This Week in 4.6: May 16 – May 22

Welcome!

The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

Found a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.? Create a ticket in the bug tracker.

Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.

Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

This is the jump-start post for the fourth week of the WordPress 4.6 release cycle.

Tickets seeking feedback:

#36217: WP_Post_Type
#36492: WP_Post_Status
#36224: WP_Taxonomy
#35791: WP_Site_Query
#35381: WP_Term_Query
#34391: CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.: Replace margin-top hacks with CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. transforms
#36335: CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. autoloader proposal

Meetings this week:

Bug Scrubs

I18N Component Bug Scrub at Tuesday, May 17, 2016,18:00 UTC in #core-i18n

4.6 Feature Chats

Fields API Weekly Chat at Monday, May 16, 2016, 20:00 UTC in #core-fields
Shiny Updates at Tuesday, May 16, 2016, 19:00 UTC in #feature-shinyupdates

Weekly Chats

Notable updates from last week:

#4-6, #jump-starts