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Amy Kamala 07:09 on 2020-03-11
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Host Feedback Requested Regarding SimpleXML

Hello WordPress Hosts!

WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Team builds WordPress. and the Core SiteMaps Feature Plugin Team are looking for statistics about the availability of the SimpleXML PHP Extension on systems that provide WordPress hostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web..

Any non-sensitive data that can be shared regarding the following will help facilitate the growth and success of the WordPress software:

  • Do hosting platforms support and enable the SimpleXML extension as a standard?
  • How common is it for hosting platforms to not support the extension?
  • Will customers be disadvantaged if the core sitemaps feature “failed gracefully” (with an alert) if the extension is not supported on the hosting system?

The extension is required for the feature plugin as of version 0.2.0. Unless a large percentage of WordPress sites don’t support SimpleXML, when the feature is merged into core the extension will also be required for it to work; however, it will not be required for core itself.

Have any thoughts, questions or concerns? Want to provide data to help support WordPress? Drop a comment below or message the whole team in #hosting-community on 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/.!

Thank you to hosting contributors who provide info on SimpleXML! Your feedback is valuable!

#core

Amy Kamala 01:15 on 2019-08-14
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Hosting Meeting Agenda – August 14, 2019

Hello, everyone!

This is the agenda post for the meeting in #hosting-community on Slack that is scheduled for August14, 2019 at 1700UTC.

Housekeeping

  • A post providing the hostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web.-community collective feedback on PHPPHP PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development. PHP code is usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter. On a web server, the result of the interpreted and executed PHP code would form the whole or part of an HTTP response. extensions is pending.
  • Please contact @jadonn, @mikeschroder or @amykamala to volunteer to help with this, other projects or meeting notes.

Announcements

As always, feedback is encouraged.

Follow Up on 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//hosting

  • The matrix used to approve the hosting options listed on WordPress.org/hosting needs to be reviewed and updated.
  • Volunteers needed for this project
  • What is the current matrix, and what are potential improvements that could be made?
  • What next steps and action items should be pursued by whom?

Open Floor

Do you have anything else to add? Please leave a comment on this post! Look forward to seeing you there!

#agenda, #meetings, #weekly-hosting-chat

Amy Kamala 22:12 on 2019-08-09
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Hosting Meeting Notes: July 31, 2019

Here’s the summary of our meeting in #hosting-community on Wednesday July 31, 2019 at 1400 UTC (Slack archive).

Here is the agenda from the meeting.

Attendees: @jadonn @brettface @chanthaboune @aaroncampbell @dhsean @clorith @antpd

Housekeeping

A follow-up post in response to the PHPPHP PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development. PHP code is usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter. On a web server, the result of the interpreted and executed PHP code would form the whole or part of an HTTP response. extension discussion is pending!

Volunteers are welcome! If you are interested in helping with blog posts, meeting notes or in being more involved in the hostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. community team in general, please reach out to @jadonn, @mike, or @amy kamala to get started!

Thank you @aaroncampbell for volunteering to proof read. Much appreciated!

#core – Feedback Requested!

The #core team is looking for feedback on this post: should security fixes continue to be backported to very old versions of WordPress

Also looking for feedback on this proposal to update WordPress versions lower than 4.7 automatically.

Host input is encouraged! Please don’t hesitate to participate in the conversation by replying to the post or bringing it up in the channel discussion!

Hosting Options on 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//hosting

Host listings on https://wordpress.org/hosting/ are pending review.

@chanthaboune apologized for being unclear about this process at WCEU, and stated the main goal is to “offer hosting options on our /hosting/ pages that take into account localized service.”

As a first step, the matrix used for hosting requirements must be re-visited and refined.

@clorith stated that doing requirement checks in the public arena alleviates liability

@aaroncampbell brought up that allowing public input could flood the /hosting page with an overwhelming amount of host listings.

@brettface would like to see a visual re-vamping of the /hosting page to make it easier to read and more accessible.

