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This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from July 12th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.8.1 planning @westonruter to commit #40951: Add legacy mode to Text widget to trunk, all trunk commits need to be merged into the 4.8 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9,…

This Monday the initial weekly PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher meeting took place. This recap is a summary of which ideas and decisions came up during that meeting, both as a means of documenting and to provide a quick overview for those who…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : 4.8.1 planning (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;…

The inaugural New Contributors Meeting was held on and had a great turnout with lots of questions asked in the #core channel (read the full archive ). The informal agenda was to try and answer as many general questions as possible and then move over to a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance…

Office Hours Agenda This is the agenda for the weekly office hours meeting on in #core-multisite. Discuss the state of introducing a wp_blogmeta table and related *_site_meta() functions to store arbitrary data for sites, particularly as a means to extend the future sites REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful…

First, we want to thank everyone who has been testing the 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 the PHP programming language and integrate…

The following bug scrubs have been scheduled on tickets milestoned for 4.8.1 and the conversation will take place in #core.: Reminder of the tentative timeline for 4.8.1 is the last week of July so we’ll be heavily focused on punting tickets out of the milestone to ensure it’s clean ahead of the intended launch timeframe. #4-8-1,…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from July 5th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.8.1 planning #40907 is committed to trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running “trunk”, then you are on the latest revision., but needs user testing #40951 has a good patchpatch A…

As you may have noticed, there is a new 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/ channel named #core-php around. This channel is a result of several conversations at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of…

Office Hours Recap The agenda for this office hours meeting was to focus on the new sites CRUDCRUD Create, read, update and delete, the four basic functions of storing data. (More on Wikipedia.) APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in…