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Announcing a secure SWFUpload fork
The WordPress security team has officially forked the long-abandoned SWFUpload project and is strongly encouraging all web developers who use SWFUpload to update. We strongly suggest you do not use SWFUpload. But if you must, use this fork. You can find it on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories…
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Post By Email weekly update
Last Friday, I met with Justin and George to talk through the details of the project proposal. Here is the final version with revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider…
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Migration project for GSoC
Hello world! My name is Frederick, one of the GSoC interns who will be contributing to WordPress migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. features this summer. A proud Canadian who grew up in Toronto and its suburbs,…
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JSON REST API
Hi everybody! Some of you may know me from various patches or WP-related endeavours: I’m Ryan McCue, developer of the SimplePie library used in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., along with a HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP…
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Summer of Code Revisions
Hey everyone! I’m Alex, one of the Google Summer of Code interns who will be hanging around here for the next couple of months. I currently study Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück in Germany — not too obvious to see the connection to web development there. Cognitive Science is actually splitted into 8…
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OPW Introduction – Hello!
Allow me to introduce myself — my name is Kat. I’ll be working on coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. this summer as an OPW intern. I live in the Bay Area and have been a freelance web developer for the past couple of…
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For those of you who receive wp svn…
For those of you who receive wp-svn commit emails: I’m considering a simple change to reduce some of the noise on that list. The change would be to not email any commits by bumpbot or potbot. One of the original goals of bumpbot was to reduce the noise when doing code review on a commit…
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We’re going to have some working IRC hours…
We’re going to have some working 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. hours tomorrow, June 6th, between 1400 UTC and 1800 UTC. Show up if you can…
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Post Formats UI is exiting core, will live as a plugin
This is a hard decision. I’ve been talking to a lot of WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. developers and contributors, and the overwhelming consensus is that Post Formats UIUI User interface is not ready for WordPress core, and that it would be…
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We’re getting very close This week focusing on…
We’re getting very close. This week focusing on RTL again, especially concerning :before and :after and Genericon placement, see #24287. Turns out we’ll need flipped versions of lots of the glyphs—which Joen is now working on. After Joen completes the Genericons font updates are ready we’ll sync them into Twenty Thirteen. Next is another quick…