Design meeting summary February 22

Housekeeping

Calls for design

Requests for feedback

  • PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. upgrade page – A design has been proposed for a new page. Clarifying questions were posted to the card to get more context. Any feedback is welcome! (https://trello.com/c/XNTTAQIk)
  • 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/ 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 compatibility testing – A design has been proposed for testing plugin compatibility with Gutenberg. She’d love feedback on the designs! Feel free to drop feedback into the Trello card. (https://trello.com/c/yt5zPCNO)
  • 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. design – Already in progress but any feedback would be appreciated (https://trello.com/c/kwGPscty)
  • Jargon glossary – Work is in progress, feel free to give any feedback (https://trello.com/c/fkXHnxdb)

Designs ready to be implemented

  • New 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/. bot – We want to create a bot to welcome new folks to the channel. We agreed that the proposed messaging from Michele looks great and she will proceed with reaching out to get it implemented. (https://trello.com/c/bHidmHha)
  • New Dashicon (no action needed from Design team) – A new icon was submitted for WordPress Coding StandardsWordPress Coding Standards The Accessibility, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc. coding standards as published in the WordPress Coding Standards Handbook. May also refer to The collection of PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) used to format and validate PHP code developed for WordPress according to the PHP coding standards. and it’s waiting fo to get finalized. We also chatted about some changes coming to Dashicons that may involve a 24px grid. (https://trello.com/c/Su0sTmFm)

Note

  • There were no other existing TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets to review, and no Triage items from the Trello inbox.
  • We also had a brief chat about the best way to do calls for design, we’ll circle around on this async and figure out ways to make it easier to make those more visible.

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