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Jeremy Felt 4:52 pm on November 14, 2017
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Multisite Recap for the week of November 6th

Office Hours Recap

The agenda for this office hours meeting was open floor.

The meeting's chat log

Attendees: @florian-tiar, @spacedmonkey, @desrosj, @flixos90, @mikelking, @jeremyfelt

Chat Summary:

  • There was a loose discussion on the tickets that should be focused on at the beginning of the 5.0 cycle.
  • Caching in WP_Site_Query will be a big focus at first. Tickets #42252, #42280, #42251. There was a brief discussion on some approaches.
  • Implementing new install and update methods in #41333.
  • Using the 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. 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. for networknetwork (versus site, blog) options in #37181.
  • The new multisite roadmap is getting there and should be ready to publish before WordCampWordCamp WordCamps 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. US.

Next meeting

The next office hours will take place on November 14th, 2017, 17:00 UTC. Its agenda will be:

  • Discuss adopting TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. as a way to manage status, progress, and ownership on tasks.
  • Progress on 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 roadmap with a target to publish an initial version before WCUS.
  • Any progress on 5.0 tickets.

#4-9, #multisite, #network-sites, #summary

Jeremy Felt 4:18 pm on October 9, 2017
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Multisite Recap for the week of October 2nd

Office Hours Recap

The agenda for this office hours meeting was to prepare remaining open enhancements for the 4.9 release.

The meeting’s chat log

Attendees: @flixos90, @spacedmonkey, @jeremyfelt

Chat Summary:

  • #40228 – Review the latest patches for using get_site_by() in get_blog_details().
  • #40201 – Review the latest patches for using get_site() in clean_blog_cache(). @flixos90 and @jeremyfelt agreed that requiring a site ID is okay for clean_blog_cache(), moving the refresh_blog_details hook into clean_blog_cache() is appropriate, and deprecating the refresh_blog_details hook in favor of clean_site_cache is good.
  • @flixos90 committed to committing #40201 and #40228 before 4.9 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..
  • #42072 and #42073 – Discussed both of these, which involve limiting get_sites() calls to 1 result when only 1 result is used. @jeremyfelt took ownership of these for 4.9.
  • #41762 – Agreed to use WP_Network_Query in ms_load_current_site_and_network(), but to keep the current-network cache key for now.

Next meeting

The next office hours will take place on October 4, 2017, 16:00 UTC. Its agenda will be to go over remaining bugs for 4.9 and the progress of this cycle’s dev notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase..

Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. Scrub Recap

The agenda for this ticket scrub was to review remaining enhancements for the 4.9 release.

The meeting’s chat log

Attendees: @ramiy, @sergey, @afragen, @flixos90, @spacedmonkey, @jeremyfelt, @johnjamesjacoby, @desrosj

Chat Summary:

  • #40180 – Discussion on some of the remaining details for get_site_by().
  • #40228 – Agreed to finish and commit #40180 so that the patches for get_site_by() in get_blog_details() would be easier to review.
  • #40201 – Discussion if clean_blog_cache() should support an empty argument as a replacement for refresh_blog_details(). Agreement that it’s okay to continue requiring that a site be specified.
  • Discussion on when or whether to deprecate refresh_blog_details() or its hook refresh_blog_details, which is now a part of clean_blog_cache(). It seems that it’s okay to postpone this until get_site_by() and clean_blog_cache() are more widely used.

Next meeting

@jeremfelt did not clarify early enough whether or not a ticket scrub will take place on October 3, 2017, 17:00 UTC. 🙈 A loose agenda would be to cover remaining bugs for the 4.9 cycle.

If you were unable to attend one of these meetings but have feedback, please share your thoughts in the comments on this post. In case there’s a need for further discussion we will ensure to make time for it in one of next week’s chats. See you next week!

#4-9, #multisite, #network-sites, #summary

Jeremy Felt 2:21 am on September 4, 2017
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Multisite Agenda for the week of September 4th

Office Hours Agenda

This is the agenda for the weekly office hours meeting on Tuesday 16:00 UTC in #core-multisite.

  • Open floor for tickets.
  • Review progress on roadmap and related discussion.

Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. Scrub Agenda

There will be no ticket scrub this week in #core-multisite. An agenda for next week’s ticket scrub will be posted later this week.

