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Estela Rueda 1:12 am on January 13, 2022
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Dev chat summary: January 12, 2022

@webcommsat and @marybaum led the meeting on this agenda.

See the real-time chat in the Make WordPress Slack.

And last week’s notes are at Dev chat summary, January 5, 2021.

Announcements

WordPress 5.9 Release Candidate 2 has landed. Please download and test! Also, please feel free to share the package and invite your friends to test the release candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). for themselves.

Help test WordPress 5.9 features. You can test in general or find prompts for daily features to test in  #fse-outreach-experiment.

Also, share the details of the new features with your teams and networks – Read the latest Developer Notes

@nalininonstopnewsuk asked about testing deadlines and current focuses from a question from the marketing meeting. @hellofromtonya: Testing and feedback can be ongoing. But for regressions or bugfixes to land in the final release, these would need to be reported, fixed, and committed 24 hours before the final release, which is on 25 January 2022.

Blogblog (versus network, site) posts to note

A year in core (December 29, 2021)

What’s new in Gutenberg 12.3 release (5 January 2022)

A Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.: January 10, 2022

A reminder of the revised 5.9 release schedule.

Join the discussion on 2022 release planning (December 27, 2021 post by @chanthaboune). This is still open for discussion. No current closing date.

Proposal: Approving custom block pattern directory submissions (posted January 4, feedback by January 14, 2022)
Proposed changes to javascript coding standards for full prettier compatibility 

The 5.9 Field Guide brings together the developer notes about every change in the new release. It’s a must-read if you build themes or plugins!

Update on 5.9 release

@hellofromtonya:

First of all, thank you to everyone who has contributed to the 5.9 release.

The final release is in less than 13 days on 25 January and it is on track to release on that day. There are currently no blockers or red flags. Everyone has come together across Core and 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/ to make the revised schedule happen on time as promised.

Release Candidate (RC) 2 landed yesterday and is available for testing and feedback. Please, test test test test. Regressions and bugs introduced in the RC cycle are priority to find and fix before the final release. Your help is needed to test and report. 

When is the next release? Release Candidate 3 will be on 18 January 2022. You are all invited to join and actively participate in the release party.

As a reminder, 5.9 is in a hard string freeze. Any string changes must be critically necessary — and nearly unanimously agreed as such before they show up in the 5.9 package. Why? Translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. teams are working hard translating the release and in many cases, translations are done. String changes impact not only the translators but users. Please cautiously recommend string changes only where it’s critically necessary.

One more reminder, with 5.9 in RC, code changes require two core committers: one to review and approve the backportbackport A port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch. to 5.9 and the second to do the review and actual backport commit. Why? This is on purpose to make sure code changes are necessary and respect the release processes. With all that said, 5.9 is less than two weeks from full final release.

Additional updates

Last week, a security update, 5.8.3, arrived. @audrasjb also confirmed that updates dropped for older versions, from branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch". 3.7 to 5.8, to patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. the same issues.

Component Maintainers update

Until 5.9 final release on January 25, the team is skipping component updates unrelated to 5.9. If any maintainer has something to add, please add it to the comments.

Open Floor

The core team is looking for notetakers. The idea is to create a pool and encourage more contributors, and spread the responsibility around.
@webcommsat: at and after last week’s meeting, there was a discussion about the usefulness of an advance rota for people to volunteer to write summaries for dev chat.

Writing notes is a great way to review what is happening — and learn more about items you might be interested in. Some other teams find it easier to have a rota running a couple of weeks in advance, where people can volunteer in advance rather than just asking on the day.

And when you volunteer, you are not going it alone. There’s lots of help, you can ask questions just about anytime, and at least one other person will review and help with edits too.

Finally, the summaries are really helpful for people who cannot join the live meeting or are in different timezones, but who still want to be part of what’s happening in core. So it’s a really important task. It’s a great way to get involved and contribute!

Volunteers invited for notes on:
12 Jan – Estela
19 Jan –
26 Jan –
2 Feb –
9 Feb –

@davidbaumwald: Yeah, sometimes not everyone can make the meeting, so it’s tough to find volunteers. … One perk of writing notes: You get to become an author on Make WordPress/Core.

@estelaris commented that it is a great way of meeting the team that is actually building WordPress and learn from them. @webcommsat mentioned about creating a schedule and asked anyone who would like to take notes during dev chat to post in the #core channel or comment on this summary.

There is a call for volunteers on the marketing and training teams to support 5.9, specifically in the next two weeks. You can reach out to them in their SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channels.

Next meeting

Dev Chat will take place next week, Wednesday 19 January 2022 at 20:00 UTC in the Make WordPress Core Slack.

Props: Dev Chat summary by @estelaris and @webcommsat. Thanks to @marybaum for proofing.

#5-9, #dev-chat, #summary

#dev-chat, #summary, #week-in-core

Jb Audras 12:06 am on January 11, 2022
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A Week in Core – January 10, 2022

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 January 3 and January 10, 2022.

