This is a summary of the shiny updates chat from May 31. (Slack log) Attendees: @ocean90, @swissspidy, @mapk, @afragen, @screamingdev, @ipstenu, @obenland Topics: Merge plan @swissspidy will have a merge proposal ready for review and publish on 6/2. Friday, 6/3, was set as the deadline for code changes so that there will be enough time to prepare a core patch prior to next weeks Feature Plugin meeting. Overall status We discussed...
This is a summary of the shiny updates chat from May 24. (Slack log) Attendees: @ocean90, @swissspidy, @mapk, @ryelle, @melchoyce, @adamsilverstein, @obenland Topics: Open Pull Requests @swissspidy was waiting for feedback and a merge on PR120, which happened right after conclusion of the meeting. @ryelle was waiting for clearance to re-globalize pagenow in order to make more parts of shiny updates testable. Overall status We...
This is a summary of the shiny updates chat from May 10. (Slack log) Attendees: @ocean90, @swissspidy, @paaljoachim, @j-falk, @mapk, @obenland Topics: Accomplished work since last week @mapk conducted another user test. @swissspidy continued work on update-core.php. Remaining work The landing page for feature projects still needs to be written, as well as contributor groups asked to review Shiny Updates. @ocean90 opened a few...
New in 4.5 is the ability for users to add a logo to their sites (if their theme has declared support for it). It’s an addition to the Custom Header and Custom Background features which themes have to declare support for as well, and works pretty much just like them. To register support, a theme would add the following call in a callback to the after_setup_theme action: function theme_prefix_setup() { add_theme_support(...
WordPress 4.1 introduced a way for themes to support a new way of rendering the document title, letting Core handle its generation and output. The next step followed just recently (#31078), deprecating wp_title() and replacing it with a more comprehensive way to generate titles. Plugin authors can now check for theme support and have a few new filters available that will allow them to change or replace the title in a reliable...
The release candidate for WordPress 4.3 is now available. We’ve made more than 100 changes since releasing Beta 4 a week ago. RC means we think we’re done, but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s possible we’ve missed something. We hope to ship WordPress 4.3 on Tuesday, August 18, but we need your help to get there. If you haven’t tested 4.3 yet, now is the time! Think you’ve found a bug?...
This is the jump-start post for the twelfth week of the WordPress 4.3 release cycle. We’re in the final stages of the release, by Wednesday we want to be able to present our Release Candidate to the community. A release candidate (RC) is a beta version with potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. In this stage all product features have been designed, coded, and tested through a few...
WordPress 4.3 Beta 3 is now available! This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.3, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip). For more information about what’s new in version 4.3, check out the Beta 1 and Beta 2...
This is the jump-start post for the tenth week of the WordPress 4.3 release cycle. Beta3 will land on Wednesday. Our target until then is to get the ticket count in the 4.3 milestone down to 40. Priority Tickets this week: All Customize tickets Core Meetings this week: Core Dev Chat: July 15 2015 20:00 UTC in #core Bug Scrubs: Tuesday, July 14 2015 11:00am EDT and Wednesday, July 15 2015 8:00pm EDT in #core. 4.3 Feature Chats this...
This is the jump-start post for the ninth week of the WordPress 4.3 release cycle. Beta2 will land on Wednesday. Our target until then is to get the ticket count in the 4.3 milestone down to 90. Priority Tickets this week: #16434 All Customize tickets Core Meetings this week: Core Dev Chat: July 8 2015 20:00 UTC in #core Bug Scrubs: Tuesday, July 7 2015 11:00am EDT and Wednesday, July 8 2015 8:00pm EDT in #core. 4.3 Feature Chats...
A day late, but I didn’t want to start another week without one: This is the jump-start post for the seventh week of the WordPress 4.3 release cycle. The feature plugin merge window is scheduled to close this week on Wednesday, June 17th. With that we only have two short weeks left before beta1. Priority Tickets this week: #32576 #16434 Core Meetings this week: Core Dev Chat: June 17 2015 20:00 UTC in #core Bug Scrubs: Tuesday,...
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