Courtney Engle Robertson 12:04 pm on October 15, 2021

Training Team Update 15 October 2021

Learn WordPress Content & Functionality

As a team, we track all content and functionality updates on our monthly Sprint posts. Come see what new material and site functionality we’ve shipped, and what we’re working on next.

Future-proofing content: Preparing Learn site content for future WordPress updates.

Docs and Training teams have a huge need to quickly assess what content should be revised with a major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality.. We’re organizing content based with internal use taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. with labels for each WordPress feature.

Call for feedback on these issues:

Team Organization

A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team

Growth and Contribution

We’ve recently hosted 2 contributor days in conjunction with Five for the Future organizations:

WPTranslationDay: Subtitling Videos on Learn (ManageWP team)
Yoast Contributor Day 8 October Recap

Timi Wahalahti 8:11 pm on October 12, 2021
Tags: make.wordpress.org/core ( 4 ), p2-xpost ( 32 )

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Tonya Mork 7:35 pm on October 12, 2021
Tags: test ( 8 )

Test Team Update for 11 Oct 2021

Notables

Last week, the team:

Set the 5.9 end-to-end (e2e) test strategy
Set an idea to commit workflow process for e2e tests
Tested or triaged the highest number (in a single week) of priority tickets (i.e. identified in the weekly curated list)

Test Ticket Queue

(change: N) represents changes from last week = this week – last week

Current totals:

Needs reproduce issue: 1477 (change: -14)
Patches needing testing: 213 (change: -1)
Unit tests for patches:
- Need unit tests: 127 (change: 0)
- Have unit tests & need review: 134 (change: +4)
Tagged as needs testing info: 8 (change: 0)

New/changes In last 7 days:

Needs reproduce issue: 8 (change: +3)
Patches needing testing: 9 (change: +3)
Unit tests for patches:
- Need unit tests: 2 (change: -2)
- Have unit tests & need review: 7 (change: -1)
Tagged as needs testing info: 2 (change: +2)

Closed in last 7 days:

Could not reproduce issue: 3 (change: -7)
Patches needing testing: 0 (change: 0)
Unit tests for patches:
- Need unit tests: 0 (change: 0)
- Have unit tests & need review: 0 (change: -2)
Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: 0)

Highlights

Week in Test => curated guide to point testers were they could contribute this week; also includes posts for awareness and learnings
Call for Feedback (CoF) Summary: FSE Program’s block theme switching
Live working sessions:
- Hallway Hangout held for a causal walkthrough of the current call for testing patterns
- Fixing and testing a filesystem infinite 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. and PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. 8.1 (YouTube | Trac)

#test

KafleG 4:00 am on October 12, 2021
Tags: themes ( 347 ), weekly updates ( 24 )

Themes team update October 12, 2021

Theme directory stats

Currently,

0 new tickets are waiting for review.
- 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 0 tickets are older than 1 week
- 0 tickets are older than 3 days
20 tickets are assigned.
- 1 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 3 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 4 tickets are older than 1 week
- 9 tickets are older than 3 days
1 are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

298 tickets were opened
310 tickets were closed:
- 285 tickets were made live.
  - 30 new Themes were made live.
  - 255 Theme updates were made live.
  - 1 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 25 tickets were not-approved.
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Number of reviewers: 4

HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 3	Messages Received 2
Replies Sent 1	Emails Created 1
Resolved 0	Resolved on First Reply 0%

#themes, #weekly-updates

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 1:10 am on October 12, 2021
Tags: plugins ( 382 )

Plugin Review Team Update – 11 Oct 2021

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 Status Change Stats

Plugins requested : 124
Plugins rejected : 3
Plugins closed : 63
Plugins approved : 44

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 760
→ (older than 7 days ago)** : 679
→ (2021-10-04 – 2021-10-11) : 59
→ (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 0
→ (pending; replied to)* : 760

Helpscout Stats

Total Conversations: 442
New Conversations: 331
Customers: 267
Conversations per Day: 55
Busiest Day: Tuesday
Email Conversations: 267
Messages Received: 532
Replies Sent: 642
Emails Created: 148
Resolved: 245
Resolved on First Reply: 29%

#plugins

Francesca Marano 12:01 pm on October 11, 2021

Core Team Update: September 2021

Releases

In September, work on WordPress 5.9 continued and WordPress 5.8.1 was released.

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//Full Site Editing (FSE)

What’s next in Gutenberg? (Mid-September 2021)
Gutenberg 11.4, 11.5 and 11.6 were released.
The Full Site Editing Outreach Program continued to propose interesting testing calls and occasions for intereaction with the team working on it.
- FSE Program Handling HigherEd Headers Summary
- FSE Program Testing Call #10: Pattern Party
Anne also posted the
- FSE Program Exploration: Help with the future of Block Theme Switching
There were XX Hallway Hangouts
- Hallway Hangout: Discussion on Full Site Editing Issues/PRs/Designs (10 September)
- Announcement and summary of the discussion about the adoption pathways for FSE
Core Editor Improvement: Cascading impact of improvements to featured images

Miscellaneous blog posts, updates, and discussions published in the Core Blog

WordPress JavaScript Standards Change Proposal
Changes to the WordPress Core PHP Test Suite
Implementing a Webfonts API in WordPress Core
Do you want a more granular recap of what is going on in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.? Don’t miss the “A week in Core” posts that @audrasjb has been publishing regularly.

Stefanos Togoulidis 12:59 pm on October 5, 2021
Tags: mobile ( 161 )

Mobile Team Update – October 5th

WordPress iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android version 18.4 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: Top 5 embeds blocks are now directly available in the block picker.
Other projects: We added access to Blogging Reminders from Notification settings, shipped the new Edit Comment component to WPAndroid. On WPiOS, we improved the my site comments list: comments page is now correctly preserved across navigation to other screens, and fixed the loading and empty states rendering in iPad layout.
Infrastructure: We upgraded Gradle and applied the new modularization structure into various Android libraries.

#mobile

KafleG 3:39 am on October 5, 2021
Tags: themes ( 347 ), weekly updates ( 24 )

Themes team update October 05, 2021