@jadonn believes that “having a more transparent process or set of requirements would be beneficial”

@aaroncampbell mentioned that  @remkus at Yoast may have previously helped put together what they use for https://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/

@chanthaboune would love a copy of this as a starting point and stated that “.. our next steps are to figure out what the requirements to be included are”

Thank you to @antpd who volunteered to collect notes, ideas and information for the next meeting where the discussion will continue.

Other teams to be involved in this project are Marketing, Design, Polyglots and 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. to name some.

Open Floor

@clorith asked that hosts please be aware of the proposal to increase the minimum recommended version of PHP in WordPress

Please feel free to comment on the post!

Feedback

If you missed this week’s meeting and have questions or feedback, leave a comment on this post and share your thoughts! OR….Come join for the next meeting!

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be in #hosting-community on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 1700 UTC. Hope to see you then!

+make.wordpress.org/updates

#meetings, #summary, #weekly-hosting-chat

Jadon N 18:37 on 2019-07-30
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Hosting Meeting Agenda – July 31st, 2019

Hello, everyone!

This is the agenda post for the meeting in #hosting-community on Slack that is scheduled for July 31, 2019 at 1400UTC.

Housekeeping

  • Looking for help to write a post about the recent changes that were made to help people locate and track upcoming meetings
  • Looking for help to write a post collecting and summarizing the feedback on the PHPPHP PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development. PHP code is usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter. On a web server, the result of the interpreted and executed PHP code would form the whole or part of an HTTP response. Extension recommendations

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Team builds WordPress.

Team Interest Check-in

  • Projects?
  • Anything else folks are interested in helping out with, or changing with the team?

Open Floor

Do you have anything else to add? Please leave a comment on this post! Look forward to seeing you there!

#agenda, #meetings, #weekly-hosting-chat

Jadon N 15:23 on 2018-08-22
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Hosting Meeting Notes: August 8th, 2018

Here’s the summary of our meeting #hosting-community on Wednesday, August 8th, 2018 at 1700 UTC (Slack archive).

Attendees:
@mikeschroder @dhsean @pbiron @jessecowens @antpb @schlessera @pdclark @andrewtaylor-1

Announcements/Reminders

  • @schlessera announced the release notes and update for WP-CLI v2.0.0 would be shortly released.
  • The team would like hosts to continue gathering feedback on the roll out of Try 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/.

WordPress HostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Best Practices Documentation

Gutenberg

  • @mikeschroder asked hosts to provide reports on any noteworthy developments or experiences with the roll out of Try Gutenberg.
    • @pbiron joined today from the #core team to gather any feedback
    • @mikeschroder and @dhsean reported nothing trending for DreamHost
    • @antpb said WP Engine has not observed any issues
      • @antpb did say the Try Gutenberg roll out has almost doubled adoption of Gutenberg

Feedback

Miss this week’s meeting and want to discuss the initiatives above? Spend some time in the comments and share your thoughts!

#meetings, #summary, #weekly-hosting-chat

Jadon N 21:54 on 2018-06-27
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Send Your Delegates to the July 11th Hosting Community Meeting

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/ HostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Community (#hosting-community) wants to help prepare hosting support teams for the launch of 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/ by producing documentation and resources hosting companies can use to prepare their support teams to best assist their users with Gutenberg before Gutenberg launches.

Anyone interested in preparing for the launch of Try Gutenberg and the launch of Gutenberg in general is welcome to attend the meeting of the Hosting Community team at Wednesday, July 11th, 2018 at 1700 UTC. This will be an opportunity for everyone to meet, establish key milestones, and figure out how to collaborate. Feel free to join #hosting-community in the WordPress.org Slack before then if you have any questions, etc.

At a high level, our goals are to help hosting support teams:

  1. Understand what Gutenberg is and how it works.
  2. Be confident in diagnosing support requests / bug reports / 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 or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. conflicts.
  3. Know how to act on the result of their diagnosis (let it be opening a new Gutenberg issue, reporting the conflict to the plugin author, etc.).

Gutenberg is the redesigned WordPress editor launching later this year with WordPress 5.0. It marks a relatively significant change to WordPress’s editor interface, and the WordPress.org Hosting Community team wants to support a smooth transition to Gutenberg for hosting companies’ customers.

WordPress users will also soon receive an invitation in their WordPress admin dashboard to Try Gutenberg. Users who opt in to Try Gutenberg will have the Gutenberg plugin installed to their WordPress websites. We expect that WordPress users will go to their hosting providers’ support teams first for help with Gutenberg.

We are developing documentation that outlines the best practices for assisting customers with Gutenberg and where support teams can find additional help. The documentation currently lives in a shared Google Document. It contains information about Gutenberg, including:

  1. What is Gutenberg
  2. How to try Gutenberg before it launches
  3. Common support questions
  4. Common bugs
  5. How to file a bug template
  6. Suggested steps for troubleshooting Gutenberg-related issues
  7. Guidance on looking for plugin conflicts with Gutenberg

We want to work directly with hosting companies to cultivate Gutenberg Subject Matter Experts who can take the lead in coordinating with their hosting team and the WordPress.org Hosting Community team to prepare for Gutenberg. Hosting companies interested in collaborating on plans for preparing their teams for Gutenberg should send a representative to the Wednesday, July 11th, 2018 at 1700 UTC. We will discuss the launch of Try Gutenberg and Gutenberg in more detail at that meeting.

We aim to partner with hosting companies to capture user feedback about Gutenberg in order to help drive improvements in Gutenberg. Hosting companies are well-positioned to best assists WordPress users with the move to Gutenberg and to communicate to the Gutenberg team the problems their users are experiencing with Gutenberg. Hosting support teams can contribute to Gutenberg directly through submitting bug reports and providing feedback to the Gutenberg team and the Hosting Community team on how Gutenberg can be made better for WordPress users.

We look forward to seeing you on July 11th!

#core, #meetings, #weekly-hosting-chat

Daniel Bachhuber 23:29 on 2018-06-13
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Help with the Gutenberg Migration Guide at Contributor Day

Looking for something to do at Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.? We could use your help!

The Gutenberg Migration Guide is a crowdsourcing project to document WordPress Classic Editor customization points and their 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/ equivalents (if such exist). media_buttons is the quintessential example; whereas you might’ve used this action previously in the Classic Editor to register a button, it no longer exists in Gutenberg and the 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. inserter is its direct equivalent.

We want the migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. guide to be as comprehensive as it can be. This is defined as:

  1. Identifying as many integration points as we can find. For instance, there are already 14 actions / filters listed. Some are commonly used, while others are not. As long as we have a good example for how the integration point is used, it makes sense to include in the guide.
  2. Whenever possible, documenting how feature parity can be achieved with Gutenberg. Some integration points do already have Gutenberg equivalents. Others don’t yet, and that’s alright.

You can help make the migration guide more comprehensive. If you don’t have any examples of your own to include, here are a couple of places you can start looking:

  • Our plugin compatibility database has a good number of plugins marked incompatible. Some even have descriptions of the problems!
  • The [Type] Plugin / Theme Interoperability and Backwards Compatibility labels in the Gutenberg 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. repository have some number of reasonably documented conflicts.

Everyone can contribute to the migration guide, regardless of skill set. All you need to do is open a new GitHub issue and report the incompatibility you’ve found. Screenshots and GIFs are tremendously helpful. If you know the underlying problem, then please include that too. If all you know is that a given 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 or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.’s feature doesn’t work in Gutenberg, no worries; simply open an issue and we can help track down the cause. Identifying examples of breakage are what we need help with most.

Feel free to join #hosting-community in the WordPress.org Slack if you have any questions, etc. Thanks for your help!

#contributor-day, #core, #documentation