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In WordPress 4.6, register_meta saw improvement enabling developers to specify more information about (post|user|term|comment) metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress., in WordPress 4.7, register_setting has seen similar improvements. register_setting…

The following times have been scheduled for bug scrubs this week in #core: for 3 hours. Focus will be on milestoned feature requests and enhancements. Any that remain without a close or commit keyword will be punted on Tuesday; if a committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent…

This is the weekly update post for the customize component. It includes a summary of this week’s meeting, recent commits, and next week’s meeting agenda. 4.7 Feature Proposals & Merges Three proposal posts have been published and approved since our last update: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/12/customize-changesets-formerly-transactions-merge-proposal/ https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/12/customize-changesets-technical-design-decisions/ https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/11/feature-proposal-better-theme-customizations-via-custom-css-with-live-previews/ All five of the major customize feature projects proposed for…

Here’s the agenda for Monday’s weekly meeting for 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…

Currently, WordPress uses a font to render all the icons. The goal is to convert to SVG. We’ve started the process, but there’s a lot more work to be done to make sure the SVGs are rendered properly. Read more about the project’s purpose in a previous post by @melchoyce: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/06/11/moving-dashicons-from-an-icon-font-to-svg/ Since that post, progress has been…

Here’s the meeting summary for this week. If I missed anything, let me know in the comments. Housekeeping Slack archive of meeting. Meetings are every in #core-themes in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. Agenda. Summary General theme update: The theme merged…

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. #38375, #38390. Open floor. Reminder: Meetings are every Friday at 18:00 UTC. #4-7, #bundled-theme, #twenty-seventeen

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 [38736-38810]. Here are the highlights: 74 commits 76 contributors 129 tickets created 20 tickets reopened 124 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from October 19th (agenda, Slack archive). Reminders Schedule: Today is the major feature merge deadline! That leaves us one week until 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…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from October 12th (agenda, Slack archive). Reminders Schedule: We are just one week from the final chance to merge in major features. This includes Twenty Seventeen. We are just two weeks from betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial…