I’m doing a talk at Open Source bridge…

I’m doing a talk at 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. bridge tomorrow/today on encouraging younger contributors. Can any/all contributors do me a favor and so we […]

Deadline for Open Source Bridge proposals is tomorrow…

Deadline for Open Source Bridge proposals is tomorrow. I went last year and there was no WordPress on the schedule, though a ton of attendees were WordPress users. It’s in Portland in June, Viper007Bond is in town, and you could visit locations from Portlandia to boot. Maybe a few people here will decide to submit […]

Open Agenda Item: #core-privacy and Gutenberg

The Difficulty: 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/ development happens on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation […]

X-post: External Linking Policy – Trusted Sources

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WordPress 5.4 – Open Call for Tickets

Since we have a plan for the next releases, it’s time for an open call for tickets! Although iterating and stabilizing the new 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 […]

WP5.3: Open Call for Tickets

As we were discussing plans for the next major releasemajor release A 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. in last week’s […]

X-post: Addition of new ‘wp_body_open’ hook.

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Idea: Uniform Resource Identifiers as an Alternative to Shortcodes

The idea is that any objects embedded in a post’s content have their own home and should be seen as separate resources. Data would be stored elsewhere. Examples https://example.com/resources/contact-forms/email-ella/ https://example.com/resources/charts/php-versions-wordpress/ https://example.com/author/iseulde/ https://example.com/galleries/yummy-chocolates/ https://example.com/surveys/wordpress-editor-2016/ https://external.com/some-map-or-form/ Object Types This approach could be good for: Forms such as contact forms, surveys and polls. Visualised data such as diagrams, charts, […]

Attributes for Resource Hints in 4.7

WordPress 4.6 added support for Resource Hints, a W3CW3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.https://www.w3.org/. specification that “defines the dns-prefetch, preconnect, prefetch, and prerender relationships of the HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used […]

Resource Hints in 4.6

Resource Hints is a rather new W3C specification that “defines the dns-prefetch, preconnect, prefetch, and prerender relationships of the HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. Link Element (<link>)”. These can be used to assist the browser in the decision process of which origins it should connect […]