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A quick update on status! Earlier this week, the initial run at the Heartbeat 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. went in. @azaozz is continuing to work on it, and flesh out the API…

We had a great discussion yesterday during office hours. I’m excited to say that we’ve found our direction. We’ll only be focusing on changes to nav-menus.php for now. I just posted an updated diff containing some of the ideas we discussed. Remaining Tasks (already assigned to someone) Test theme locations as checkboxes (@jkudish volunteered to…

Had really good conversations in Wednesday’s dev chat and continued in today’s office hours. Seems like we’ve got a really good direction. All the UIUI User interface will be available all the time and theme support for individual formats will shift to serving as a flag for whether or not the theme handles format-specific data…

Kovshenin and I held office hours today but we didn’t discuss too much. Both of us have a pretty good understanding of what work needs to be done — we just need to do it. One thing that’s come up is that #20299 (Preview changes on a published post makes all post metaMeta Meta is…

@lessbloat has started new rounds of user testing – one with coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. as-is, and one using the Crowd Favorite code and San Kloud for the theme so that all formats are enabled. Will be reviewing and posting those when…

We’re still in the process of determining the best direction for menus in 3.6 (mock ups and ideas welcome!). My hope is that we can stay true to the WordPress Philosophy by optimizing the experience for the majority of users, and leaving edge cases for plugins to handle. One issue at this stage is that…

Editorial Flow office hours, today (Tuesday) at 1800 UTC. I’ve been working on some mockups over the weekend of possible UIUI User interface implementations for revising published content. Still very draft and a bunch of unanswered questions, nonetheless here are some pictures: The “Save as Draft” and “Publish Changes” flow: http://cl.ly/image/1b401P3B0d3U “Update” vs “Save as…

Apologies for the late update – helps if you actually publish the post! 🙂 We were in #wordpress-ui due to a little scheduling conflictconflict A conflict occurs when a patch changes code that was modified after the patch was created. These patches are considered stale, and will require a refresh of the changes before it…

Yesterday, the 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 (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. team had its second scheduled office…

We had our scheduled meeting today in IRC to continue planning the feature for this cycle. @azaozz noted that he’s continuing work on the Heartbeat 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. #23216, on schedule…