Please join the chat if you’re interested in one of the topics. In case you cannot make the respective meeting, we will be working on publishing a recap post afterwards. If you have some thoughts beforehand or would like something related to be part of the agenda, feel free to share your ideas in the comments for this post. See you in the chat!

#4-9, #agenda, #multisite, #network-sites

Jeremy Felt 2:16 am on September 4, 2017
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Multisite Recap for the Week of August 28th

Office Hours Recap

The agenda for this office hours meeting was to take a look at progress on the 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 roadmap and to continue discussing the best approach to checking for the existence of a wp_blogmeta database table (See #37923).

The meeting’s chat log

Attendees: @flixos90, @desrosj, @stephdau, @dac, @johnbillion, @spacedmonkey, @jeremyfelt

Chat Summary:

  • During the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. dev chat, everyone was open to the roadmap being published at make.wordpress.org/core/roadmaps/multisite. The 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/. team is also interested in posting a roadmap under that structure.
  • Quite a bit of progress has been made by @flixos90 so far on the multisite roadmap document.
  • A good way to contribute to the roadmap now is to read through critically and make comments/suggestions on the direction and content.
  • Everyone is free to make changes/comments. PingPing The 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.” @jeremyfelt if you would like access.
  • @johnbillion is going to add some items related to multisite administration.
  • More needs to be built out around multisite’s bootstrap and the future of “global context” above the level of networknetwork (versus site, blog).
  • There was some discussion on what an objective on the roadmap for multisite’s bootstrap may be. Everyone seems to agree that “increasing stability and testability” of the bootstrap is a good objective.
  • There should be a general section at the end that covers some things that don’t necessarily fit as part of the main roadmap at this time. That can be considered “a summary to encourage discussion/contribution even if what you want isn’t on the roadmap.”
  • Quite a bit of ground was covered on #37923 as to whether the existence of a wp_blogmeta table (after upgrade) should be stored as a main network option, as an option on every network, or in a new place entirely.
  • @spacedmonkey brought up concerns about the performance issues of loading an option from a different network. During multisite’s bootstrap, all of the current network’s options are loaded into memory. Storing in a single place would result in an extra DB query/cache lookup.
  • @flixos90 and @jeremyfelt prefer (so far) storing the data as an option on the main network. The idea that a global setting storage may exist one day makes it tempting to treat this data as global now.
  • A next step is to lookup more possible “global context” data that could be stored. @spacedmonkey brought up global terms and ms-files as two immediate options. Brainstorming should continue via chat and on the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. (#37923).

The next office hours will take place on Tuesday 16:00 UTC. An agenda for it will be posted in advance.

Ticket Scrub Recap

The agenda for this ticket scrub was to review 4.9 ticket progress.

The meeting’s chat log

Attendees: @flixos90, @desrosj, @sergey, @paaljoachim, @jeremyfelt, @spacedmonkey

Chat Summary:

  • #29684 – Had a lengthy discussion on the possibilities of this ticket. Chatted through whether a networks main site ID should be stored as a network option. For the time being, let’s stick with not storing the data anywhere.

There will be no ticket scrub Monday 17:00 UTC. A schedule and agenda for the next ticket scrub will be posted next week.

If you were unable to attend one of these meetings but have feedback, please share your thoughts in the comments on this post. In case there’s a need for further discussion we will ensure to make time for it in one of next week’s chats. See you next week!

#4-9, #multisite, #network-sites, #summary

Felix Arntz 5:27 am on December 14, 2016
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Multisite Office Hours Recap (December 13, 2016)

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 office hours are held every Tuesday at 17:00 UTC in #core-multisite. The next will be Tuesday 17:00 UTC.

The weekly agenda was to discuss long-term goals for multisite and prioritize tickets to work on related to one of the three new focuses, particularly the 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/..

