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This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from November 9th (Slack archive). Reminders Dev Chat timing: The Chat remains at 20:00 UTC.  Daylight Savings Time means that 20:00 UTC may be a different time for you already, or it may be a different time soon. However, next week we will be at 21:00 UTC. Schedule: Today is the target…

#27403 added visible edit shortcuts to the 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 settings. preview, making it easier to see which elements of your site are editable in the customizer and how to edit them. Here’s…

In [38523] the argument item_spacing was introduced for the functions wp_nav_menu(), wp_list_pages(), and wp_page_menu() to: ensure whitespace equivalent output when wp_nav_menu() falls back to wp_list_pages(), and, allow theme authors to control how whitespace is output. Backward compatibility changes. There is a backward compatibility breakage when wp_nav_menu() is empty and falls back to using wp_list_pages(). By…

With the introduction of user locales it’s required to load the current user earlier in the bootstrap. Since WordPress 3.4 this is already the case for the 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 settings., see #24169…

In WordPress 4.7 users will be able to select their preferred localeLocale A locale is a combination of language and regional dialect. Usually locales correspond to countries, as is the case with Portuguese (Portugal) and Portuguese (Brazil). Other examples of locales include Canadian English and U.S. English. (language) when editing their profile. 🎉🎉 This allows…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from November 2nd (agenda, Slack archive). Reminders Dev Chat timing: The Chat remains at 20:00 UTC.  Daylight Savings Time means that 20:00 UTC may be a different time for you already, or it may be a different time soon. Schedule: Today is the target for BetaBeta A pre-release of software that…

The following times have been scheduled for bug scrubs this week in #core: . Focus will be on tickets remaining in the milestone. . Focus will be on tickets remaining in the milestone. . Focus will be on tickets remaining in the milestone.   Note that Wednesday is the planned release for Beta 3. #4-7,…

The weekly 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 (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/…

Howdy. The 4.7 release cycle has been a chance to build on some of the work from the last couple releases in 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…

Here’s the agenda for today’s weekly meeting on Twenty Seventeen. It will last 30 minutes, and I’ll be around in the #core-themes channel for at least 30 minutes afterward to answer any questions. General theme update. #38395. #38390. Open floor. Reminder: Meetings are every . #4-7, #bundled-theme, #twenty-seventeen