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Two big patches for 2.9 just went in. [12025] by Andy Peatling allows themes to use register_theme_directory() to specify a wp-content-relative path containing theme directories. WP will additionally scan that. Primary use case is BuddyPress adding its themes without requiring copying. [12023] by Viper007Bond enables smart embeds along with oEmbed support. For instance, to embed…

Suggest agenda items for Oct 15th dev chat

Some media upload sketches. #2-9, #media

Suggest agenda items for Oct 8th dev chat

Use this thread to brainstorm ideas for better ways of crediting contributors (and third-party products that ‘contribute’) to the project (on wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central…

Use this thread to brainstorm ways to make 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 features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress.…

After several quietish weeks in the dev chat, this week’s agenda post was brimming with suggested topics. It’s really too many to fit into an hour, so I’m listing them all here in order of priority based on relevance to the on-time release of 2.9, along with the amount of time I’d like to allot…

The “first run” of a simple image editor has been in WordPress 2.9-rare for about two weeks. It lets the user crop, flip and rotate an image. It also has an option to scale the original (largest) image and to restore the originally uploaded version. There is a multi-step undo and redo support. Changes can…

Suggest agenda items for Oct 1st dev chat #agenda

September 24 dev chat agenda: -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 features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be…