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Jb Audras 10:26 pm on October 13, 2021
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Dev chat summary – October 13, 2021

@audrasjb led the chat on this agenda. You can also read the Slack logs.

Highlighted blogblog (versus network, site) posts

Bringing to your attention some interesting reads and some call for feedback and/or volunteers:

The proposal for a new Make/Performance team was well received by the meeting participants. Encouraging! Please add your feedback in the post comments.

Worth mentioning:

Thanks to the 30 contributors of the past week, including 3 new contributors! Kudos to the 5 coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. committers of the week, too.

A Week in Core – October 11, 2021

Upcoming releases updates

Next minor releaseMinor Release A 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.(s)

Please note that 5.8.2 was deferred due to the lack of ready-to-ship tickets.

Reminder: @desrosj and @circlecube are co-leading the 5.8.x releases. The 5.8.x point releases are coordinated in the #5-8-release-leads 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/. channel. This channel is public and will be archived once 5.9 is released.

@sergeybiryukov proposed to also backportbackport A 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. changeset [51883] (which is milestoned to 5.8.2) to older branches.

Next major releasemajor release A 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.

Concerning the next major release —WordPress 5.9— a planning roundup was published some weeks ago.

@kjellr introduced the new bundled theme on Make/Core last week. The first Twenty Twenty-Two meeting was hosted on October 11, in the #core-themes Slack channel.

As usual, there is a public repository on GitHub so feel free to help testing the theme, and to contribute to this project.

Introducing Twenty Twenty-Two

The go/no go date for the main WP 5.9 features is October 14.

@audrasjb will run another bugbug A 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. scrub on Thursday October 14, 2021 at 20:00 UTC.

Reminder: everyone is welcome to run a bug scrub on the #core Slack channel. If you are interested, please read this handbook post: Leading bug scrubs and get in touch with @audrasjb or @francina for details.

Component maintainers updates

Upgrade/Install – @sergeybiryukov @afragen

Work has continued on addressing PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher timeouts or missing files during large pluginPlugin A 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 updates. A couple of solutions were implemented so far, but it looks like the issue might not be fully resolved yet. Any testing and feedback welcome! See ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #54166 for more details.

Also, @afragen made a few updates to the new move_dir() function based on @sergeybiryukov’s comments.

Help/About – @marybaum

Help/About: the component had a scrub Monday and is following up with another on @audrasjb will run another bug scrub on Monday October 18, 2021 at 19:00 UTC. So far two tickets are ready for commit action.

The #core-auto-updates team is still looking on getting a consensus on which approach to proceed with for #22316. Two competing PRs are proposed (1547 and 1724), there is a need to decide what is the best approach.

Open Floor

@johnjamesjacoby raised ticket #38231 and asked for another pair of eyes. @costdev pointed out some possible enhancements in the unit tests provided by the ticket.

@webcommsat shared that the Marketing Team is exploring how to help the Test Team reach extenders with the message to update their test suites to bring them in line with the latest WordPress Core PHP Test Suites.Everyone is welcome to join the collaboration in this document, and they are looking specifically for items to be filled in on the table on page 4 to 6.

#5-8-x, #5-9, #dev-chat, #summary, #twenty-twenty-two

Dan Farrow 8:46 pm on October 12, 2021
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CSS Chat Summary: 07 October 2021

The meeting took place here on Slack. Thanks to @dryanpress for stepping in to facilitate at the last minute! @danfarrow wrote up these notes.

Housekeeping

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Custom Properties (#49930)

  • @dryanpress reported that @circlecube has updated comments on his PRs and has been pinged about outstanding merge conflicts
  • @dryanpress is working on .customize-controls.css, continuing @robertg’s extensive work on this 3000 line file
  • @wazeter and @dryanpress reflected on the Custom Property project’s ongoing achievements, made possible by the many generous contributors
  • @dryanpress restated some points from last week’s meeting:
    • custom-properties.css needs organising and the addition of a table of contents
    • box-shadow declarations should be put into custom property
    • This is still the first-pass – there will be further consolidation of the custom-properties

Open Floor / CSS Link Share

Post-meeting chat!

