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This is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on Wednesday, 12th December 2018, 21:00 GMT: Holiday times for dev chats: should we skip next 2-3? 5.0.1 planning and updates Updates from focus leads and component maintainers General announcements If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to those listed above,…

When/Where: Join us in #core-privacy on Making WordPress 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/ on Wednesday, 12 December at 1900 UTC 1. WCUS postmortem a. Leo and Kevin’s privacy talk – comments, feedback, and follow up b. Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days…

Thank you everyone for helping work through this slightly different commit management process during the WordPress 5.0 release. There’s some cleanup work to be done before we can get back to normal, but this shouldn’t take too long. There are 283 commits made to the 5.0 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to…

Can you believe it – we’ve made it through a State of the WordState of the Word This is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/. without anybody asking “when is WordPress moving to…

For the millions of sites already running WordPress 5.0, 85% are using PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher 5.6 or above. We’ve also recently observed that showing notifications to encourage users to upgrade their PHP version has been very effective. Yoast SEO experimented with this…

Phase 1 of 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/ was intended to make post and page editing easier and more…

WordPress 5.0 adds a number of new bundled script handles, including many specific to the new editor, as well as a few vendor dependencies. Given that a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new…

WordPress 5.0 is officially the best WordPress 2018 has seen!  Users will be empowered with new and exciting tools to create to create truly unique sites while developers can to take advantage of 10 enhancements and features added.  Let’s look at the many improvements coming in 5.0… Heard of GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new…

WordPress 5.0 contains several additions to the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think…

The 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 what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.…