Source: Make WordPress: Design

Dashicons Returned! We’re meeting every Thursday at 18:30 UTC (2:30 ET) in #design-dashicons, after the #design meeting. As a reminder, our goal is to switch Dashicons to a collection of SVGs, rather than a font. Slack Archive We discussed The beginnings of a feature plugin: https://github.com/ryelle/SVG-Dashicons-Plugin/ The start of an announcement post with history &…

Feature-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 add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin…

I’ll be kicking off weekly core UI meetings again, starting this in the #design 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/ channel.

Just a reminder that the image flow meeting is now on Thursday at 20:00 UTC. That’s: 21:00 London 16:00 EST 13:00 PST #image-flow

Earlier in the 4.2 cycle, I opened a ticket proposing changes to the default color scheme for wp-admin. After much consideration and a few changes, it is being brought into coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. I’d like to explain the changes made, and…

Thanks everyone who attended the meeting this week. Note that in future the meetings will be at 16:30 UTC, i.e. normal time for everyone now that daylight savings has happened. Here’s what we discussed: 1. Feedback – there’s a lot of feedback scattered around which we need to get into one place so we can…

Slack Archive We Discussed Our goal: Migrate to using SVGs for Dashicons, rather than the font. We have a first-iteration mockup , which got some browser testing (it didn’t do so great). There’s another proposed implementation, which we’ll look into. To Do If you have an opinion on using SVGs in a cross-browser way, please leave your…

Now that we’re ready to start making a 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 add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress.…

I did five usability tests for theme switcher and sliding panels in 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.. Summary Users found the customizer very user-friendly overall. Expected clicking on a theme thumbnail to open…