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Development of SWFUpload stopped many years ago. It has been deprecated in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. since WordPress 3.3 (2011) when we switched to using Plupload. Additionally the latest updates in some browsers default to disabling Flash. It’s finally time to say Goodbye…

Coding standards have been a recurring topic in the JavaScript Weekly Chat over the past few months. One rule in particular which has been the focus of much discussion are the exceptions for whitespace in arrays and function calls, which reads: Always include extra spaces around elements and arguments: […] Exceptions: […] do not include a…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / September 6, 2017 at 20:00 UTC: 4.9 schedule review 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

X-post from +make.wordpress.org/updates: Design team weekly update September 4th

X-post from +make.wordpress.org/test: Gutenberg testing planning group chat

Office Hours Agenda This is the agenda for the weekly office hours meeting on in #core-multisite. Open floor for tickets. Review progress on roadmap and related discussion. Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. Scrub Agenda There will be no ticket scrub this week in #core-multisite. An agenda for next…

Office Hours Recap The agenda for this office hours meeting was to take a look at progress on the 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…

This past Wednesday, the weekly new contributor meeting was held in the #core 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/ room. Here is a recap of the meeting. A full chat log is also available. Participants: @adhun @afercia @alfonso100 @asalce @azaozz @boonebgorges @coderkevin…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from August 30th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.9 schedule review 4 weeks until the feature project merge deadline, 5 weeks until 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…

There’s been a few interesting conversations about Gutenberg in the context of what the future of WordPress may look like. Given the fact we are starting from the bottom up with the post and page editor, and not yet directly tackling wider theme or customization implications, I thought it could be useful to record a…