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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…

There are many user-facing 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. improvements in 4.9, including: drafting/scheduling of changesets, autosave revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision…

As part of the WordPress 4.8.3 release, there is a change in `esc_sql()` behaviour that may affect 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…

MediaElement has been upgraded to 4.2.6 (see #39686), which includes many 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 with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixes as well as: Removal…

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…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from October 25th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.9 schedule Beta 4 dropped late last night / early this morning, please do help test. RC is scheduled to go out on Monday, October 30th and that entails soft string freeze. For all @committers, please let @melchoyce @westonruter know if you are…

With WordPress 4.9, a 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 with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. has been fixed which would cause unexpected numeric results to be included…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / October 25, 2017 at 20:00 UTC: 4.9 schedule Editor / 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…

On the heels of adding TinyMCE rich editing to the Text widget and the media widgets in 4.8, there are another round of improvements coming to the Text widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web…

WordPress 4.9 introduces a new experience for discovering, installing, and previewing themes 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.. Building on efforts during WordPress 4.7 development, this project prioritizes user flow, extensibility, and performance…