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Welcome back to a new issue of Week in CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Let’s take a look at what changed on TracTracAn open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between April 12 and April 19, 2021.
TicketticketCreated for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. numbers are based on the Trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.
Code changes
Build/Test Tools
Make adjustments to how often old branches are tested – #52653
Use strict comparison in wp-admin/includes/class-walker-nav-menu-edit.php – #52627
Give a variable in WP_Automatic_Updater::after_core_update() a more meaningful name – #52627
Use strict comparison in wp-admin/includes/class-custom-image-header.php – #52627
Use strict comparison in wp-admin/includes/class-custom-background.php – #52627
Rewrite a fragment in request_filesystem_credentials() for clarity and to avoid repetition – #52627
Use strict comparison in wp-admin/includes/file.php – #52627
Use strict comparison in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-automatic-updater.php – #52627
Documentation
Correct comment format in `wp-adminadmin(and super admin)/edit-tags.php`, remove extra space – #46428
Editor
Update WordPress packages to use with WordPress 5.8 – #52991
BackportbackportA port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch. changes for WordPress packages added in 5.7.1 – #52912
Blocks: Add is_default handling to server side blockBlockBlock 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. styles registry – #53006
External libraries
Include upstream GetID3 fix for PHPPHPThe web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher 8
Feeds
Rename “Summary” to “ExcerptExcerptAn excerpt is the description of the blog post or page that will by default show on the blog archive page, in search results (SERPs), and on social media. With an SEO plugin, the excerpt may also be in that plugin’s metabox.” in Reading Settings – #52987
Internationalization
Add context to strings when updating a pluginPluginA 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 or theme with a ZIP package – #53017, #52625
Privacy
Ensure “Export Personal Data” does not generate invalidinvalidA resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common in software development, sometimes also notabug) that indicates the ticket is not a bug, is a support request, or is generally invalid.JSONJSONJSON, 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. – #52892
REST APIREST APIThe 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/.
Allow authors to read their own password protected posts
Site Health
Remove Ajax requests from dashboard widgetWidgetA WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. – #49814
Correct test result status for the HTTPSHTTPSHTTPS 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. test – #52783
Upgrade/Install
Correct the alignment of error messages for the language installer – #52989
Props
Thanks to the 22 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week:
This meeting is held in the #coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-editor channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
Gutenberg 10.4 GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/ 10.5 RC
BlockBlockBlock 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 WidgetWidgetA WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor.
Navigation block.
Full Site Editing.
Task Coordination.
Open Floor.
Even if you can’t make the meeting, you’re encouraged to share anything relevant for the meeting in the comments below:
If you have anything to share for the Task Coordination section, please leave it as a comment on this post.
If you have anything to propose for the agenda or other specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.
Google is rolling out Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) for the Chrome browser.
TL;DR: FLoC places people in groups based on their browsing habits to target advertising.
Why is this bad? As the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains in their post “Google’s FLoC is a terrible idea“, placing people in groups based on their browsing habits is likely to facilitate employment, housing and other types of discrimination, as well as predatory targeting of unsophisticated consumers.
This is in addition to the privacy concerns of tracking people and sharing their data, seemingly without informed consent – and making it more difficult for legislators and regulators to protect people.
So What Now?
WordPress powers approximately 41% of the web – and this community can help combat racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination and discrimination against those with mental illness with a few lines of code:
Those websites who want to opt into FLoC are likely to have the technical know-how to simply override this proposed filterFilterFilters 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. in CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
When balancing the stakeholder interests, the needs of website administrators who are not even aware that this is something that they need to mitigate – and the interests of the users and visitors to those sites, is simply more compelling.
Furthermore, for WordPress versions that support privacy settings, we can easily add an on-off toggle to enable websites to opt in. This would only require a few more lines of code and only a couple of new strings.
What Do You Mean By “Treat It Like A Security Concern”?
Include the patchpatchA special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. the next minor releaseMinor ReleaseA set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality., rather than waiting for the next major releasemajor releaseA release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.;
Back-port the patch to previous versions of WordPress.
Why Treat It That Way? Why Not Just Wait For The Next Major Release?
Well, keep your eyes peeled, because there is a ticketticketCreated for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for future releases on its way!
