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If you have a Tumblr blog, can you help test an updated version of the importer? It uses their OAuth API, which requires you to create an application. It’s simple and the plugin walks you through it. Here’s the ZIP file to the beta version. You can report bugs on #22422.
Edit: The plugin has been released, the beta is over: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tumblr-importer/
You might notice that this P2 has gotten a big head. All of the Make P2s have actually, and like the rug in the Big Lebowski we think it really ties the room together.
The Get Involved tab has been added, docs have been moved under support, home has been hidden. This isn’t ideal — we’d eventually like to move to more of a verb-oriented navigation system — but it is better than everything under Make being its own island and not really linked to or from the main WP.org side, or to each other. Hopefully it will also let more folks know about how to get involved (I added a link to the Make Core Handbook to the top sidebar widget.)
I’ll be talking more about some of the improvements to WP.org tomorrow at 11am PST and you can still get streaming tickets if you’d like to tune in: http://2012.sf.wordcamp.org/tickets/
This is awesome. 
Great. Looking forward to “State of The Word”.
Noticed it earlier, went “Whoa.” Cool beans. 
It does tie the room together…
Cool. Only the parent page ‘Get Involved’ is missing the integrated markup.
Yeah, working on that later today. It’s not a P2 theme there, so need to make a new child theme for it.
Like Donnie, “I was bowling.” I miss these kind of things sometimes because I digest with RSS, so thanks for pointing it out. This is awesome.
nice man
This is absolutely one of the best ways to bring people into the project to contribute! Awesome job team!
http://profiles.wordpress.org/ocean90 still has the old nav bar.
Not anymore.
http://make.wordpress.org is using the wrong theme 
We’ll get there!
Where is the “Like” button here? 
On Saturday, Matt posted to the WordPress Blog that the plugin directory has been refreshed.
Also also posted to our new P2 at make.wordpress.org/plugins: what this means for developers. @otto42, @coffee2code, and I go through the changes in detail. They include:
(Sidebar: We hope to use make.wordpress.org/plugins for announcements and resources for plugin developers. This blog will also move to make.wordpress.org soon. More to come.)
By the way (not sure whether there’s a better place to say this), wordpress.org seems to have been broken for the last week or so, on Chrome/MacOS: http://cl.ly/2Z0f3P2F091V2C0T0127
Cheers
May be 3.4 schedule needs some refresh : http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/version-3-4-project-schedule/
We’re seeing increased reports in readme.txt files not updating for plugins. Likely related to the migration to nginx from earlier this week, as in the process a number of configurations were updated (also PHP 5.2 to 5.3), and now signs point to memcached caching algorithms (riveting). @bazza is looking into the problem; @otto42 and I are also looking into some wider issues.
Thanks for your work on this stuff, guys.
Thanks mate!
and svn repository is not available frequently, might be related !
Hi – could you elaborate? What do you mean by “not available frequently”? It is hosted on a completely separate system, so not likely related.
thanks for all the hard work!
had some SVN issues a week ago and it was resolved very quickly.
By the way, this was resolved shortly after posting. There are no known issues with regards to the update processes for the plugins directory.
Been giving a lot of thought to how to give plugin authors more control over their plugin pages. In WordPress custom headers have been hugely beneficial in people’s ability to make a theme their own without having to be a designer. (And designers can make them really sing.)
As an experiment we’ve turned on custom headers for the plugin directory. If you’d like to try out this feature:
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arena94130, 
Julien are discussing. 
netweblogic, 
assets/banner-772x250.(jpg|png). Note that the assets directory is added to your plugin’s root directory, not trunk.For an example of this in action, check out Hello Dolly, natch. Our goal is to mainly see how people use them, so if you try this out leave comment below with a link to your plugin!
Final note: this is just an experiment, and there is a 98.254% chance the dimensions, placement, and text overlay for this header will change in the future, or the idea might not work at all. But I think it’s a nice toe in the water for letting authors really make their plugin pages shine.
Hey, that looks pretty darn good! Definitely give folks a little opportunity for creativity! (You sure you don’t want animation?)
Put in the flying bee for bbPress. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/
My favorite!
Debug Bar is showing off some new UI: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/debug-bar/
Ooooooo
You can preview a banner by adding ?banner_url=A_LINK_TO_YOUR_IMAGE to your plugin URL.
