Source: Make WordPress: Design

With @avryl (me), @kraftbj, @samuelsidler, @melchoyce and @ubernaut. Log. Download the WordPress Front-end Editor plugin. We decided to move the development to git and GitHub, hopefully that makes it easier for people to contribute! @kraftbj will port over the existing TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like…

We’ll be releasing 0.7 this week. New in this update are initial tooltips for the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be…

It’s been three weeks since the last update, so I’ll quickly go over some of the things that I added to the plugin since then. @samuelsidler asked me to post a bit more regularly, so I’ll publish an update after every meeting on Tuesday. Here are the logs for last week’s meeting and today’s. The next…

(cross-posted from docs, sorry for any duplicates) a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) and…

(cross-posted from docs, sorry for any duplicates) @jazzs3quence added a few tooltips to the Users pages. Adding new tooltips is pretty easy, but we may want to revisit our documentation to clarify some things @brainfork closed out a few tickets, including positioning the tooltips so they aren’t bouncing around and setting the anchor tag title…

User Testing the WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to…

The new time threw me and I ended up starting the meeting a half hour early. Apologies to anyone who may have arrived *on time* who ended up missing the first half hour of the meeting. This week there were some significant contributions from @mdbitz for the help overviews, @trishasalas for the tooltip styling and…

With @avryl (me), @melchoyce, @helen, @samuelsidler, @gcorne, @obenland, @azaozz and @ubernaut. (Log.) We changed the meeting time to Tuesdays 17:00 UTC since that’s going to be much easier for some of us. Next meeting is in #wordpress-ui. There’s been a lot of updates since the last post. You can now create posts and pages from the…

Hey UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface – the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. team! @samuelsidler thought it would be good for me to post over here for the AH-O2 project. All the previous AH-O2 posts are…

The plugin had a few updates recently: it now automatically embeds links that are supported by oEmbed, it generates a preview of galleries and captions, you can add/edit/remove the featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared…