The WordPress coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:
Found a 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.?Create a ticket in the bug tracker.
With 6.9 out in the world, our collective attention has already turned to 7.0. Core contributorsCore ContributorsCore contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org., together with Matt and Mary, had a call to discuss ideas and projects. There was shared excitement about this release, even if it’s just another number. This post acts as a gathering point for contributors to share what they are starting to work on and to find known areas they can contribute to. There will be another more tactical follow up with release schedule and responsibilities, this one is about the initial scope.
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Please do not use this as a spot to request folks to work on features. GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that 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/ and TracTracAn open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. are the best places to share feedback, talk about impact, and advocate for issues.
Please use this post to share what you are working on, including areas you’d like to help with that may be listed here, as well as areas that you are working on that are not. Items with TBD indicate areas where contributors are needed so please comment below if you’re keen to work on those pieces.
If you were planning to work in an area listed below and don’t see your name, please be sure to comment as well and it’ll be updated. It’s intentional that this post is meant to be a place to shore up who is working on what out in the open at this early stage.
Also note this is neither comprehensive nor yet a commitment that all of these things will be part of 7.0, since many are in early stages and may not make this release. Items marked with ✅ mean the work is already merged in 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/ or trunktrunkA directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision..
Collaboration
The project is getting deeper into Phase 3: Collaboration. Notes was a highlight feature in WP6.9 and there’s several improvements already planned to make it even more powerful and resilient.
There’s been a lot of progress in defining the UIUIUser interface and the diffing mechanics for reconciling changes. It’s in very good shape and needs to be reviewed and tested diligently, especially around compatibility with third-party blocks and plugins.
This feature has a stronger dependency on server support and infrastructure than usual WordPress features, so there needs to be a definition of what’s the baseline experience shipping in WordPress (for example, peer-to-peer with 1 or 2 connections) and how it can be augmented, either by WP.org, hosting providers, or plugins.
Support partial selection inside 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. rich text fields.
A “suggestions” mode and interface that allows Notes to refer to specific content within a block and apply the suggestions.
Support for multi-block notes.
Add rich text support in the comments.
Develop a 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. for recent notes.
More notification options (responses, follow a note, mentions).
Make DataViews screens extensibleExtensibleThis is the ability to add additional functionality to the code. Plugins extend the WordPress core software. in the site editor (templates, pages, etc).
RevisionsRevisionsThe WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision.
Abilities & Workflows 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.
There’s a path for the block editor in the mobile apps that should remove this dependency blockerblockerA bug which is so severe that it blocks a release..
✅ MigrationMigrationMoving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. guide.
An AI client and API for WordPress to communicate with any generative AI models of various capabilitiescapabilityA capability is permission to perform one or more types of task. Checking if a user has a capability is performed by the current_user_can function. Each user of a WordPress site might have some permissions but not others, depending on their role. For example, users who have the Author role usually have permission to edit their own posts (the “edit_posts” capability), but not permission to edit other users’ posts (the “edit_others_posts” capability). using a uniform API.
Integration with Abilities API.
Strictly no providers included in coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
Decide nomenclature.
Ideally, the minimum PHPPHPThe web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher version has to be bumped from PHP 7.2.
Refactor the site editor to allow 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 authors to add their pages there.
✅ Opinionated build tool for plugins.
Update Gutenberg – Core 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. flow.
A series of improvements were identified to simplify the navigation workflow and make the experience of managing menus more intuitive and straightforward.
Over the past couple years we’ve been iterating on a series of related systems with the hope of arriving at a more streamlined editing experience of composite blocks and design patterns. We have some solid directions sketched out that are looking promising.
Explore more intuitive page navigation in the site editor
Link: TBD
Key considerations:
Modify the title bar to display a pages dropdown instead of empty command palette. List the pages used in the primary menu with a link to “browse all pages”. Exploration.
Add next/previous page links in zoomed-out view, similar to a carousel. See a preview in a zoomed out state with arrows next to preview or title bar. Exploration.
Keeping the momentum on adding new blocks and new block tools to expand the palette and expressiveness offered to theme builders and users. There’s also some refinements to some fundamental aspects of blocks to make them more resilient and more consistent.
Easy toggling in 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. inspector and transforms.
