Several months ago, @wonderboymusic proposed office hours for Multisite. The response was great, but we kind of laxed on making it happen after the first one or two. After talking with a few people at WCSF last month, I’d like to fire this up again. As Scott mentioned before, there is no master plan, though…

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/11/19/agenda-for-november-19th-dev-chat/ https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core/p1416430816002052 Hits 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; however, design changes often occur as part of the process.…

Agenda for today’s dev chat in #core Slack (). Splitting terms #30335 i18n of the plugin directory SidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It…