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Dev Chat Summary: November 8th (4.9 week 15)
This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from November 8th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.9 schedule 4.9 RC2 went out this week 4.9 release scheduled for Tuesday, November 14th at 3pm PST / 23:00 UTC Decision against adding any pointers in the adminadmin (and super admin) interface, changes should be discoverable without them @obenland to update the Credits APIAPI An…
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PHP Meeting Recap – November 6th
This recap is a summary of this week’s 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 Agenda for November 8th (4.9 week 15)
This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / November 8, 2017 at 21:00 UTC: 4.9 schedule Meeting time changes Gutenberg update 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, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat
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Nav Menu Improvements in the Customizer in 4.9
In our usability tests with prior releases, we identified two common problems users encountered when trying to create a menu. Clicking the Add a Menu button in an attempt to add a page to their new menu. Forgetting to assign the menu to a location. In WordPress 4.9, we’ve updated the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into…
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WordPress 4.9 Field Guide
WordPress 4.9 is officially the best release ever (that rhymes with Shore Joint Twine)! Users have safer and more flexible ways to edit code, new and improved widgets, and improvements to customizing their site while developers will be able to take advantage of 188 enhancements and features added. Let’s look at the many improvements coming in…
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Core editor meeting time change
As Daylight Saving Time ended for all countries it applied to (finally) this Sunday, November 5th, we will shift the time for the #core-editor chat starting this week on / Wednesday, November 8, 2017,18:00 UTC. See you then!
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New Features and Enhancements with Customizer Changesets in 4.9
In WordPress 4.7 the concept of changesets was introduced in the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. (#30937). To understand the new Customizer improvements in 4.9, you must first go back and review what was…
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Devchat time change
As Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday, November 5th, we will shift the time for devchat starting next week on / Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 21:00 UTC. See you then! #core, #dev-chat
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Press This in 4.9
In WordPress 4.9, Press This has found a new home as a “canonical” plugin. Proposed in #41689 and committed in r41584, Press This and the supporting functions are no longer in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. at all. This is notably different than…
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Dev Chat Summary: November 1st (4.9 week 14)
This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from November 1st (Slack archive). 4.8.3 Release We’ve seen a few reports, one issue with metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. queries…