Matt Mullenweg led the first WordPress 3.8 planning meeting today. A bunch of potential ideas were thrown out, and it’s also been opened up on the Make Core blog. Go check out all of the options and get involved in a project you want to be a part of. As a sidenote, I’m really digging this “plugin first” approach, if it continues to go like this.
This morning I published the first Post Status newsletter. I won’t always do this, but in order to let more people get an idea of how the letter will be structured, I thought I’d share the first one with a post as well. In this first newsletter, I talk about how WordPress is evolving. I’d…
AJ Kohn talks about participation inequality online in his defense of comments, using a number of level-headed metrics, as part of his argument that comments are good for blogs. A small amount of creators are responsible for the vast majority of the content we consume. They have a limited amount of attention yet wield a lot…
Justin Tadlock has written a blog post about admin themes and the WordPress UI in general. He also highlights Tung Do’s new admin theme, which looks quite nice, and gives a shout out to a few other blog posts on the subject (like mine) 🙂
Formerly “Blog Challenges,” this is an ongoing collection of exercises to flex your blogging muscles. You can tackle these from the beginning or in any order. The rules are simple.
Ryan Boren, WordPress Lead Developer and Bug Whisperer, decided to create a poem on the importance of eliminating trailing whitespace in his latest commit to the WordPress codebase. The Pinking Shears stir from their slumber, awakened by what may seem, to those innocent in the ways of The Shears, a triviality, a nothing-of-consequence. But there…
WordPress will support PHP7 officially immediately upon its planned November release, says PHP7 testing extraordinaire Aaron Jorbin. As Aaron notes, PHP7 has significant speed improvements on past versions, and it will be great to be able to use it right away. WordPress unit tests have been running against PHP7 for months now, and all issues…
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Glad you like it! What are you going to work on for the 3.8 cycle?
Hey Matt, thanks for dropping by 🙂
I commented on the post to express my interest in the content block / art direction concepts http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/08/08/excellent-3-8-brainstorm-session-today-people-talked-about/#comment-9660
And also the screen options tabs http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/08/08/excellent-3-8-brainstorm-session-today-people-talked-about/#comment-9654
Loving this method for core dev! It’s less stressful for someone like me that’s not super familiar w/ the core development processes and priorities
I can see lots of updating to the core contributor handbook in the docs team’s future 🙂
I’m so excited about some of these ideas. Mel Choyce’s mockups for Content Blocks look really promising.