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Agenda for Wednesday Dev Chat today in I…
Agenda for Wednesday Dev Chat today in IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net.. Starts with a little housekeeping, then switches to implementation. Meeting day/time (change to not-Wednesday)…
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The way the edit lock works now, if you …
The way the edit lock works now, if you close your browser with the post open, the lock will stay in effect until it times out. Might it not be better if we shortened the edit lock time to something like 120 seconds and kept it locked via an XHR every 90 seconds that the…
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Dev chat time: apparently in Europe some…
Dev chat time: apparently in Europe some countries have no school on Wednesdays, and that is seen as a family day. Can we move dev chat to another day to allow non-US people time with their kids? In that vein, 5pm on the east coast also cuts into kid time, maybe we could work out…
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Post items as replies to suggest agenda …
Post items as replies to suggest agenda items for dev chat on July 22, 2009.
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The blog for our Summer of Code students…
The blog for our Summer of Code students at http://gsoc2009wp.wordpress.com/ wasn’t allowing people to leave comments when they tried last night after dev chat. There was a discussion setting still set to require registration, but this has now been turned off, so everyone should feel free to leave feedback and/or ask questions of the students…
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Post items as replies to suggest agenda …
Post items as replies to suggest agenda items for dev chat on July 15, 2009.
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Agenda for today’s 2.9 dev chat: GSoC u…
Agenda for today’s 2.9 dev chat: GSoC update (brief) Poll results so far Non-Media Features (some follow up from last week) ID contributors who want to take on coding specific features, individually or in teams ID which features need wireframes, and which (if any) are dependent on other features being finished first Deferring discussion of…
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Starting next week, we’ll be attempting…
Starting next week, we’ll be attempting to follow an agenda during the Wednesday dev chats. If you would like to propose a topic for the July 8, 2009 dev chat, please submit it in the replies/comments to this post. We’ll post an agenda the morning of the dev chat (i.e., about 8-10 hours in advance).…
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Deprecated clean_url() in favor of esc_u…
Deprecated clean_url() in favor of esc_url(), and deprecated sanitize_url() in favor of esc_url_raw(). #api, #escaping, #esc_url_raw, #security
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Deprecated wp_specialchars() in favor of…
Deprecated wp_specialchars() in favor of esc_html() (also: esc_html__() and esc_html_e()). Using wp_specialchars() with more than one param works for backwards compat. Also, esc_html() (or wp_specialchars() with one param) escapes quotes, just like esc_attr(). This buys security for pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to…