What’s new in Gutenberg (8 july)

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/ 8.5 has been released. This is the last pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece […]

CSS Chat Summary: 25th June 2020

Full meeting transcript on Slack: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/CQ7V4966Q/p1593118837002500 I (@notlaura) facilitated the meeting. CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. audit updates I added a summary comment with remaining items to the main CSS audit ticket, and confirmed with the group that we were in agreement to remove auditing CSS comments from the list. I also added property counts for […]

What’s new in Gutenberg (11 June)

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/ 8.3 has been released. The team continues iterating on two big projects -Full Site […]

CSS Chat Summary: 4th June…

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Chat Summary: 4th June 2020 Full meeting transcript on Slack: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/CQ7V4966Q/p1591304484223300 I (@notlaura) facilitated the meeting. Acknowledging Racial Injustice I didn’t feel comfortable leading our usual meeting without explicitly acknowledging the racial injustices that have lead to the Black Lives Matter protests in the US and around the world. I invited […]

Chat Summary: 23th April 2020…

Chat Summary: 23th April 2020 Full meeting transcript on Slack: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/CQ7V4966Q/p1587675646270300 I (@notlaura) facilitated the meeting. CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. audit updates No CSS audit updates this week. Color Scheming status update I proposed having this as a recurring agenda item since it is a long term and far reaching initiative – meeting attendees were […]

CSS Chat Summary: 19th March 2020

Full meeting transcript 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/.: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/CQ7V4966Q/p1584651672176800 I (@isabel_brison) facilitated the meeting.  CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. audit updates I tested some automated tools we might use for the audit and updated 49638 with my findings; @notlaura attended the […]

JavaScript Chat Summary: March 10, 2020

Below is a summary of the discussion from this week’s JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. chat […]

CSS Chat Summary: 13 February 2020

I (@isabel_brison) facilitated the meeting based on this agenda. Full meeting transcript on Slack First point: how to set standards for using CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. grid in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., especially regarding browser support I launched the question: why use […]

Alternate color schemes changes in WordPress 5.3.1

WordPress 5.3 added some noteworthy CSS changes to WordPress Admin. These changes also impacted alternate color schemes, especially concerning secondary buttons. Indeed, secondary button borders unexpectedly inherited their scheme’s primary color, which resulted in arguable visual aspect and poor readability for most color schemes. A bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance […]

Core editor chat summary November 6th, 2019

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting agenda here. Held on Wednesday, 6th November 2019 held in Slack, moderated by @karmatosed, notetaker: @itsjusteileen. Weekly Priorities WordPress 5.3RC4 WordPress 5.3 is currently scheduled to be released on November 12 2019, but we need your help to get there—if you haven’t tried 5.3 yet, now is […]