Birgit Pauli-Haack 3:07 pm on November 29, 2024

Hallway Hangout: Playground for agencies, Dec 6, 2024

Join us on December 6, 2024, at 14:00 UTC for an informal discussion on how agencies and product builders could use WordPress Playground for client work and showcase their products. The conversation will be kicked off by @karmatosed, and @zieladam. Others are welcome to participate and bring their ideas.

The conversation will cover, among other things,

How can agencies and product builders use Playground?
How do we let them know about it?
What’s not in Playground, yet but would be useful for agencies or product builders?
What’s the current direction of Playground and how can that wishlist be incorporated

The meeting is open to the public. The Zoom link will also be posted in the #playground channel on Make 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/. on that Friday morning. A recording will be available shortly after. Hope to see you all there!

Birgit Pauli-Haack 3:44 pm on November 22, 2024
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Playground Team Meeting Summary – November 22, 2024

The Playground team met to discuss recent updates, ongoing projects, and community questions. (Slack script) facilitated by Birgit Pauli-Haack

Announcements

New Features:
- Playground’s WordPress PR and 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/ PR tester can now be accessed via the three-dot menu, with a modal for PR number input. @ajotka and @bpayton
- A 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.-based Blueprints Editor, created by @ajitbohra, enables building Blueprints visually without JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML..
Upcoming Hallway Hangouts:
- November 29, 2024 (14:00 UTC): Walkthrough of the block-based Blueprints Editor with @ajitbohra and @zieladam.
- December 6, 2024 (14:00 UTC): Discussion on agency use cases for Playground with @karmatosed and @zieladam.
- Details to follow in 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/. and on the Make blog.

Contributor Updates

Blueprints Development:
- @bpayton reported that discussions are ongoing about integrating Blueprint workflows with a wizard-like content creation flow and developing a Blueprint package format to bundle assets.
Database Support:
- @janjakes shared that Advanced MySQL support now includes the new merged MySQL parser. Progress on the new SQLite driver continues. You can follow along here
Playground Compatibility Tester Enhancements:
- It now tests all 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/ themes and plugins for compatibility with Playground. Next step for @berislavgrgicak integrating a runner for continuous updates.
Data Liberation Efforts:
- More PRs were merged and can be followed along on the tracking issue. Improvements to the next-gen importer include streaming data from WXR files, parsing markdown, downloading assets, resuming interrupted imports, and rewriting URLs. Upcoming work includes progress updates and handling complex WXR inputs.

Open Floor

CORS Proxy Update:
- A new CORS proxy has been deployedDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. on the Playground domain, with plans to move it to a dedicated domain.
- Contributors discussed the impact of the proxy move and the need to update documentation once the domain stabilizes.

Thank you to all contributors for your participation! Stay tuned for updates in Slack and on the Make WordPress blog.

#summary #meeting

Adam Zieliński 11:47 pm on October 28, 2024

Playground Meeting Summary – October 25, 2024

The Playground team met to discuss recent updates, ongoing projects, and community questions.

When? October 25, 2024
Where? #playground slack channel
Facilitator: @berislavgrgicak

Announcements

CORS Proxy: A CORS Proxy is now available on playground.wordpress.net. It enables loading files directly from Git repositories using the git:directory resourece.
cURL Support: cURL is now available in web browsers.
Data Liberation Project: Kickoff announced.

Contributor Updates:

@berislavgrgicak Introduced password-less logins and gave his first ever talk about Playground
@bph will review and update blueprints from the gallery to use the new themeData feature and the CORS proxy
@zieladam implemented CURL support in web browsers
@akirk built a Blueprint for the Friends plugin and turned Playground into an RSS and ActivityPub reader. Also, Alex expanded the Step Library with steps like addCorsProxy, addMedia, and importFriendFeeds.
@psykro contributed a Blueprint for the Create Block Theme plugin

Discussions:

@bph asked about a 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. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. deprecation message in a Playground setup, which turned out to be likely related to the TT5 theme. The issue will be further investigated asynchronously on 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/.
The meeting time will shift to 2 PM UTC to better accommodate US time zones. Recurring meetings are now scheduled for the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month at this new time.

Shout-outs and Thanks: The team thanked @berislavgrgicak for facilitating the meeting for the first time and @bph for her increased involvement in developer relations for Playground.