  • 41 commits
  • 63 contributors
  • 65 tickets created
  • 8 tickets reopened
  • 51 tickets closed

The Core team is currently working on the next major release, WordPress 5.9 🛠

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 and/or focus.

Code changes

Administration

  • Add missing texture image for Welcome panel & About page – #54489, #54270
  • Refresh the Dashboard Welcome panel – #54489

Build/Test Tools

  • Add the 5.9 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch". to the workflow for testing branches
  • Re-enable E2E tests for the 5.8 branch – #54749
  • Update qUnit test fixtures after [52535] – #54745

Bundled Themes

  • Fix: WordPress default presets aren’t loaded for all themes – #54781
  • Update some default presets in use by default themes to the new format – #54782
  • Twenty Twenty-Two: Sync updates from GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ for RC 1 – #54318

Coding Standards

  • Remove empty space at end of inline comment in _add_default_theme_supports() – #54731
  • Correct alignment in get_block_editor_settings() – #54728
  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/options.php – #53359
  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/plugin-install.php – #54728
  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/revision.php – #54728
  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/themes.php – #54728

Editor

  • Update wordpress packages for WP 5.9 RC 1 – #54487

Embeds

  • Fix oEmbed host script enqueueing on 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.-based themes – #44632

External Libraries

  • Update jQuery hoverIntent to version 1.10.2 – #54722, #51812

Formatting

  • Correctly encode ASCII characters in post slugs

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. 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.

  • Improve docs for wp_remote_retrieve_header function return value – #51736

Help/About

  • Change the HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. title of Themes Screen and add related HelpHub Docs link – #54707
  • Change the Learn WP link in the about page – #54755
  • Correction in “Managing Themes” HelpHub Docs link – #54707
  • Correction on the documentation link about adding new themes – #54709
  • Use “refactoring” noun form in WordPress 5.9 About Page – #54270
  • WordPress 5.9 About Page

Login and Registration

  • Remove aria-expanded from “Generate Password” button – #54538
  • Rename login_language_switcher_args to login_language_dropdown_args – #54696
  • Rename two filters related to language dropdown for better consistency – #54696

Query

  • Improve sanitization within WP_Meta_Query
  • Improve sanitization within WP_Tax_Query

REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/.

  • Add unit tests for the 404 template slug handler – #54680
  • Typo correction in a link description object – #54745

RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision.

  • Improve _set_preview for case when autosave is missing – #54708

TaxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies.

  • Typo correction in context used for the navigation link block title – #54566

Themes

  • Make block themes support HTML5 by default – #54731, #54597

Upgrade/Install

  • Avoid using unserialize() unnecessarily
  • Fix parameter count in error call when an automatic core upgrade fails – #53284
  • Make first comment URLs translatable – #54535

Props

Thanks to the 63 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @hellofromTonya (9), @audrasjb (7), @desrosj (5), @SergeyBiryukov (4), @costdev (4), @xknown (4), @tobifjellner (3), @jdy68 (3), @dd32 (3), @marybaum (3), @sabernhardt (2), @oandregal (2), @critterverse (2), @kebbet (2), @melchoyce (2), @walbo (2), @webcommsat (2), @Mamaduka (2), @johnjamesjacoby (2), @davidbaumwald (2), @peterwilsoncc (2), @vortfu (2), @chanthaboune (1), @mukesh27 (1), @mkaz (1), @kjellr (1), @ryelle (1), @annezazu (1), @paaljoachim (1), @richtabor (1), @Clorith (1), @mitogh (1), @adamsilverstein (1), @kafleg (1), @faisal03 (1), @swissspidy (1), @westonruter (1), @rachelbaker (1), @ockham (1), @flixos90 (1), @cbringmann (1), @smit08 (1), @nalininonstopnewsuk (1), @hlashbrooke (1), @sainthkh (1), @devutpol (1), @Chouby (1), @la-geek (1), @zieladam (1), @whyisjake (1), @iandunn (1), @ehtis (1), @alexstine (1), @dansoschin (1), @jameskoster (1), @noisysocks (1), @karmatosed (1), @poena (1), @robtarr (1), @felipeelia (1), @joyously (1), @ocean90 (1), and @titsmaker (1).

Congrats and welcome to our new contributor of the week: @dansoschin, @robtarr ♥️

Core committers: @audrasjb (13), @sergeybiryukov (9), @hellofromtonya (5), @davidbaumwald (4), @desrosj (4), @ryelle (3), @jorgefilipecosta (2), and @noisysocks (1).

#5-9, #core, #week-in-core

Jb Audras 10:23 am on January 4, 2022
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A Week in Core – January 3, 2022

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 27, 2021 and January 3, 2022.

  • 17 commits
  • 21 contributors
  • 34 tickets created
  • 1 tickets reopened
  • 23 tickets closed

The Core team is currently working on the next major release, WordPress 5.9 🛠

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 and/or focus.

