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 December 14 and December 21, 2020.

• 41 commits
• 57 contributors
• 81 tickets created
• 12 tickets reopened
• 90 tickets closed

Now that WordPress 5.6 « Simone » was smoothly delivered to millions of people, the WordPress Core Team is quietly moving to WordPress 5.7.

Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. numbers are based on the Trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code changes

Build/Test Tools

• Build/Test Tools: Support the use of MariaDB in the local Docker environment – #51744
• Build/Test Tools: Run the Ajax test group 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, site – #46567
• Build/Test Tools: Generate a code coverage report using 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 are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ Actions – #52034

Bundled Themes

• Twenty Twenty-One: Do not specify `loading=“eager”` for single post thumbnails – #52139
• Twenty Twenty-One: Allow local anchor links to be used in primary navigation – #52006
• Twenty Ten: Correct `$post_title` variable name in `loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop.-attachment.php` – #52121
• Twenty Twenty-One: Clarify a sentence in `readme.txt` – #52120
• Twenty Nineteen: Add “Continue reading” link for post excerpts – #46177
• Twenty Twenty-One: Correct `since` inline documentation tags – #51958
• Twenty Twenty-One: Make text within code blocks readable in Dark Mode – #51985
• Twenty Twenty-One: Prevent `iframeiframe iFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is used inside a webpage to load another HTML document and render it. This HTML document may also contain JavaScript and/or CSS which is loaded at the time when iframe tag is parsed by the user’s browser.` embeds from being too narrow – #52004
• Twenty Twenty-One: Fix typos in some inline comments – #52071XML-RPC: Emit an appropriate HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. status code when an error is returned in response to an XML-RPC request – #48213

Docs

• Use a canonical form of “knowledgeable” in `readme.htmlHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers.` – #52125
• Fix typo in `getCursorMarkerSpan()` DocBlockdocblock (phpdoc, xref, inline docs) in `js/_enqueues/wp/editor/base.js` – #52128

Editor

• Fix improper triggering of the “Are you sure” prompt when navigating away from the old, “classic” Edit Post screen and there are no changes. Was
• Blocks: Align with 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/ the name of generated asset handle for core blocks – #50328

Feed

• Replace `join()` with `implode()` for safety – #51056
• Merge multiple headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. values to avoid fatal error – #51056

Mail

• Introduce a `pre_wp_mail` filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. to allow short-circuiting the `wp_mail()` function without having to override the pluggable function – #35069

Media

• Editor: Fix improper triggering of the “Are you sure” prompt when navigating away from the old, “classic” Edit Post screen and there are no changes. Was triggered when there is an instance of TinyMCE in the ExcerptExcerpt An excerpt is the description of the blog post or page that will by default show on the blog archive page, in search results (SERPs), and on social media. With an SEO plugin, the excerpt may also be in that plugin’s metabox. postbox – #52038
• Enable lazy-loading of iframes by adding the `loading=”lazy”` attribute to iframe tags on the front-end – #50756
• Uploads: Introduce the `{$action}_overrides` filter that allows the overrides parameter for file uploads and file sideloads to be filtered – #16849
• Fix the template for the “Align” and “Link To” fields in the media modal when inserting an image from URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org

Query

• Respect post-type specific capabilities when querying for multiple post types – #13509, #48968, #48556
• Ensure the author archive title always shows the name of the queried author, regardless of whether there are results – #44183

Props

Thanks to everyone who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week:

@mukesh27 (5), @poena (5), @SergeyBiryukov (4), @audrasjb (2), @johnbillion (2), @Mte90 (2), @azaozz (2), @sabernhardt (2), @flixos90 (2), @westonruter (1), @justinahinon (1), @slaFFik (1), @leogermani (1), @helen (1), @thorlentz (1), @laurelfulford (1), @ericmann (1), @kevin940726 (1), @rodrigosprimo (1), @jonathanstegall (1), @alex27 (1), @noisysocks (1), @david.binda (1), @litemotiv (1), @inc2734 (1), @NicolasKulka (1), @hellofromTonya (1), @mbabker (1), @skithund (1), @desrosj (1), @timothyblynjacobs (1), @mdrockwell (1), @davidbaumwald (1), @metalandcoffee (1), @swissspidy (1), @ryelle (1), @macmanx (1), @t-p (1), @aristath (1), @iandunn (1), @jakub.tyrcha (1), @nacin (1), @wonderboymusic (1), @DvanKooten (1), @jtsternberg (1), @ocean90 (1), @ericlewis (1), @birgire (1), @ayeshrajans (1), @Tkama (1), @subrataemfluence (1), @shahinsid07 (1), @voboghure (1), @gkibria69 (1), @garrett-eclipse (1), @netweb (1) and @manzurahammed (1).

Core committers: @desrosj (8), @sergeybiryukov (5), @johnbillion (4), @azaozz (2), @iandunn (2), @gziolo (1), @boonebgorges (1) and @flixos90 (1).

Thanks @annezazu for proofreading this post.

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