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WordPress 5.2.1-RC1
WordPress 5.2.1-RC1 is now available for testing! But, your help is needed to test! There are two ways to test the WordPress 5.2 release candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta).: try the…
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Security in 5.2
Post originally written by Scott Arciszewski. Protection Against Supply-Chain Attacks Starting with WordPress 5.2, your website will remain secure even if the wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the…
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Improve processing of uploaded images
As mentioned in dev chat on May 15 there are quite a few “stalled” tickets on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. dealing with image processing/resizing after uploading: Async media crunching #6814. Use exif rotation data when uploading pictures #7042. Rotate…
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Editor chat summary: May 15
This post summarizes the weekly Editor meeting on held in Slack. The agenda followed can be found here. 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 rather than shortcodes, custom…
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WP5.3: Open Call for Tickets
As we were discussing plans for the next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope. in last week’s…
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Editor Chat Agenda: May 15th
This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 15th May 2019, 13:00 UTC. WordPress 5.2.1 and 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 rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/…
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5.2 Retrospective
As we finish up one release and start looking forward to the next, I’d like to take the time to let people share their thoughts on how the 5.2 release process went. I have listed three questions I’d like feedback on below. What should WordPress start doing as a part of the development process? What…
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Editor chat summary: May 8
This post summarizes the weekly Editor meeting on held in Slack. The agenda followed can be found here. Volunteers for Note-Taking Requested As there are not very many folks who are taking notes for the chat at the moment, volunteers were requested. @nosolosw, @andraganescu, and @jorgefilipecosta offered to help out. WordPress 5.2 WordPress 5.2 was…
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Dev Chat Summary: May 8th
Announcements WordPress 5.2 was released yesterday! Thank you, everyone, who was involved in any aspect. @chanthaboune has some learnings from this release to take into handbook updates. Global WordPress Translation Day is coming up on Saturday! Planning next releases @chanthaboune outlined a proposed plan of one small scale point releaseMinor Release A set of releases…
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Editor Chat Agenda: May 8th
This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 8th May 2019, 13:00 UTC. Accessibility audit results Tasks Coordination Open Floor This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress 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/. If you have…