While it is indeed unusual to treat a new “feature” this way, there is precedent in that something that was not strictly a security vulnerability in comments was back-ported to previous versions for the good of the community as a whole.
Furthermore, a significant number of WordPress sites only update to minor versions. By back-porting, we can protect more sites and more visitors to those sites – and amplify the impact.
Request For Comment
Please join the discussion below!
Whether want to show support, disagree vehemently, or just want to make the implementation the best that it can possibly be, please have your voice be heard.
I’m aware that there is a lot of discussion on other platforms, including Twitter on this matter, but we won’t see all of it, so in addition to spreading the conversation there, please comment here too, so that it can be considered when this is discussed at development meetings and when the ticket is created (consensus building first – and that is done here 😉 )
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A DEVELOPER TO PARTICIPATE. There will be a ticket on core.trac.wordpress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ where we will discuss all of the technical stuff. I’m tremendously grateful that there are so many developers, Core, MetaMetaMeta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. and others, around, but blogblog(versus network, site) posts on make.wordpress.org are the places that are accessible to techies and non-techies alike 🙂
Version Control:
1. Edited to add clarification that treatment like a security concern refers to the process / procedure (accelerated development and back-porting).
2. Code snippet updated based on suggestions below. Thank you to Tom for the snippet and to everyone who suggested conditionally appending, rather than replacing.
Added some more info to the Request for Comment.
@markparnell and @audrasjb led the weekly meetings of the WordPress CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team, respectively at 05:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC. Here is the meeting agenda.
Since no issue was raised after the release candidate, WordPress 5.7.1 was released a few hours after the devchat. It contains 26 bugfixes and 2 security fixes.
General (@sergeybiryukov): Sergey has started chipping away at some long-standing coding standards issues in core, see ticketticketCreated for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.#52627 for more details.
Build/Test Tools, Date/Time, Internationalization, Permalinks (@sergeybiryukov): No major news this week.
Cache APIAPIAn 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.
@marybaum volunteered to maintain the Help/About component. This request was accepted by the Core team.
Open floor
@webcommsat shared that lots of people have been asking about WCEU dates (7-10 June 2021). The community team is looking at how they promote contributing this year too. More soon.
Ticket #53014 was mentioned in both 5:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC devchats. It’s in milestone 5.8. It wasn’t fixed in previous releases as it still needs a patchpatchA special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. and proper testing.
The GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/pluginPluginA 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 shipped v10.4 yesterday, April 14th, and Matías hosted the go/no go demo to review the current state of Full Site Editing and determine what, if anything, should be included in WordPress 5.8 (July 2021), as described in my earlier post.
The demo lasted close to 1.5 hours; it’s impressive to see how far Gutenberg has come. It was evident in the demo how powerful Full Site Editing can be. There is plenty to iterate upon and refine, but from a high level perspective all participants felt this was a “go” for WP5.8. Listed below are the primary areas to focus our collaborative efforts on, as well as a full list of issues/questions raised in the demo. With the cadence of Gutenberg updates there should be three major releases of Gutenberg (10.7) before the feature freeze date for WP5.8 betaBetaA 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..
The changes that Phase 2 bring to WordPress are substantial, so to avoid overwhelming users the Global Styles interface and Site Editor (managing all templates) will ship post-WP5.8. This also gives more time for more theme authors, plugin developers, agencies, designers, site builders, and the like to explore and provide feedback.
WP5.8 Go ✅
Improvements from Gutenberg 9.9+.
Introduce new blocks (Query, Site Logo, Navigation, etc).
theme.json mechanism.
Template Editor for Pages/Blank Template.
Widgets Screen & BlockBlockBlock 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. widgets in CustomizerCustomizerTool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings..
Design tools: Duotone, Layout controls, padding, etc.
Not all of the above are currently ready but there’s some level of confidence that they can be by the time of 5.8.
Who Attended
Matt Mullenweg – Project Lead (advocating for the vision/mission of WordPress, and aggregate body of users)
Matías Ventura – Gutenberg project lead (host of the demo)
Helen Hou-Sandí – Lead developer (advocating for CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., and extender community)
Josepha Haden Chomphosy – Executive Director (advocating for the community of WordPress, and aggregate body of users)
Héctor Prieto – Technical Project Manager (following up on technical action items)
Chloé Bringmann – Assisting with administrative and operational logistics
Reflections and Action Items
Listed below are synthesized suggestions and comments from the conversation.
