A Week in Core – January 2, 2022

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Happy new year everyone! ♥️ Welcome back to a new issue of Week in CoreCore 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 TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between December 26 and January 2, 2022.

9 commits
10 contributors
25 tickets created
0 tickets reopened
6 tickets closed

It was of course a pretty quiet week 🙂

Ticketticket 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

Code Modernization

Rename parameters that use reserved keywords in phpunit/includes/class-wp-unittest-factory-for-attachment.php – #56788
Rename parameters that use reserved keywords in phpunit/includes/class-wp-unittest-factory-for-thing.php – #56788
Rename parameters that use reserved keywords in phpunit/includes/functions.php – #56788

Coding Standards

Add visibility to Tests_Dependencies::test_enqueue_before_register() – #56791

Docs

Remove the legacy example of passing a 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. to get_terms() – #57380

General

Networks and Sites

Mark required fields as such in New User Form – #38460

Tests

Bring some consistency to creating and updating objects in factory classes – #56793
Update the terminology used for filterFilter 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. names in tests_add_filter() – #56793

Props

Thanks to the 10 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @sergeybiryukov (4), @jrf (4), @aristath (3), @poena (3), @justinahinon (3), @sabernhardt (2), @jackreichert (1), @flixos90 (1), @afercia (1), and @ramon-fincken (1).

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (8), and @audrasjb (1).

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