Code changes

Build/Test Tools

  • Update PHPCompatibilityWP to version 2.1.3 – #54711

Bundled Themes

  • Twenty Twenty-Two: Sync updates from GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ for RC 1 – #54318

Coding Standards

  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/options-reading.php – #53359
  • Use strict comparison in wp-admin/options.php – #53359

Docs

  • Further corrections and improvements to the inline documentation for wpdb – #53399, #54610
  • Miscellaneous inline documentation improvements – #53399

Editor

  • Update wordpress packages for WP 5.9 RC 1 – #54487

External Libraries

  • Update jQuery hoverIntent to version 1.10.2 – #54722, #51812

General

  • Bump the recommended MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. and MariaDB versions in readme.html – #41490, #meta5999
  • Happy New Year! 🎄 – Update copyright year to 2022 in license.txt and bundled themes

Login and registration

  • Rename login_language_switcher_args to login_language_dropdown_args – #54696
  • Rename two filters related to language dropdown for better consistency – #54696

Plugins

  • Escape the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The 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/ pluginPlugin A 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 page URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org in the Plugin Installation modal – #54362

RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision.

  • Improve _set_preview for case when autosave is missing – #54708

Tests

  • Add a unit testunit test Code written to test a small piece of code or functionality within a larger application. Everything from themes to WordPress core have a series of unit tests. Also see regression. for the recommended MariaDB version in readme.html – #41490
  • Correct the check for the recommended MySQL version in readme.html – #41490

Users

  • Use the “Posts” post type general name to contextualize the string used in Users posts count column label – #54712

Props

Thanks to the 21 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @SergeyBiryukov (4), @audrasjb (3), @hellofromTonya (2), @titsmaker (1), @henrywright (1), @dimadin (1), @Presskopp (1), @chintan1896 (1), @JavierCasares (1), @jrf (1), @jdy68 (1), @richtabor (1), @kjellr (1), @faisal03 (1), @Clorith (1), @mukesh27 (1), @kebbet (1), @Mamaduka (1), @walbo (1), @adamsilverstein (1), and @aezazshekh (1).

Congrats and welcome to our new contributor of the week: @titsmaker ♥️

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (8), @audrasjb (5), @johnbillion (2), @noisysocks (1), and @hellofromtonya (1).

#5-9, #core, #meta5999, #week-in-core

Jb Audras 12:06 pm on December 28, 2021
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A Week in Core – December 27, 2021

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 20 and December 27, 2021.

  • 28 commits
  • 45 contributors
  • 36 tickets created
  • 1 tickets reopened
  • 25 tickets closed

The Core team is currently working on the next major release, WordPress 5.9, and the beta 4 was released last week 🛠

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 and/or focus.

Code changes

Administration

  • Add “File” to Theme/PluginPlugin A 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 Editor menu names and relocate “Plugin File Editor” to Tools for 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. themes – #54382
  • Make sure the $customize_url variable is always defined in the adminadmin (and super admin) menu – #54682

Application Passwords

  • Show HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information. required message without filtering when not enabled or not in local environment – #53658

Build/Test Tools

  • Allow the PHPCSPHP Code Sniffer PHP Code Sniffer, a popular tool for analyzing code quality. The WordPress Coding Standards rely on PHPCS. plugin in Composer configuration – #54686
  • Restore the https URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org for browserify-aes – #54487
  • Separate the tests for recommended PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher and MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. versions in readme.html – #41490

Bundled Themes

  • Twenty Twenty-Two: Sync updates from GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ for BetaBeta A 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. 4 – #54318

Coding Standards

Docs

  • Improve the @since 5.9.0 note for WP_Theme_JSON::PRESETS_METADATA – #53399

Docs

  • Typo correction in validate_file() comments – #53399
  • Typo correction in wp_dropdown_languages() DocBlockdocblock (phpdoc, xref, inline docs) – #53399
  • Typo correction in wp_get_layout_style() introduced in 5.9 – #53399

Editor

  • Add edit_theme_options capabilities to wp_navigation post type – #54487
  • Add missing default template areas to the post/page editor settings – #54679
  • Add support for nameless font sizes in WP_Theme_JSON – #54640, #54487
  • Explicitly declare $post_types and $area properties in WP_Block_Template class – #54670
  • Update wordpress packages for Beta 4 – #54487

External Libraries

  • Update the SimplePie library to version 1.5.7 – #54659
  • Update the SimplePie library to version 1.5.8 – #54659

General

  • Fix 'rel' argument in Tests_Functions_wpListBookmarks test datasets – #53839

Login and Registration

  • Use secondary button style for the Language switcher – #54692
  • Add a 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 to disable the Login screen language dropdown – #54675

Plugins

  • Escape the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The 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/ plugin page URL in the Plugin Installation modal – #54362

REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/.

