Hi Everyone! It’s time for another update. This edition covers through Sunday, June 15th, and has taken a while due to travel, but @swissspidy & @designsimply have joined the team, helping to gather the information to bring us up to date. Hopefully this will help these updates be a bit more sustainable over time. If you’re interested in pitching in with these updates as well, please let me know in the comments below!
Especially of note are the first pass of the grid view for the media library, several SSL Secure Sockets Layer. Provides a secure means of sending data over the internet. Used for authenticated and private actions. and oEmbed updates, and a new ‘Beta 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. Testing’ tab on the Plugins screen.
Admin (and super admin)
- Plugins Screen: Add a new ‘Beta Testing’ tab on the plugin 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 installation screen, for features as plugins such as Press This. [28749] #28513
- Media Library: Grid view for the media library, first pass. This is alpha; expect imperfection to start. [28682] #24716
SSL
- Forcing SSL logins now forces SSL for the entire admin. [28609] #10267
- Force SSL on the frontend when the home URL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org uses HTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information.. [28610] #27954
- Force SSL admin when
siteurl is explicitly configured with HTTPS. [28674] #27954
- Use a secure
logged_in_cookie when the home URL is forced HTTPS. [28627] #15330
- Deprecate
url_is_accessable_via_ssl(). [28709] #19555
Embeds
- Read
src attribute for the [embed] shortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site. if the shortcode body is empty. [28559] #24456
- Add “edit” mode for
[embed] and URL media previews. [28752] #28532
- New
wp_embed_register_handler to catch bad YouTube URLs and try correct them. [28652] #24660
- Add oEmbed support for:
- Update SlideShare oEmbed regex. [28597] #28380
- Remove Viddler oEmbed support. [28596] #28379
- Make it simpler for plugins to register MCE views. [28680] #28458
- Set
shortcode equal to the passed type from default args when calling wp.mce.views.register(). [28689] #28458
- Improve handling of embed errors/error messages. [28754] #28195
Themes and Templates
- Add a filter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. to
human_time_diff() to allow more detailed depictions of time differences. [28670] #27271
- Allow simple modification of sections of the title by adding a
wp_title_parts filter to wp_title(). [28669] #17877
- Add CSS Cascading Style Sheets. rules to ensure that videos will be responsive, regardless of theme. [28650] #28414
- Replace
TEMPLATEPATH and STYLESHEETPATH with get_template_directory() and get_stylesheet_directory(). These constants are now deprecated [28563] #18298
- Update Twenty Thirteen and Twenty Fourteen to Genericons 3.0.3. [28692] [28693]
Accessibility 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)
- Improve keyboard accessibility for the media modal. [28607] #23560
- Add screen reader labels to the date inputs on the post editing screen. [28730] #25461
WP_Query
- When parsing the main query, if
s is set to empty: ?s= and $this->is_main_query() && array_key_exists( 's', $this->query ) – kill the query instead of loading the homepage. This will load the search page with no results. [28612] #11330
- Kill queries that explicitly pass empty arrays to
category__in, tag__in, tag_slug__in, and author__in to WP_Query. [28664] #28099
- Fix SQL generation when
meta_query has an 'relation' => 'OR' for its queries and wants to 'orderby' => 'meta_value'. [28659] #25538
- Allow users to sort posts by type in
WP_Query. [28605] #28214
- Add access modifiers to
WP_User_Query Add magic methods for BC: get(), set(), isset(), unset(), and call(). [28528] #27881, #22234
Internals
- Wide-reaching changes to do away with many instances of variable-variables. See #27881 for full list of changes.
- Eliminate use of
extract() within WordPress. #22400
- Fix curly quotes around numbers when applicable. [28721] #8775
- Only include relevant post authors in WXR exports. [28731] #20206
- Append the date to
$wp_version in the build output, for nightly packages. [28611] #26751.
- Update
wp_insert_comment() and wp_new_comment() with a check for successful database insert. [28672] #28254
- Use
get_pages() instead of a raw SQL query in get_body_class(). [28696] #28159
- Pre-populate the selected URL or
mailto:<email-address> when “Insert/edit link” is clicked. [28705] #19992
- Live update the menu item title when the user is editing the “Navigation Label” field. [28707] #23076
- Deprecate
get_all_category_ids(). Suggest get_terms() as a replacement. [28679] #21200
- Deprecate
like_escape() and replace with $wpdb->esc_like(). [28711] #10041
- Redirect
edit.php?post_type=attachment to upload.php to avoid an empty list table. [28729] #27951
Formatting
- Add new function
wp_spaces_regexp() to filter for common whitespace characters. [28708] #27588
- Treat
like whitespace by using wp_spaces_regexp() instead of raw regex. [28716] #27588, [28717] #27587, [28718] #23185
- In
wptexturize(), ensure that texturization does not corrupt contents of HTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. elements, HTML comments, and smartcode attributes. Adds a variety of unit tests/assertions. [28727] #27602, #12690, #8912
- Various updates to
wptexturize() in [28719] #19308, [28725] #22823, [28726] #20342
- Allow user to disable texturization. [28715] #19550
TinyMCE:
- Update TinyMCE to 4.0.28. [28606] #28391, #27941
- In iOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads., fix placing the caret at the bottom of longer posts when the keyboard is open and disable resizing on switching editors and on show/hide of the kitchen sink When using the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor in WordPress, you can expand the capabilities to allow more options. This expanded area is called the "Kitchen Sink." row. [28626] #28242
- Fix problems with undo/redo after resizing an image several times. [28614] #28389
- Fix saving the editor content on switching from Visual to Text. [28576] #28353
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Thanks to @swissspidy & @designsimply for their help with compiling this post.
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