Imaging the possibilities for pranks! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/?banner_url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FJvrGA.jpg
LMAO
Yeah we’ll probably have to close that down at some point.
okay that’s pretty funny. nice
LMAO prank time XD
But it’s useful for testing. That’s right, for testing.
For science.
I’ve limited this so that only contributors to a plugin can use the banner_url trick to preview images. For science. You monster.
This is excellent news!
I think this will result in more companies being interested in maintaining their plugins because they will be able to control their branding and thus it will seem less like just a technical thing to them.
Thanks Matt, Koop and the rest of the team who are making this happen; you made my day!
P.S. No .GIF?
If GIFs were allowed, they would have to screen for animated ones. I don’t think we want dancing Rick Astleys or flaming skulls in the plugin repository. Or do we?
Plus the GIF format just plain sucks. PNG is the way to go.
Of course. The animation issue is just icing on the cake.
@redwall_hp – Ah, good point, I was thinking more about how some images files can be much smaller in GIF vs. PNG, and some images are not a good fit for JPG. But the animation issue does, mixing with your metaphors put the nail in that coffin.
@Alex Mills: GIF may suck, but JPG is not good for simple raster images and PNG files are typically 2.5 times larges in size than an equivalent GIF files. For a larger image like 772×250, especially where transparency is not really needed, PNG is actually the one that sucks when compared to GIF.
But @redwall_hp had a good point about animations and that does trump image size IMO.
FWIW I find PNG-8 files (vs PNG-24) to usually be the same size or smaller than GIFs. Also using a tool like pngcrush or pngslim or http://punypng.com/ gets them even smaller.
Matt: I wasn’t familiar with PNG-8 vs. PNG-24, thanks!
If you’re on Windows, use IrfanView (free) with the PNGOUT plugin option (also free) to produce incredibly tiny PNG images.
15 mins is so long when you are waiting… Here is mine waiting for the plugin refresh: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor-plus/?banner_url=http%3A%2F%2Fplugins.svn.wordpress.org%2Fwordpress-file-monitor-plus%2Fassets%2Fbanner-772×250.png
I’m not a designer by no means but that doesn’t look too bad for a first attempt if I don’t say so myself
I know! Been giving some thought to how we can make that faster.
That should be getting faster soon. I want the update process to run continuously, so it’s as fast as possible.
There’s a systems request in speed it up, but it’ll take a bit of work. Soon, I hope.
How about this
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/
Love it!
Cool, I like the updated headers, glad to see the plugin directory getting some love!
I added a banner I doodled up to my plugin Meteor Slides: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/meteor-slides/
WP Candy noted these:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mini-loops/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-google-connect/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-twitter-connect/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-snarky/
I just updated Tweetable: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetable/
Love the changes:
Very tastefully done! That’s a good’n!
This is a fab idea… I love it.
Just added a quickie to Widgets on Pages http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widgets-on-pages/
I’m a big fan of this for the various reasons already stated about better branding, but my only complaint would be to possibly restrict the height a bit more. As an avid WP user, I would like to see the description a bit more front and center. It gets pushed down quite a bit for my taste.
…but that’s semantics;)
We also have 88 vertical pixels being taken up by the mostly-useless plugin directory header and login area that could be tightened up.
Nice one. Next one
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cachify/
Ok, mine should be up soon at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/transposh-translation-filter-for-wordpress/
Any chances to move the screenshots to a similar directory so that the plugin download will be a little less bloaty?
We’re considering just dropping the screenshots from the generated zip files. Obviously that’ll mean that anyone who hotlinks those screenshots from within the plugin will have to change tactics, but it might be worth it to slim down the size of plugin zips.
What do you think?
+1. There’s no need for screenshots to be in the zip file. The new banner in the assets directory may as well be left out too to keep it slim.
You have my vote on dropping those as soon as you can, and maybe even add some sort of gallery to the plugin page if its worked on. Will be more than happy to assist (given a point of contact)
+1. This would make a lot of sense.
+1 as well. Yes. That would be awesome.
(Bad hotlinkers, no cookies)
+1 – I like it.
+1 for me as well.
For back compat we can continue to support (and include in zip) screenshots in main part of a plugin’s repo, but there’s no reason we couldn’t allow people to move things to the assets directory as a replacement. (Haven’t thought about versions, though, maybe we can ignore it.)
