Source: Make WordPress: Core

 has been scheduled for a bug scrub. The 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. scrub focus will be on tickets milestoned for 4.7.1 and…

There are three main focuses this year: the 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 is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : Schedule reminder: We need to agree on a timing for a 4.7.1 RCrelease 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).. RC means the list…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from December 21st (Slack archive). 4.7 Retrospective Reviewing comments on 4.7 Retrospective post on Make/Core We will go through comments and discuss if there are changes to our process that we should recommend Goal is not to second-guess decisions that were made, the goal is to figure out if the process…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from December 14th (Slack archive). 4.7 Retrospective Please provide Retrospective feedback on Make/Core We will review the feedback and then present it for discussion during the dev chat on December 21st and agree on action items on how we can improve in the future General Announcements Discussion on overuse of post…

wp-cliWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ is a command-line interface that is deployedDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it’s available to visitors. and relied upon by…

The idea is that any objects embedded in a post’s content have their own home and should be seen as separate resources. Data would be stored elsewhere. Examples https://example.com/resources/contact-forms/email-ella/ https://example.com/resources/charts/php-versions-wordpress/ https://example.com/author/iseulde/ https://example.com/galleries/yummy-chocolates/ https://example.com/surveys/wordpress-editor-2016/ https://external.com/some-map-or-form/ Object Types This approach could be good for: Forms such as contact forms, surveys and polls. Visualised data such as diagrams, charts,…

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 [39530-39598]. Here are the highlights: 69 commits 39 contributors 143 tickets created 29 tickets reopened 100 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. numbers…

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 office hours are held every Tuesday at 17:00 UTC in #core-multisite. The next will be .…

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 [39380-39529]. Here are the highlights: 150 commits 63 contributors 140 tickets created 17 tickets reopened 104 tickets closed WordPress 4.7 released 🎉 Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the…