Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., covering changes [39530-39598]. Here are the highlights:
- 69 commits
- 39 contributors
- 143 tickets created
- 29 tickets reopened
- 100 tickets closed
Ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. numbers based on trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.
Code Changes
Administration
- Remove the WordPress version number from
readme.html. [39583] #35554
- De-Emphasise the minor (x.y.Z) version in
readme.html by including only the major version for the 4.7 branch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch".. [39582] #35554
- 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): Remove inappropriate content from the Edit Categories and Edit Tags screens headings. [39553] #26601
- Accessibility: Remove inappropriate content from the Edit Comments screen heading. [39552] #26601
- Accessibility: Remove inappropriate content from the Network (versus site, blog) screens headings. [39551] #26601
- Accessibility: Remove inappropriate content from the Menus screen heading. [39543] #26601
- Accessibility: Remove inappropriate content from the old Edit Media screen heading. [39542] #26601
- Accessibility: Remove inappropriate content from the Widgets screen heading. [39541] #26601
- Accessibility: Remove inappropriate content from the Edit User screen heading. [39538] #26601
- Accessibility: Remove inappropriate content from the Link Manager screens headings. [39537] #26601
- Accessibility: Remove inappropriate content from the Add Plugins screen heading. [39536] #26601
- Accessibility: Remove inappropriate content from the Plugins screen heading. [39535] #26601
- Accessibility: Remove inappropriate content from the Users screen heading. [39534] #26601
Bootstrap/Load
- Bootstrap: Re-initialize any hooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same. added manually by
object-cache.php.
Prior to 3.1 if a object cache dropin wanted to add actions, they needed to use $wp_filter directly. [39565] #39132
Build/Test Tools
- Facilitate SVN Subversion, the popular version control system (VCS) by the Apache project, used by WordPress to manage changes to its codebase. and Git Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/. being co-located in the same directory. [39577] #39245
- Remove some more randomness. [39556] #37371
- Reuse another fixture in the user capability tests. [39555] #38716
- Remove commented out tests that have existed in an unimplemented state since the dawn of the test infrastructure. [39554] #38716
Comments
Customize
- Prevent navigation in preview when clicking on child elements of preview links that have non-previewable URLs. [39584-39585] #39098
- Prevent edit shortcut from losing event handler after selective refresh. [39581] #27403, #39100
- Deprecate
page_home nav menu item starter content in favor of home_link; replace usage in Twenty Seventeen. [39561], [39575] #38615, #38114, #39104
- Allow (optional)
url parameter to be omitted in intercepted calls to history.pushState() and history.replaceState() in customize preview. [39547], [39574] #39175
- Trim whitespace for URLs supplied for
external_header_video to prevent esc_url_raw() from making them invalid A resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common in software development, sometimes also notabug) that indicates the ticket is not a bug, is a support request, or is generally invalid.. [39560], [39573] #38172, #39125
- Fix ability to shift-click on placeholder/pre-saved nav menu items in preview to focus on corresponding control. [39562], [39572] #39102
- Use selected user language for edit shortcuts in preview instead of site language. [39545], [39571] #39009
- Fix inability to delete nav menus by preventing
preview filters from being added during customize_save admin (and super admin) ajax request. [39558], [39570] #30937, #39103
- Prevent scrolling
custom_css textarea to top when pressing tab. [39557], [39569] #38667, #39134
- Use
esc_url_raw() instead of wp_json_encode() to eliminate extraneous slashes when outputting background image URL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org in CSS Cascading Style Sheets. url(). [39546], [39568] #22058, #39145
- Prevent single quotes (apostrophes) in
custom_css values from unexpectedly causing false positives for unbalanced character validation errors. [39559], [39567] #39218, #35395, #39198
- Collapse available nav menu items panel when clicking outside over preview or over existing items. [39548] #38953
External Libraries
- Libraries: Update zxcvbn from version 1.0 to 4.4.1 [39596] #31647
General
- Correctly detect trailing newline when prepending. [39592] #37082
- Remove most uses of create_function() [39591] #37082
- Taxonomy 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.: Correct the type for the first parameter of the
the_category 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.. [39530] #39130
Login and Registration
Media
- PDF Images: Avoid a PHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher Warning when attempting to process a file without an extension. [39580] #39195
Misc
- Bump the version in
package.json to 4.7.1 after [39576]. [39579] #
- The 4.7 branch is now 4.7.1-alpha. [39576] #
Options, Meta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. APIs
- Options: Prevent unnecessary SQL updates by
update_option. [39564] #38903
Query
- Docs: Correct param definition for
WP_Query::query(). [39550] #38963
REST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/.
- Add support for filename search in media endpoint. [39598] #39092
- Allow sending an empty or no-op comment update. [39597] #38700
- Do not include the
password argument when getting media items [39595] #38977
- Do not error on empty JSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. body [39594] #39150
- Treat any falsy value as
false in ‘rest_allow_anonymous_comments’. [39566] #39010
- Allow schema sanitization_callback to be set to null to bypass fallback sanitization functions. [39563] #38593, #39042
Role/Capability
- Tests: Use
wp_delete_user() during teardown to delete a single site’s user. [39590] #39065
- Multisite 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: Replace
is_super_admin() with manage_network in get_dashboard_url(). [39589] #39065, #37616
- Multisite: Handle capability check for removing oneself via
map_meta_cap(). [39588] #39063, #37616
- Multisite: Replace
is_super_admin() with update_core for update permissions. [39540] #39060, #37616
- Multisite: Remove redundant
is_super_admin() when checking for edit_others_posts. [39539] #39059, #37616
Taxonomy
- Use
get_term_link() instead of get_category_link() in get_term_parents_list(). [39593] #17069
- Restore the ability to use string-based
$args in wp_get_object_terms(). [39578] #39215
- Introduce
get_term_parents_list(). [39549] #17069
Themes
Toolbar
Users
- Style the super admin message on the user editing screen as a notice, not a success message. [39531] #39131
Thanks to @afercia, @boonebgorges, @bradyvercher, @celloexpressions, @chandrapate, @Christian1012, @david.binda, @dd32, @flixos90, @Hristo Sg, @iaaxpage, @jblz, @jnylen0, @joehoyle, @johnbillion, @jorbin, @JPry, @kafleg, @keesiemeijer, @ketuchetan, @kkoppenhaver, @obenland, @ocean90, @pento, @peterwilsoncc, @rachelbaker, @rafaehlers, @rmccue, @rockwell15, @salcode, @SergeyBiryukov, @sgolemon, @Shelob9, @sirbrillig, @sstoqno, @tomdxw, @tyxla, and @westonruter for their contributions!
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