The WordPress coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:
Found a bugbugA bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.?Create a ticket in the bug tracker.
Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog(versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting in Slack.
We started implementing a suggestion we received over the last few months for two more content post types: Snippets and Videos. You can see a list of available snippets here. They are shorter posts and solve one particular task/problem. There is also a separate async meeting format for Snippet approval between the monthly meeting
Video CPT only has one post for now: the recording of Developer Hours: Improve your workflows with WordPress development tools. There is the hope that over the following months, we can start a design process to integrate those two additional custom post types more prominently on the developer blog.
The project board for Developer Blog content is on GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/.
How to build a theme demo with WP Playground blueprints (blocked by a bugbugA bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.)
@bph “After two years of leading the WordPress Developer Blog, it’s time for me to step back and let others take the reins! I’ve enjoyed creating and managing processes, running meetings, and working with all of you. However, due to other commitments, I need to pass the torch.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone (or a few someones!) to take on a leadership role within the WordPress open-source project. Here are some of the responsibilities involved:
Facilitate monthly meetings (tentatively shifting to 15:00 UTC).
Manage the editorial calendar and content pipeline.
Onboard and support new contributors.
Guide reviewers and writers through the review process.
Oversee content publishing, ensuring quality and adherence to standards.
By taking on this role, you’ll gain valuable leadership experience, contribute to a vital resource for WordPress developers, and expand your networknetwork(versus site, blog) within the community.
I am happy to announce that @marybaum has agreed to take on the project WordPress Developer blog. She is a long-time WordPress contributor on the coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team and a brilliant editor. I am very grateful to see the project in such good hands. Please support her as enthusiastically as you supported me in the project.
But, ideally, we’d have a few people sharing the responsibilities. If you’re interested, please contact me on WPSlack by January 23rd or leave a comment on the summary post of this meeting with a brief explanation of your relevant experience and why you’d be a good fit. (edited)
“In other news, I’d love to have someone (or multiple someones) to volunteer for the What’s new for developers? monthly roundup.
The goal was to always rotate this through various writers so that it would be written from different viewpoints. I’m writing the January 2025 edition, and I’m happy to onboard anyone for February 2025 and set up the doc (we have a reasonably standard formula for it at this point). I won’t be able to write this for February for sure and possibly afterward for a couple of months at least. Feel free to DM me, pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me here, or reply to the meeting summary post when it’s published if you’re interested in pitching in here
Upcoming meetings
Next Editorial Group meeting February 6th, 2025, at 15:00 UTC (!)📣
Next Async Snippet Approval meeting on January 22/23, 2025
Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog(versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting in Slack.
Last month’s disrupted GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ process is fixed again
Reminder: The January meeting to Jan. 9th, 2025 at 13:00 UTC, due to Holiday season.
How to build a theme demo with WP Playground blueprints (blocked by a bugbugA bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.)
Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog(versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting in Slack.
We started a new Content post type called Snippet. The first snippet was published and is available here. Snippet: Conditionally unregister patterns it also has two additional taxonomies: APIAPIAn 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. and Coding language, here: Patterns and PHPPHPThe web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher.
Thank you to @welcher who wrote the pluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party to enable the CPTs. It also includes the Video CPT that will be used for original Video content as well as Developer Hours posts, we discussed in earlier meetings.
For the short Snippets, a more streamlined approval process was suggested to test later this month:
There’ll be a short async meeting every other week with a list of potential snippets.
Voting will be open for two days from Wednesday morning UTC and until Thursday late afternoon UTC.
Snippets approval meeting is scheduled for November 20, 2024.
Our GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ process going from topic discussion to issue is temporarily broken due to GitHub BetaBetaA pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. Testing a new Issues module. They are aware of it and estimate that it will be fixed in a few weeks. Current work-around: copy/paste from discussion to new issue.
On the blog we also updated the the Educational Resources on the front page to the new Learning Path courses from the training team!
📣 We will move the January meeting to Jan. 9th, 2025 at 13:00 UTC, due to Holiday season.
Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog(versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting in Slack.
Congrats to @ajlendelende and @aljullu to receiving their Documentation Contributor badges for their contributions to the Developer Blog.
Call for contributors to take on What’s new for Developers roundup post for November? @greenshady@ndiego or I (@bph) will be right with you to guide you through the research as well as the writing part. If you want to take it on, come to the #core-dev-blog channel or DM either one of us.