+1 here. Anything we can do to make the downloads smaller so fewer issues occur is nice.
It’s not that many plugins that hotlink their own screenshot files. Here’s the list. We could probably notify them directly of an upcoming change. Or heck, just whitelist them.
BTW would that also mean being able to do the screenshots in something like a fancybox / thickbox / colorbox? I’ve always thought they look a bit weird…
+1
+1 Sounds like a sensible approach.
Yeah, I’m thinking we support /assets/ for screenshots. Can make it backwards compatible easily. Thinking versions aren’t necessary as they’re only shown on the plugins page (and wouldn’t be included in the zip at that point). Only someone viewing an old version’s readme.txt and trying to match the numbers up would pose any sort of a change in the user experience.
+1. Absolutely agree. I’ve had the removal of screenshots from the .zip files on my wishlist for a long time.
+1!
+1. Move them to the /assets dir.
Great idea, it looks great!
Also, is there any chance of replacing the Downloads Per Day graph with a JS-based one?
Yeah that’s on our list as well.
You’re on fire!
Well, isn’t this awesome? I already liked the changes that you rolled out yesterday, it is good to see the plugin repo getting sexier!
I took the opportunity to update my Facebook apps plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-facebook-applications/
that is awesome! now i need to find something equally as awesome to use for my header images.
It’s like Christmas for plugin developers… Thanks Matt! I love this…
Here’s for a few of my other plugins I just did:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-bulk-editor/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/reliable-twitter/
Nice change!
Okay, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I’ve committed my jpg to my new assets folder, but it’s not working. When i download the image from the browser, it says it’s corrupt. http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/recipress/assets/
You can’t hotlink to images in plugins.svn.wordpress.org. It 301s you. Give it 15 minutes to push to the site.
It’s up now. Looks really nice! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recipress/
Awesomeness indeed
great! thanks
Here’s a fun one. Contains the complete usage instructions for the plugin right in the banner, and an example of what it looks like. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-logo/
Somehow I think most of my plugins will never be that easy to make headers for
I trust Fredrick is already hard at work on a banner like this for W3TC, right?
I just started messing with this a little bit, took me a few minutes to figure out how to add the assets to the SVN, but I got it working eventually. Here is a link to a few more tips I learned in the process and a link to my plugin…
http://mywebsiteadvisor.com/2011/12/update-your-wordpress-plugin-header-image/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/transparent-image-watermark-plugin/
Testing ideas with BuddyPress: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/
Very cool. I like how you extended the title box for the icon.
ooo, nice move on the icon hack. “in a”, has too much spacing. **2cents
Stole your idea, JJJ!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-followers/
Just put something simple for now: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-move/
Got mine up! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-login/
This is the only one I’m actually happy with (the wrong size is being fixed…)
Ha!
I need to Like this comment.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-grins-ssl/ is decent at least
Though I noticed we DO NOT get svn commit emails for the assets folder. Interesting.
Simple image sizes have it ! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-image-sizes/
Great idea guys!
You’ve given me a reason to once again pretend that I’m good at Photoshop: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/typekit-fonts-for-wordpress/
No need to pretend, if you can crop you’re in.
Awesome. Thanks Matt
Thank Koop and Otto, they coded the whole thing up!
That’s very cool – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-calendar/!
I’m thinking summer thoughts, if you can’t tell…
Brilliant, the new font lets you fit in longer version numbers without wrapping too http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce/
WooCommerce is looking good: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce/
Just committed a banner but I didn’t get an e-mail notifying me of the change like I would if I were to make a change to some code in my plugin.
Is this intentional? A bug?
Yeah I noticed that too
Wow, this is great! But…
There will be some who cross the line with marketing / spamming etc. How long until someone sells a “Brought to you by ” ad in the banner image for their plugin? In some cases that might be acceptable (if the company sponsors the development of the plugin). But what happens when it’s a less than reputable ad (like an adult ad or promoting a non-GPL product)?
It would be good to have some up-front guidelines about what’s acceptable, *before* this becomes a problem.
Anything that doesn’t follow the plugin directory guidelines will be removed or taken over, just like if they put something bad in the code.
