Lance Willett 6:11 pm on November 12, 2013
Tags: 3.8 ( 31 ), bundled-theme ( 73 ), theme ( 18 ), twentyfourteen ( 7 )

Twenty Fourteen Project Update

Crunch time! We’re working hard to make sure everything’s ready for 3.8 release. We’ve listened to all your feedback, thank you—including lots from last week’s dev chat. We’ve made significant improvements in the last week.

Many improvements

Many design changes to make the “first run” nicer and look better without featured images #25859 #25758
UIUI User interface for Featured Content moved completely into 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. (tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.), display, count) #25549
Added contextual help and tips around the adminadmin (and super admin) interface for setting up the Featured Content area #25837 #25869
Performance tweaks for faster loading #25876 #25922
IE, RTL, and i18ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill. fixes #25036 #25625 #26071 #25144 #25625 #25888

Author 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 user.

Too late to get it into 3.8 dev? It’s fairly light and can merge right away.

Last week at 3.8 features-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 Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party meeting we forgot to suggest this; we’d worked on it as a plugin first, see #24856: “Authors widget to highlight authors.”

This is a new widget for any theme to use, but we’d planned to show it off with Twenty Fourteen because as a magazine theme it’ll feature and show off multiple authors.

On our radar

Strategy for 3.7 and earlier non-MP6 handling #25906
AccessibilityAccessibility 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) feedback on the slider
More work on contextual help and the user experience with Twenty Fourteen, maybe including user testing and research
Launching the theme on WordPress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ to get early feedback from real usage
Code review with coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. dev team

#3-8, #bundled-theme, #theme, #twentyfourteen

jeffr0 6:14 pm on November 12, 2013

Did you folks already have your meeting today?
- Nick Halsey 6:18 pm on November 12, 2013
  
  We’ve mostly just been looking at a few remaining things casually, you could definitely jump in with any questions/comments/feedback now (in #wordpress-themes).
- VenturaVan 6:50 pm on November 12, 2013
  
  Can anyone tell me if there is any work being done on colorizing the menu system? I am sooo tires of having to pay for custom plugins that sometimes break to make my menu’s colorful. Top level one color, second level another, third level another, etc. etc and being able to change those per categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. or per page.
  - Lance Willett 7:12 pm on November 12, 2013
    
    Colorizing the menu isn’t part of the scope for this theme. The Accent Color option allows to change from the default green hue, though.
Lance Willett 5:51 pm on November 20, 2013

Launching the theme on WordPress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ to get early feedback from real usage

Soft launched on WordPress.com today: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/twenty-fourteen/. Soft meaning we’ll make a much bigger and louder hullabaloo with 3.8 release in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
Mads Konradsen 9:13 pm on November 20, 2013

So Twentyfourteen will first be released on wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org//themes along with 3.8?
- Lance Willett 10:36 pm on November 20, 2013
  
  You are correct.
  - Mads Konradsen 10:41 am on November 21, 2013
    
    Quick question, is WP 3.8 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 and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1, required for Twentyfourteen-featured-posts to work, as 3.7.1 doesn’t do anything with the “featured”-tagget posts, and it’s not possible to set another tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) from 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.: http://i.snag.gy/C7W2n.jpg
    - Lance Willett 10:48 am on November 21, 2013
      
      Can you please report in Trac for us? Also make sure you don’t have any active plugins while testing (things like Jetpack, etc).
      - Mads Konradsen 10:57 am on November 21, 2013
        
        Of course it’s Jetpack causing the problem, just tried deactivating it, and the themes looks smooth. But is there a plan to get the theme working with Jetpack? It must be difficult when thinking about that plugins always will override themes.
      - Lance Willett 11:03 am on November 21, 2013
        
        Yes, Jetpack will be fixed up soon (separately): see https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2037.
      - Nick 7:44 pm on December 11, 2013
        
        Dear Lance, I have just updated to the newest version of Jetpack (2.7). Unfortunately, featured content still does not work with jetpack activated. It worked fine after deactivating the 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 Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.
      - Lance Willett 8:07 pm on December 11, 2013
        
        Nick, thanks—we can follow up on it on the Jetpack forum thread rather than here.
      - Nick 8:20 pm on December 11, 2013
        
        Lance, okay. Opened a thread. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatiblity-with-wp-38-rc2-twentyfourteen?replies=3
Bharat Karavadra 6:45 pm on November 23, 2013

Hi Lance,
I was playing around with customising twentyfourteen and I noticed a slight issue with the CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. media queries when looking at the theme at resolutions as defined in the CSS as (min-width: 594px) and (min-width: 673px).

The issue arises when the site-main background is customised to have an image (and probably also when coloured), where the padding on the entry-headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. and entry-content varies at the above resolutions producing an odd looking T shape blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. for the combined entry-header and entry-content.

You will hopefully better understand what I am describing at a page I created with some snapshots and notes at http://www.karavadra.net/blog/2014-entry-padding/

Thank you,

Bharat
Bharat Karavadra 1:21 pm on November 25, 2013

Also, when logged into WordPress and the Adminadmin (and super admin) bar showing on the user side, the horizontal black headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. drops down below the admin bar by 4 pixels at resolution widths over about 790px which causes the site description at the top of the left bar to be slightly cropped and the white background appearing above the horizontal black site header.
Bharat Karavadra 1:27 pm on November 25, 2013

I just noticed that the drop on the site-headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. is not happening on http://twentyfourteendemo.wordpress.com/ when loggef into wordpress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ but only on self hosted wordpress.
Bharat Karavadra 7:01 pm on November 25, 2013

Hi,
The issue with site-headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. dropping about four pixels is only happenng when using wordpress 3.7.1 or later nightly builds. I just upgraded to wordpress 3.8 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 and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 and the 4 pixel drop is not happening.

However the padding of the entry-header and entry-content remains inconsistent in the browser widths mentioned above.
Lance Willett 12:39 am on November 26, 2013

Hi Bharat, please see our open ticket list, we have these already added there.
- Bharat Karavadra 12:19 pm on December 10, 2013
  
  Lance,
  I have just installed 3.8 RC2 and the padding issues with the entry-headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. and entry-content that I commented on above on Nov 23 still remain and on looking at the tickets – these issues are not the opens ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. list and I haven’t used the ticket system before so I’m not quite sure how to document this.
  - Lance Willett 2:31 pm on December 10, 2013
    
    Hi Bharat, the background color/image and “T” shape isn’t something we’ll fix in the default theme, but could be addressed on an individual basis for a child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/. as needed.
    - Bharat Karavadra 10:25 am on December 11, 2013
      
      Thank you for the reply. I will try my hands at DIY on this and perhaps submit it as a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. as an prospective enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature.,,
Bharat Karavadra 1:50 pm on November 26, 2013

Thank you Lance, I thought there would be a more appropriate place to submit such issues but I couldn’t find it. I’ll take a look at the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. list now.
dejudicibus 12:28 am on December 26, 2013

Lance, I am using 24 Theme just now. I have a TOP MENU as primary and a SIDE MENU A as secondary. Now, in TOP MENU I have two items: A and B. When I click on B I would like to change the secondary menu to SIDE MENU B. But how? Currently which menu is assigned to which location is selected by adminadmin (and super admin) panel, and there is no way to change it in a dynamic way. Any hint?
- Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 1:59 am on December 26, 2013
  
  This is not for support on the theme, dejudicibus. Please post in the support forums.

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