Source: Make WordPress: Core

2.8 will land some time in April. People seem pretty happy with 2.7 so we’re taking time to work on some areas that need extra attention, like widgets.

Working through the long list of tickets with patches – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/14

There are several updates to the script loader currently in WordPress 2.8-bleeding-edge that enhance and optimize loading of external JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the…

Some nice comments here – http://wphacks.com/still-no-wordpress-271/ .

The “first run” of the script loading optimization is in trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running “trunk”, then you are on the latest revision.. It uses both methods: splits the scripts queue in head and footer parts, then concatenates…

After more tests and research it seems the best two options for the WordPress adminadmin (and super admin) are either minifying all scripts and loading most in the footer or concatenating and compressing them on per page basis. Minifying and loading scripts in the footer gives slightly slower performance with both cold and primed cache…

WordPress is using more and more JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com. A lot of features use…

Fixing bugs for 2.7.1 and thinking about 2.8 features.

RC2

It’s all elbow grease and polish at this point.