Agenda for July 24, 2024

👋🏻 Intro/Welcome

🆕 News

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. news

🏗️ Projects:

• Anything new?
• WCUS Contributor Day
• Website Redesign
• Accessibility Testing
• Contributor Dashboards
• GatherPress

Dangling 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/. Messages:

• Emails via Jetpack flagged as spam
• Twitter bot to follow core commuters
• Phased/staged rollouts for core, plugins, themes

TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. Tickets:

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 Directory

• Release Confirmation: Allow plugin reviewers to undo a “discard” – Status: new
• Add Validation on form – Status: closed
• Need clear definition of Explicit Consent for Plugin Guidelines – Status: reopened

Profiles

• Remove “Edit Forum Profile” from wp.org profile header. – Status: new
• Incorrect link image styles in the profile section “Plugins” – Status: closed

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/ Site

• Improve our logo page – Status: closed
• Two versions (6.4.4 and 6.5.5) missing in wordpress version page. – Status: new
• The release page incorrectly states the wrong date for the initial version (0.70) of WP and 0.71 on June 2003 – Status: closed

Theme Directory

• Add banner on the themes archive when a search is done for accessibility ready to add context on what this designation means – Status: new
• Add informational section on the theme single for themes with Accessibility Ready tag describing what that means – Status: new
• Add accessibility information section on theme single in Theme Directory – Status: new

General

• Bug: Image attributes don’t propagate to posts, pages, products, etc – Status: closed
• New Core Committers (Gutenberg + Core Unification) – Status: new
• Minimum PHP version incorrect as of WordPress 6.6 – Status: new

Trac

• Slack notifications can trigger on some comments – Status: new

Developer Hub

• Footer overlaps content on developer resource – Status: new
• Expand code and copy button alignment issue – Status: new

Handbooks

• Developer documentation: Code block overflows – Status: new

Version Control

• New Core Committers: July 2024 – Status: closed

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.

• Update Credits for WordPress 6.6.1 – Status: closed

Make (Get Involved) / P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/.

• Blank dot issue in meta block post – Status: closed

GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that 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/ Issues:

Blueprints

• Theme tester update

Data liberation

• Tracking issue: WordPress to WordPress migrations

Five for the future

• Make use of new usermeta last_activity_tracker
• Visual inconsistency for one of the link present on 5FTF handbook page
• Accessible issue on https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/manage-pledge/ page

Meeting calendar

• Update building tools

Two-factor

• Please use PHPStan

WordPress.org

• Plugins: Inconsistent name in local nav
• Wrong order of blocks in plugins that contains more than one block
• Move “See all” link below ratings blocks

WordPress-playground

• Loading playground in the sidebar of an extension shows an empty iframe
• Add CI test for built packages
• Re-enable more PHPRequest handler docRoot/absoluteUrl permutations
• Make WP known-remote-asset checks dynamic, based on FS at runtime
• Some of the WP-CLI commands don’t work
• Some pull requests aren’t showing up in the changelog
• Remove unused files from the website build
• Incorrect user capabilities result in unexpected 401 responses from the REST API
• Log new error reports in GitHub
• Invalid blueprint error when accessing via Windows PC on a specific network
• Suppress unavoidable deprecated notices – networking
• Playground block as a sandbox for blocks, plugins, and even site edits
• Intermittent SQLite database disconnects
• Drop CommonJS support
• Introduce custom themes for plugins
• Add hook for exposing service worker cache
• Create guide for debugging PHP errors in playground
• Memory limits in WASM environment
• Auto-detect site language from user’s browser settings
• Error with the db on large import
• Investigate potential for multi-threaded WP-CLI commands
• Support for loading JSON translations
• Add option to download local sqlite database
• Enable auto-login for the first user created
• Implement file-based caching for remote assets
• Support multi-language installations
• Implement iframe-based embedding
• Investigate reducing the size of WP playground zip files
• Avoid using globals in PHP scripts
• Support for persistent object cache
• Add support for alternate WP-CLI commands
• Implement a custom database driver for playground
• Expose a health check endpoint for debugging
• Add more comprehensive error logging
• Auto-recover from failed migrations
• Investigate SQLite version upgrades
• Avoid memory leaks in WASM environment
• Support for incremental site imports
• Add option to specify custom WP paths
• Implement plugin and theme auto-updates
• Investigate performance improvements
• Add more granular logging levels
• Implement site health checks
• Support for WP-CLI scripts
• Add hooks for custom WP configurations
• Expose WP REST API endpoints
• Investigate custom logging solutions
• Improve WP-CLI compatibility
• Add comprehensive error reporting
• Support for multiple environments
• Implement more robust caching strategies
• Add hooks for WP database interactions
• Enable detailed debugging information

WordCamp.org

• Incorrect event name shows up in the WordCamp report tool
• WordCamp reports – Meetup groups not displaying non-unique members’ number
• Review attendee survey form and email for WordPress events including WordCamp
• Automate attendee survey for WordCamp
• Featured image on speakers CPT not saved
• Create monitor for QuickBooks connection
• “Past events” page displays past & upcoming events within 5 days
• External links into WordCamp website are marked like nofollow and it would be better that was dofollow
• Missing banner on old WordCamp sites
• Need data of WordCamp tickets per year 2015-2019
• Allow status update of do_action application on WordCamp dashboard to “Scheduled”
• Disable/remove attachment pages on legacy WordCamp sites
• Prevent the wrong (ticket|home) pages from ranking in search results
• Prevent & clean up spam comments on legacy WordCamp sites ​

Wporg-main-2022

• Update site design
• Fix mobile responsiveness issues
• Improve site performance
• Enhance search functionality
• Update content structure
• Add support for multilingual content
• Fix broken links
• Improve site accessibility

Wporg-mu-plugins

• Add new multisite features
• Fix multisite network bugs
• Improve multisite performance
• Language bar causes layout shift
• Link to site homepage is not underlined on hover in the local navigation bar
• h4-h6 headings are not getting anchor link

Wporg-theme-directory

• Fix accessibility issues in theme previews
• Update theme review guidelines
• Enhance theme search functionality
• Add support for theme auto-updates
• Improve theme categorization
• Add user reviews for themes
• Fix pagination issues
• Add support for theme translations

Wporg-parent-2021

• font-feature-settings: “palt” for Japanese character spacing adjustment

Cross-team news

• Proposal: Adjusting Dev Chat times for the 6.7 release

Other news

Open Floor

Action Items

@courane01 will post a Meta team WCUS brainstorm update to gather feedback about what the team will do during 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/..