Thanks everybody!

#core-css, #summary

Jeff Ong 4:47 pm on October 11, 2021
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Twenty Twenty-Two Chat Summary — 11 Oct 2021

In #core-themes, full transcript starts here. I (@jffng) facilitated the meeting. It was the first one!

Building TT2 for Full Site Editing

We discussed the approach to the theme’s development, which is developing this as 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. theme and fixing as much in 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/ as possible. One of the goals is for the theme to have as little CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. and PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher as possible.

Our current development focuses are two-fold:

  1. Identifying the gaps / blockers in Gutenberg. There is an overview issue tracking what’s needed on the Gutenberg side: https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentytwo/issues/75 We could use help testing various blocks and filing issues whenever they’re not looking or working as expected.
  2. Block patterns coming soon, @kjellr is leading that effort. We could use help with PR reviews and testing as those become available, follow along using this tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.).

Meeting Cadence

We plan to do meetings once a week at this time (Mondays, 15 UTC), aiming to keep them around 30 minutes as to be respectful of folks time and focus on async for inclusivity.

Open Floor Q&A

  • How do we decide what needs to be worked on?
    • Ideally everything that’s being worked on has an issue — so if you find something that needs fixing, please open an issue for it, and then work on a PR.
    • Keep an eye on the github milestones
  • Is there a mechanism for collaborating on an issue?
    • Comment on the issue, so it’s clear you’re working on it and if folks want to collaborate, they can communicate in the issue and 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/. if needed
  • Is the way fonts are enqueued going to change?
  • Are you looking for triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. help?
    • You can pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @kjellr or me (@jffng) if you would like to help this way.
  • Will TT2 align with the accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) level AA like TT1 did? How do we make sure this gets addressed?
    • Short answer is yes, let’s use this issue to track
    • A lot of this lands on Gutenberg, and for what we can do on the theme side, we hope to make this as accessible as possible. For example, the color palettes have been designed to pass WCAGWCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/. AAA contrast.
    • Button states will be important too.
#bundled-theme, #summary, #twenty-twenty-two
Paal Joachim Romdahl 4:48 am on October 9, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 6 October, 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on  Wednesday, October 6 2021, 04:00 PM GMT+1. in Slack. Moderated by @paaljoachim.

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/ pluginPlugin A 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 releases

Gutenberg 11.7 RC Thanks to @zieladam for tackling the release.
What’s new in Gutenberg 11.6 release notes. Thanks to @ntsekouras for writing the notes and handling the release.

WordPress 5.9

October 14th is the date when the decision for “Go, no go” for Full Site Editing to be included in WordPress 5.9 will be decided.

Preliminary Road to 5.9. A quick overview of the main areas and features currently underway for 5.9 in Gutenberg.

What’s next in Gutenberg

What’s next in Gutenberg: Mid-September 2021.

Key project updates

Based on the scope for Site Editing projects.

Template Editor

  • No update currently mentioned. Check out the Full Site Editing label of current issues in the Gutenberg repo on GithubGitHub GitHub 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/.

Global Styling

Patterns

Navigation 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. & Navigation Editor

Update – 2021-10-06

  • Discussion is still continuing on the best way to ensure interoperability and compatibility between Nav block and Nav Editor.
  • Looks like there will be a Hallway Hangout on Wednesday 13th October (TBC). Agenda will be posted to Make Blogblog (versus network, site).
  • @talldan posted a nice summary of current state of things in Slack. There’s a lot of great energy in the team right now and we are looking to coalesce around a shared set of objectives.

Components squad

Shipping:

In Progress:

Mobile team

 Shipped:

  • Top 5 embeds blocks directly available in the block picker, Retry feature, specific embed’s icon and label in placeholder and bottom sheets.
  • Added a way to contact support from inside editor.
  • Added automated tests for editor onboarding.