This is fantastic! Thanks Koop + Otto (+ Matt)! Now only if I had some design sense… here’s two down:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shrimptest/
Not gonna lie; was pretty tempted to just make it this, though: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/?banner_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmitcho.com%2Fcode%2Fyarpp%2Fyarpp-matt.jpg
HyperDB now has one — http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hyperdb/
It works for geeky plugins too!
This is one of my favorites. So classy.
Thanks! Dave Martin made it.
I thought I’d be cheeky and display a couple of testimonials from people who use my plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-switching/
This is a good addition to repository. I have added banners to some of my plugins:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-star-rating/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-taxonomies-tools/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-press-tools/
It would be nice to have more images added to assets, starting with icon image. Also, having screenshots in there would be a good change also.
Kudos for the holiday gift. Great idea!
Hi Vladimir. It doesn’t say anywhere on your plugin page that the plugin ties to a paid service. Can you please include this information on the description page? If you’re not sure where to put it, you could do what Akismet does on theirs with a PS. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/
Finally rtSocial is up after 15 minutes of long wait. Its looking awesome though http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rtsocial/
Great Christmas present, I just put one on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-monalisa and one on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-forecast. Wouldn’t it be nice to see a smaller banner in the plugins details thickbox in wordpress?
Thanks a lot from tuxlog
Is it just me or is there now a character limit in the description text? I’ve checked a few plugins and they also seem to be cut off but in different points.
Sexy new header added:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/point-and-stare-cms-functions/
Yes, because people don’t pay attention to the rules in the documentation.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/readme.txt
“Here is a short description of the plugin. This should be no more than 150 characters. No markup here.”
That 150 characters is indeed a hard limit.
Be great if the plugin author(s) info could be moved back up near the top of the plugin page to go along with this new branding. Thanks.
Great idea – you guys rock!
I’ve added my plugin “Genesis Layout Extras” to the list
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-layout-extras/
…all my other plugins will follow in the next days
Updated one of mine: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/brown-paper-tickets-api/
i just posted a new one (fancy) on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailpress/
Beautiful addition to the plugin directory!
IMHO, This would also be really nice for the theme directory too Those tiny screenshot make my eyes twitch. :p
Oh, and while we are in the process of doing some amazing things to wp.org could we also turn on buddypress and bbpress theme preview support for wp-themes.com… It’s annoying not being able to preview the themes properly before installing.
It’s great! Many thanks for this feature.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lazyest-gallery/
Hey all, I just wanted to show you a social sharing use case that this addition of plugin banners has allowed:)
I’m “trying” to keep up with all the plugins listed here and keep them added…it may be a few days before yours makes it into the list;)
Awesome, love it!
Anybody else notice that some of their Screenshots disappeared? I only now show the first and last screenshot (of the seven screenshots).
WP-Table Reloaded now finally has got one, too!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-table-reloaded/
Mine’s up: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicate-post/
I find it useful to show the new UI of my plugin, since I changed it recently to add new features.
Great idea. Thanks to Koop and Otto!
And here’s one of mine: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dynamic-content-gallery-plugin/
Thanks Matt. This is pretty awesome!!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-e-commerce/
A little seasonal touch to our banner! Happy Holidays.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codepress-admin-columns/
We got ours up. We’re loving it.
After hours of agony, I somehow managed to get an “×” symbol in my image name instead of the “x” letter. Really weird, but finally I get to join the ranks of bannered plugin authors! Woot
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sm-debug-bar/
What I’d really like to see is the ability to create custom pages, beyond just Installation, FAQ, Screenshots, etc. My FAQ page (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/basic-google-maps-placemarks/faq/) is overloaded, and I’d like to be able to break it out into multiple pages.
The spankingly new Lanyrd Splat Widget is also sporting a banner… still loving this!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lanyrd-splat-widget/
Another thing that’d be great would be if screenshots could link to the full-sized version. Right now the CSS is setting a max-width of 530px, which makes full-screen images hard to read. I create my screenshots at 960px (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/basic-google-maps-placemarks/screenshots/) so that people can see the full pages if they want, but right now they’d have to open or download the images individually in their browser to do that.
My email encoder’s one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/email-address-encoder/
Better late than never, but then again, it’s been the Christmas holidays … now WP Biographia has some banner love too … http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-biographia/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mingle-forum/
Thanks for giving us this ability, just a trial banner for now, but will update with more professional one later.