  • Support . in theme directory names in WP_REST_Global_Styles_Controller, WP_REST_Templates_Controller, and WP_REST_Themes_Controller – #54596

Script Loader

  • Skip getting 'can_compress_scripts' option in script_concat_settings() during install – #54634

Toolbar

  • Show the Customize link on front end when using a block theme if any plugins use the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. – #54683

Props

Thanks to the 45 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @costdev (7), @hellofromTonya (8), @SergeyBiryukov (5), @audrasjb (5), @jrf (4), @johnbillion (3), @spacedmonkey (2), @schlessera (2), @david.binda (2), @pbiron (2), @ocean90 (2), @marybaum (1), @walbo (1), @youknowriad (1), @rickcurran (1), @TimothyBlynJacobs (1), @ntsekouras (1), @get_dave (1), @joyously (1), @bijayyadav (1), @kafleg (1), @felipeelia (1), @williampatton (1), @manfcarlo (1), @chintan1896 (1), @joen (1), @Mamaduka (1), @dimadin (1), @henry.wright (1), @aezazshekh (1), @rainbowgeek (1), @afragen (1), @sabernhardt (1), @faisal03 (1), @gziolo (1), @jameskoster (1), @poena (1), @annezazu (1), @clorith (1), @courane01 (1), @dryanpress (1), @desrosj (1), @Presskopp (1), @ipstenu (1), and @kjellr (1).

Congrats and welcome to our 5 new contributors of the week: @rickcurran, @bijayyadav, @manfcarlo, @aezazshekh, @rainbowgeek ♥️

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (12), @hellofromtonya (8), @audrasjb (6), @isabel_brison (1), and @jffng (1).

#5-9, #core, #week-in-core

marybaum 5:14 pm on December 22, 2021
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Dev Chat agenda for 22 December 2021

Announcements

The WordPress 5.9 BetaBeta A 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. 4 has landed. Please download and test! 

Blogblog (versus network, site) posts of note

Beta 4 fixes 20 bugs that surfaced in Beta 3. Please test them and report your findings on the announcement post.

What’s new in Gutenberg 12.2?

@audrasjb has the latest issue of A Week in Core.

Here is the revised release schedule.

And please join the discussion @chanthaboune has started on 2022 release planning.

Got other posts that should get the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team’s attention? Please add them in the comments.

Upcoming releases

The current upcoming 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. is version 5.9.

RC1 is set to release on 4th January and means two things:

Hard string freeze, including all the strings for the About page.

And Trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision. branches to 6.0 alpha, so if you have a feature you’d like to see in the next major version, this is the time to start on it!

Component Maintainers

From now until launch, devchat will skip a formal check-in so the group can have a longer Open Floor. If you’re a maintainer who’d like to get help with a blockerblocker A bug which is so severe that it blocks a release. or share success, add your item to the comments.

Open Floor

Add your topic to the comments, and enjoy priority for your topic at the beginning of Open Floor.

See you Wednesday at 20:00 UTC!

#agenda, #core, #dev-chat

#agenda, #dev-chat

#agenda, #core, #dev-chat, #week-in-core

Jb Audras 12:03 am on December 21, 2021
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A Week in Core – December 20, 2021

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 13 and December 20, 2021.

  • 31 commits
  • 44 contributors
  • 57 tickets created
  • 6 tickets reopened
  • 42 tickets closed

The Core team is currently working on the next major release, WordPress 5.9, and the beta 3 was released last week 🛠

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 and/or focus.

Code changes

Build/Test Tools

  • Reduce the use of unnecessary randomness in tests – #37371
  • Remove the assertion in filter_rest_url_for_leading_slash() – #54661
  • Add an assertion to test the WP_REST_Server::add_site_logo_to_index() method – #53516, #53363
  • Add unit tests for theme features that 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. themes should support by default – #54597
  • Fix typo in a data provider name – #53363
  • Fix typo in a test method name – #53363
  • Mock the 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. request response in download_url() tests – #54420, #53363
  • Move the tests for theme features that block themes should support by default to a more appropriate place – #54597
  • Use shared fixtures in block theme tests – #53363

Bundled Themes

  • Twenty Twenty-Two: Sync updates from GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ for BetaBeta A 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. 3 – #54318
  • Twenty Twenty-Two: Sync updates from GitHub for Beta 4 – #54318

Customize

  • Customize: Overlay incompatible banner for block themes – #54549

Database

  • Correct and improve documentation for properties and parameters in wpdb – #53399

Docs

  • Capitalize “ID”, when referring to a widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. ID or sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. ID, in a more consistent way – #53399
  • Typo correction in TinyMCE related JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. file – #53399
  • Typo correction in wp_dropdown_languages() DocBlockdocblock (phpdoc, xref, inline docs) – #53399
  • Use generic references to “Database” in wp-config-sample.php – #54610

Editor

  • Activate missing default theme features for block themes – #54597
  • Add “Featured” patterns from pattern directory to Patterns in block inserter – #54623
  • Update @wordpress packages – #54487
  • 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. custom block templates with PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher – #54335

External Libraries

  • Update the SimplePie library to version 1.5.7 – #54659

Formatting

  • Use is_scalar() in sanitize_key() – #54160

Media

  • Fix selections in Media Library Featured ImageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. modal on open – #53765

Posts, Post Types

  • Add missing translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. context on FSE related post types labels – #54611

REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/.

