Wednesday 2 August 2017

Official Monthly WordPress Update: July 2017


After a particularly busy month in June, things settled down a bit in the WordPress world — WordPress 4.8’s release went very smoothly, allowing the Core team to build up some of the community infrastructure around development. Read on for more interesting news from around the WordPress world in July. Weekly meeting for new core contributors
Onboarding new contributors is a persistent issue for most WordPress contribution teams. While every team welcomes any new contributors, the path to getting deeply involved can be tricky to find at times.
This month, the Core team implemented a fantastic new initiative: weekly meetings for new core contributors as a way to encourage involvement and foster fresh contributions. The meetings not only focus on bugs suited to first-time contributors, they also make space for experienced contributors to help out individuals who may be new to developing WordPress core.
The meetings are held every Wednesday at 19:00 UTC in the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack group.
Increased focus on PHP practices in WordPress core
In bringing people together to improve WordPress core, a new channel in the Making WordPress Slack group named #core-php
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/15775/official-monthly-wordpress-update-july-2017




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