Media
New workflow
Details:Â Media library browser, gallery workflow, insert/edit, image editor, cropping
Status:Â Browser, featured images, gallery workflow are in. Attachment/gallery inserting is in. Image editing and cropping needs some work.
Assigned to: Koop, needs people for testing and integration
Last Updated October 6
Image manipulation APIs
Details:Â Support ImageMagick alongside GD.
Status:Â Initial patch 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. in trunk 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.. Needs tweaks and improvements.
Assigned to:Â Marko Heijnen, Mike Schroeder, Japh, Kurt Payne
Last Updated October 6
Using standard post type UI User interface for attachments
Ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.:Â #21391
Status:Â Initial patch in trunk. Needs tweaks and improvements.
Assigned to: Helen, ocean90, other help very welcome
Last Updated September 25
TinyMCE previews
Details:Â Previews of galleries and attachments (with potential for shortcodes and oEmbed).
Status:Â DONE. Might need some tweaks.
Assigned to:Â Ozz, Koop
Last Updated September 25
TinyMCE upload
Details:Â Drag-and-drop upload into the editor.
Status:Â Initial (rough) patch is up.
Priority:Â Low
Assigned to:Â Ozz
Last Updated:Â September 19
Plupload changes
Details:Â concurrent uploads (or upload next after crunch begins); multiple drop-zones
Priority:Â Low
Assigned to:Â No one… yet
(New) User Experience
New Color Picker
Details:Â Replace Farbtastic with something better. Decision was to adopt Matt Wiebe’s work
Status:Â In trunk. Needs user testing on HSL versus HSV
Assigned to:Â Matt Wiebe, Dave Martin
Ticket:Â #21206
Last Updated October 5
Page on front UI
Details:Â Improve the workflow/procedure for selecting a static front page A WordPress website can have a dynamic blog-like front page, or a “static front page†which is used to show customized content. Typically this is the first page you see when you visit a site url, like wordpress.org for example.
Status:Â In trunk.
Assigned to:Â Sergey Biryukov, Dave Martin, others
Ticket:Â #16379
Last Updated October 6
Removing UI Options
Details: Remove UI options for default_post_edit_rows (#21718), autoembed_urls and embed_size_w/h (#21719), blog_charset (#21507), enable_xmlrpc (#21509), enable_app (#21866), upload_path and upload_url_path (#21720); combine Privacy Settings with Reading Settings (#16416), and maybe siteurl (#10970)
Status:Â DONE. Except for siteurl, which is a bit more ambitious and may not happen.
Assigned to:Â Nacin
Last Updated September 25
Retina Spinners
Status:Â DONE
Assigned to:Â Dave Martin
Ticket:Â #21456
Welcome Screen Redux
Status:Â In trunk.
Assigned to:Â Dave Martin, George Stephanis, ryelle, sabreuse, others
Ticket:Â #21368
Last Updated September 26
Update button styles
Details:Â Update the button styles from pills to something more modern (mouse-nibbled corners)
Status:Â In trunk.
What is left: Bug fixes and style adjustments. Maybe wp_button()
 to replace the mess that is submit_button()
Ticket:Â #21598
Last Updated September 11
Screen Options/Help Redux
Details:Â Move Screen Options and Help into the toolbar.
Status:Â PUNTED. UI designs done. PHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher mostly done. CSS Cascading Style Sheets. for screen options in progress. Help still needs help.
Assigned to:Â Chelsea, Ryan Boren, Mel Choyce, ryelle, others (?)
Ticket:Â #21583
Accessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access†(i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access†meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)
Visible :focus in admin (and super admin) screens
Status:Â In trunk.
What is left:Â Any style adjustments and bug 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. fixes.
Assigned to:Â Dave Martin, Sergey, Graham Armfield
Ticket:Â #21324
Last Updated September 18
Add “Skip to†accessibility shortcuts
Status:Â In trunk.
What is left:Â UI/design review of the shortcuts; fix a bug in Chrome.
Ticket:Â #21471, #21310
Assigned to:Â Dave Martin, Andrew Ozz, Graham Armfield
Last Updated September 18
Customizer 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. Accessibility
Details:Â Make the customizer accessible. Until this happens, we cannot disable redundant screens that have feature parity (like Headers, Backgrounds, etc.)
Status:Â Initial patch is ready for testing.
Assigned to:Â Dave Martin, Aaron Jorbin
Ticket:Â #21283
Last Updated September 18
Retina/HiDPI
HiDPI Admin
Status:Â DONE. Only thing left is double-check everything.
Assigned to:Â Helen, Ozz, Taylor
Tickets:Â #21019
Last Updated September 18
About screen
Details:Â Implement a WP.org API 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. to serve screenshots from s.wordpress.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/. These can even be localized. Always serve 2x into img tags.
Status:Â Not Started
Timeline:Â Can be back-burnered until mid-October, when we start building the about page.
Assigned to:Â Otto
Ticket:Â #21805
Last Updated September 5, pre-chat
Theme screenshots
Details:Â Reduce items per page (infinite scroll will kick in) to speed up the page load. Adjust theme guidelines for authors to ship a 2x’d image.
Status:Â DONE. Guidelines will be in place for 3.5.
Ticket:Â #21388
Backgrounds, Headers, Featured Images, User Uploads
Status:Â PUNTED. Need to try this in a plugin 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 first, and wait for media.
Ticket:Â #21455, #21389, #21038
Last Updated September 5 (post-chat)
Twenty Twelve
Status:Â Dealing with miscellaneous bugs.
Tickets:Â https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?milestone=3.5&component=Bundled+Theme&status=!closed
Last Updated September 27
Removing Link Manager
Status: In trunk. Can be released as-is.
What is done:Â Disabled by default for new installs.
What is left:
- Remove the bank of default links if that’s all the user has.
- Install the Link Manager plugin on upgrade.
- Move the admin code into a plugin.
- Move all of the code into a plugin.
Potential routes:Â Considering #1 for 3.5, maybe #2 as well. Considering #3 and #4 for 3.6 and/or 3.7. This places a priority on eliminating the UI debt prior to eliminating the technical debt.
Ticket:Â #21307
Last Updated September 5, pre-chat
Multisite 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
Multisite in a subdirectory
Status:Â DONE
Assigned to:Â Jaquith, Nacin
Ticket:Â #19796
Remove ms-files
Status:Â DONE
Assigned to:Â Nacin
Ticket:Â #19235
XML-RPC
XML-RPC Revision Management
Details:Â Adding ability to view and restore revisions 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.
Assigned to:Â Max Cutler, Jorge Bernal, and mobile team
Status:Â DONE
Tickets:Â #21397
XML-RPC User Management
Details:Â wp.getUsers, wp.getUser, wp.getProfile, wp.editProfile
Assigned to:Â Max Cutler and mobile team
Status:Â In trunk. Changes might be needed for wp.getUsers.
Tickets:Â #18428
Last Updated September 20
Turn XML-RPC on by default
Details:Â Turn XML-RPC on by default; hide the UI option; add a filter 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.
Assigned to:Â Nacin
Status:Â DONE
Ticket:Â #21509
Remove AtomPub from core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.
Details:Â Remove AtomPub from core; remove the UI option; make it a plugin
Assigned to:Â Nacin, Scott Taylor
Status:Â DONE. Plugin needs testing.
Ticket:Â #21866
Last Updated September 11