Source: Make WordPress: Core

RC1 is here! Proposed agenda for today’s meeting: What’s come up in the hours since RC1 was released? Keep an eye on support forums and bugs reported against trunk. Great time for triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. of non-4.0 tickets as well.…

I’d like to hold an impromptu scrub of remaining 4.0 tickets in about an hour at . @nacin and I triaged most tickets earlier today and feel confident that we can finish everything out and get to RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to…

It’s been a few weeks since we’ve posted an update, @mikeschinkel has been working hard on some new commits to give us some shortcuts for option arrays and things have stabilized there finally. We’re now focused on documenting field type development so we can get some contributors in there fleshing out the remaining field types.…

WordPress 4.0 comes with a redesigned 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 to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can…

Monday was the “pencils down” date for GSoC, and here’s a post about what I have done so far. It’s all related to the editor, but it can be divided into three parts: work on coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. for the editor “views”…

We’ve been pushing really hard to get to a place where a final 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;…

I’ve finished implementing menu-previewing in the Menu 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. pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They…

Proposed agenda for today’s dev chat: 3.9.2 and 4.0 beta 3 are out: https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/ What’s left for 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…

I’d like to announce the availability of version 1.1.1 of the JSON REST API. This is a security release for a minor security issuesecurity issue A security issue is a type of bug that can affect the security of WordPress installations. Specifically, it is a report of a bug that you have found in the…

For today’s dev chat, let’s focus on issues being reported in 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…