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We’ve moved the SVNSVN Subversion, the popular version control system (VCS) by the Apache project, used by WordPress to manage changes to its codebase. and TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. firehose mailing lists to lists.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress…

Last week we mentioned holding a feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins chat today, but that didn’t happen. Let’s have it next week on . We’ve done this before, but just to recap… If you have an…

WordPress 4.0 “Benny” is out the door, warming hearts, flying off shelves, and many other euphemisms besides. After a brief respite to enjoy our success and a job well done, we turn our eyes to the future: 4.0.1, 4.1, and more. 4.0.1 — How are we feeling about this? Call to action on feature plugins…

It’s that time of the year again, time to work on a new default theme! This year we’re back to creating a brand new design. Like Twenty Fourteen, this is being targeted for December and thus WordPress 4.1. @matt asked Takashi Irie to design Twenty Fifteen, and they are both closely collaborating with @iandstewart, who…

Anyone planning to attend WCSF this year from the core team, please read the post at https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2014/09/08/wcsf-tickets-and-stuff/ for information about WCSF ticket sales and the contributor days following the main conference. Thanks! P.S. If you are planning to attend the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team…

As mentioned in previous posts, WordPress 4.0 includes a language chooser. After selecting a language WordPress will download and install the language pack on the fly. The rest of the install process will then be in that language. A summary To make this possible we introduced some helper functions or changed existing functions. translations_api() is based…

The props list has been updated on the 4.0 credits page. If you haven’t updated your display name yet, you should totally do that on your support forum profile. #4-0, #credits

If you’ve been following along with IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. and Trac activity over the last 24 hours, you’ll have noticed that there’s been a…

Per dev chat on 8/27 (summary below), we are targeting a release of , kicking off at in #wordpress-dev. There are a number of steps to go through, including running unit tests, checking build, and testing various update and installation scenarios. We’ll also do a dry run at the same time on Tuesday, 9/2, before…

orderby is the argument passed to WP_Query to tell it what column to sort on when it is creating the ORDER BY clause for its generated SQL. The default value for orderby is post_date. The default sort order for a column in MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured…