Documentation Team Updates November 8

Projects

Theme Developer Handbook

On schedule, will likely release after WCUS.

A feedback mechanism is likely required for the handbooks but is currently on lower priority.

Codex MigrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies.

Tedious manual work, we would love to have this task be worked on via Contributor Days

DevHub

The REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. documentation is currently being merged in. A handbook will be first created and in-line doc comments will be done in 4.7 release.

Further work on it is being discussed

Helphub

Development is slowed down but work is continuing.

Inline Docs

Our primary focus is now on the 4.7 docs audit

Next meetings

 

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