Fixes:

  • Fixed an image block regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5. causing the images to render with a fixed height and a bugbug A 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. preventing the columns block from rendering in the editor in some occasions.

In Progress:

  • Embed block improvements.
  • GSS Font size, line height, colors.

Task Coordination

@annezazu

@ntsekouras

@amustaque97

Worked on Update Callers to handle when getBlockType return undefined (PR has been merged.)

@mamaduka

  • Helping with PR reviews and testing.
  • Merged the last PR for optimizing useSelect calls.
  • Started working on remaining items in the individual block locking feature.

Open Floor

@welcher

@mkaz

  • Any issues with switching Gutenberg examples repo (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg-examples) default branch to trunk? It’ll be nice to have it consistent.

@bph

  • This week’s Live Q & A is tomorrow at 16:00 UTC Going from classic to block-based theme building
  • Next week, Helen, Mark and Riad discuss how to make it easier to build custom blocks
  • On 10/28 LQA is with members of the BuddyPress Team discussion how to convert widgets to blocks.

Times and links are all available on Gutenbergtimes.com

@paaljoachim

  • Can someone create a WP 5.9 Github project board to where we can focus on Full Site Editing and general 5.9 issues/PR’s? As it has earlier been very useful to have the project board to check for issues related to a release.

    @priethor
    I can kick it off, sure. I was looking forward to the go/no-go demo next week so that we can have a more clear scope of the must-haves before creating it.

@talldanwp

  • The following PR needs some discussion: Use theme mods for templates and template parts
    “I was referred to this PR, and it seems like it had a lot of traction in 5.8 but didn’t make it in time. It’s still there needing reviews and possibly a decision for 5.9 and it seems like something that shouldn’t be left too late, otherwise the same will happen again.
    (I would review it myself, but I don’t really have the full knowledge required).”

    @get_dave
    It would be great if there was a recap summary which captures the current state of discussion. It seems pretty important for the utility of Template Parts. (Dave added a comment.)

@Gemini Labs

  • In Gutenberg 11.6 the ServerSideRender component was updated to display the existing content while the new response is fetched. There is bug with this change which I outlined here: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/28297#issuecomment-932723947. I thought it might be useful to bring it up again here in light of the recent Gutenberg 11.7 RC release (thanks @zieladam!).
    Bug issue opened here: Bug in ServerSideRender where the block disappears during render.
  • I would like to ask if anyone here had any concerns about adding a hook (or some other solution) to ServerSideRender which allows a plugin author to trigger something after a block has rendered.
    I opened a Feature Requestfeature request A feature request should generally begin the process in the ideas forum, on a mailing list, as a plugin, or brought to the attention of the core team, such as through scope meetings held for each major release. Unsolicited tickets of this variety are typically, therefore, discouraged. for this on Github here with a further explanation: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/35294

@get_dave

  • I found this forum post asking if there is a separate Read More block for use in a Query LoopLoop The 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.? Currently it seems the Read more is locked inside the ExcerptExcerpt An 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.. There is also a Gutenberg issue for it here: Could we have Read more link as a stand alone block?

@amustaque97

@zebulan

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg, #meeting-notes, #summary

Jb Audras 11:27 pm on October 6, 2021
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Dev chat summary – October 6, 2021

@audrasjb led the chat on this agenda. You can also read the Slack logs.

Highlighted blogblog (versus network, site) posts

Bringing to your attention some interesting reads and some call for feedback and/or volunteers:

Worth mentioning:

Thanks to the 21 contributors of the past week, including 4 new contributors! Kudos to the 3 coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. committers of the week, too.

A Week in Core – September 27, 2021

Upcoming releases updates

Next minor releaseMinor Release A 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.(s)

Please note that 5.8.2 was deferred due to the lack of ready-to-ship tickets.

Reminder: @desrosj and @circlecube are co-leading the 5.8.x releases. The 5.8.x point releases are coordinated in the #5-8-release-leads 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/. channel. This channel is public and will be archived once 5.9 is released.

