Source: Make WordPress: Core

Nacin and I chatted today about what we want to do about editorial flow in 3.6. At the crux of building any new features is completing the 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. for…

The post formats UIUI User interface feature encompasses a couple things: the add/edit UI itself, and also what this means in terms of structured data and theme usage and expectations of data. Our goal is to make post formats meaningful and usable, because let’s face it: they’re not. What can we do in the adminadmin…

We’ll be having our first feature team meeting in 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. tomorrow (Thursday, January 17) at 11AM Eastern/16:00 UTC. Please join us if…

The WordPress 3.6 feature teams should be updating here on make/coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. twice a week, on the following schedule. List any major developments, summarize any notable IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels…

Agenda for the weekly dev chat: 1. Feature team updates 2. Set up schedule for more frequent feature team updates 3. Unstick anyone who is stuck 4. Rallying call for Ryan’s code maint ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. list #dev-chat

Here’s a quick update on the 3.6 menu changes we’ve been making: Last week we: Merged the the UIUI User interface into two screens. Â Now we have manage menus & add/edit menus. Tested this new two screen approach. Â It went really well (we put two users through – videos are on the Make/UI…

Like with any release, much more is going on during the 3.6 cycle than just the user-facing items on our agenda. We’d like to hit the following code maintenance and architecture items as well. If your interested or have thoughts, speak up or jump on the tickets! Some of these really should happen early, and…

A few years ago, I started publishing a mirror of WordPress on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’…

Distraction-Free Writing (DFW) made its debut in WordPress 3.2. It’s good, but it has some problems: It’s hard to discover. A tiny button that doesn’t stand out from other buttons. The transition is a bit jarring. Your content goes away, you land on another screen, and your content reappears. It feels like there is a…

For menus we’re going to try to focus on some UIUI User interface improvements. Menus work pretty well but users, especially the less-technical ones, are easily confused. We’ve seen them try to add menus without names because they see the “Create Menu” button before they see the menu name field, we’ve seen them add a…