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The following is a summary of the weekly Privacy office hours that occurred on January 23, 2019. Weekly privacy office hours are held every Wednesday at 19:00 UTC. A full transcript can be found here in the #core-privacy room in the Make WordPress Slack. Attendees: @desrosj, @garrett-eclipse, @postphotos, @riankinney, @birgire. Here are the highlights of…

WordPress 5.1 sees a number of developer focused changes to the Cron 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.. These changes were discussed and made in #21072, #32656, #45797, and #45976. Meaningful return values Prior…

The REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/ team…

The following is a summary of the weekly Privacy office hours that occurred on January 16, 2019. A full transcript can be found here in the #core-privacy room in the Make WordPress Slack. Attendees: @desrosj, @garrett-eclipse, @dejliglama, @postphotos. Here are the highlights of the meeting: WordPress 5.1 Related Items The full WordPress 5.1 release schedule…

Below is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on : 5.1 updates: 5.1 Beta 2 was released and is now available for testing. Schedule update. Dev notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision…

WordPress 5.1 introduces limited LIKEsupport for metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. keys when using WP_Meta_Query. The new compare_key parameter (meta_compare_key as a top-level WP_Query query arg) accepts a…

WordPress 5.1 will feature a new parameter for register_taxonomy(), ‘meta_box_sanitize_cb’, which increases flexibility when using coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. UIUI User interface for custom taxonomies. Custom taxonomies can specify which metaboxMetabox A post metabox is a draggable box shown on the post…

Below is a summary of the discussion from this week’s 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 chat…

GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ 4.9 is a big milestone in terms for performance improvements for Gutenberg. It introduces…

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