Had to add a header to three of mine
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lorem-shortcode/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/webputty/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-denyhost/
Love the new Header Image Functionality.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/browser-blocker/
New plugin, new header! http://j.ustin.co/xguKiW
I just can’t get this to work. I created a folder in my plugin’s root directory name “assets”. In that folder I placed a image named “banner-772×250.png”. Committed the folder and the file, but it still doesn’t show up. If I browse the repo it shows there. What am I doing wrong?
Great idea!
Here our banner: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oa-social-login/
Had to try it… works great
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tf-faq/
Love this new idea! Check out my plugin’s banner:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cj-custom-content/
Still gutted about animated gifs being disallowed. However, still a great addition to brighten the plugin repository – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/authorsure/ is my contribution
Updated my plugin just to see the banner. A nice and simple feature for plugin devs.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/uber-login-logo/
Nice implementation, quiet workable to me. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/
LOVE the banner idea!
Here’s ours: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/joemobi/
Is this feature still working?
I’ve added the /assets/banner-772×250.jpg to the SVN root for my plugin and it’s not showing on the plugin page.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/always-edit-in-html/
http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/always-edit-in-html/assets/
It’s been checked in for 2 days now.
Any clues?
Wil.
Your name is using the character for “times” (×) rather than a simple “x”. Moving the file to the correct place should fix it.
Sorted Andrew. Many thanks.
This is a great feature! Just implemented mine: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/live-admin-navigation-filter/
Picking up where we left off….
We kicked off Friday with a discussion about the high-level roadmap for 2012. Using our earlier talk about process and scope, we identified areas/userflows that we could use to focus a release. Areas of interest included changing themes/customizing your site, uploading a bunch of photos, interacting with audience/feedback loop. (There were more, but let’s face it, there are too many things we’d like to improve to do them all at once.)
We all donned WordPress gear so that people would recognize us at the happy hour later.
Dion (dd32) modeling the latest swag
Dion and Andrew Ozz before lunch
Lunch: Went to The Sentient Bean in Savannah.
The Sentient Bean
Back patio at the Sentient Bean
Koop and Mark, Dion and Ozz in the background
Next we went to ThincSavannah, my coworking space in downtown Savannah. We did the livestreamed Town Hall/Q&A (recording coming soon), answering questions from that forum thread I put up last week and a few that came in live from IRC.
Core team town hall
After that was happy hour at Jazz’d. Only two people came to hang out with us (and to think we dressed up especially!), but they were two great people, so we were fine. Some drinks and appetizers later, we departed for WordPress on Ice, in which we went ice skating at the Civic Center.
Nacin and Koop on skates
WordPress on Ice! Nacin, Mark, Jane, Matt, Jon, Daryl
Then a stop at Huc-a-Poo’s, then home.
We spent the morning talking about mobile apps and their place in the WordPress ecosystem, as well as making the dashboard a better experience when viewed in a mobile browser.
Lunch: Went to AJ’s and ate on the deck. Continued talking about mobile. This eventually morphed a bit into a discussion about the lines between .org/.com.
Core team at lunch at AJ's Dockside
After lunch we talked about the default theme for 2012, including what it should do/be that our current themes don’t already accomplish, and the process for its creation. Breakouts followed. One was focused on multisite, while the other was focused on hosting/diagnostics/health check. We tested doing a Google Hangout with screensharing as a way to collaborate more effectively throughout the year, and agreed we would try to do them once a month. For dinner we got takeout BBQ from Gerald’s Pig & Shrimp. We pretended @ryan was with us by playing a video of him from last year’s meetup. Afterward, Koop gave a primer on JavaScript.
When we started this morning, we tried to at least quickly hit the things we hadn’t gotten to yet, since today was the last day. These included: Google stuff, core plugins, how leadership in core does/does not translate to leadership of the whole project, wordpress.org site, pairs (creating process to make collaborative/non-solo development the norm), and CMS stuff.
Since a lot of us were pretty interested in making the theme customization process a focus of the next release, we starting identifying what the chunks of that might look like under the new process and with people working in pairs/teams. We continued talking about this over brunch at the Tybee Island Social Club, where @nacin and @dkoopersmith drank bacon bloody marys.
Bacon Bloody Mary
Should Nacin eat the bacon or drink the bloody mary? He can't decide.
