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I can hardly believe it, but my summer internship is drawing to a close. This week, I released version 1.0.4 of the Post By Email 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…

We’re continuing regular office hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays at ) as well as general “Bundled Themes” bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest…

The code revisions plugin reached version 0.95 – just leaving enough space for some final readme updates and hopefully no more bugfixes (because of no more bugs). But still, some final important enhancements got into this update. Mainly to ensure that all related revision data is removed when a package (theme or pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of…

After last week’s weekly Inline Docsinline docs (phpdoc, docblock, xref) meeting we decided to begin doing a weekly 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. on Wednesdays. As of last Wednesday,…

Recently WordPress added QUnit as a JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com unit testing framework and added…

This week, I finally have a new release for you! Version 0.5 is now available, with the following changes (and more!): Add support for media – This has been a long time coming, and it’s finally at a point where I’m happy to push it out. Good luck. (#272) Separate the post-related endpoints – Post-related…

There will be a weekly office hours meeting on in #wordpress-dev. Agenda includes status update on the hooks initiative that kicked off last week, and answering questions anyone may have about the effort. If you’re interested in participating, please plan on attending. #3-7, #inline-docs

I just released version 1.0 of the Post By Email 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…

As discussed in the weekly developer meeting, core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org need to select a representative for the WordPress “team reps.” There should ideally be two reps: a…

Hi coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team! Checking in on the team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates…