Opening a Ticket

Overview This article will walk you through the process of opening a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. on Trac. Getting Started Trac requires that you log in with your WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you […]

Potential roadmap for multisite: Subdirectories, subdomains, open registration, and domain mapping

Following up on the potential roadmap for terms and taxonomy meta, here is a potential roadmap for multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, […]

The student application period opens on Monday For…

The student application period opens on Monday. For the record, here is the GSoC timeline between now and the end of the program: March 28, 19:00 UTC Student application period opens. April 8, 19:00 UTC Student application deadline. Interim Period: Mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals; where necessary, mentoring organizations may request further proposal […]

Unblocking WP6.5 – Font Library and Synced Pattern Overrides

A number of contributors have flagged a stalemate on a couple of different topics for WP6.5 this week. I want to first thank everyone who joined in the discussions on GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories […]

WordPress 6.5 adds AVIF support 

WordPress 6.5 supports AVIF, a modern image format that offers significant improvements in image quality and compression over previous formats like JPEG, PNG, and even WebP.  AVIF images can be up to 50% smaller than JPEGs while maintaining the same image quality. AVIF images also support a wide range of colors (including HDR) and produce […]

New Commit Message Requirements in Git: Hello Props Bot

Note: This post was updated to correct the format used in one example and remove references to the wapuu w.org username (not officially associated with the project). A note was also added under a list saved as a synced pattern to indicate the contents of the list may change over time. 2/2/2024 – @desrosj In […]

Contributor Attribution (“Props”)

One of the greatest things about 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. is that contributions come in many shapes and sizes. Anyone can contribute regardless of skill […]

Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2024 Edition

Nominations for the WordPress Core Team Reps: 2024 Edition

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Summary Hallway Hangout Triage Gutenberg Extensibility Issues

On November 10th, 2023 Gutenberg contributors met in a Hallway Hangout to discuss the best ways to triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. the Extensibility Issues for inclusion into 6.5 or later version of WordPress.  TL;DR  The action items from this meeting are: […]