  • Add block theme support for valid non-alphanumeric characters in theme’s directory name – #54596
  • Ensure that the get_theme_item method should respect fields param – #54595
  • Ensure that the parent link, uses the rest_get_route_for_post function – #53656

Script Loader

  • Fix deprecated usage of passing null to explode() – #53635

Site Health

  • Typo correction in Site Health help tab – #54656

Themes

  • Rename public static functions in WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver to remove custom_post_type references – #54517

Props

Thanks to the 44 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @hellofromTonya (11), @costdev (6), @noisysocks (4), @youknowriad (4), @SergeyBiryukov (4), @audrasjb (3), @peterwilsoncc (3), @ocean90 (2), @oandregal (2), @antonvlasenko (2), @spacedmonkey (2), @jffng (2), @desrosj (2), @jrf (2), @kjellr (2), @sabernhardt (2), @pedromendonca (1), @mamaduka (1), @Ov3rfly (1), @schlessera (1), @williampatton (1), @wppunk (1), @shaunandrews (1), @poena (1), @joyously (1), @bernhard-reiter (1), @johnillo (1), @scruffian (1), @joen (1), @szaqal21 (1), @onemaggie (1), @TimothyBlynJacobs (1), @benitolopez (1), @justinahinon (1), @joedolson (1), @mkaz (1), @ryelle (1), @circlecube (1), @danielbachhuber (1), @ignatggeorgiev (1), @PieWP (1), @sergeybiryukov (1), @dariak (1), and @Spacedmonkey (1).

Congrats and welcome to our 3 new contributors of the week: @wppunk, @johnillo, @ignatggeorgiev ♥️

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (10), @audrasjb (6), @hellofromtonya (5), @johnbillion (3), @jffng (2), @spacedmonkey (2), @noisysocks (2), and @isabel_brison (1).

#5-9, #core, #week-in-core

webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 2:00 am on December 16, 2021
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DevChat meeting summary, December 15, 2021

Agenda.
Meeting led by @marybaum, Notes by @webcommsat

Start of meeting on the Make WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/./ CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. channel

Announcements

The WordPress 5.9 BetaBeta A 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. 3 has landed, after a lot of very hard work by a lot of very dedicated contributors. Please download and test! Note: This beta focused on the bugs that showed …

WordPress 5.9 Beta 3 announcement 

Relevant posts

Since Beta 2, 14 bugs have been reported by contributors and need testing. If you can help, please report your findings on the announcement post.
Editor chat summary: 15 December, 2021 highlights improvements made by the team.
What’s new in Gutenberg 12.1?
A Week in Core.
And remember that the release schedule has been revised.
WordPress 5.9 Beta 2
A Week in Core – December 13, 2021

5.9 release update

From @hellofromtonya:

  • There will be a 5.9 Beta 4 next week, Dec 21st.
  • 5.9 RC1 is on Jan 4th. That’s the code freeze. There are open issues both in Core TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. and 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/’s Must-Have project board. The fixes for those issues will need a beta.
  • Appreciate folks testing, reporting issues, investigating, helping to fix, etc. Thank you! 
  • Beta 4 post – @marybaum, @estelaris, @webcommsat confirmed they would be available to work on the post.

Soft string freeze

A soft string freeze or “soft freeze” is announced when all the strings of an upcoming WordPress release are frozen, except for the strings of the About page

@sergeybiryukov: minimal string changes can still be allowed in “soft freeze” on a case-by-case basis if necessary, there’s an i18n-change keyword for that. 

@jeffpaul: RC1 is hard string freeze and not to interpret “code freeze” as no more changes so much as fixes for regressions found in Beta testing. @hellofortonya: And fixes can happen for regressions and bugs found during the RC cycle.The hope though is that all known bugs are fixed during beta before getting to RC.

@ryelle : #54489 also an exception to the soft string freeze? it has new strings, and still needs copy feedback (can come back to this during open floor if needed). It is an exception to the string freeze as it is connected to the About page area of work.
#54489: Update the Dashboard welcome banner for 5.9

@ryelle: Technically it’s not “the about page”, so I wasn’t sure if it all applied it just references the design. It’s a new iteration on the Welcome panel on the dashboard.

@hellofromtonya: I think folks intended for that Welcome panel to go past string freeze. or at least that was my understanding.

@marybaum: I don’t recall seeing art like this on a dashboard, other than as the 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. art of the four pages About, Credits, Freedoms and Privacy.

