Fields API chat summary – October 5th, 2015

Present: @sc0ttkclark, @nicholas_io, @tomharrigan, @ericlewis, @potatomaster

Logs: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core-fields/s1444021200000000

• I just got 100 hours from 10up to work on Fields API!
• I will be working on getting the WP 4.3 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. changes put into the Fields APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways., my first pass doesn’t have unit tests passing yet
• We’ll be fleshing out Control classes, based on Customizer control classes and expand the main control class into individual classes as opposed to a ‘switch’
• We laid out a few implementations we’d like to get into prototyping
  • User profile fields (piggy backing existing UIUI User interface of section heading + fields) @sc0ttkclark
  • Settings API (cue the oooh’s and aaah’s sound effect) @sc0ttkclark
  • Post editor (metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. boxes + fields) @tomharrigan
  • 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. forms @nicholas_io
  • Future: Term editor (sections + fields)
  • Future: Comment forms?
• We want to improve the main Fields API readme to better explain the project, offer more links to information about the Customizer API since it’s what we based the Fields API on, and flesh out more examples
• We need more examples, so any use-cases we can put together for any object type, would be handy to start putting that code together (structures, not custom implementations or overrides)

We certainly could use additional contributors involved with the project, especially as we seek to start more implementation prototypes of how things could work. Just hop into 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/. #core-fields or check out our Github repo. Over the next 5 weeks my involvement in the project will be greatly increased, so if you are going to get involved — now would be the right timing!

Next chat: Monday 20:00 UTC 2015 (every Monday)

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