Mobile Team Update – November 16th

WordPress iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android version 18.7 is available for testing. Sign up here to 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. program on iOS or follow this link on your Android device, tap on “Become a beta tester”.

Highlights for the last two weeks:

  • 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. Editor: Added “Link To” to Embed block settings, and shipped support for the mark 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. tag.
  • Other projects: On WPiOS we shipped the new Comment Details and Moderation for My Site comments: a fresh new look and capability to display rich contents. On WPAndroid we fixed an issue in Related Posts below the reader post details, that was cutting the featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. visualisation.
  • Infrastructure: Continued working on improvements to the localization toolchain. We continued collaborating with developers on WP My Site Dashboard, investigating some strategies for a different approach to 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. 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. tests, and implementing some critical automated tests.

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