@ryelle: On the dashboard (like basic /wp-admin/), there’s the Welcome panel – “Welcome to WordPress! We’ve assembled some links to get you started…” – this ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. totally redesigns it to introduce new art mirroring the About page, and updated copy and links.

About page 5.9 and associated resources/ marcomms:

  • @marybaum: estimated that layout, art and copy will be finalized for the About page by Monday, to allow time for @ryelle time to work on the code.
  • @webcommsat: we continue to request dev and extenders input into benefits they are expecting from 5.9 for social media messaging and to link in with training. More on this in last week’s devchat summary under the Component Maintainers/ About page heading.

Component maintainers updates

Components reports are being skipped until after 5.9.

Open Floor

@schlessera: raised two concerns that require workarounds with WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ currently.

Trac Ticket 54634
We already had several similar bugs, where a check for wp_installing() was missing to wrap DB operations. I already provided an initial patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. to fix this one. Without that patch, you get a fatal if you try to install a new 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 networknetwork (versus site, blog).

I found it with a functional test that installed a new network using Behat. However, I think this is not as easy to test with the “unit”-tests of WP Core. I’m happy to add a test if someone can provide pointers into how this is typically done for Core.

@sergeybiryukov: Unit tests start by running the WordPress installation first in the bootstrap file, so wouldn’t be able to catch issues like this.

@schlessera: These tend to crop up from time to time due to the procedural nature of WP, where everything is sort of tied together based on order of executing. It only breaks on trunk, but not on current stable for me. Might be due to some other, seemingly unrelated change. In general, all DB operations like that should be safeguarded, as WP itself is being executed to prepare the DB for WP. Is this something we can still fix for 5.9? Seems like a simple bugfix. @sergeybiryukov agreed, as in line with similar fixes in the past.

@schlessera: I noticed it during the tests of wp core install --network. These tests have been passing for all the previous stable versions of WP, and have started failing at some point with the latest trunk version, so I assume yes. The bugbug A 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. was probably always there, but some re-ordering of something unrelated has created the conditions for it to be triggered.

The new default theme has hard dependencies on WP 5.9 code. This seems to make sense given it requires at least 5.9 to work. However, if that theme is active and you try to downgrade WP, you can get an immediate fatal error. What’s more, the theme states it requires WP 5.3, so this currently cannot even be detected.

@sergeybiryukov: I think historically bundled themes aim to be comparable with at least one or two previous major versions.

@schlessera: Can we have the theme be built in such a way that it doesn’t flat-out fatal when downgrading even to the very last version before an upgrade? @audrasjb thought this was feasible. @sergeybiryukov said core should have safeguards in place to check with an appropriate message, and there is some prior art in older themes. Looking at the inc/back-compat.php file in older themes might be helpful for reference, they have similar checks.
@schlessera: It doesn’t have to produce any meaningful output on the frontend, it can still produce errors, but it should do so gracefully without taking the entire server down. 

@schlessera: I haven’t created a ticket yet, as I wanted to first check what the consensus is about this.

More on this discussion can be found on the core slack at this timestamp.

#5-9, #core, #dev-chat, #summary

Estela Rueda 3:55 pm on December 15, 2021
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Dev Chat agenda for 15 December 2021

Announcements

The WordPress 5.9 BetaBeta A 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. 3 has landed, after a lot of very hard work by a lot of very dedicated contributors. Please download and test! 

Note: This beta focused on the bugs that showed up since Beta 2. Now, work pivots to hunting for brand-new bugs.

Did you get a chance to watch the State of Word yesterday? If not, check it out.

Blogblog (versus network, site) posts of note

Since Beta 2, 14 bugs reported by contributors and needs testing. If you can help, please report your findings on the announcement post.

The Editor Chat Summary highlights improvements made by the team.

What’s new in Gutenberg 12.1?

@audrasjb has the latest issue of A Week in Core.

And remember that the release schedule has been revised.

Got other posts that should get the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team’s attention? Please add them in the comments.

Upcoming releases

The current upcoming 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. is version 5.9. Beta 4 (scheduled for 21 December) which is optional and the team will discuss whether it will happen.

If we skip Beta 4, we will be start the new year with version 5.9 RC1 set to release on 4th January.

Component Maintainers

From now until launch, devchat will skip a formal check-in so the group can have a longer Open Floor. If you’re a maintainer who’d like to get help with a blockerblocker A bug which is so severe that it blocks a release. or share success, add your item to the comments.

Open Floor

Add your topic to the comments, and enjoy priority for your topic at the beginning of Open Floor.

See you Wednesday at 20:00 UTC!

#agenda, #core, #dev-chat

#agenda, #dev-chat

#agenda, #core, #dev-chat, #week-in-core

Jb Audras 10:51 pm on December 13, 2021
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A Week in Core – December 13, 2021

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 6 and December 13, 2021.

