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Our next WordPress 3.8 chat is tomorrow, , following the 3.7 dev chat. Here’s our agenda: Answer questions/comments about the features as plugins process (see yesterday’s post). Review projects with no lead or weekly chat. New feature presentations. Is there a new feature you want to work on that’s not being tracked? Now’s the time…

At the dev chat last week, we talked a bit about WordPress 3.8 and the features-as-plugins process. Here’s a recap of what was discussed: Expectations A lot of features are in development right now, at varying stages. Given the huge list of new features, there’s no way they’ll all be in WordPress 3.8. That’s okay,…

I met with my mentors this past week to hash out the spec for the final iteration 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.…

Agenda for today’s dev meeting: Review why/how we’re doing features-as-plugins for post-3.7 releases (@samuelsidler) Start cranking on tickets, discuss any major tickets we need to discuss, check if anyone is stuck or wants something to work on (@duck_) A number of people are working on make/coreCore Core is the set of software required to run…

Version 0.7 is tagged and I am planning to submit it to the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ pluginPlugin A…

Ahead of our first official office hours, here is an overview of what I would like to discuss: What is Featured Content? Obenland discussed the high-level concept here: https://gist.github.com/obenland/3010432c8edcfcbf95a9 To me, Featured Content is a flexible way to show one or many posts in one or many places in your theme. A blogblog (versus network,…

As my last task as acting lead for Featured Content, I’m happy to announce our first 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. chat on in #wordpress-dev, led…

It has sadly not been a very productive couple of weeks in Post By Email land — I’ve been struggling to balance conferences, travel, illness and other obligations, and ultimately hit that not-so-fun point of needing to take a few days off because the more work I tried to do, the less I was able…

The WordPress 3.8 chat ran a bit long today, but we got a ton of information on the projects people are interested in. I’ve compiled a list of features-as-plugins from the chat today to get a better handle on the status of each project. I may have missed some details, so let me know and…

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 meeting on Monday. @koop @azaozz @carldanley @adamsilverstein @kadamwhite will be meeting…