loremattei 7:46 am on June 5, 2018
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Call for testing: WordPress for iOS 10.2

WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 10.2 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. is available for testing on TestFlight. Not part of the beta program yet? Please sign up for our TestFlight program to join as a beta tester.

What to Test:

1. New Features

  • You can now save posts in the Reader: just tap the bookmark icon on a post, and you’ll be able to find it later in your Saved Posts list. You can even read the text of your saved posts if you’re offline!Please note that images aren’t guaranteed to be available offline in this initial release and that Saved Posts is currently a device-specific feature, which means that saved posts aren’t synced between devices or the web, and will be lost if you log out or uninstall the app.

2. General Improvements

  • Support for displaying GIF images has gained some additional improvements
  • Customer support system has been moved to a different service

3. Several Bug Fixes

There were a lot of other improvements made in this release that aren’t being called out in this post. For the main WordPress iOS application you can view the entire list here.

Bugs & Feedback

Did you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing? You can discuss it here, 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.” one of us in the #mobile WordPress.org Slack room, report it using the TestFlight feedback link, or head straight to the iOS GitHub repository and open a new issue.

Thanks for testing!

loremattei 1:46 pm on May 22, 2018
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Call for testing: WordPress for iOS 10.1

WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 10.1 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. is available for testing on TestFlight. Not part of the beta program yet? Please sign up for our TestFlight program to join as a beta tester.

What to Test:

1. New Features

  • Never miss a credit: a default caption with credits is now generated when uploading stock photos.
  • Manage your notifications: an improved settings management has been implemented.

2. General Improvements

  • Support for displaying GIF images has been improved.
  • The buttons in the comments action bar on notifications now match Calypso’s ordering.
  • Blog list can now be refreshed by pulling
  • Some small layout improvements for accessibilityAccessibility 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)
  • Better captioning of Publish button when scheduling a post

3. Several Bug Fixes

There were a lot of other improvements made in this release that aren’t being called out in this post. For the main WordPress iOS application you can view the entire list here.

Bugs & Feedback

Did you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing? You can discuss it here, 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.” one of us in the #mobile WordPress.org Slack room, report it using the TestFlight feedback link, or head straight to the iOS GitHub repository and open a new issue.

Thanks for testing!

diegoreymendez 8:45 pm on May 7, 2018
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Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 10.0

WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 10.0 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. is available for testing on TestFlight. Not part of the beta program yet? Please sign up for our TestFlight program to join as a beta tester.

What to Test:

1. New Features

  • When importing files into a post in the editor you can now select many different types of file, including PDFs to Word documents.

2. Bug Fixes

  • Improve error message for Jetpack connection errors
  • Allow composing posts when offline by preventing the error message to appear countinuously
  • Fix issue where the WPNoResultsView would be misaligned after rotation.

There were a lot of other improvements made in this release that aren’t being called out in this post. For the main WordPress iOS application you can view the entire list here.

Bugs & Feedback

Did you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing? You can discuss it here, 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.” one of us in the #mobile WordPress.org Slack room, report it using the TestFlight feedback link, or head straight to the iOS GitHub repository and open a new issue.

Thanks for testing!

diegoreymendez 8:46 pm on April 23, 2018
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Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 9.9

WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 9.9 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. is available for testing on TestFlight. Not part of the beta program yet? Please sign up for our TestFlight program to join as a beta tester.

What to Test:

1. New Features

  • Free Stock Photos are now available in the App!
  • Spotlight now indexes key sections of the App!
  • Setting up Jetpack within the app now allows a new WP.com account to be created at the same time.
  • Enabled multiple selection in the document picker.

2. Bug Fixes

  • Signup Epilogue: Some small UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. fixes.

There were a lot of other improvements made in this release that aren’t being called out in this post. For the main WordPress iOS application you can view the entire list here.

Bugs & Feedback

Did you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing? You can discuss it here, 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.” one of us in the #mobile WordPress.org Slack room, report it using the TestFlight feedback link, or head straight to the iOS GitHub repository and open a new issue.

