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 June 6 and June 13, 2022.
- 27 commits
- 48 contributors
- 45 tickets created
- 10 tickets reopened
- 36 tickets closed
The Core team is currently working on the next major release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope., WP 6.1 🛠
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 and/or focus.
Code changes
Build/Tests Tools
- Add a unit test Code written to test a small piece of code or functionality within a larger application. Everything from themes to WordPress core have a series of unit tests. Also see regression. for PHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher 8.1 deprecation notice in
wp_user_settings() – #54914 - Correct an assertion in
wp_rand() tests – #55194 - Move helper functions in
Tests_Image_Functions to more appropriate places – #55652 - Move the tests for individual pluggable functions into their own directory – #55652
- Re-initialize
WP_Rewrite before running wp_list_authors() tests – #55652 - Rename classes in
phpunit/tests/option/ per the naming conventions – #55652 - Rename classes in
phpunit/tests/user/ per the naming conventions – #55652 - Rename the test file and class for
wp_list_authors() tests – #55652 - Use a consistent URL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org in HTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. response cookie tests – #51568
- Use more consistent wording when referring to PHP deprecation notices – #55652
- Use more descriptive names for
wp_rand() test methods – #55194
Bundled Themes
- Twenty-Twenty: Fix a width/alignement issue on “Wide Line” Separator style variation – #53643
- Twenty-Twenty: Fix paragraph 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. alignment issues when used on a RTL website – #49447
- Twenty-Twenty: Improve Quote block style consistency between front and back-end – #55931
Code Modernization
- Pass correct default value to
setcookie() in wp_user_settings() – #54914
Docs
- Correct method reference format in some DocBlocks – #55928
- Use third-person singular verbs for function descriptions in the
Core Translation API 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. – #55646 - Use typed array notation in some post function DocBlocks: – #55646
- Various fixes in
wp-includes/pluggable.php docblocks, as per documentation standards – #55646
General
- Ensure
wp_rand() returns 0 when $min and $max values are equal to 0 – #55194
Media
- Add
decoding="async" to image attributes – #53232 - Some documentation and test improvements for
wp_img_tag_add_decoding_attr() – #53232
Query
- Prime users cache in WP_Query and post 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/. controller – #55716
- Add a hook to 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. author full name from
wp_list_authors() – #17025 - Some documentation and test improvements for
update_post_author_caches(): – #55716
REST API
- Improve post cache priming in
WP_REST_Post_Search_Handler class – #55674
Text Changes
- Improve consistency of admin (and super admin) error notices in
wp-admin/options.php – #50785
Props
Thanks to the 48 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @audrasjb (5), @peterwilsoncc (4), @spacedmonkey (3), @jrf (2), @costdev (2), @sabernhardt (2), @TimothyBlynJacobs (2), @mlajo (1), @acoulombe (1), @azouamauriac (1), @swissspidy (1), @tobifjellner (1), @marekdedic (1), @SergeyBiryukov (1), @kjellr (1), @sergiomdgomes (1), @matthiaspabst (1), @amirkamizi (1), @mayankmajeji (1), @ianbelanger (1), @hasanuzzamanshamim (1), @kajalgohel (1), @iamjaydip (1), @whaze (1), @mukesh27 (1), @westonruter (1), @michaelbourne (1), @mitogh (1), @afercia (1), @shenyanzhi (1), @meysamnorouzi (1), @kevinB (1), @wonderboymusic (1), @DrewAPicture (1), @nacin (1), @Mte90 (1), @jorbin (1), @rafiahmedd (1), @mihai2u (1), @furi3r (1), @adamsilverstein (1), @ayeshrajans (1), @flixos90 (1), @hellofromtonya (1), @isaumya (1), @ocean90 (1), and @dd32 (1).
Congrats and welcome to our 6 new contributors of the week: @mlajo, @acoulombe, @matthiaspabst, @shenyanzhi, @meysamnorouzi, @isaumya ♥️
Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (16), @audrasjb (8), @spacedmonkey (2), and @peterwilsoncc (1).
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