After brunch, @markjaquith and @dd32 left for the airport, and @joncave and @azaozz left two hours later. Bye bye, core team!
Now we begin a 2nd mini meetup. Matt, Nacin, Koop, and I are staying, and have been joined by @otto42 and @chexee. The next couple of days we’ll be doing some planning and starting projects to make visiting wordpress.org a better, more useful experience. Tonight, though, everyone is catching up on some individual work after a week of long days.
We’ll post summaries of the specific core meetup discussions over the coming week.
Very curious to see how the focus on theme customization process turns out, and maybe I can jump in and help a bit with that as it’s one areas I love focusing on.
Worth nothing a few things:
First and foremost, that bacon bloody mary was good. Really good. Who cares how you consume it.
Second, please don’t interpret the lack of a mention of any peculiar topic to mean it wasn’t discussed — only that only so much can fit in one of these posts. For the developers, we had some discussions on security practices and procedures, unit testing, and core architecture (and planning for the future). The word “multisite” escapes with a single mention, but in that meeting we came away with a number of immediate action items, as well as a potential roadmap for the next year. And if you didn’t catch the livestream, you may have also missed that we’ve committed to a JSON API in core to go alongside RSS.
This was just the day-to-day play-by-play. There’s a lot more we need to write up. Woo.
Thanks for the recap write-up!
Any word about backup/restore/migration issues within the WordPress core? It seems like basic security and backup should be in the core installation..but maybe I’m missing something.
Thank you WordPress core team for allowing the community to be involved and aware of the goings on within WordPress.
Security is definitely something that was talked about, but a backup utility is more suited to a plugin than core (though we did discuss the possibility of a core/canonical plugin for backups).
It’s great to get an “insider” view of your meetup, so thanks, the community appreciates it and all the work you all do to make the World a more open and accessible place for many to have their voices heard.
Also, @Nacin, thanks for the additional mention of Multisite. I’m an avid user and am pleased there will be some additional focus.
Great job with all these newsy updates, Jane. Kudos.
Wait, is the “Nacin and Koop on skates” photo the answer to my request!?
Here was the original ticket:
https://twitter.com/#!/themitcho/status/147901791776935937
ok. i’ll bite. where does one get those fancy, baby blue track jackets Dion, Ozz and Matt are wearing? and did Nacin have one too before he drank the bacon bloody mary, which turned his brown?
I had them made special. After the holidays I’ll get some made for the store at http://wordpress.hellomerch.com. The brown ones have a different design and are the ones we were selling last year. They’ll be back eventually, too.
Having the same problem with searching for themes we used to have with searhing for plugins.. exact name match shows up late in list. Ex, Twenty Eleven shows up 7th in an exact search. @otto42, can you work the magic you used to fix this for plugins to fix it for theme search?
Shows up first for me:
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/search.php?q=Twenty+Eleven
NM, I see you mean the one in the wordpress core making the API call. I never look at that one, took me a bit to think about it.
I’ll take a look.
Okay, fixed.
I had the same problem looking for “All in one SEO” in the plugins (from a search in my admin section). I got through it via the “Popular” tab… but an exact match should have work!
@otto42: in theme repo on .org, search results for “Twenty Ten” put Twenty Ten as result #6. Higher results are Freedream2010, 2010 Weaver, Third Style, Clear Style, and Atmosphere 2010. Can you do some magic so exact matches come up first?
I will take a look at it.
Gracias!
Made a change to push exact slug/title matches to the top.
Last call for GSoC mentors! Making the IRC schedule now for GSoC mentor chats/q&a, and want to be sure I have everyone. Here’s who is listed on the Codex (per @nacin): Aaron Campbell, Jorbin, Viper007Bond, Nacin, Skeltoac, Filosofo, Chris Jean, Scribu, Dan Roundhill, Koop, Ocean90, Eric Mann, Mitcho, Jtrip, Duck_, Justin, Nikolay, Pete Mall, Westi, and Thorsten. I know we are missing a couple of people who offered to mentor and/or backup mentor. Note: being on this list does not mean you will definitely wind up mentoring a student. It will depend on how many slots we get, what kind of projects there are, and your own interest. If there’s not a student/project you want to work with, you are not required to choose one. I just want to get anyone who’s a potential mentor in the pool now so they can review applications and participate in the chats. If you’re one of the missed people, please leave a comment on this post so we can add you. @otto42? Boone, still interested?