Thanks for testing!

diegoreymendez 6:07 pm on April 10, 2018
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Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 9.8

WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 9.8 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. is available for testing on TestFlight. Not part of the beta program yet? Please sign up for our TestFlight program to join as a beta tester.

What to Test:

1. New Features

  • Uploads are now asynchronous!
  • Pages that fail to upload will now be marked red.
  • The input field for writing comments can now grow up to 5 lines.

2. Several Bug Fixes

  • Post tags no longer drop a shadow.
  • Resolved some refreshing issues when creating Categories.
  • Jetpack: Resolved some layout issues during setup.
  • Reader now loads with the correct locale.
  • iPad: Tapping on a notification properly launches the App and shows it.
  • Notifications: Tapping on a post notification takes you to the reader.
  • Editor: Posts are initialized as Draft instead of Published.
  • My Profile: Ampersands in names are now properly displayed.

There were a lot of other improvements made in this release that aren’t being called out in this post. For the main WordPress iOS application you can view the entire list here.

Bugs & Feedback

Did you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing? You can discuss it here, 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.” one of us in the #mobile WordPress.org Slack room, report it using the TestFlight feedback link, or head straight to the iOS GitHub repository and open a new issue.

Thanks for testing!

diegoreymendez 3:41 am on March 27, 2018
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Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 9.7

WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 9.7 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. is available for testing on TestFlight. Not part of the beta program yet? Please sign up for our TestFlight program to join as a beta tester.

What to Test:

1. New Features

  • List of Posts, AccessibilityAccessibility 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): The list of post now handles Dynamic Type fonts better.
  • List of Posts: New post status and author 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. bar!
  • List of Posts, Accessibility: The new post status and author filter bar offers Voiceover support.
  • Login, Accessibility: The login flow now handles Dynamic Type better.
  • Menus, Accessibility: The Menu section of your sites now supports Dynamic Type.
  • My Profile: You now have a more explicit option for editing your GravatarGravatar Is an acronym for Globally Recognized Avatar. It is the avatar system managed by WordPress.com, and used within the WordPress software. https://gravatar.com/. icon.
  • Spotlight: Now indexes posts and pages!

2. Several Bug Fixes

  • Share extension: Your primary site can no longer be hidden when sharing content to WPiOS.
  • The app will now use a fixed font size for navigation and search bars.
  • Fixed a crash with the email verification checks.

There were a lot of other improvements made in this release that aren’t being called out in this post. For the main WordPress iOS application you can view the entire list here.

Bugs & Feedback

Did you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing? You can discuss it here, 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.” one of us in the #mobile WordPress.org Slack room, report it using the TestFlight feedback link, or head straight to the iOS GitHub repository and open a new issue.

Thanks for testing!

diegoreymendez 3:53 pm on March 26, 2018
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Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 9.6

WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 9.6 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. is available for testing on TestFlight. Not part of the beta program yet? Please sign up for our TestFlight program to join as a beta tester.

What to Test:

1. New Features

  • Posts: Post publishing now requires confirmation.
  • Editor, iPad: The editor now has readable margins!
  • Posts: Post deletion now requires confirmation.
  • Media: Showing the disk quota in Site Settings and when adding media to the library.
  • Sharing: Saving a Draft to WordPress now lets you pick the categories for the post.
  • Self-hosted: Shows an error messages when XMLRPC is blocked.

2. Several Bug Fixes

  • Assume HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information. instead of HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. by default.
  • Fixed a crash when closing a web view in the app.
  • Fixed a crash when Stats was trying to open some broken links.
  • Fixed a crash when tapping on media that failed to upload.

There were a lot of other improvements made in this release that aren’t being called out in this post. For the main WordPress iOS application you can view the entire list here.

Bugs & Feedback

Did you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing? You can discuss it here, 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.” one of us in the #mobile WordPress.org Slack room, report it using the TestFlight feedback link, or head straight to the iOS GitHub repository and open a new issue.

Thanks for testing!

Jorge Bernal 1:35 pm on March 21, 2018
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Gutenberg on Mobile

The mobile team has been looking at 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/ lately, and while it’s too soon to have a detailed plan, we thought we’d share an update on where we stand so far.