Next major releasemajor release A 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.

Concerning the next major release —WordPress 5.9— a planning roundup was published some weeks ago.

@kjellr introduced the new bundled theme on Make/Core right before the devchat.

As usual, there is a public repository on GitHub so feel free to help testing the theme, and to contribute to this cool project

Introducing Twenty Twenty-Two

@chanthaboune wanted to clarify that the go/no go date was moved to October 14. It’s just for scheduling conflicts, there is not any worry over the release.

@audrasjb will run another bugbug A 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. scrub on Thursday October 7, 2021 at 20:00 UTC.

Reminder: everyone is welcome to run a bug scrub on the #core Slack channel. If you are interested, please read this handbook post: Leading bug scrubs and get in touch with @audrasjb or @francina for details.

Component maintainers updates

Build/Test Tools – @sergeybiryukov

Last week, PHPUnit tests started failing on PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher 5.6 due to a combination of an older OpenSSL version and the DST Root CA X3 certificate that expired on September 30, 2021. This is now resolved by running the tests on the latest patchpatch A 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. version of PHP 5.6 (5.6.40 at the moment), instead of 5.6.20. See ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #54223 for more details.

HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. 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. – @sergeybiryukov

The expired DST Root CA X3 certificate is now removed from the WP core certificate bundle to resolve issues with OpenSSL 1.0.2. See ticket #54207 for more details.

CustomizerCustomizer Tool 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. – @dlh

The Customize component could use a designer’s eye on #54211.

Upgrade/Install – @afragen

There have been issues with pluginPlugin A 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 installation/upgrade failures in plugins that have a large number of files. See #51857 (see comment 128 and below) and #54166.

@afragen thinks he have a solution in this pull request and would love some more testing and hopefully an early commit if appropriate.

Also, there are 2 different PRs for #22316 that take different approaches: PR1547 and PR1724.

It would be great to get feedback on which approach is preferred and work on getting that committed. Please test both and leave feedback.

@audrasjb noted that both PRs have detailed testing instructions. They are easy to test and any feedback is welcome.

@josvelasko raised a PR ready for review: PR#1688

Help/About – @marybaum

The Help/About component maintainers will hold a bug scrub on Monday, probably after 21:00. @marybaum will post an exact time in the next 24 hours.

Toolbar – @sabernhardt

@sabernhardt shared a draft of a Toolbar component update post.

He also pointed out that a docs update (#54191) was just committed today.

Script Loader – @clorith

The three tickets marked early about jQuery updates (37110, #51812, #52163) are almost ready to ship, so there are RC’s in for testing at least.

Open Floor

@annezazu wanted to encourage everyone to attend the Pattern Party call for testing for the #fse-outreach-experiment. All are welcome to join in and she is always open to feedback to make participating even easier.

FSE Program Testing Call #10: Pattern Party

#5-8-x, #5-9, #dev-chat, #summary, #twenty-twenty-two

Dan Farrow 5:59 pm on October 6, 2021
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CSS Chat Summary: 30 September 2021

The meeting took place here on Slack. @danfarrow facilitated and wrote up these notes.

Housekeeping

CSS Custom Properties (#49930)

  • @dryanpress suggested that, once all the PRs are merged, it would be very helpful to add a Table of Contents (TOC) to custom-properties.css. @ryelle agreed that it would help with reducing duplicates and with documentation.
  • @danfarrow asked about how the TOC sections would be broken down and @dryanpress suggested starting with a Theme and a General section, then adding sections for each file
  • We discussed following up on unfinished PRs. @dryanpress offered to gently nudge the relevant authors after which we would give them 5 days to respond before picking up / taking over their PRs. @wazeter agreed that applying a soft deadline is a good idea. UPDATE: By the end of the meeting all authors had effectively been nudged!
  • @danfarrow brought up the issue of rgba colour values and asked what the currently preferred approach is. After an interesting discussion the consensus was that the custom properties should be added for each distinct rgba value, for example --wp-admin--surface--box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);. We could then work on a second pass to reduce the number of distinct rgba values.
  • @joyously imagined a script that sequentially sets each custom property to hotpink, so the user can verify that the visual changes meet expections. UPDATE: Within a few hours @costdev pretty much delivered the goods – amazing!