Today’s chat log

Attendees: @iamfriendly, @mista-flo, @johnjamesjacoby, @loreleiaurora, @johnbillion, @jeremyfelt, @flixos90

Chat Summary:

  • @jeremyfelt, @flixos90, @johnjamesjacoby, and @johnbillion sat down for a chat at WCUS to discuss multisite topics and possible future focuses. @jeremyfelt shared his notes from that session. Items of particular interest in today’s chat were:
    • Identify statistics for multisite usage, size of multisites: Possibly sending more general multisite-related metrics during coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. updates could be helpful and should be further discussed. In addition to whether multisite is enabled and the count of sites (on the main networknetwork (versus site, blog)) it could be helpful for future decisions to know how many sites there are in total, how many networks exist and whether user / site registration is open or not.
    • Implementation of network user roles: A ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. is in place at #39174. @flixos90 requested feedback: Everyone interested is asked to read through the ticket description and provide an elaborate response with how they think network roles should work. Then a discussion based on these approaches can start.
    • Network administrators should be able to enable themes on the site level: It is currently not very convenient for a network administrator to switch back to the network adminadmin (and super admin) to enable a theme when currently working within the site admin.
    • Disable plugins per site in the network admin: Sometimes not all plugins should be visible on all networks or all sites, which is currently not possible. However, even for a disabled theme a network administrator should still be able to “silently” activate it on a site. Plugins would need to be enabled by default, so it would be the opposite way of how themes are currently handled. This also ensures there are no concerns with backward-compatibility. UIUI User interface-wise an improved flow should be investigated instead of simply pursuing a similar approach to how enabling themes works: Having all the functionality inside the Network > Plugins screen would be helpful, with row and bulk actions for “Network Disable” as well as “Disable for Site…” with the latter having some kind of popover with an autocomplete field for sites. A related ticket to take into account for the implementation is #38652 which @johnbillion opened to introduce singular capabilities for managing plugins.
    • Whichever flow is agreed on for disabling plugins per site or network, once this functionality is implemented, it will probably make sense to “back-port” the behavior to improve the existing theme and maybe even user handling in a multisite.
  • At this point, the highest priority is multisite support for the REST API.
    • The users endpoint should be improved, particularly the implementation of DELETE for a user on a multisite as well as removing a user from a site or setting their capabilities per site via PUT (see #39000 and #38962 for related tickets).
    • A sites endpoint should be added.
    • A networks endpoint is not as important and should for now only live in a standalone 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 if there is interest to implement it.
  • A general question raised was how No-JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. fallbacks for REST API functionality in the admin should be handled. Should JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. become a requirement to use such new functionality or should the REST API only be used to improve existing PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher-only features? These questions should be discussed in a broader scope than just multisite since they affect all of WP Admin.
  • Possible usage for a REST API sites endpoint:
    • Replacing “My Sites” in the toolbar with a menu that doesn’t load until needed and pulls all sites from the 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..
    • The possible autocomplete field for disabling plugins for a specific site (see above) could pull sites from the API.
  • @mista-flo brought up #13743 and asked for feedback. Everyone in the chat agreed that the ability to set a default theme for a network would be a valuable enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. over the existing constant. For the approach, introducing a new row action “Set default theme” the Network > Themes list table was suggested, alongside an indicator “Default Theme” in that same table. This is an enhancement that can be worked on beside the other important REST API features.
  • A Google document was opened a while ago to gather input for a future multisite roadmap, as a follow-up to 2013’s post. @jeremyfelt highlighted that this document should continue to move forward in order to hopefully be able to publish an actual roadmap in early January.

#4-8, #multisite, #network-sites

Jeremy Felt 11:11 pm on November 4, 2016
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Multisite Focused Changes in 4.7

Howdy. The 4.7 release cycle has been a chance to build on some of the work from the last couple releases in 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.  If you’d like more detail, check out the full list of multisite focused changes in this release.

get_blog_details() replaced with get_site()

A lot of progress has been made over the last few releases to get things in place for this transition. Now that WP_Site and WP_Network objects exist and are accessible with functions like get_site() and get_network(), they can be implemented throughout coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..

In WordPress 4.7, get_blog_details() was replaced throughout core code with the modern  get_site(). The roadmap for this includes deprecating get_blog_details() in WordPress 4.8, so take this cycle as a chance to move your code in that direction.

get_site() is often a direct replacement, though get_sites() can also be used to query for sites when an ID is not available.

See #37102 for details on this change.

blog_details 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. deprecated

In combination with the decision to stop using get_blog_details() throughout core, the (not widely used) blog_details filter has been deprecated. It has been added to get_site() to provide backward compatibility with the above change and will fire with a deprecation notice. 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 code should use the site_details filter instead. See #38491 for details on this change.