Pattern Directory
While the directory is not ready yet, iterations will continue. More available patterns will be necessary, if it is to live up to its potential.
Query Block
Perhaps rename Query along the lines of, “Block List.”
Define the “query” of query block, and refine nomenclature for users.
When selecting a pattern, it’s not clear that what you see is an example and that you still need to select which pattern you want. Iterate on UIUIUser interface.
Multi-entity saving flow is not clear, as when you don’t save some entities’ changes nothing tells you what happened, and unselected changes aren’t actually discarded, just not saved in the background.
Iterate on the best placement for block names.
The “inherit query” text is not clear, both from a technical standpoint and a jargon standpoint. We need to aim for the right type of verbose so that it’s clear and descriptive.
🚩 This is potentially too powerful for users—you can edit everything from the blocks in this block. Flag was seconded.
theme. jsonJSONJSON, 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.
When options aren’t available in the UI because they have been disabled by the theme, make it clear that the options are turned off.
theme.json should allow a primary block to declare the styles for any nested blocks (like a search block within the nav block).
Inserter
The slide-in inserter makes the canvas smaller, so when adding full-page patterns they don’t look the same as in the preview until the inserter is closed again. Add the possibility for the inserter to show the patterns in the canvas in a zoomed-view rather than in a responsive view.
Navigation
We need more user-testing of both the Navigation Block and the Navigation Editor.
Move most of the block popups to the toolbar like when cropping images in the Image Block. E.g., links are not visible until you edit them.
If there’s any topic you’d like to discuss, or if you have suggestions for discussion questions, please leave a comment below!
Housekeeping
Review discussion outcomes from last week (CSS deprecation path, JSJSJavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. targeting naming conventions)
Two weeks have passed since the last GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/ release, which means a new version is already available! Gutenberg 10.4 introduces cool features like blockBlockBlock 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. widgets in the CustomizerCustomizerTool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings., enhancements to the Site Editor, improvements to rich text placeholders, and, as always, many bugbugA bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixes as well.
Block widgets in the Customizer
As part of the Block-based WidgetWidgetA WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor project, one goal is to enable block widgets in the Customizer, with Gutenberg 10.4 introducing the first iteration of this feature.
The publishing content UI found in block editors now includes the site icon and name so that it’s clearer in certain cases, such as full-screen or mobile, where you are publishing to.
Revert template to theme defaults within the Site Editor
Until now, to revert a template to the default provided by a theme, it had to be done outside the Site Editor. Thanks to this new feature, it is now possible to revert template customizations directly in the editor.
Rich text placeholder enhancements
To improve the editing experience, rich text block placeholders have seen a few tweaks in this release. Starting in Gutenberg 10.4, blocks containing rich text will display a shorter placeholder text that will remain shown even when being focused.
Post ExcerptExcerptAn excerpt is the description of the blog post or page that will by default show on the blog archive page, in search results (SERPs), and on social media. With an SEO plugin, the excerpt may also be in that plugin’s metabox.: Fix toolbar for post excerpt warning. (30280)
Post Title: Fix “‘length’ of undefined” error. (30208)
Query: Use a WordPress loopLoopThe Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. for the query block. (30405)
Site Logo: Delete sitelogo option when custom logo does not exist or was removed. (30427)
Block List: Fix mover position in the docked toolbar. (30242)
Code Editor: Revert save editors value on change (#27717). (30524)
Post Editor:
Avoid focus attempt on a non-existent post title in code editor. (29922)
Fix the post author selector for contributor roles. (30218)
Gutenberg PluginPluginA 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: Ensure that plugin does not error with older versions of WordPress. (30230)
Inner blocks: Memoize allowedBlocks to prevent needlessly updating settings. (30311)
Server side renderer: Fix errors in template part editor context. (29246)
Polish navigation menuNavigation MenuA theme feature introduced with Version 3.0. WordPress includes an easy to use mechanism for giving various control options to get users to click from one place to another on a site. submenus. (30335)
Add description for templateParts in theme jsonJSONJSON, 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.. (30118)
Add instructions for finding attributes for use in templates. (30258)
Added a practical example of adding a component to the sidebarSidebarA sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme.. (30379)
Remove deprecations planned for 10.3 release. (30417)
Update the objectFitPolyfill vendor library. (30507)
PHPPHPThe web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher Coding Standards fixes. (30346)
Tools
Add /packages/stylelint-config to CODEOWNERS. (30264)
Build: Ensure non-JSJSJavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. changes are processed in the watch mode. (30343)
Testing:
Added end-to-end tests for navigation menu name editor. (29774)
GHA workflow improvements when setting up NodeJS. (29078)
The following benchmark compares performance for a particularly sizeable post (~36,000 words, ~1,000 blocks) over the last releases. Such a large post isn’t representative of the average editing experience but is adequate for spotting variations in performance.