Open Floor / CSS Link Share

  • @dryanpress shared a link to a tweet announcing that the ouline ring now automatically adapts to the element border-radius “in the latest releases of all major browsers”
  • @ryelle shared a link to WordCamp US [Now over, but there’s always next year!]
  • @dryanpress shared a link to Omatsuri, an essential collection of very useful browser-based HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers., CSS, SVG & other web related tools

Thanks everybody!

#summary

David Smith 10:47 am on September 30, 2021
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Editor Chat Summary: 29th September 2021

This post summarises the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on 2021-09-29 14:00 UTC in Slack. Moderated by @get_dave.

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/ PluginPlugin A 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 releases

WordPress 5.9 “Go, no go” date and priorities

  • The “go, no go” review date for WordPress 5.9 is coming up on October 12, 2021.
  • Gutenberg 11.6.0 was the final full release of the Gutenberg Plugin prior to that date (although we’ll have an RC for 11.7.0 on the 6th October which can be used for the “go/no go”).
  • The main goal for 5.9 is getting full site editing to all WordPress users.
  • The key “candidate” features are listed in the suggested roadmap.

Updates based on the scope for Site Editing projects

Updates were requested for the key projects:

Global Styles

@youknowriad provided an async update on the agenda:

  • We’re making some good practice hoping to be in a good shape for 5.9.
  • We’ve been iterating on the designs proposed in this overview issue.
  • We’ve landed the drill down Navigation in the sidebarSidebar A 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. and we are iterating on the different panels and components. (you can follow the updates on the issue)

Also related to this, @mciampini provided an update from the folks working on the components package:

Shipping:

In Progress:

  • We’re now moving to use the NavigatorProvider components in other contexts in Gutenberg, including the preferences modal.
  • This will help us to validate the 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. of the component and reduce overlap with the existing Navigation components that specifically render the “W” sidebar in the full site editor.

Template Editor

No one was available to provide an update. I asked around and @kevin940726 let me know of progress on the Template Part Focus Mode:

  • Merged #34679 to add the “Edit template part” button in ellipsis menu.
  • Merged #34732 to add the back button in the focus mode (isolated template part mode)
  • Rob is working on #35170 to show the ellipsis menu in the list view
  • I just merged #35202 and opened #35239 to add template areas to top bar and the inspector

Patterns

No one was around at the time of the meeting, but having asked around, @ntsekouras provided an update for us:

Navigation Editor

@get_dave provided the update:

  • Discussion is ongoing on the best way to ensure interoperability and compatibility between Nav 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. and Nav Editor.
  • Proposal to utilise a new classic Menu block in the Nav Editor continues. Any feedback welcomed.
  • Folks (particularly @spacedmonkey / @Jonny Harris) have been working hard on backwards compatibility. Any more feedback on this Issue would be a great help.
  • Lots of bugbug A 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 continue to roll in for the Editor. Great work by everyone involved.

Would particular like to highlight the need to provide feedback on the ongoing discussion regarding the proposal to utilise a dedicated classic Menu block in the Editor.

Navigation Block

@joen provided the update:

  • Working on navigation things around improving the setup state for url-less menu items (ultimately to help enable nav block patterns).
  • Continuing with light navigation related things such as URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org dialog improvements for the basic mode of the menu, and mockups for transforms to switch to advanced building.

Block based Widgets Editor

No one was around to provide an update but one improvement I’m aware of is that you can now edit the title of the Widget Group block directly.

Seems like a small change but it really helps improve the flow of a block which is critical for solid backwards compatibility.

Native Mobile Team

@antonisme provided the update:

Shipped

  • Embed block improvements and fixes
  • Use tarball instead of git tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) for reactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/.-native-editor forked dependencies
  • Added native version of Dashicon component for mobile

Fixes:

In Progress:

  • Launching soon a way to contact support from inside editor
  • Additional Embed block improvements
  • GSS Font size, line height, colors

Task Coordination

The following items were shared by folks to update us on what work is in progress or where help is needed:

@shaunandrews:

  • I’m working up a some designs around block controls (like height, width, border, background, etc) and their groupings (dimensions? shape? layout?).
  • Check out the #design channel for some more info. I hope to write up some thoughts this week.

@mamaduka:

  • Helping with PR reviews/testing.
  • Worked on a few small PRs of my own.
  • I’ve PR that should fix editor crash when dragging multiple blocks into innerBlocks. I’m not very familiar with this part of the code, and I would appreciate extra eyes on it.
  • Also started working on useSelect call optimizations because of missing dependencies across the codebase.

@annezazu:

  • Still working through feedback on the current exploration on block theme switching.
  • Shipped a YouTube video about the Query Loop block.
  • Kicked off a post that I hope turns into a wider conversation about an approach for adopting FSE features.
  • Helped with the latest / News post.
  • Cleared unlabelled issues backlog.
  • Working on the next call for testing for the outreach program.
  • Midway through a coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. editor improvement post on accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) improvements.

@welcher:

@get_dave:

@mciampini:

  • I will continue refining the Navigator* components and the ItemGroup and Item components.
  • Helping with PR reviews around the @wordpress/components package.
  • Helping Riad with the updated Global Styles sidebar.

Open Floor

Adding locking capabilities to Reusable Blocks

  • @paaljoachim explained that at the moment it is too easy to make an accidental change to a Reusable block.
  • We soon should get a lock mechanism in place as per the overview Issue on locking.
  • @johnstonphilip queries whether locking is enough to ensure that the user understands the action they are taking is destructive across other pages.
  • @get_dave noted that the Update/Publish flow now separates out changes to the current Post vs Reusable Blocks (similar to how the Site Editor handles saving template parts).
  • @get_dave recommend raising an Issue to suggest having a more explicit warning inline on the Reusable Block to flag that you are making changes to a global entity.

Getting useInnerBlockProps and LinkControl out of “experimental” status

  • @fabiankaegy brought up two tickets related to features that are currently marked as __experimental which he thinks are at the point where they can be moved out of the experimental state.
  • @get_dave responded re: <LinkControl> to say:
    • There are still a number of items I’d like to see ticked off the tracking issue prior to merging (help with these appreciated).
    • It is quite powerful, but we should look at reducing the complexity of the component itself before committing to it.
    • Due to look at the architecture soon to see what improvements can be made – @youknowriad has mentioned this in the past.
  • @get_dave noted that @ellatrix has a PR to stablise useInnerBlocksProps and that more reviews and input are needed to get this to land.
  • It was agreed that given how long the components have been around that we should look to standardise both.

Wrap up

Thanks to everyone who attended the meeting!

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #meeting-notes, #summary

Jb Audras 11:09 pm on September 29, 2021
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Dev chat summary – September 29, 2021

@audrasjb led the chat on this agenda. You can also read the Slack logs.

Highlighted blogblog (versus network, site) posts

Bringing to your attention some interesting reads and some call for feedback and/or volunteers:

Worth mentioning:

Thanks to the 23 contributors of the past week, including 4 new contributors! Kudos to the 5 coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. committers of the week, too.

A Week in Core – September 27, 2021

Upcoming releases updates

Next minor releaseMinor Release A 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.(s)

@desrosj and @circlecube are still leading the 5.8.x releases. They published a schedule for 5.8.2 and –if needed– 5.8.3.

The 5.8.x point releases are coordinated in the #5-8-release-leads 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/. channel. This channel is public and will be archived once 5.9 is released.

@costdev pointed out that a patchpatch A 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. for ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #53801 leads to a change in both Core and in the @wordpress/widgets package and asked for advices for how to ensure that any changes are committed at the same time to minimise issues on either end. @audrasjb answered that there is already an issue for this ticket in the 5.8.2 Gutenberg project board.