We want to support Gutenberg on the mobile apps. And for Gutenberg to be successful in the apps, we believe we must strive to support the full experience, and not a limited feature set. We believe Gutenberg and the concept of blocks has the potential to reshape the way people customize and extend WordPress, and the apps should be a coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. part of that experience. Getting this right opens up a level of extensibility on mobile that we have never been able to support with the existing 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 infrastructure.

To make this a reality, we have been experimenting with ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. Native the past weeks, and we keep doing research on what we’re going to need to build this. Our plan is to adapt Gutenberg to make its primitives run both on web and native platforms, then have some platform-specific components, like Aztec for RichText, or our own Media pickers.

We are still in the process of discovering what changes will be necessary, but so far we know that:

  • Blocks will have to rely on a given set of known primitives that are implemented in all platforms if they are to be mobile compatible, instead of using plain HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites..
  • We need to find a solution for styling. CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. is a given on the web, but not on mobile.
  • Blocks should not access the DOM directly, since React Native doesn’t use the DOM. There might be other 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/. limitations.

Beyond technical limitations, Gutenberg and 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. developers will have to consider that their UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. will run on different platforms and screen sizes, and use a design that works across all of them. We’ll hopefully provide a tool set to help block developers make their blocks mobile compatible.

There are still a lot of unknowns, but we are very excited about this project, and its potential to bring the apps closer to core and allow for much more customization than is possible today.

You can expect to see some discussion happening on the Gutenberg and gutenberg-mobile 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/ repos, and we’ll make another post here once we have a clearer roadmap. If you have any questions or want to get involved, you can discuss here or find us in the #core-editor and #mobile rooms in WordPress.org Slack.

elibud 1:56 pm on February 28, 2018
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Call for testing: WordPress for iOS 9.5

WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 9.4 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. is available for testing on TestFlight. Not part of the beta program yet? Please sign up for our TestFlight program to join as a beta tester.

What to Test:

1. New Features

  • A new Sign Up and Site Creation flow.
  • A new share extension that adds support to save drafts and handles tags.
  • 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 management taken to the next level: you can now browse, search and install plugins, accessible via Site->Plugins (only available for Jetpack sites).

2. Several Bug Fixes

There were a lot of other improvements made in this release that aren’t being called out in this post. For the main WordPress iOS application you can view the entire list here.

Bugs & Feedback

Did you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing? You can discuss it here, 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.” one of us in the #mobile WordPress.org Slack room, report it using the TestFlight feedback link, or head straight to the iOS GitHub repository and open a new issue.

Thanks for testing!

#beta, #ios, #needs-testing

mzorz 9:08 pm on February 26, 2018
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Call for testing: WordPress for Android 9.5

WordPress for Android version 9.5-rc-1 has been released in the Google Play Store. You can join the 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. from the Google Play Store on your device (under “Become a beta tester”), and comment here or join the Google Plus beta community for more discussion with other testers. (Note: If you see a message that the beta testing program is full, you’ll need to wait for space to open up before you can join the beta. Thanks for your interest!)

What to Test:

SignUp/Site Creation

This has been fully revamped. If feeling in the mood to checking this out,  please check logging in, creating a new user / site, and all different paths you can think of.

Jetpack 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 browser / search

This is also a newly added feature, accessible through Site -> Plugins.

Related master issue here:

https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android/pull/7207

Jetpack speed up settings

There are two options with descriptions. One is to load images lazily and the second to server images from our servers. Both have been added to the “General” tab. Settings are only visible on Jetpack version >= 5.8

To test:

  • Log in with site connected to Jetpack with version >= 5.8
  • Go to site settings
  • Click on “Speed up your site”
  • See 2 new settings with description
    • Both are clickable and are saved when clicked

Original GH issue https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android/pull/7256

Bugs & Feedback

Did you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing? Did you try the additional flow testing? You can discuss it here, report it using the “Enter feedback about the app” form in the Google Play Store, or head straight to the Android Github repository and open a new issue.

Thank you for testing!

#android, #beta, #needs-testing, #wpandroid