The project board for Developer Blog content is on GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/.
If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to write about them, comment on the Issue or pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”@bph in Slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.
The topic idea Modifying text with the HTML API in WordPress 6.7 needs to simmer some more to see if there will be more elaborate examples coming in the next major WordPress version. Justin will bring it back to the October meeting should the topic deemed mature enough for a blog post.
Open floor
@greenshady inquired about the possibility of translating the content of the Developer blog into other languages. Currently, there isn’t a formal proposal for a process and tools. It’s worth exploring, though. It was stated that it’s complicated for Rosetta sites, and it might not be easy to translate. It would be better if the translationtranslationThe process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. can be put right into the adminadmin(and super admin). If there is someone who translated an article, we could publish it on the Dev Blog under “other languages” and once we have a critical mass, we can create categories for Spanish, German etc. The bigger issue than the technological implementation is the recruiting and onboarding of translators to be contributors.
@bph is to reach out to the training team, to learn about their process, as they are a few steps ahead in working with translators.
@greenshady will open an issue, where we can follow up on discussion and progress.
Next meeting: October 3rd, 2024, at 13:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel
Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog(versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting in Slack.
The project board for Developer Blog content is on GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/.
If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to write about them, comment on the Issue or pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”@bph in Slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.
The latter is part of the roll-out of video content type for the Developer Blog, proposed and approved during a meeting on July 4th, 2024: “The next step is that Ryan will submit an overview of all directives of the Interactivity APIAPIAn 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. and provide an example of the first video. It will also be the test drive of the suggested process from which we can iterate afterward.“
Next meeting: September 5, 2024, at 13:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel
Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog(versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting in Slack.
We now have a GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ team set up for Developer Blog Contributors. Every writer and reviewer will be part of it. That way, contributors can label issues, move them forward on the Project board and check off items from a Checklist, like the publishing checklist. We roll this out gradually, one contributor at a time.
The design team is also working on creating Figma templates for featured images for the blog, which will help standardize and simplify the process of creating featured images.
Newly published post since the last meeting:
Since the last meeting, we published four articles.
Since the last meeting, we published the following articles
If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to write about them, comment on the Issue or pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”@bph in slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.
The proposal to introduce video content was also discussed in more depth.
The production process is slightly different from the blog post process, as outlined in the proposal. That is also to make sure that an author doesn’t go through the production of a video and then have it not approved. The danger can be minimized by a multistep approval process of scrip and storyboard before production begins. A new creator could be asked to record a short section for review before going into full production, with opportunity to provide further feedback.
We won’t be able to provide video editing services, but other teams have some great guidelines and tips for creating videos, we can share with future video bloggers.
The proposal also outlines the need for branded assets for thumbnails, lower thirds and outro. We certainly collaborate with the design team, once there is bandwidth available.
The next step is that Ryan will submit an overview of all directives of the Interactivity APIAPIAn 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. and provide an example of the first video. It will also be the test drive of the suggested process from which we can iterate afterward.
To summarize: Video content is approved in principle, the details need to be ironed out. Thank you to Ryan for the great work on the proposal and volunteering to be the first video blogger.
Next meeting: August 1, 2024, at 13:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel
Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog(versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting in Slack.
The site has passed the first 1,000 subscribers Don’t want to miss the next blog post? Subscribe. And please share the links with your networknetwork(versus site, blog) as well. @webcommsat volunteered to submit an amplification request to the WordPress marketing team to celebrate the milestone with the community.
Newly published post since the last meeting:
Since the last meeting, we published four articles.
The project board for Developer Blog content is on GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/.
If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to write about them, comment on the Issue or pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”@bph in slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.
The WordPress Developer Survey – A regular survey could give “the whole project a lot of useful data” There were concerns about logistical challenges and needs further discussion with coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., the marketing team in its new media focus, and with Learn WP. The next step as identified as “to define the purpose of the survey, and what questions would be included/not included.” The discussion continues on GitHub
@webcommsat Inquired about topics schedule around the WordPress 6.6 release. There are a few posts already on the list or were just approved. As almost all topics are assigned to writers. Contributor’s bandwidth will determine the publishing timeline.
@colorful-tones has slightly changed the topic of his post he has been working on. It was originally thought to be an Interactivity APIAPIAn 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. tutorial, but as you can read in the issue he went a different route. It was concluded that “it’s still a valuable post for the Dev Blog”, “the new focus is still really useful” and “the underlying method doesn’t need to be the same as the originally proposed method”
Next meeting: July 4, 2024, at 13:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel
Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog(versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting in Slack.