Next major releasemajor release A 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.

Concerning the next major release —WordPress 5.9— a planning roundup was published a couple weeks ago.

Worth noting that @chanthaboune proposed a review of the upcoming 5.9 key features in the last issue of the WordPress.org podcast.

@audrasjb ran a first bugbug A 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. scrub last week to review the tickets marked early. He will run another one on Thursday September 30, 2019 at 20:00 UTC.

Reminder: everyone is welcome to run a bug scrub on the #core Slack channel. If you are interested, please read this handbook post: Leading bug scrubs and get in touch with @audrasjb or @francina for details.

Also, @audrasjb silently scrubbed the Future Release queue and moved a dozen of tickets (in various components) to 5.9, with refreshed patches when needed. Most of them are ready and waiting for review/commit.

Component maintainers updates

Build/Test Tools – @sergeybiryukov

PHPUnit 9.5.10 and 8.5.21 were released with a breaking change: PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher deprecations are no longer converted to exceptions by default (convertDeprecationsToExceptions="true" can be configured to enable this). See changeset [51871] and ticket #54183 for more details.

This is also included in the Changes to the WordPress Core PHP Test Suite dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase., which is highly recommended to read as it includes other important changes for pluginPlugin A 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 and theme authors using the WordPress Core test framework as a basis for their integration tests.

Upgrade/Install – @afragen

@afragen shared that there is currently a lot of activity on a 9 years old ticket: #22316. He added a new PR which is ready for review.

@audrasjb added that the design of the feature was discussed during the last #core-auto-updates weekly meeting.

@joyously asked if it is supposed to handle initial installation or deactivation and uninstall also? @audrasjb answered that it only handles initial installation, because a dependency could exists without the “base” plugin.

@joyously asked what value does this enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. add to the existing implementation. @clorith answered that It surfaces which plugins would enhance (or enable) functionality, so yes it has value. @audrasjb added that it standardizes a process which currently has many different implementations.

@afragen encouraged testers to install the PR, add a test plugin with a couple of dot org plugin slugs in a comma separated list in the Required Plugins headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes.. Removing or changing the header name will deactivate those dependencies from being displayed.

Toolbar – @sabernhardt

@sabernhardt shared a draft of a Toolbar component update post.

He also pointed out that a docs update (#54191) was just committed today.

Open Floor

From @marybaum and @annezazu: there is a new testing call in the Full Site Editing Outreach Program.

FSE Program Testing Call #10: Pattern Party

@costdev noted that the Administration component doesn’t have a maintainer currently listed. He asked for a review of #53152. @sergeybiryukov moved it to milestone 5.9.

@pbearne asked for a review of #54020. He’s available to make a simpler patch if needed.

@webcommsat shared that tomorrow (30 September) is the last day of #WPTranslationDay 2021. Everyone is welcome to come and join the polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. for the final event and the celebrations from 16:00 UTC.

#5-8-x, #5-9, #dev-chat, #summary

Jb Audras 9:42 pm on September 22, 2021
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Dev chat summary – September 22, 2021

@audrasjb led the chat on this agenda. You can also read the Slack logs.

Highlighted blogblog (versus network, site) posts

Bringing to your attention some interesting reads and some call for feedback and/or volunteers:

Worth mentioning:

Thanks to the 42 contributors of the past week, including 7 new contributors! Kudos to the 4 coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. committers of the week, too.

A Week in Core – September 20, 2021

Upcoming releases updates

Next minor releaseMinor Release A 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.(s)

@desrosj and @circlecube are still leading the 5.8.x releases.

They will publish a schedule for 5.8.2 and –if needed– 5.8.3 on September 23.

Next major releasemajor release A 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.

Concerning the next major release —WordPress 5.9— a planning roundup was published a couple weeks ago.

Worth noting that @chanthaboune proposed a review of the upcoming 5.9 key features in the last issue of the WordPress.org podcast.

