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GDPR Compliance Chat Agenda – May 23
Agenda proposal: 4.9.6 vs 4.9.7 and 4.9.8 Roadmap v2 Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. prioritization Open discussion Join us on slack at 15:00 UTC.Open trac tickets#gdpr-compliance, #agenda
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Dev Chat Agenda: May 23rd (4.9.7 week 1)
This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / May 23, 2018 at 20:00 UTC: 4.9.6 feedback 4.9.7 planning Updates from focus leads and component maintainers Guidelines for fixing coding standard violations General announcements If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to the above, please leave…
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PHP Meeting Recap – May 14th
This recap is a summary of our previous PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher meeting. It highlights the ideas and decisions which came up during that meeting, both as a means of documenting and to provide a quick overview for those who were unable…
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Dev Chat Summary: May 16th (4.9.6 week 7)
This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from May 16th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.9.6 planning 4.9.6 RC2 released May 15th and no issues reported (note: 4.9.6 released 🎉) Please tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version…
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Changes that Affect Theme Authors in WordPress 4.9.6
Update 5/18: Added note about privacy policy management on multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site installs.Update 5/17: Added details about themes passing…
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New PHP Polyfills in 4.9.6
It is considered good practice to validate variables before using them. As using type declarations is still very rare in the WordPress world, parameters passed in to functions may not be of the variable type expected. Similarly, the type of variable returned by a filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks.…
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REST API Meeting Summary: May 10
This post summarizes 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 “database” or “file…
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Preparing WordPress for a JavaScript Future Part #1: Build Step and Folder Reorganization
In the past couple of months, I have been working on a patch to make WordPress fit with modern modular JavaScript programming practices. We’ve figured out what the concerns are with regard to JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. code organization in…
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Dev Chat Agenda: May 16th (4.9.6 week 7)
This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / May 16, 2018 at 20:00 UTC: 4.9.6 planning 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 the above, please leave a comment below. See you there! #4-9-6, #agenda,…
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WordPress 4.9.6 Release Candidate 2
A second release candidate package for 4.9.6 has been released and is now available for testing. Please help test this release candidate version to ensure everything works as expected. This package contains 20 bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt…