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.
The agenda for the first dev chat after the seasonal break is below. The meeting takes place on the CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. channel of the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. on January 10, 2024 at 20:00 UTC .
(Update: 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/ testing requests have been added under the Releases heading.)
Posts during the break were highlighted in the following post. Many of the items in that post are still relevant, including a reminder that the core team repTeam RepA Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. nomination period had been extended until January 12, 2024 at 23:59 UTC, to give more time for Core contributorsCore ContributorsCore 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. to consider and nominate other contributors and/or themselves. Nominations post for 2024 core team reps.
On TracTracAn open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between January 1 and January 8, 2024:
19 commits
20 contributors
26 tickets created
2 tickets reopened
21 tickets closed
Phase 3, agency outreach recap@s1m0nd on an outreach exercise to enterprise WordPress agencies specializing in enterprise projects, inviting them to a series of informal show-and-tell sessions.
Update from the Developer Blogblog(versus network, site)
To volunteer or ask further queries, comment on the GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ tickets linked. If you need further assistance, post a message in the in the #core-dev-blog channel.
Core-editor update
Props to @annezazu for this update from January 2, 2024.
Design tools: early draft PR to add backgroundSize feature with implicit repeating backgrounds to add more functionality to the Group blockBlockBlock 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.’s background image support that was added in 6.4.
Performance: loads of recent performance improvements particularly from ellatrix (too many to link to) with more to come that should greatly improve both the post and site editor experience. Please share feedback as these fixes and enhancements land!
RevisionsRevisionsThe WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision.: integrate style book into revisions, show change summary on selected item, and add pagination all recently merged.
Pattern overrides (new working name for the previous partial sync patterns): the UXUXUser experience of the experience is being established and refined with the PR to edit source pattern in focus mode in post editor.
Work continues to align page editing features in Site and Post Editor with the latest update here.
Appearance tools for classic themes: work has been completed to resolve outstanding problems resulting in a new trac ticket opened to re-enable support.
Next major releasemajor releaseA 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.: 6.5
WordPress 6.5 Roadmap: a few features are already available in Gutenberg pluginPluginA 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 and could use some testing and feedback (the links below are tracking issues)
