Servehappy: Roadmap Update and Priorities

At WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2018, representatives from different teams got together to discuss the state of the Servehappy project, […]

Feature Project: Servehappy

The servehappy project is an initiative that seeks to educate WordPress site owners about the value of having the latest version of PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher powering their WordPress site. This supports the overall goal of increasing the percentage of WordPress installs […]

Servehappy Roadmap

The group of people in the #core-php channel has been discussing and planning a project codenamed “servehappy” for some time now. We are at the point where we think that our plan has matured enough to present it to a bigger WordPress audience, in the hopes that we can get buy-in from more people to […]

Dev chat Meeting Summary: 17 Feb 2021

Notes from the Dev-chat meetings on the WordPress.org on 17 February 2021.

WordPress and PHP 8.0

Update on November 24, 2020: Added a call out in the “Strict type/value validations for internal functions” section that there are still scenarios where WP CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. could potentially pass invalidinvalid A resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common […]

Proposal: Dropping support for old PHP versions via a fixed schedule

While most people here will probably mostly know me as a (PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher) developer, I actually have a background in business studies, so when Matt Mullenweg reached out to me to continue the conversation about WordPress dropping support for older […]

Proposal: Update all git repositories to use `trunk` instead of `master`

The WordPress open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. community cares about diversity. We strive to maintain a welcoming environment where everyone can feel included, by keeping communication […]

Devchat meeting summary – May 20, 2020

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Agenda for May 11th Site Health Meeting

The weekly Site Health meeting will be held on in #core-site-health on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. (a Slack account is required) During this past weeks dev chat, the item of moving the minimum PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is […]

WordPress and PHP 7.4

PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher 7.4 is in the final stages of its release cycle. As of the publish date of this post, version 7.4 RC3 has been released, and the final release of PHP 7.4.0 is scheduled for November 28, 2019. As […]