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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…

Overview This post is a summary of the latest weekly Media component meeting, which took place in the #core-media 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/ channel, on . The purpose of these meetings are to move priority tasks forward, provide feedback on issues of interest,…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from April 11th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.9.5 feedback @audrasjb wrapping up feedback post, aiming to publish by end of week on experience leading 4.9.5 No other feedback, so no urgent need to rush out immediate fixes in 4.9.6 4.9.6 planning @desrosj self-nominated to be co-lead, @melchoyce nominated @allendav…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / April 11, 2018 at 20:00 UTC: 4.9.5 feedback 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!…

Agenda proposal: Announcements: Available texts and where to publish them 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…

This post is a summary of the latest weekly dev chat meeting which took place on April 4th (Slack archive). 4.9.5 Feedback 4.9.5 was released on April 3rd, 2018. Everything went smoothly and no major issues with the release have been discovered so far. @danieltj and @audrasjb both reported positive feelings towards their release co-lead…

(full text on slack) Documentation: what texts do we need? A table of contents of the needed information is present on https://github.com/gdpr-compliance/info/blob/master/information-resources.md . @idea15 started on some of them. Some shorter/other texts will be needed to add to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., but…

Moving towards GDPR compliance a new checkbox was added to the comments form in #43436. It asks the commenters for consent to set the comment cookies. However in many themes the <label> element inside the comments form is styled as display: block; which moves the checkbox above it and might seem unusual. This will be…

Agenda proposal: Documentation: what texts do we need? Marketing: How to announce the project to the world? Trac tickets: Review of specific tickets Open discussion Join us on slack at 15:00 UTC.Open trac tickets#gdpr-compliance, #agenda

WordPress 4.9.5 is now available. This maintenance and security release fixes 28 bugs. Download WordPress 4.9.5 or visit Dashboard → Updates and click “Update Now”. Sites that support automatic background updates are already beginning to update automatically. Thank you to everyone who contributed to WordPress 4.9.5: 1265578519, Aaron Jorbin, Adam Silverstein, Alain Schlesser, alexgso, Andrea Fercia, andrei0x309, antipole, Anwer AR, Birgir Erlendsson (birgire), Blair jersyer, Brooke., Chetan…