Open Update Thread, Week of December 8th

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Ryan Boren 4:40 pm on December 8, 2014

Thinking on adminadmin (and super admin) menus and 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 admin UIUI User interface. Does paring down the admin menu, removing all submenus, introducing a blogblog (versus network, site) switcher (Grand Unified Context Keeper), and introducing a reader view sound like fun? If so, let’s make some plugins. 🙂
Kim Parsell 4:56 pm on December 8, 2014

I’m working on the 4.1 version page. 🙂
Ryan McCue 1:53 am on December 9, 2014

Had two very productive discussions this week: theme dreams and rewrite improvements.

With theme dreams, we’re considering improving how templates and other files are loaded in themes. Right now, there’s all sorts of creative hacks to allow default templates for plugins, and coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. has its own hacks in the form of theme-compat. This currently just loads from the theme’s directory, and its parent. We’re centred on #22355 right now, to add support for registering new directories to be checked in the “stack”, which by default would just contain the theme, the parent theme, and core’s theme-compat. (Important note: this does not affect the template hierarchy. There are no plans to change that.) There’s quite a few subtle issues here, but we’ve been having productive discussions and making progress. Join in!

With the rewrite improvements discussion, we’ve been discussing the pain points of rewrites in WordPress. This includes stuff like flushing, interoperability with other plugins, and limitations of the rewrite system. We’re also taking a look at what rewrites in WordPress should move towards, given the wider changes in the ecosystem. We’ve got some small improvements on #30501, and we’re working on tackling some of these bigger ideas in a plugin for now. If you care about rewrites, we’d love your feedback. 🙂
- Ryan McCue 1:55 am on December 9, 2014
  
  Psst: Thanks to @joostdevalk, @johnjamesjacoby, @mboynes, @georgestephanis, @obenland, and all those who dropped in on the conversation. 🙂
Paal Joachim Romdahl 11:25 pm on December 9, 2014

I apologize for throwing this into an update thread but I thought why not….
What about adding Auto updates to the Dashboard Updates screen to make it possible to click checkboxes for auto updating WordPress Major versions, Themes and plugins? I msg’ed through Facebook Gary Pendergast – @pento asking about adding his Advanced Automatic Updates 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. He mentioned that he had thought about it but have not had the time to make it happen. So I am throwing out the idea right here for other developers to pick up on. I do video lessons and UIUI User interface stuff and am thinking of creating a few wireframes on ideas for adjusting a few areas of the backend of WordPress…..
- Gary Pendergast 11:33 pm on December 9, 2014
  
  Adding UIUI User interface for selecting individual plugins/themes to auto-update is something I’ve thought about for the AAU 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 – it’s probably not an option for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
  
  In the same way that there’s no UI for selecting what you want to update in Chrome, the eventual goal is to provide the same experience in WordPress. AAU is something I’ve used for getting feedback on the auto-update experience, it includes a bunch of different options to see what people prefer. It definitely shouldn’t be seen as an indicator of how things will look in core. 🙂
  
  If you have thoughts on changing how the WordPress Dashboard looks, I’d encourage you to jump into the #design channel in 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/. – there are a bunch of people who’d be happy to discuss ideas with you!
  - Paal Joachim Romdahl 9:57 pm on December 11, 2014
    
    I am creating an article in regards to auto updating WordPress, themes, plugins and translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. files. Mentioning your 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 and Update Control by George and Chip.
    
    I also found the codex page https://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates
    that seems a bit cryptic in regards to adding code to wp-config.php for only the development, Major and Minor version of WordPress. No mention of code to add to wp-config for updating themes, plugins and translation files. But it does mention using filters and that these should not be added to wp-config.
    
    I have found two highly popular web sites that mentions the filters code in connection with wp-config, and I bet that there are also other sites that mention the same thing. This means a cleanup of the automatic Background codex page is needed. Hopefully someone reading these words has the skills to make the information on that page straight forward and easy to read.

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