Version
Loading Time
KeyPress Event (typing)
Gutenberg 10.4
5.94s
35.14ms
Gutenberg 10.3
5.98s
32.58ms
WordPress 5.7
5.05s
31.34ms
Kudos to all the contributors that helped with the release! 👏
Thanks @youknowriad for managing the release and @critterverse for helping with the release post assets.
GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/ 10.4 release.
@youknowriad shared that the release post will be coming shortly (later today or tomorrow). It’s a release with a lot of work related to FSE, FSE Blocks, editor/frontend parity and many other updates.
Full Site Editing Scope for WP5.8
The post was shared during the chat and attention directed towards the outline of the 5.8 plans for FSE, and @annezazu shared that there is a new call for testing available. Also we now have a board with WordPress 5.8 FSE Must Haves.
Monthly Priorities & Key Project Updates
Global Styles
@nosolosw shared in his GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ tracking issue:
Landed:
Parts of theme.jsonJSONJSON, 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. with elements PR:29891
i18ni18nInternationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill. process: make it not depend on a particular path PR:30604
add mechanism to migrate from a v0 schema to the latest PR:30600
border radius for the button blockBlockBlock 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.PR:30194
font size & font family for the button block PR:30394
For the Block based WidgetWidgetA WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor the main focus these days is improving the performance of the block editor in the customizerCustomizerTool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. and moving our attention to testing the level of back compat existing and achievable.
ongoing discussion about the block’s markup and the work on adding a Links List block
Update on the post schedule component
@retrofox shared an update about a couple of enhancements in the post-schedule component. Now, it shows calendar events with a small blue bullet. Events are scheduled and published posts.
I mainly worked on enhancementenhancementEnhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. issues:
Working on all things FSE Outreach Program — responding to feedback for the fourth call for testing/opening lots of issues, held a hallway hangout about FSE, still testing FSE everyday, and am going to ship a fifth call for testing today with a summary post of the fourth call for testing to follow later this week.
@poena announced that last week there was a contributor day at Yoast with user testing and code contributions to FSE. A large amount of feedback issues were open and some that are already being solved.
Issues and PRs needing eyes and contributions
Discussion: documentation handbook plans for site editing and beyond: Issue:30637
FSE: Finalizing the name and menu item placement Issue: 29630
Shared block editor settings PR, which requires some updates to the existing PHPPHPThe web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higherhooksHooksIn WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same. and could use some eyes for sanity checks and reviews PR: 1118
Status of the existing Block Template APIAPIAn 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.
@itsjusteileen asked about the future of the Block Template API in the context of FSE developments and noted that the code examples in the handbook don’t work anymore. It doesn’t appear that the block template API will go away and we should have some issues open if the documentation is outdated or the API broken.
Feedback needed on several widgets/blocks discussions
a discussion about allowing users to insert a Classic Block in a SidebarSidebarA sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. on the Widgets (betaBetaA 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.) screen
a discussion about reconstructing Widgets Screen to use the Customize API. This is a fancy way to say that we should or could remove the standalone editor as the new block based widgets editor lands in a future WP release.
a question: assuming the block based widgets editor is an opt out feature what is the preferred way to opt out
Design process for the widgets updates
@Anthony Nolan brought up a question around where can one find the process that led up to the current state in the block based widgets editor project, and was guided towards going through closed issues such as this one or this one, which cover updating the customizer or look at the open project to see how the stand alone widgets editor progresses.
Do you have something to propose for the agenda, or a specific item relevant to our standard list above?
Please leave a comment, and say whether or not you’ll be in the chat, so the group can either give you the floor or bring up your topic for you, accordingly.
This meeting happens in the #core channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Making WordPress Slack.