_network_option actions and filters get $network_id

The $network_id associated with the use of a _network_option() function is now passed to the filters and actions that fire within. This provides granular control that was not available when first introduced. See #38319, #38320, #38321, and #38322 for details on this change.

wp_get_network() deprecated

It is now recommended that get_network() is used instead. See #37553 for this change.

 

 

#4-7, #dev-notes, #multisite, #network-sites

Jeremy Felt 10:15 pm on July 8, 2016
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Multisite Focused Changes in 4.6

The 4.6 release cycle has been a productive one! Several major and a few minor updates are described in detail below. If you’d like even more detail, here is a full list of 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 focused changes for 4.6.

Introduce WP_Site_Query and WP_Network_Query

WordPress 4.6 introduces WP_Site_Query and WP_Network_Query as well as their companion functions, get_sites() and get_networks().

WP_Site_Query

With WP_Site_Query (or get_sites()), sites can now be queried from the $wpdb->blogs table in a flexible way by id, domain, path, and more. For a full list of supported arguments, see the documentation attached to the __construct() method.

New filters and actions associated with this change include parse_site_query, pre_get_sites, the_sites, site_search_columns, sites_clauses, and found_sites_query.

Query results are cached as part of the global sites group. This will provide a performance boost for sites using a persistent object cache.

The introduction of this class helped resolve several long standing issues with WP_MS_Sites_List_Table. Expect to see a faster and more relevant search when browsing through a networknetwork (versus site, blog)’s sites. See #36675.

For the background discussion around these changes, see #35791.

WP_Network_Query

With WP_Network_Query (or get_networks()), networks can now be queried from the $wpdb->site table by id, domain, and path. Query results are cached as part of the global networks group. For a full list of supported arguments, see the documentation attached to the __construct() method.

WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. does not provide a UIUI User interface for managing multiple networks, but any sites using a 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 to do this will start to see a benefit from having this available.

New filters and actions associated with this change include parse_network_query, pre_get_networks, the_networks, networks_clauses, and found_networks_query.

For the background discussion around these changes, see #32504.

Enhancements to WP_Site and WP_Network

New utility methods

New functions get_site() and get_network() have been introduced to retrieve a specific site or network respectively. They both accept either an ID, database object or class instance as the first parameter. If that parameter is omitted, the current site / network is returned.

Property changes on WP_Site and WP_Network

The WP_Site and WP_Network objects now support access to their respective ID properties through property names which match current naming conventions. Furthermore, by accessing the properties with the new names, it is ensured that these are returned as integers rather than strings. The old properties are still accessible and valid, but these changes should encourage developers to use the new property names.

The following is the list of property improvements:

  • $site->id is the site’s ID. (previously $site->blog_id)
  • $site->network_id is the site’s parent network ID. (previously $site->site_id)
  • $network->id is now an integer instead of a string.
  • $network->site_id is the network’s main site ID. (previously $network->blog_id)

For background discussion around these changes, see #36717 and #37050.

Lazy-loading extended properties

Additional properties of a site object normally accessed with get_blog_details() are now automatically lazy-loaded when requested. This allows developers to use get_site() as a replacement for get_blog_details() which is likely to be deprecated in a future release. See #36935.

New Actions and Filters

Several new actions and filters were added as part of the WP_Site_Query and WP_Network_Query changes. Here are some others of note:

  • ms_loaded fires at the end of the multisite bootstrap process in ms-settings.php. At this point the current site and network are available in the global scope. See #37235.
  • pre_get_blogs_of_user allows developers to alter or short-circuit the results of get_blogs_of_user(), which can be an expensive function to run on configurations with many users. See #36707.
  • clean_site_cache fires after cache has been cleared with clear_blog_cache(). This can be useful for clearing any custom cache keys associated with a site record. See #36203.
  • network_edit_site_nav_links filters the list of links displayed at the top of Edit Site views as a “tabbed” interface. See #15800.
  • ms_sites_list_table_query_args filters the arguments passed to WP_Site_Query when building the MS Sites List Table. See #26580.

Other enhancements of note

Introduce get_current_network_id() as a helper function to find the current network’s ID. See #33900.

The MULTISITE and SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL constants can now be overridden in a project’s wp-config.php when running unit tests. See #36567.

Deprecated Functions

wp_get_sites() has been deprecated and get_sites() should be used instead. Please note when making code changes that get_sites() returns an array of WP_Site objects where wp_get_sites() returned an array of arrays.

