Source: Make WordPress: Core

New 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 be free in the WordPress.org…

Tonight’s 3.7 nightly build is marked WordPress 3.7.1-beta1. Here’s the zip or use the Beta Tester plugin set to “point releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all…

There are two changes to the way WordPress communicates with api.wordpress.org in 3.7: 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. encoding and SSLSSL Secure Sockets Layer. Provides a secure means of sending…

The current plan is that WordPress 3.7-RC2-25890 will be the last build of 3.7 before release. Download it here: https://wordpress.org/nightly-builds/wordpress-3.7-latest.zip. Trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running “trunk”, then you are on the latest revision. (and thus the bleeding edgebleeding…

The WordPress adminadmin (and super admin) has not had a major visual overhaul since 2.7, and its age is starting to show. In a rapidly changing web environment where users are starting to expect good design, we need to make sure that our aesthetics match — better yet, exceed — their high expectations. MP6 is…

Prerequisite: Must have latest version of MP6 installed and activated. 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…

Re-imagine a theme experience that is beautiful, visually focused (able to display more/bigger screenshots), fast, and mobile-ready. Plugin url: https://wordpress.org/plugins/thx38/ Initially we were covering themes.php and install-theme.php. Time and dev resources constraints forced us to focus the last few weeks solely on getting themes.php fully ready. Problem Solving Problems: A very text and information heavy…

Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/omnisearch/ Diff: https://cloudup.com/cC6IbXxoHXN Previous posts: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/08/14/present-your-3-8-feature-idea-at-tomorrows-meeting/#comment-9948 https://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/08/30/omnisearch/ https://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/10/08/omnisearch-user-testing/ IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. chats in #wordpress-coreCore Core is the set of software required to run…

Now that 3.7 RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). has shipped – and the final release is coming soon – it’s time to talk a bit more about how merging to coreCore…

Have you been receiving update failures with the error code mkdir_failed_pclzip? Then why haven’t you reported it? 😉 So, on October 14, I accidentally committed a change that deliberately raised this error when PclZip was used to extract downloaded ZIP files. If ZipArchive is present, it is used instead of PclZip, so this doesn’t affect…