  • 19 commits
  • 23 contributors
  • 35 tickets created
  • 13 tickets reopened
  • 33 tickets closed

The Core team is currently working on the next major release, WordPress 5.9, and the beta 2 was released last week 🛠

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 and/or focus.

Code changes

Build/Test Tools

  • Disable WP Cron when installing PHPUnit tests – #54612

Coding Standards

  • Correct alignment in blocks.php and class-wp-rest-templates-controller – #53359
  • Remove a trailing comma from a compact() call in _wp_customize_include() – #53359
  • Simplify or wrap some long conditions in wp-includes/theme.php for better readability – #53359, #53399
  • Use camel case with a lowercase first letter for the blockTheme array key – #54578, #53359

Docs

  • Capitalize “ID”, when referring to a post ID, term ID, etc. in a more consistent way – #53399
  • Capitalize “ID”, when referring to a sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. ID in a more consistent way – #53399
  • Capitalize “ID”, when referring to a widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. ID or sidebar ID, in a more consistent way – #53399
  • Correct the format of some comments per the documentation standards – #53399
  • Docblockdocblock (phpdoc, xref, inline docs) adjustments in some 5.9 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. related functions – #53359
  • Document the global used in upgrade_590() function – #53399
  • Update a comment in wp-admin/load-styles.php per the documentation standards – #53399
  • Update some @var tags per the documentation standards – #53399

Editor

  • Add an editor settings flag to enable the new gallery for mobile apps for 5.9 – #54583

General

  • Mark the recommended MariaDB version number in readme.html with a <strong> tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) – #41490

REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/.

  • Ensure that the parent link, uses the rest_get_route_for_post function – #53656

Themes

  • Auto-enable block-templates support for all block themes – #54335
  • Show only “Customize” or “Activate” button in block theme’s Theme Details modal – #54578

Upgrade/install

Props

Thanks to the 23 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @hellofromTonya (3), @SergeyBiryukov (3), @costdev (2), @noisysocks (2), @Spacedmonkey (1), @bronsonquick (1), @glendaviesnz (1), @Boniu91 (1), @francina (1), @TobiasBg (1), @desrosj (1), @aristath (1), @peterwilsoncc (1), @afragen (1), @galbaras (1), @dlh (1), @pbiron (1), @antonvlasenko (1), @kafleg (1), @ryelle (1), @poena (1), @Chouby (1), and @ocean90 (1).

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (11), @audrasjb (4), @spacedmonkey (1), @hellofromtonya (1), @peterwilsoncc (1), and @youknowriad (1).

#5-9, #core, #week-in-core

Jb Audras 12:21 am on December 7, 2021
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A Week in Core – December 6, 2021

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 November 29 and December 6, 2021.

  • 66 commits
  • 62 contributors
  • 62 tickets created
  • 16 tickets reopened
  • 51 tickets closed

The Core team is currently working on the next major release, WordPress 5.9, and the beta 1 was released last week 🛠

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 and/or focus.

Code changes

Administration

  • For 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. themes, link to Site Editor interface instead of CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. in Dashboard’s welcome panel and Themes interface – #54460

Build/Test Tools

  • Remove the replace:emoji-banner-text Grunt task – #44632, #44306, #53363
  • Revert ignore prop change in [52272] – #54506
  • Fix typo in a WP_Test_REST_Posts_Controller test method name – #53363
  • Rename classes in phpunit/tests/block-supports/ per the naming conventions – #53363
  • Rename classes in block template tests per the naming conventions – #53363
  • Replace assertEquals() with assertSame() in block template tests – #53364, #53363, #54335
  • Update WP_REST_Global_Styles_Controller_Test “Custom Styles” string after [52280] – #54518

Bundled Themes

  • Twenty Fourteen: Adjust capability queries when using version before WordPress 5.9-alpha – #16841
  • Twenty Twenty-Two: Sync updates from GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ – #54318
  • Twenty Twenty: Restore Editor post title styles after 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/ 11.4.0 updates – #54056

Coding Standards

  • Break the $path reference after a foreach 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. in block_editor_rest_api_preload() – #54558
  • Address a few coding standards issues after [52312] – #54558

Docs

  • Add missing @param to wp_set_unique_slug_on_create_template_part() – #53399
  • Add missing @since tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) to WP_Theme_JSON_Schema functions – #53399, #54336
  • Add missing summary for WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver::get_merged_data() – #53399
  • Docblockdocblock (phpdoc, xref, inline docs) corrections in _disable_block_editor_for_navigation_post_type() – #53399
  • Docblock typo correction in WP_Theme_JSON_Schema – #53399
  • Fix typo in some get_edit_term_link() test DocBlocks – #50225, #53399
  • Further update some @since notes in WP_Theme_JSON methods for clarity – #53399, #54336
  • Misc Docblock corrections in duotone.php file – #53399
  • Miscellaneous Docblock corrections for block-template-utils.php file – #53399
  • Miscellaneous Docblock corrections in several /block-supports files – #53399
  • Replace @since 5.9 with @since 5.9.0 in block-template-utils.php – #53399
  • Some documentation improvements for WP_Theme_JSON and WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver classes: – #53399, #54336
  • Use a duplicate hook reference for theme_file_path in WP_Theme::get_file_path() – #51506, #53399
  • Various docblock corrections – #53399

