This Week
- Supportumentation — The Docs Team is leaning toward merging back with Support after six months apart. This will allow us to, among other things, form a unified support hub and entry point to WordPress help and documentation
- Team elections will probably be happening soon, so interested people should put themselves forward because it’s a great way to get involved!
- The Theme Developer Handbook is looking pretty near to completion. Thanks to
@iandunn for recent work on it and@sewmyheadon for volunteering to edit it - @nacin is working on a Code Reference 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. this week. The Code Reference will parse coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. PHPDoc blocks and eventually replace the function, class and 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. references found in the Codex. See the roadmap for more information
Next Week
- We’ll look at the logistics of merging back with Support, which includes merging the 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/.’s (thanks @otto42!), moving handbooks, etc.
- Work will continue on finalizing the Theme Developer Handbook and starting the Code Reference beta
- Just as a reminder, Docs/Support IRC chat was moved to 16:00 UTC (12:00 p.m. EDT, 9:00 a.m. PDT) on Thursdays in #wordpress-sfd