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After the blog post about JavaScript internationalization, we held a first meeting last Tuesday to discuss how we can improve client-side translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. in JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to…

The release candidate package for 4.9.6 has been released and is now available for testing. Please help test the release candidate version to ensure the version works as expected. This package contains 30 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…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from May 9th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.9.6 planning Thanks to all the contributors working on 4.9.6 so far, everyone has been doing a great job! Planning on a final bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects.…

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Since I last wrote two weeks ago, we’re making progress! Key achievements for 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/ and…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / May 9, 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,…

Last Thursday, 4.9.6 beta was released. In order to properly address all feedback received from 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…

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…

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…

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…