Source: Make WordPress: Core

Agenda for Wednesday’s dev meeting: Final preparations for 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 occur…

If you were doing something crazy with custom or metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. capabilitiescapability A capability is permission to perform one or more types of task. Checking if a…

I’ve emptied and deleted the Awaiting Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. milestone. This milestone had held 3.1 tickets before we decided to empty that bucket out and start again. We still have nearly 500 tickets in Awaiting Review. We should try to…

Reverted in 3.1. We’re trying again in 3.2. If you were using $wpdb->last_result, you will need to change it to $wpdb->get_results() without a $query argument, which does the same thing. Inside wpdb, we’re now passing resources around, so the last_result property (which was private and should not have been used) no longer exists. On PHP5,…

The current list of post formats is on the Codex page: https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats aside – Typically styled without a title. Similar to a Facebook status update. chat – A chat transcript. gallery – A gallery of images. link – A link to another site. image – A single image. quote – A quotation. status – A…

Reminder that the dev chat is in about 20 minutes at the new time of 1600 UTC. Agenda is a status check on everything outstanding for 3.1 as we prepare for 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…

The theme uploader tool now performs a much more extensive scan of uploaded themes and gives the results back in a list format to the uploader. Hopefully this will allow theme developers to more easily fix problems with their themes and reduce some of the load on the theme review team. Example of the resulting…

FYI, Daisy Olsen is going to head up the theme developer handbook. She’s started working on an initial outline/TOC. Anyone want to volunteer in advance to help with it? #handbooks, #themes

We have been accepted as a participating organization for the Google Code-in. This coming week we need to firm up a task list so students can check it out before the contest begins. #code-in, #google, #gsoc, #mentorship

Post Format UIUI User interface and saving is in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Themes announce their support of various formats like so: add_theme_support( ‘post-formats’, array( ‘aside’, ‘gallery’ ) ); The UI looks like this, right now: That UI only shows up if…