Welcome back to a new issue of Week in Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Let’s take a look at what changed on Trac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between January 4, 2021 and January 11, 2021.
- 10 commits
- 19 contributors
- 64 tickets created
- 6 tickets reopened
- 41 tickets closed
Ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. numbers are based on the Trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.
Code changes
Bootstrap/Load
- Add missing
<p>
tags to error message in wp-load.php
– #52254
Customize
- 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): Add an empty
alt
attribute to the <img>
tag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) used as a hidden placeholder in the Customizer 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. preview when no logo is chosen – #51846
Docs
- Correct description for
wp_parse_list()
– #51800
Editor
- Support filtering arguments in block Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. type registration from metadata – #52138
Help/About
- Accessibility: Use more descriptive link text for the Privacy Policy link on the Privacy screen – #52233
Login and Registration
- Introduce the
lostpassword_user_data
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. which allows for the user data object during a password reset request to be filtered – #51924
Posts, Post Types
- Introduce the
wp_list_table_show_post_checkbox
filter which allows the visibility of the bulk edit checkbox on the post list table to be controlled separately from the edit_post
capability of the current user – #51291
Privacy
- Clarify the “Contact information” heading in default privacy policy content – #52272
Quick/Bulk Edit
- Aaaand our best commit message of the week so far, by @johnbillion (read the full commit message here) 😂
By the power vested in me, I hereby declare the top bulk actions and the bottom bulk actions joined forever in MatrimonyScript – #46872
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/.
- Fix fatal error on 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 when calling the single item plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party routes – #52205
Props
Thanks to everyone who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week:
@audrasjb (4), @mukesh27 (2), @shital-patel (1), @marcelo2605 (1), @carike (1), @hareesh-pillai (1), @pbiron (1), @garrett-eclipse (1), @subrataemfluence (1), @clayray (1), @sabernhardt (1), @swissspidy (1), @TylerTork (1), @laxman-prajapati (1), @alexstine (1), @coreyw (1), @oakesjosh (1), @TimothyBlynJacobs (1) and @johnjamesjacoby (1).
Please welcome our 2 new Core contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org. of the week ♥️
@TylerTork and @coreyw.
Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (5), @johnbillion (3), @timothyblynjacobs (1), @and @gziolo (1).
#5-6-1, #5-7, #week-in-core