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Hello there! This is Last Week in WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. for the week of April 8-April 14. Similar to last week, commits are included up to RC2, which was released today. In addition, maintenance releases 3.8.3 and 3.7.3 are available,…

WordPress 3.6 introduced HTML5 versions of popular template tags, starting out with comments, the comment form, and the search form. With the 3.9 release we add galleries and captions to that list. Now, when adding HTML5 support for those features, WordPress will use <figure> and <figcaption> elements, instead of the generic definition list markup. To declare that your…

As announced on the team o2, the meeting time for the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. team is changing to , in #wordpress-dev. This week we’re discussing OAuth (which, P.S., is now available…

One of the cool little features included with 3.9 is the ability to symlink 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…

Plupload is the library that powers most of the file upload interfaces in WordPress, and in 3.9 we’ve updated the bundled library to version 2.1.1 (#25663). Here are some of things that have changed, which may affect WordPress plugins and themes. If you’re using direct references to Plupload’s runtime .js files, such as plupload.html5.js, note…

As discussed in the previous meetings, we’re pushing the time back one hour from 19:00 UTC to the new time at 18:00 UTC on Fridays. We’ll be in #wordpress-coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-plugins tomorrow, April 11th, 2014 as usual. We will be talking…

Howdy everyone! This is Last Week in WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. for the week of March 31-April 7. I’m including all of the commits up to RC1 this week, which was released yesterday. Things are looking good, with very few remaining…

In WordPress 3.9, we added an extra layer to WPDB, causing it to switch to using the mysqli PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher library, when using PHP 5.5 or higher. For pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of…

Hi everyone! I’m happy to announce that version 0.9 of the JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful…

Hi! This is a late Last Week in WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. for the two weeks of March 17-30. Lots going on as we approach RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the…