Accessibility Group Update for February 27, 2013

  • Still pushing ahead with #14045 and the 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) of custom menus generally. @GrahamArmfield and @lessbloat have agreed to take the lead together on developing prototype solutions.
  • Initial feedback on Twenty Thirteen is now complete. Overall, the response was very positive with the main areas of concern being contrasts and color choices. Hopefully, these can be resolved relatively easily without impacting on the theme’s overall design. Now that Twenty Thirteen is bundled in the nightly downloads, the group should be able to undertake a deeper audit. It was noted, however, that the theme isn’t being installed automatically via the WordPress 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. Tester 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 but currently has to be extracted manually from a download of the nightly build. Not sure if that’s something that needs flagging up…
  • Next areas of focus:
    • Accessibility of the Add Media panel for screen readers users with a view to raising a new TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket
    • Possible issues within the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. comment form output with a view to raising a new Trac ticket

#accessibility

Mobile Group Update for Feb 27, 2013

Last Week

  • WPiOS 3.5 was launched, unfortunately with some severe bugs and crashes. These were fixed quickly in a subsequent bug fix release but we received a lot of low ratings in the meantime. There are a few more bugs that needs fixing that we’ll work on another bug fix update for.
  • Version 2.0 of WPWindowsPhone was approved, it will be announced at noon tomorrow (Feb 27). New features include Galleries for 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/ and direct access to the Dashboard and the public site.
  • WPAndroid UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. updates is starting to look really good. The new actionbar is in use in most places and the menu drawer has been tweaked for a smooth interaction.
  • Mobile Handbook: looking good, but a lot of non-app specific stuff is missing. Hoping to loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. some more people in to complete it.
  • WPBlackBerry update was rejected for an unknown reason after having been pending for 3 (!) weeks. We’ll try to resubmit.

This Week

  • Issue another bug fix update for WPiOS 3.5
  • WPAndroid Previews: merge with the UI updates release and start testing
  • Keep implementing UI changes, implement mockups/changes TBD
  • WPWindowsPhone: announce 2.0 tomorrow, keep iterating (next up is likely post editor changes to improve the writing UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it.)

More info in this week’s dev chat summary.

#mobile

Support Team Update 26th February

I will not be at this week’s IRC meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area., since I’ll be on a plane to DC.

Last Week

  • Discussed wp_query_posts and documentation.
  • Promoted a couple forum mods to admins so they too can spam-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. users.
  • MultisiteMultisite Multisite is a WordPress feature which allows users to create a network of sites on a single WordPress installation. Available since WordPress version 3.0, Multisite is a continuation of WPMU or WordPress Multiuser project. WordPress MultiUser project was discontinued and its features were included into WordPress core.https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network.: Determined people having issues with WordPress In Its Own Folder and busted Network Links are using bad .htaccess. RTFM issues.
  • The blogs.dir vs uploads/sites/ folders is confusing. Need a better explanation.

This Week

#support

Theme Review Team Update for 02/25/13

Week Over Week Comparison

Last 7 days

  • Approved: 54
  • Not-Approved: 67
  • Closed (newer version uploaded): 28

Previous Update

  • Approved: 31
  • Not-Approved: 28
  • Closed (newer version uploaded): 16

There are 145 new tickets waiting for review.

#themes, #trt

Plugins Directory Team Update for 02/25/13

Highlights from the week:

  • Nothing new or significant to report this week.

Plugins Directory stats for the last week:

  • Requested : 185
  • Rejected : 65
  • Closed: 16
  • Approved: 108
  • Commits by 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 authors: 3,350
  • Currently in the request queue: 58 (14 older than one week; 21 with no replies)

Plugins support email stats for the last week:

  • New: 90 (87 closed, 3 still open)
  • Currently open: 10 (2 with no activity in the last week)

#plugins

Events Group Update for Feb 22

Last Week:

  • WordPress.tv moderater group has been active.  31 new videos published and worked on submission standards. Team Report
  • WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Guidelines Committee is preparing another survey, this one for the general public and not just people who have organized WordCamps. They are also still collecting results from the initial survey of organizers and will do so until March 1
  • Event Planning Training Materials met and discussed training materials
  • Initial invites MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. Guidelines group went out
  • WordCamp base theme development continued. Work is being done on the session template, schedule template, and Post Event Wrap-up.
  • WordCamps approved for planning: Russia, Denver, Albuquerque, Toronto, Tampa

Next Week:

  • Flush out membership of Meetup Guidelines group
  • Final week for WordCamp organizers to fill out survey from Guidelines group
  • An Exciting Announcement for WordPress.tv
  • Multi-Event Sponsorship
  • keep reviewing & publishing WordCamp videos
  • continue responding to WordCamp applications and working with WordCamps in planning

Mobile Group update for Feb 20, 2013

Last week

  • Still waiting on WPiOS 3.5 (previews + better autosave + stability) to be approved, had to resubmit. Should go live soon.
  • WPAndroid UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. update humming along nicely. New menu drawer is in trunk, action bar extended.
  • WPAndroid Post Previews still not ready, but getting close.
  • WPWindowsPhone version 2.0 was submitted and features stability improvements and Gallery support for 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/ users.
  • The Mobile Handbook is starting to look really good.

