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Media Grid started as a standalone plugin by Shaun Andrews, which was a reimagining of the UIUI User interface as an alternative to the traditional post list view in the Media Library. The argument was that images are the ubiquitous media type in most users’ libraries, so we should provide an interface to browse media visually. I joined the project in late April, attempting to…

Summary of 6/25 dev chat (IRC log): General 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…

Let’s do daily scrubs / ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. for the duration of the 4.0 release cycle at in #wordpress-dev. Fellow committers and component maintainers, please comment below…

Agenda for today’s dev chat: 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…

I’m happy to announce the availability of version 1.1 of the JSON REST API. This release is a bit of a smaller, more focussed release as we work on increasing test coverage and squashing bugs. Here’s the juicy details: Add new routes for taxonomies and terms. Taxonomies and terms have now been moved from the…

We will continue our weekly meetings this Friday. As no other suggestions have been made, it will remain at 18:00 UTC on Fridays in #wordpress-coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-plugins on Freenode IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online.…

Summary of 6/18 dev chat (IRC log): i18ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill.: First run for installation is…

I meant to do a post last week, so this one is a bit late, but here it is anyway. I’ve mostly been working on the extendibility of views in TinyMCE and little improvements to the views themselves. Registration I’m trying to find a way to make it as easy as possible for plugins to…

@miqrogroove has written a blog post on his personal blogblog (versus network, site) explaining why like_escape() has been deprecated in WordPress 4.0. It has been reposted below. 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…

Hi Everyone! It’s time for another update. This edition covers through Sunday, June 15th, and has taken a while due to travel, but @swissspidy & @designsimply have joined the team, helping to gather the information to bring us up to date. Hopefully this will help these updates be a bit more sustainable over time. If…