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One of the objectives for 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 is to determine how sites can be managed with the REST APIREST…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : Schedule reminder: no release date scheduled for 4.7.2, will assess tickets next week and begin planning for timing then 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…

From today’s #core-customize meeting: Before the meeting, @joen left some good thoughts on how we can start thinking about columns. Plus, some visual ideas from @iandstewart and @binarymoon: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core-customize/p1484940296002032 https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core-customize/p1484948120002036 https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core-customize/p1484986970002129 (keep scrolling) @westonruter‘s thoughts on the API required for these Would be great to see more comments on https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/01/19/customization-in-2017/ and walkthroughs on https://make.wordpress.org/design/2017/01/18/share-a-walkthrough-of-setting-up-a-wordpress-site/ There’s a backlog of tickets:…

On January 2nd the first meeting to discuss improvements of the well-known, but not well-loved Settings APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. took place in #accessibility. After a healthy discussion the next meeting was set…

The editor will endeavour to create a new page and post building experience that makes writing rich posts effortless, and has “blocks” to make it easy what today might take shortcodes, custom HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers., or “mystery meat” embed discovery. The customizerCustomizer…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from January 18th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.7.x Releases Moving to monthly checkins for 4.7.x releases A few people stepped up to lead a future 4.7.x releases, a great way to get involved in the release process. If you’re interested in leading a future minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions…

Welcome back the latest issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., covering changes [39759-39923]. Here are the highlights: 165 commits 44 contributors 87 tickets created 9 tickets reopened 83 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : Schedule reminder: 4.7.1 launched on January 11th (News blog post); 4.7.2 lead & timing to be discussed REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It…

As we start looking at the editor from a technical perspective it’s important we identify the main obstacles and requirements we face before we start conjecturing solutions. As @matt wrote before, the editor focus aims to make writing rich posts effortless. This has taken the path of treating a post as being composed of distinct…

We had a meeting today in #core-customize to kick off the customization focus in 2017. Here’s a summary of what we chatted about: Check out https://make.wordpress.org/design/2017/01/13/what-makes-a-great-customization-experience/ and https://make.wordpress.org/design/2017/01/11/what-makes-a-great-editor/ for some great discussion, and share your own thoughts. What are your biggest customization pain points? WordPress doesn’t help you setup your site according to your goals.…