The WordPress coreCoreCore 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 bugbugA 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.
@audrasjb@jeffpaul will be coordinating some bugbugA 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. scrubs to help achieve this goal. Anyone else with contribution bandwidth is asked to focus on this list leading up to RCrelease candidateOne of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta).. If you currently own any tickets in this list, please work on those tickets and ensure they are accurate and ready.
Anyone is welcome to lead a bug scrub! If you have time and are interested in leading one during the next 13 days, please reach out to @chanthaboune, @audrasjb, @jeffpaul, or @desrosj.
Dev Notesdev noteEach important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase.
Please keep an eye out for 5.2 dev notes. @earnjam is coordinating these for 5.2. If you have a change that you feel warrants a dev notedev noteEach important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase., please reach out to him.
Since the last dev chat, the following note was published:
Also, please refer to the most recent “What’s New in Gutenberg?” post for details on the features and changes that will be included in 5.2. The updated packages will be published to NPM and a ticketticketCreated for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. on TracTracAn open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. will be opened to merge them into trunk.
@pento noted his appreciation for the great feedback on the proposed coding standards changes. He is planning on sorting through all of the comments in the coming week.
@jorbin noted that the public announcement for the PHPPHPThe web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher minimum version bump went out on Monday. It’s happening! 🎉
@kadamwhite mentioned that the REST APIREST APIThe 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/. and Mobile teams are collaborating on a feature pluginFeature PluginA plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. for JWT authentication to allow mobile apps to communicate to GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Endpoints. Those interested should check out the GitHub repository, or join the weekly REST API meetings at 18:00 UTC on Thursdays in the #core-restapi room on the Making WordPress Core Slack instance.
The next CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. dev chat will be held on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 @ 20:00 UTC. Please make sure to note the time as it changed this week to account for daylight savings.
