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Due to travel and illnesses, we’re pushing the 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 final product; however, design changes often occur…

The screen-reader-text CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. class is a small bit of CSS used in WordPress to visually hide text and make it still available to assistive technologies, screen readers, and any other software reading a page. For a number of years, this CSS class has used an incorrect syntax for the clip property to…

The themes outlined for WordPress 4.9 are “editing code, managing plugins and themes, a user-centric way to customize a site, and polishing some recently added features over this last year.” Within the themes of editing code and polishing recent features, we’re improving the code editing functionality in the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that…

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 18th (Slack archive). 4.9 schedule and priorities review Down to 54 tickets in the 4.9 milestone, aiming to get to 40 in time for BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions…

Here’s an overview of the developer facing changes made in 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 for the 4.9 cycle. If you’re…

Here is an overview of the developer facing changes focused on user roles and capabilitiescapability A capability is permission to perform one or more types of task. Checking if a user has a capability is performed by the current_user_can function. Each user of a WordPress site might have some permissions but not others, depending on their role. For…

Office Hours Recap The agenda for this office hours meeting was to review 4.9 bug and task tickets that still need to be finished and merged within 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…

A few account security enhancements have gone into WordPress 4.9. The intention is to make it more difficult for an attacker to take over a user account or a site by changing the email address associated with the user or the site, and also to reduce the chance of a mistaken or erroneous change causing…

The following 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. scrubs have been planned for remainder of the 4.9 release cycle, focused on tickets…