This week

  • Announce WPiOS 3.5 when approved.
  • Submit WPiOS 3.5.1 bug fix update once 3.5 is approved.
  • Mockup WPAndroid UI update details, iterate on menu drawer.
  • Get WPAndroid Post Previews update ready.
  • Announce WPWindowsPhone version 2.0 when approved.
  • Look over the Mobile Handbook.

More info in this week’s dev chat summary.

#mobile

Core team update

Feature development is now in full swing. Over the last few weeks, a number of major decisions have been reached, and a lot of code has begun to land in trunk (or will be landing soon). About 50 commits in the last week.

  • Twenty Thirteen landed on Monday, February 18. Already, 33 tickets have been filed. (Here’s a link to open Bundled Theme tickets for 3.6.) The team is holding twice-weekly meetings in IRC to triage and hammer out issues.
  • RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. has honed in on a promising UI featuring a slider. There’s already a functioning patch undergoing rapid iteration;  that should hit trunk as early as next week. Also being worked on, lots of other smaller enhancements and bug fixes.
  • Autosave (local storage, etc.) is aiming for a new patch later this week. This feature is more or less defined as a way to protect your content better than server-only autosaves have, and most of the how-should-it-work issues that blocked it have been resolved. This ties into revisions, so these two teams will be working very closely together soon.
  • Post formats have the beginnings of a UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. in trunk. The current conversations have focused on theme and content compatibility. As in: what should the new theme template APIs look like? How should a theme declare support for these new “structured” post formats? How can we handle metadata-driven posts in older themes? How can we handle older posts without metadata in newer themes? Lots more going on here, stay tuned. #19570 #23347.
  • Menus implemented some changes to the user experience for when the theme registers at least one menu location and the user has yet to create a menu. Very rough so far. More changes are being considered. #23119.
  • Slashing changes hit coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. If you’re running trunk, it is quite the bumpy ride. We have been evaluating the original approach, and plan to make some major changes to it come next week in order to alleviate the many problems. #21767.
  • Icons and admin UI… Icons hit core a few weeks ago; an initial pass at removing gradients to “flatten” the admin has also landed. More conversations and adjustments to follow. #23415 #23333.
  • Editorial flow was dropped. This consisted of a small (but cool) feature, essentially allowing a user to submit a pending change to an already published posts. Unfortunately, the heavy overlap with both revisions and autosave, along with a number of other architectural concerns, made it impractical for now. (This team was also working on some 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. development, basically beefing up custom post status support, which didn’t end up having to do with the feature, and is still being considered.)

Feature freeze and 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 are scheduled for Wednesday, March 13, about three weeks away.

#core

Support Team Update 19th February

Last Week

  • Working on the training stuff (how to be a better forum supporter etc 😉 )

Codexy:

  • wp_query_posts – Good, bad, the devil? How can we teach people to do_it_right

New Bugs/woes:

  • MultisiteMultisite Multisite is a WordPress feature which allows users to create a network of sites on a single WordPress installation. Available since WordPress version 3.0, Multisite is a continuation of WPMU or WordPress Multiuser project. WordPress MultiUser project was discontinued and its features were included into WordPress core.https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network.: More people havign issues with the /network/ URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org breaking when they install WP in a subfolder
  • Multisite: Upgrades imply(?) people should change the .htaccess, but that breaks /files/
  • Multisite: Is there a better way to explain the differences in .htaccess and uploads locations, and how that all changed?
  • Mapping domains vs parking vs addons are complicated. We need a better explanation for all that
  • Latest htaccess hack (see sucuri’s post for a good example)
  • Pharma hack – is this the only one that edits the DB?

This Week

MASSIVE changes in Trunk for those who are testing. The reason support should know about all this is cause … well, we’ll get the nasty grams 😉 We need to keep up on issues with:

  • Post Formats. How’s the UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. working out?
  • Menus. Again, UI?
  • Stripslashes. What plugins are broken?

I’m sure I’m missing some new bug woes, so I’d really like if people can help out with pointing these out 🙂

  • “Moderators” in IRC. Need to work with Jen on that!

#irc, #sfd, #support

Plugins Directory Team Update for 02/18/13

Highlights from the week:

  • Email backlog mostly cleared!

Plugins Directory stats for the last week:

  • Requested : 155
  • Rejected : 56
  • Closed: 29
  • Approved: 166
  • Commits by 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 authors: 3,286
  • Currently in the request queue: 65 (14 older than one week; 27 with no replies)

Plugins support email stats for the last week:

  • New: 123 (123 closed, 0 still open)
  • Currently open: 8 (3 with no activity in the last week)

#plugins