Multisite Recap for the week of July 17th

Office Hours Recap

The agenda for this office hours meeting was to review the current state of the 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 roadmap and plan out how to complete it for publishing as an official document on the make blogblog (versus network, site).

The meeting’s chat log

Attendees: @desrosj, @earnjam, @feshin, @flixos90, @jeremyfelt, @jmdodd, @johnbillion, @maximeculea, @spacedmonkey, @stephdau, @stevenkword

Chat Summary:

  • @jeremyfelt shared a link to the draft roadmap document for review.
    • @desrosj suggested using 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 posts an example
    • We agreed that the roadmap should be broken up into specific sections for REST APIREST 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/., Internal APIs, and Implementation, with each of those sections having their own users, sites, and networks areas.
    • We will also need a section of the document dedicated to “bootstrap” or file organization and load order. See #40647, #40948, #29684, #40646
  • The first priority should be the REST and Internal APIs. Once those are in better shape, they can be used to make improvements to the multisite UXUX User experience/UIUI User interface and we can focus on the different networknetwork (versus site, blog) adminadmin (and super admin) screens that need attention.
  • Because networks are managed in widely varying ways, the primary goal of multisite should be to provide standardized data structures and low-level database APIs to support a range of network and multi-network implementations through plugins and custom code. The roadmap should reflect this philosophy.
  • We will need to discuss the “global” state (data spanning multiple networks) and make decisions on what should be implemented there. Right now users are the only global data, but even things like number of users are stored per-network and not globally.
  • Before getting too detailed on the actual roadmap document, we will spend the next few office hours meetings discussing specific items that will go into and affect the direction of the roadmap, including network metaMeta 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., global state, and some Internal APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. decisions (See #40180 and #40228)

The next office hours will take place on Tuesday 16:00 UTC. An agenda for it will be posted in advance.

Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. Scrub Recap

The agenda for this ticket scrub was to continue going through the list of multisite-related good-first-bug tickets for new contributors, review their status, and adjust keywords as necessary.

The meeting’s chat log

Attendees: @earnjam, @euthelup, @flixos90, @greatislander, @maximeculea

Chat Summary:

  • #40363Remove current_blog_ cache invalidation from clean_blog_cache()
    • Waiting for feedback from @jjj and @jeremyfelt over possible backward compatibility concerns with removing these
  • #41163: Display active theme name on Sites screen
    • This could make use of a wp_blogmeta table if it gets implemented, but in current form would require switch_to_blog() calls for each row in the list table.
    • Related to #40268
    • good-first-bug keyword removed since it will require further discussion across multiple tickets.
  • #41168: Identify the active theme when editing a site’s themes
    • Discussion revolved around disabling ability to disable the active theme to protect users from not being able to switch back after changing the theme.
    • Because of a possible inconsistency with network-enabled themes and a common paradigm of deprecating old themes by disabling them, the agreed upon suggestion was to only apply a label for the active theme and not change the enable/disable functionality.
  • #41166: .htaccess config should not be shown on network setup screen when NginxNGINX NGINX is open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It started out as a web server designed for maximum performance and stability. In addition to its HTTP server capabilities, NGINX can also function as a proxy server for email (IMAP, POP3, and SMTP) and a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP, TCP, and UDP servers. https://www.nginx.com/. is in use
    • Existing patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. is in good shape, but needs minor update to use $is_nginx global
    • Suggested updates to the codex for subdirectory/subdomain configuration
  • #41169: Inaccurate descriptive text when adding a new site
    • Slight verbiage change to patch suggested.
    • Patch has since been committed and ticket closed.

The next ticket scrub will take place on Monday 17:00 UTC. An agenda for it will be posted in advance.

If you were unable to attend one of these meetings but have feedback, please share your thoughts in the comments on this post. In case there’s a need for further discussion we will ensure to make time for it in one of next week’s chats. See you next week!

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