Possible tasks for WP 3.9

During last week’s dev chat, we decided on a schedule. We also chatted about a major focus in 3.9 on improving workflow for new and current contributors alike. If there are further suggestions on changes we can make to workflow to make coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. easier to contribute to, let us know.

Below is a rundown of what features/enhancements/ideas were discussed as possible for 3.9, including potential volunteers to take point on different tasks. This is all tentative. Thanks @DH-Shredder for compiling this.

In today’s chat, let’s continue to build this out. If you have something you’d love to work on during the release, join us!

Widgets

There are two 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.-related feature plugins to review: Better Widgets and Widget Customizer. Decisions on what we’re merging should come by next week, per the schedule. Expect a post from @shaunandrews soon explaining both and requesting help reviewing them.

TinyMCE improvements (@azaozz, @gcorne, @lgladdy)

• TinyMCE 4 inclusion and troubleshooting
• Improving editing/positioning images after insertion into the editor

Editor-related media improvements

• Bringing the image editor into the media manager (@melchoyce, @johnbillion)
• Allow a user to drop an item for upload on the post screen. This would then open the media modal (as an initial first step).

A better themes experience, part 2 (@matveb)

• Taking our new experience to the theme installer (this may be started as a 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)
• Supporting multiple screenshots, left out of 3.8
• Backbone routing and subview backend improvements

Improved audio/video support (@wonderboymusic) (see this post)

• Playlists, subtitles, metadata generation
• Media manager documentation

JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. and CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets.

• wp-admin.css split (@jorbin, @helen) (see this post)
• Merging colors.css into other CSS files (@helen)
• Grunt tool for patches (@jorbin)
• Inline JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. documentation using JSDoc (@jorbin)

Miscellaneous

• Adminadmin (and super admin) settings audit (@jenmylo, @melchoyce)
• Various multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site improvements TBD (@jeremyfelt)
• Start the taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. roadmap (@nacin, @wonderboymusic) (see this post)

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