WP Multi Network compatibility

The introduction of get_networks() in 4.6 conflicts with the function of the same name in WP Multi Network, a plugin commonly used to provide multiple networks on a multisite installation. A fix for this is already in the master 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". of the plugin, and will be included in the next release. In the same change, many other functions were wrapped in function_exists() calls to prevent similar conflicts in the future. If you are using WP Multi Network, please be sure to update accordingly.

#4-6, #dev-notes, #multisite, #network-sites

Felix Arntz 9:28 pm on July 6, 2016
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Multisite Office Hours Recap (July 5, 2016)

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 office hours are held every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC in #core-multisite. The next will be Tuesday 16:00 UTC. A more casual 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. scrub is on Thursday 20:00 UTC.

The weekly agenda for the 4.6 cycle is to (a) address blockers and share status on bigger initiatives, then (b) walk through a few multisite focused tickets on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..

Today’s chat log

Attendees: @spacedmonkey, @ocean90, @paaljoachim, @richardtape, @flixos90

Tickets Covered

  • #20537 seems possible, but needs an updated 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.. @jrf left a note after office hours that she is going to work on it Friday.
  • #26855 is likely to be punted due to a lack of recent activity. However, @spacedmonkey would like to work on a patch there, so there is still a chance this could land.
  • #18088 has an updated patch by @flixos90 which needs some testing. @spacedmonkey will try to review it.
  • #35379 still lacks a decision which approach to take. Considering there might possibly be major changes in handling networknetwork (versus site, blog) options coming up (see #37181), more time is required to think about the best way to tackle this bug. The ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. got punted to a future release.
  • #37223 is a rather straightforward fix, but will need an updated patch. @flixos90 is going to leave a comment there to ask the author of the patch for an update.
  • #36954 is being reviewed by @jeremyfelt and is likely to be merged.
  • #37102 will, although being a straightforward change, not make it into 4.6 as the first 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. has already been released. Furthermore the function get_blog_details() has not been deprecated yet, so the ticket is not necessary to complete at this point.

Other Notes

  • The 4.6 dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. for the Networks & Sites component should get ready on Wednesday. A Google doc will be used for collaboration.

If you aren’t available during the weekly multisite office hours, feel free to leave a comment here or in #core-multisite with a ticket number you’d like to see discussed.

See you next week!

#4-6, #multisite, #network-sites

Jeremy Felt 6:51 pm on June 15, 2016
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Multisite Office Hours Recap (June 14, 2016)

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 office hours are held every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC in #core-multisite. The next will be Tuesday 16:00 UTC. A more casual 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. scrub is on Thursday 20:00 UTC.

The weekly agenda for the 4.6 cycle is to (a) address blockers and share status on bigger initiatives, then (b) walk through a few multisite focused tickets on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..

Today’s chat log

Attendees: @flixos90, @spacedmonkey, @jeremyfelt

Tickets Covered

  • #36675, WP_MS_Sites_List_Table should use WP_Site_Query. This is almost ready and should also close #33185, #24833, and #21837. Soon after an effective 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. can be written for #26580. Available search columns in WP_Site_Query will remain as domain and path. Once everything is in, an assessment can be made on the usefulness of searching custom columns on the wp_blogs table.
  • #35791, WP_Site_Query has a patch that will go in before the above so that search columns are available. Most of the functions mentioned in the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. description have been updated to use get_sites(). New tickets should be created for the replacement elsewhere in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
  • #36935 implements lazy-loading of site details in WP_Site and will go a long way towards the—possibly silent—deprecation of get_blog_details() in core. It implements a new global cache key (site_details) that will help clear up some of the issues that come with the blog-details cache key. Once this is in, get_blog_details() can be replaced almost everywhere. See #37102 for that progress.
  • #36717 is still in temporary limbo. The private blog_id and site_id properties will likely need to be made public again, but there remains a sliver of hope that this can be worked around inside get_blog_details() for the time being. If it’s still in 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., it will mostly be for testing.
  • #32504 – WP_Network_Query still has 2 weeks before beta. A patch and tests are already there, so there’s a high chance it can go in this week.

If you aren’t available during the weekly multisite office hours, feel free to leave a comment here or in #core-multisite with a ticket number you’d like to see discussed.

See you next week!

#4-6, #multisite, #network-sites