PHPUnit Compatibility and WordPress Versions

WP | PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher Version 8.5 8.4 8.3 8.2 8.1 8.0 7.4 7.3 7.2 7.1 7.0 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.3 5.2 7.0 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 6.9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 6.8 […]

Formal deprecation of some unused Customizer classes in WordPress 5.4

WordPress 4.9 deprecated the WP_Customize_New_Menu_Control and WP_Customize_New_Menu_Section PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher classes and wp.customize.Menus.NewMenuControl 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 […]

Dev chat summary, May 5, 2020

@davidbaumwald facilitated the chat with this agenda. @sageschilling wrote this summary. @marybaum edited. Announcements and highlighted posts CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, […]

Release Model Working Group Chat Summary: February 19th, 2020

This is the Summary of the Release Model Working Group Chat in #core on Slack at 20:00 UTC! Folks are welcome to check out the agenda and Slack archive for this week’s meeting. Here is a recap of the last meeting, as well. Thank you to @mikeschroder for doing the peer review on this summary! […]

Register theme feature API

Themes use the add_theme_support APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. to declare support for a particular theme feature. For instance, add_theme_support( ‘align-wide’ ) declares that a theme supports the wide alignment feature. When the […]

X-post: 5.0 Release Retrospective Kickoff

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WordPress 5.0 Release Day!

Welcome to the WordPress 5.0 release day, everyone! It’s currently a chilly -2°C here in Nashville, we’re going to keep everyone toasty and warm with a shiny WordPress release, and a new jazz artist to dance along to! The current plan is to start the release process at , in the #core channel in the […]

Media 5.0 Guide

The blockBlock Block 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. […]

WordPress 5.0 Field Guide

WordPress 5.0 is officially the best WordPress 2018 has seen!  Users will be empowered with new and exciting tools to create to create truly unique sites while developers can to take advantage of 10 enhancements and features added.  Let’s look at the many improvements coming in 5.0… Heard of GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new […]

New 5.0 Target Date

Based on the stability, testing, and reports on the release candidates for WordPress 5.0 so far, we are now targeting Thursday December 6th for public release and announcement. 5.0.1 will open for commits soon, and will be an area people can choose to focus on at the contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently […]