Source: Make WordPress: Core

  • Featured Content: Epilogue

    If you’ve been following along with 3.8/Twenty Fourteen development, you probably know that Featured Content is being handled by the theme now. It is being moved to the 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.. This…

  • The Search Initiative

    IRC Chat Log In Attendance: George Stephanis Ryan Boren Samuel Sidler Mark Jaquith Helen Sandi Sarah Goodling Matt Mullenweg Andrew Nacin We opted to begin by reevaluating what pain points we believed there currently were in the WordPress adminadmin (and super admin) around search. These are just what we came up with in the chat,…

  • Open Sans, bundling vs. linking

    In Wednesday’s 3.8 planning meeting we discussed hotlinking vs bundling Open Sans. MP6 followed Twenty Twelve’s example by linking to Google Webfonts, but the consensus from Wednesday’s chat was that bundling would be preferable. I began experimenting with this last week; first determining which font formats were necessary to include. I settled on WOFF and…

  • JavaScript Coding Standards

    The PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher files in WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. become cleaner and easier to read with every release, thanks in part to our standards for PHP…

  • #22862: Consider a CSS preprocessor

    In #22862, it was proposed that coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. move to using a CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. preprocessor. Given that we now have the appropriate tooling in place and MP6 has been greenlighted for preparation to merge into core, it is…

  • Upcoming Global Admin Search (née Omnisearch) Meeting

    After the feedback in the merge chat today, it looks like we’ve got a bit more work to do on the global search spine. Based on a quick survey, it looks like (3pm EST) is likely to be the best time for the most people. As we’ve done before, we’ll meet in #wordpress-coreCore Core is…

  • Widgets Area Chooser – 3.8 Proposal

    Placing widgets with drag-and-drop can be tedious and annoying — especially if you have lots of sidebars on which to drop widgets. The Widgets team has been working on a few solutions (for this problem, and more), including redesigning the wp-adminadmin (and super admin) widgets interface and adding the ability to manage widgets from within…

  • The State of Inline Docs

    We haven’t posted an update in several weeks, so thought we’d bring everyone up to speed on the Inline Docsinline docs (phpdoc, docblock, xref) project. This project started July at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one…

  • @matt will be running a WordPress 3.8 feature…

    @matt will be running a WordPress 3.8 feature planning/decisions meeting on . Now that Daylight Saving Time has ended for both Europe and the U.S., note that the weekly Wednesday meeting is now moved from 20:00 UTC to 21:00 UTC (4 p.m. EST, 1 p.m. PST). (Americans, change your clocks on Sunday.) I’d strongly encourage…

  • Twenty Fourteen Project Update

    Status We’re right on target—making lots of progress on the main features in the theme. Finishing up within 1-2 weeks, then switching gears to verifying and testing (things like device testing, RTL, older browser support, accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities.…