@audrasjb proposed to start to schedule bugbug A 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. scrubs for the milestone. He will run the first scrub of 5.9 on Thursday September 23, 2019 at 20:00 UTC.

Reminder: everyone is welcome to run a bug scrub on the #core 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/. channel. If you are interested, please read this handbook post: Leading bug scrubs. And yes, that’s a call for volunteers 🙂 Please add a comment below if you want to help.

For 5.9, @hellofromtonya pointed out that it would be nice to try to also plan some APAC-friendly bug scrubs when possible.

Component maintainers updates

Help/About – @marybaum

Build/Test Tools – @sergeybiryukov

  • Some changes were implemented to make the PHPUnit Polyfills loading more flexible and improve the related messaging. See changesets 51810-51813 and ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #46149 for more details.
  • The PHPUnit Polyfills package and related test infrastructure changes are now backported to a few older branches (WP 5.8 to 5.2). This makes it easier for developers to continue testing on multiple versions of WordPress while adding tests for newer versions of PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher, which require more modern PHPUnit practices. See changesets 51838-51840, 51843-51846 and ticket #53911 for more details.
  • Work is now complete on Modernizing to the Latest PHPUnit version. Dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. is being reviewed and plan is to publish on Monday.
  • PHP 8.1: work is nearly complete, i.e. identified through tests. Will be shifting shortly into community feedback and open call for contributions to identify and help fix compatibility issues.

General – @sergeybiryukov and @hellofromtonya

Internationalization – @sergeybiryukov

  • A translator comment was added to clarify the “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. HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers.” string in the Block widgetWidget A 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. settings form. This should reduce confusion for Polyglots translating the string.

Toolbar – @sabernhardt

  • @sabernhardt shared a draft of a Toolbar component update post (it’s also available in a Google doc if you want to add comments that way)

Open Floor

From @hellofromtonya: If you want to contribute to the Testing Team, here’s this week’s edition of Week in Test which is a curated list of where testers (of any skillset) are needed this week.

#5-8-x, #5-9, #dev-chat, #summary

Dan Farrow 3:49 pm on September 21, 2021
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CSS Chat Summary: 16 September 2021

The meeting took place here on Slack. @dryanpress facilitated and @danfarrow wrote up these notes.

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Custom Properties (#49930)

  • @dryanpress shared the working document and the trac ticket, for anybody new to the project
  • All coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. CSS files have now been claimed, and are either in progress or have a PR, however @dryanpress reminded us that if anyone has claimed a file and can no longer work on it please do let us know
  • The next step is reviewing and merging PRs. Help is very welcome if anybody is up for “trying out a PR and making sure the colors still look correct (or correct enough, where maybe we made changes)“
  • @dryanpress raised the topic of skinning adminadmin (and super admin) colour schemes, as there are some custom properties for body.admin-color-ectoplasm already in custom-properties.css. We would probably create a couple of colour schemes at a later stage, for testing & demonstration purposes
  • @dryanpress outlined the final todo list for the project:
    • Merge all remaining files
    • Look for duplication and opportunities for property consolidation
    • Final team review
    • Merge proposal write-ups
  • @ryelle added that, before the final team review step, discussion will be needed about what to consolidate and how, for example rgba and box-shadow values
  • @ryelle added that, as there are several PRs now merged, anybody interested could start generating some ideas for these next steps right now
  • @dryanpress asked if we are still on target for an --experimental release in 5.9 which @ryelle confirmed we have good momentum for
  • @ryelle observed that there are other places outside of CSS files where CSS is used, for example php and js files, which also need to be reviewed. @dryanpress offered to add this and the other tasks (mentioned above) to the planning document
  • @CodeXplorer admitted to wanting to help but feeling lost, to which @dryanpress provided a few notes of the current state of the project
  • @danfarrow had quickly calculated there are now 127 custom properties in custom-properties.css. @robertg added that this isn’t including the 225 (approx) in his PR

Open Floor / CSS Link Share

Thanks everybody!

#core-css, #summary