Source: Make WordPress: Core

It was pointed out that when using the WordPress BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often…

We’ve all been distracted with other stuff these past 2 weeks. DrewAPicture put together a parent ticket for all of the remaining menu items. Remaining Tasks Menu items as accordion (@jkudish) Show the menu select area at all times (@DrawAPicture) Additional menus accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices,…

First run commit, mostly for soaking of functionality, went into 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. on Monday. This includes fallback output for theme compat and fields in the adminadmin (and…

The Twenty Thirteen team jumped into 3.6 with two two first office hours this week; things are off to a great start. We’re meeting in #wordpress-dev 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…

Following two consecutive days of office hours, we’ve reached a consensus on what the UIUI User interface should be for comparing a single revision to the current version of a post: Based on the above mockup from @karmatosed, @adamsilverstein is continuing development of the new revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each…

I’ve decided to drop the Editorial Flow feature from the 3.6 roster. A few things happened. We looked into what the main feature (“forking” a published post and allowing it to be edited then reintegrated) would involve, and found that there were some really fundamental hurdles that were unlikely to be resolved in the time…

A first draft of the Twenty Thirteen theme is now in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., for your inspection and iteration. See: r23452 A demo site is available for you to browse. @matt set the goals for this theme: a focus on blogging,…

We’ve scheduled an additional office hours for Tuesday, February 19, at 2000 UTC in #wordpress-dev. During today’s meeting, we reviewed @adamsilverstein’s prototype on #23497, which led to a lengthy discussion about how the prototype related to our mockups, specifically https://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/23396/revisions9.png. @karmatosed will prepare a revised mockup for tomorrow that incorporates the slider introduced in #23497,…

As many have you have noticed, changeset r23416 (ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #21767, Remove stripslashes from 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. functions) has caused…

During the latest dev chat we’ve decided to schedule a weekly 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 priority. scrub in IRCIRC Internet Relay…