PHP Meeting Recap – April 16th

This recap is a summary of our previous PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher meeting. It highlights the ideas and decisions which came up during that meeting, both as a means of documenting and to provide a quick overview for those who were unable to attend.

You can find this meeting’s chat log here.

Chat Summary

• After some back and forth of discussing the color of the widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. title border, we decided that we should go for a contextual coloring for now: orange (as a warning color) for outdated sites, and red (as an error color) for insecure sites. However, only after the meeting, we realized that there would hardly be any occasion for us to show the orange warning-type bar.
• It is important to not rely on color alone for conveying information, for accessibilityAccessibility 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) reasons.
• We agreed that the efforts to make the widget less visually jarring should avoid downplaying the sense of alarm too much, as that defeats the purpose.
• The wording of the widget was rediscussed again. However, the result was confusing because not everyone was referring to the most recent state of the widget. We finally didn’t budge from what was concluded last week: the editorial version is good with the exception of the word “guarantee”.
• We discussed adding a visual symbol, like an exclamation mark, that provides more of a visual cue than the red border. I’ve added a new path with screenshots to the 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. that does just that:This also makes the widget still quite noticeable when collapsed.

Next week’s meeting

• Next meeting will take place on Monday, April 23th, 2018 at 15:00 UTC in #core-php.
• Agenda: Discuss latest version and the use of the exclamation mark symbol.
• If you have suggestions about this but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account.

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