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A retrospective meeting on the WordPress 4.7  release will be held during the week of December 19th. In order to properly prepare for that retrospective and make the time as productive as possible, I would like to encourage everyone to comment below with things they would like to bring up. To help, here are three good questions…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from December 7th (Slack archive). Reminders Schedule: Tuesday, December 6th was launch day for WordPress 4.7 “Vaughan”. Minor releases will continue to follow the philosophy of trying to fix more bugs than we create. Bug Scrubs: Two scheduled for this week, a general one on Thursday and a Customize one on…

The following times have been scheduled for bug scrubs this week: . Focus will be on tickets milestoned for 4.7.1 and the conversation will take place in #core. . Focus will be on Customize tickets milestoned for 4.7.1 and the conversation will take place in #core-customize.   #4-7-1, #bug-scrub

WordPress 4.7 is shaping up to be the best WordPress yet!  Users will receive new and refined features that make it easier to “Make your site, YOUR site”, and developers will be able to take advantage of 173 enhancements and feature requests added.  Let’s look at the many improvements coming in 4.7… RESTing, RESTing: 1, 2, 3…

There is a quiet RC2 now available – it is a fair number of commits (50+), so please take a look through those and test as you can. #4-7

WordPress 4.7 has been the most active release on record for the customize component, with four major feature projects merging and shipping with 4.7 and over 90 tickets closed as fixed. This post summarizes the highlights of the user and developer-facing changes. 4.7 CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes.…

One of the hardest things for people setting up sites with WordPress for the first time is understanding what themes are and how a given theme can work for you, especially when there’s no content there to visualize. There are also significant gaps between local theme previews, screenshots, and .org previews. Even when there are…

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 [39341-39379]. Here are the highlights: 39 commits 30 contributors 81 tickets created 3 tickets reopened 31 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. numbers based…

In 4.7, WordPress gets a new default theme: Twenty Seventeen. Like all default themes, it’s easily customizable for users and developers. This post will cover developer features and a few tricks when customizing the theme. Of note Twenty Seventeen only works on 4.7 and above. It uses the new video headerHeader The header of your site…

WordPress 4.7 extends the Custom Header feature to introduce support for video. Video headers are considered decorative elements — like headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It…