Also: I’ll be getting some help moving forward with the admin side of GSoC from Andrea Middleton. You may see her posting here about GSoC on occasion.
I’m afraid that my summer schedule (baby!) means that I should probably bow out of mentoring this year (unless there is an *awesome* student/project that *really* needs me – I’m not made of stone here). As for IRC, I’d be happy to spend some time in there to chat with students, though I’m currently traveling and my schedule between now and the application deadline is a bit tight. Generally, I can make myself available between 13:00 and 16:00 UTC for the next few days (except Sunday). Starting Monday, I can also generally commit to UTC 00:00-03:00.
A) Congratulations! B) Kind of figured as much. Do you want me to add you as a mentor in melange so you can browse the applications to see if anything catches your eye, or would you rather be a drop-in mentor later in the game if something looks appealing that someone else already took on?
Thanks, Jane
Sure, why don’t you add me as a mentor in Melange. Then I’ll be in a better position to make a judgment call.
Boone, it won’t let us add you b/c your profile is not up to date for this year. Go to http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/wordpress and scroll down and apply to be a mentor and we’ll approve it.
Done!
I filled out an application thingo, but as discussed I’m just there as a backup this year.
I’m giving the exact same response. I won’t have the bandwidth to ensure the student has dotted each i and crossed each t on the appropriate dates, but I can step in and act as a backup when the lead mentor is on vacation or not available.
Sweet. Looks like I’m in. Thanks!
I’ve put a mentor request in. If there’s a student in the pool who is exceptionally good and has a decent proposal, I’ll be up for it. I may also be useful as a backup or reference mentor or whatever for some others when a student may need more than their primary mentor?
Also, Since I’m generally at the edge of the timezones for most people, set the times, and I’ll make it to a chat even if that means 3AM.
@otto42: Was there ever any resolution to the issue of plugin search for exact name matches? Search for “contact form 7″ and it’s the 14th result. Is there any way we can improve that for exact text matches?
Errr, no, when I search for “contact form 7″, it comes up as the first result.
Exact name searches get bumped to the top. I put that code in a while back.
piggy backing onto this, can the theme search be looked at as well? eg.
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/search.php?q=purple+pastels
The theme of that name is last in the list.
Sorry, wasn’t clear. This is when searching via wp-admin. Is it using a different search?
Fixed. The exact match search result is now being applied in both cases instead of just the one.
Awesome, thanks!
Great work Otto.
Thanks Otto!
Exactly! I get the same results in both cases!
and there is something wrong with “last updated” date ; I updated my plugin on 30-1-2011 ,for example, but in plugin page “last updated date” is 2010-12-4 …… what’s wrong with it ? See it : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/persian-world/
Is there any way to increase the weighting of “relevancy” when sort by is set to “most popular”?
For example searching for “facebook images” Yields #2-4 as: Fast Secure Contact Form, WPTouch & SexyBookmarks.
Daniel, and 6 others are discussing. 
avcascade 2:07 am on November 22, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Happy to help test this. Will try out the new importer now with a blog that’s got 2,000+ posts and report back on Trac.
Andrew Nacin 7:40 am on November 22, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Wonderful.
MZAWeb 2:27 am on November 22, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
The zip link is 404ing
Andrew Nacin 7:40 am on November 22, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
@otto42 has fixed this.
dllh 11:12 pm on November 23, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I’ve fixed a few of the things reported so far. New zip available here.
zonetuke 3:02 pm on November 28, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Installed and received the following error:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/somaweb/public_html/see-jane-run.com/wp-content/plugins/tumblr-importer/tumblr-importer.php on line 456
Andrew Nacin 3:43 pm on November 28, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I can reproduce. The plugin uses a closure, which isn’t available in PHP 5.2.
dllh 4:09 pm on November 28, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I don’t have 5.2 handy to repro, but I’ve committed a fix to the branch that removes the closure and uses a separate function instead. It doesn’t break anything and seems like it should resolve the issue. Haven’t tagged a new beta yet, as I’m not sure how frequently we want to do that.
Samuel Wood (Otto) 10:34 pm on November 28, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
The new importer has been released as version 0.7. The above ZIP links should no longer work, just use the main plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tumblr-importer/