A first look at the Interactivity API by Magdalena Paciorek, reviewed by Birgit Pauli-Haack, Luis Herranz, Carlos Bravo, Jon Surrell, Ryan Welcher, and Justin Tadlock
The project board for Developer Blog content is on GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/.
If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to write about them, comment on the Issue or pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”@bph in slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.
Topics closed
Learnings from two Site Migrations After consulting Jasmine, it was clear that her idea wasn’t suitable for the developer blog. I offered to assist her to publish some place else.
There were no clear approval signals, and it seems the topics still need to narrow down the proposal to clear problem statements and suggested solutions. The discussions continue.
Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog(versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting in Slack.
Authors reported a few hiccups with the code blockBlockBlock 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.. As soon as you wanted to attach a programming language for color coding, extraneous <br> tags appeared and rendered the code block useless. @ndiego, @greenshady and the #meta team are working on it to get this fixed asap.
Newly published post since the last meeting:
Since the last meeting, we published quite a list of articles, and we onboarded new writers and received support from more reviewers. Three first time writers with @meszarosrob, @jsnajdr and @beafialho Thank you! 🎉
If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to writer about them, comment on the Issue or pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”@bph in slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.
Some clarification on the Playground articles/topics:
We originally had the topic approved:How to build a theme demo with WP Playground blueprints Ronny took it on and wrote a fabulous Introduction/Overview of WordPress Playground. There was some discussion on how to proceed next. The consensus was that the Introduction post was a great post to have on the Developer Blog as each subsequent Playground tutorial could refer to it and doesn’t have to cover the basics anymore. Quite a few people from the Editorial group chimed in on the discussion and agreed to have it published. (note: the post is live now)
Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog(versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting in Slack.
Deleted “Learning” isn’t every article a learning experience?
Since the beginning in 2022, we keep categories very high level, and become more specific with Tags.
GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ Action: label notifier
For the roundup posts, people can get notified when the next issue is available to share their team’s notes with the writer to be included in the next What’s new for developers post. If people want to get GitHub notification, please let me know and I’ll update the GitHub Notifier Action.
Author Profile links
With the redesign, author links now go to the WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ profiles.
If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to writer about them, comment on the Issue or pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.”@bph in slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.
@webcommsat brought to the meeting, the discussion from last night’s dev chat meeting about the Proposal to improve the FieldguideField guideThe field guide is a type of blogpost published on Make/Core during the release candidate phase of the WordPress release cycle. The field guide generally lists all the dev notes published during the beta cycle. This guide is linked in the about page of the corresponding version of WordPress, in the release post and in the HelpHub version page. of the WordPress release, to see “what role the dev blog could possibly have in this as well as identifying what the blog already does and could do.
There is a wider discussion needed on communication and education of release features, but it would be good to start a more detailed discussion on potential and what is already aiding these areas within the dev blog. This can then feed into the wider considerations with other teams.”
@webcommsat: “The proposal now is not so much about a new version of a field guideField guideThe field guide is a type of blogpost published on Make/Core during the release candidate phase of the WordPress release cycle. The field guide generally lists all the dev notes published during the beta cycle. This guide is linked in the about page of the corresponding version of WordPress, in the release post and in the HelpHub version page. appearing in dev blog, but looking at where and how we communicate and educate on a release, and what is needed. With the increased ability to segment to different audiences across the project, this could be a great opportunity. Hence, the wider input from marketing, docs, training, community, and the dev blog.
Being clear what happens in the dev blog already, giving tangible live examples to help those less familiar with the blog materials, and what could be potentially done would be a real cake yo the discussion. With the segmentation, we have just in levels of developer knowledge, we can add a valuable insight too.”
@greenshady, @webcommsat also brought up concerns on ownership, availability of people during release time and bandwidth of contributors.
Next steps: @webcommsat suggested: a mapping exercise would help, and happy to try to start one we can add to with ideas. We can then add links to examples of what we have already published.
Action: After WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia, schedule a Hallway Hangout with contributors from the editorial group and other teams to kick off work on a basic content map for a release and pluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party existing efforts and identify gaps.
Next meeting: March 7, 2024, at 13:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel
Reminder: The January meeting to Jan. 9th, 2025 at 13:00 UTC, due to Holiday season.
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