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With the Custom CSS project merging into WordPress Core, some of y’all may be looking to extend it and do more advanced stuff.  Maybe you help run an existing 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…

Following the first meeting of the Preferred Languages project, some time was spent on researching popular platforms and other systems to see how they handle the issue of setting multiple preferred languages. To recap, this is needed to show things in the most suitable language for users in case their requested language is not installed. Browsers &…

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 [39233-39340]. Here are the highlights: 108 commits 53 contributors 114 tickets created 16 tickets reopened 101 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.…

Usually, new committers are announced in line with release cycles, but we were all just too excited to wait until the 4.8 cycle started, so here they are! First up, James Nylen (@jnylen0). James has been a driving force on the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program…

This post provides an overview of the changes to the Media component in WordPress 4.7. See a list of all the 4.7 media tickets. Two notable changes, enhanced PDF support in the media library and changes to the default fallbacks for alt attributes, are explained in separate posts. https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/15/enhanced-pdf-support-4-7/ https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/11/improving-accessibility-of-image-alternative-text-in-4-7/ Make media library searchable by file…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from November 16th (agenda, Slack archive). Reminders Dev Chat timing: Weekly chat has been moved to 21:00 UTC. Schedule: Thursday, November 17th is the target for 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…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : Meeting reminder: Weekly chat has been moved one hour later to 21:00UTC. Schedule reminder: Tomorrow is the target for 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.…

WordPress 4.7 makes it easier to preview PDFs in the media library by generating image representations of the first page, which are now used throughout the media library and media attachment screens. If a WP_Image_Editor is available that supports PDF, the following sizes are generated: Full size representation, rendered at 128dpi. Thumbnail (without cropping) Medium Large The sizes generated can be…

WordPress 4.7 includes a change to the way image alt attribute values are generated. Formerly, any time WordPress created the markup for an image with an empty alt value, it would attempt to use either the caption text or the image title—in that order—as a fallback value. In 4.7, we have removed this fallback behavior. To ensure your images…

To push us to get tickets resolved and take advantage of some shifting in my own schedule, I’d like to propose that we work quickly toward a 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…