Devchat meeting summary – February 3, 2021

Notes from the WordPress developers chat on 3 February 2021.

A Week in Core – February 1st, 2021

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 […]

CSS Chat Summary: 21 January 2021

The meeting took place here on Slack. @notlaura facilitated and @danfarrow wrote up these notes (I’m trying a more bullet-pointy format this time – hope you like it!) Housekeeping @kburgoine has volunteered to lead next week’s bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. […]

A Week in Core – December 28, 2020

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 […]

A Week in Core – December 14, 2020

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 […]

Editor chat Summary: 11 November, 2020

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting agenda. Held on in Slack. Moderated by @paaljoachim. WordPress 5.6 Upcoming Release WordPress 5.6 Beta 3  (betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally […]

What’s new in Gutenberg? (4 November)

This is the first GutenbergGutenberg The 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/ release that is not going to be included entirely in […]

CSS Chat Summary: 22 October 2020

The meeting took place here on Slack. @danfarrow (me!) facilitated, standing in for @notlaura. Housekeeping There were no housekeeping items this week. CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Audit (#49582) @ryelle reminded us that we have a basic report available on Github. General feedback on the content would be welcome! @kburgoine posited adding a link to the […]

What’s new in Gutenberg? (30 September)

GutenbergGutenberg The 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/ 9.1 is out with almost 200 commits and 77 contributors! The main focuses for […]

CSS Chat Summary: 2nd July 2020

Full meeting transcript on Slack: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/CQ7V4966Q/p1593723636063300 I (@notlaura) facilitated the meeting. CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Audit Updates @danfarrow made some formatting updates on the Google doc containing the audit data, and added an image of the longest selector on a mug: Brilliant! @isabel_brison added an audit of z-index values to the list as well. Color […]