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Welcome back to 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 January 27-February 2. Big list this time! First, a summary of the major changes; then a roundup from the various 3.9 teams: Enhancements and hooksHooks In WordPress…

Quick note to let everyone know that the Inline Docsinline docs (phpdoc, docblock, xref) weekly office hours time is changing. Due to a schedule conflictconflict A conflict occurs when a patch changes code that was modified after the patch was created. These patches are considered stale, and will require a refresh of the changes before…

MediaElement Upgraded to 2.13.2: [27059] Documentation of 3.5 Media code #26870 Add (JSDoc)umentation to the Backbone-centric Media files This is underway, with several commits already. Slow-and-steady approach. Have started with annotations, gradually adding top-level comments to all class methods. I have been using pseudo-code to map out each file: https://gist.github.com/staylor/10115a0f455e16c6eafd. Start with identifying every piece…

It’s that time of year again, when all good* coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. developers start thinking about whether or not they’re up for mentoring a GSoC student this year. Many in this group know the drill, but there quite a few involved…

Please propose agenda items for the development meeting today at 21:00 UTC. Let’s try to keep it to under an hour, like last week’s. Some to start us off: Consider the Widgets Customizer plugin for 3.9 merge. If you haven’t looked at it yet, please spend some time today before the meeting. Obviously, we all like the idea,…

Widgets in WordPress provide an easy way to add functionality to predefined areas of your theme templates. However, once you add a widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally…

Warning, this long. tl;dr: I propose a reorganization of our TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. components. 34 top-level components with two dozen subcomponents. New tree at the bottom. First, an overview of some of our problems. #components, #trac

And now, for the first in a series of synopsis posts outlining what’s going on in WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. The idea behind these posts is to highlight technical changes in WordPress 3.9 as it progresses, with the hope of keeping…

Based on triaging a few hundred tickets in the General and Multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site components, we’ve added five components:…

I’ll be using this thread to track the rollout of automatic background updates for 3.8.1, released earlier. The WP.org 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. is now sending update instructions to about 1 in…