Editor

  • Allow child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/. PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher templates to take precedence over parent theme block templates – #54515
  • Allow theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. to take precedence in setting the root level element’s reset margin value – #54550
  • Avoid undefined index notices in the Template Parts Editor – #54558
  • Avoid a JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. console error on the Navigation block view – #54456
  • Do not translate the title of “Custom Styles” specific posts – #54518
  • Enable incomplete unit tests in Tests_Block_Template_Utils:: test_get_block_template_from_file() – #54551
  • Hide visibility and status settings for wp_navigation post type – #54407
  • Remove Navigation Areas – #54506
  • Resolve template request ?_wp-find-template=true for new posts and pages – #54553
  • Update wordpress packages – #54487
  • Update wordpress packages – #54487
  • Site Editor: Add site export REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. endpoint – #54448
  • Restore block PHP to canonical version in wordpress/block-library – #54506
  • Update wordpress packages – #54487

External Libraries

  • Further fix jQuery deprecations in WordPress core – #51519

Feeds

  • Remove reference to wp-atom.php in Atom feeds xml:base attribute – #47955

Formatting

  • Handle non-scalar types passed to sanitize_key() – #54160

General

  • Add MariaDB in the readme.html requirements – #41490

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. 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.

  • Fix classname WpOrg\Requests\Proxy\Http in WP_Http::request() – #54562
  • Revert changeset [52244] – #54562, #54504
  • Revert changeset [52315] – #54562, #54504

Internationalization

  • Remove redundant default text domain parameter in some __() calls – #53359

KSES

  • Accept port number in PDF upload paths – #54261
  • Allow attributes to be restricted via callbacks – #54261
  • Use the polyfilled PHP 8 string functions in _wp_kses_allow_pdf_objects() – #54261

Media

  • Featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. modal loads only selected image when infinite scroll is disabled – #53765
  • Fix TypeError and improve wp_exif_frac2dec() to only return int or float – #54385
  • Replace tests/phpunit/data/images/sugar-mountain.jpg test image – #54385
  • Use infiniteScrolling global setting in js/media/controllers/featured-image.js and js/media/controllers/replace-image.js – #53765

Options, MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. APIs

  • Improve error handling in sanitize_option() – #53986

Plugins

  • Correct the documented allowable types for to the $callback parameter of various hook related functions – #54440

REST API

  • Ensure that the rest_after_insert_ action is executed in the templates controller – #54520
  • Fire wp_after_insert_post later in new post object endpoints – #54536
  • Replace hardcoded wp/v2/ preloaded paths – #54536
  • Use global transients for URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org details endpoint – #54499

Upgrade/Install

  • Check that WordPress is installed before scheduling cleanup of the temp-backup directory – #51857
  • Make some adjustments to the move_dir() function: – #54166, #51857

Props

Thanks to the 62 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week: @peterwilsoncc (8), @costdev (8), @hellofromTonya (5), @spacedmonkey (5), @SergeyBiryukov (4), @audrasjb (3), @desrosj (3), @poena (3), @noisysocks (3), @bernhard-reiter (3), @dd32 (3), @mukesh27 (3), @zieladam (3), @sabernhardt (3), @antonvlasenko (3), @get_dave (2), @swissspidy (2), @malthert (2), @TobiasBg (2), @youknowriad (2), @talldanwp (2), @ramonopoly (2), @adamsilverstein (1), @tobiasbg (1), @kjellr (1), @onemaggie (1), @hellofromtonya (1), @jameskoster (1), @matveb (1), @stevegs (1), @sergeybiryukov (1), @hilayt24 (1), @mamaduka (1), @oandregal (1), @praem90 (1), @shireling (1), @jrf (1), @mai21 (1), @dlh (1), @pbiron (1), @szaqal21 (1), @wpnomad (1), @johnbillion (1), @alexeydemidov (1), @kafleg (1), @Boniu91 (1), @ocean90 (1), @Pento (1), @xknown (1), @iCaleb (1), @mkaz (1), @afragen (1), @toro_unit (1), @dariak (1), @joedolson (1), @Mamaduka (1), @walbo (1), @chaion07 (1), @Clorith (1), @presskopp (1), @promz (1), and @tw2113 (1).

Congrats and welcome to our 2 new contributors of the week: @wpnomad and @alexeydemidov ♥️

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (19), @audrasjb (18), @hellofromtonya (15), @noisysocks (4), @peterwilsoncc (4), @spacedmonkey (3), @johnbillion (2), and @jffng (1).

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