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This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 23rd January 2019, 14:00 GMT: Releases: 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/…

Huge thank you to all who attended the very productive office hours! The recap notes are a bit delayed, but they were not forgotten! A full agenda can also be found in an earlier post, and the full transcript can be found in Slack. Here are the highlights of the meeting: Agenda Item 1 –…

WordPress 5.1 introduces new short circuit filters to WP_User_Query and count_users(). The users_pre_query filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should…

During the Core Dev Chat on January 16th, 2019, a proposal for a minor change to the lengthier multi-part values section was briefly discussed. The following is what the current CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Coding Standards recommend in the property values section: Multiple comma-separated values for one property should be separated by either a space…

Overview This post is a summary of the latest weekly Media component meeting, which took place in the #core-media SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel, on . The purpose of these meetings are to move priority tasks forward, provide feedback on…

Phase 2 4.8 has been included in WordPress 5.1 4.9 is going to be released next week according to the regular schedule. In order to address some feedback about how to get involved for phase 2 this post was shared to hopefully clarify this more. Task Co-ordination The idea is not to get everything done…

Do you like devchat? I like devchat. This is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on : WordPress Leadership is expanding! @chanthaboune and @joostdevalk are excellent people, wonderful contributors for whom I have immense respect, and it’s exciting to see WordPress maturing as an organisation. 🙂 5.1 updates: There’s a new schedule update. Call for triagetriage…

Good news, everyone! WordPress 5.1 is on schedule, and progressing nicely. At the time of writing this post, we have 123 open tickets milestoned for WordPress 5.1, down from nearly 500 a week ago. Thank you to everyone who’s helped triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity,…

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This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 16th January 2019, 14:00 GMT: How to get involved in Phase 2 Work? Tasks Coordination. BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of…