WordPress Contribution Diary

WP 5.5: Accessibility: Themes: Only unlink custom logo on the home page if the theme declares support for that – #37011

Preparation of the WordPress 5.5 Release Candidate 2: tickets and patchs review and final testing before the public release

WP 5.5: String updates and accessibility improvements to the 5.5 About page – #50416

WP 5.5: Site Health: Display auto-update properly for plugins that don’t support auto-updates – #50822

WP 5.5 : Remove “Musician Name” placeholder on the About page – #50416

WP 5.5 : Ensure the proper count of plugins that have auto-update enabled – #50808

WP 5.5: Pass the plugin file path into the plugin_auto_update_debug_string filter – #50821

WP 5.5: edited some translatable strings in About.php screen – #50416

Tested WordPress 5.5 Release Candidate before its deployment and published the official announcement on WordPress.org

Ran the plugins and themes auto-updates team meeting of July, 28

WP 5.5: Swap auto-update-supported to update-supported in update checks – #50280

WP 5.5: Contributed to create WordPress 5.5 About page – #50416

WP 5.5 : Enhance auto-updates to be disabled for plugins that don’t support updates – #50280

WP 5.5: Removed table_view_mode filter, waiting for full implementation in WP 5.6 – #49715

Preparation of the WordPress 5.5 beta 4 release : final scrub, tickets and patchs review and final testing before the public release

WP 5.5: REST API: Use a consistent description for the textdomain schema property between plugins and themes controllers – #50776

WP 5.5: Media: Remove accents in sanitize_file_name() – #22363

WP 5.5: Correct documentation for wp_insert_term() – #50753

WP 5.5 : Filter out a few more special characters in sanitize_file_name() – #50231

WP 5.5: Site Health: Pass all expected parameters to auto_update_{$type} – #50662

WP 5.5: Add context to privacy request status strings – #50740

WP 5.5: Merge similar translation “Warning” strings in wp-admin/options.php – #50715

WP 5.5: Merge similar “Installation failed” strings – #50708

WP 5.5: Update some strings to have periods – #50707

WP 5.5: Make sure image widgets with custom image size render captions – #50160

WP 5.5 : Site Health: Use a consistent label for theme auto-updates in debug data – #50728

WP 5.5: added plugin_auto_update_debug_str and theme_auto_update_debug_str new hooks to filter auto-updates row on Site Health screen – #50663

WP 5.5 : Add Site Health tests to check for potential issues with plugin and theme auto-updates – #50662

WP 5.5: Add context to some plugin and theme translation strings for better consistency – #50710

WP 5.5: Administration: Include the new plugin and theme versions in email notifications – #50350

WP 5.5: Fix an index inconsistency in get_admin_page_title() function – #46081

Hosted the plugins and themes auto-updates weekly team meeting and published the meeting notes

WP 5.5: use ARIA button class on plugin and theme auto-updates action links – #50516

WP 5.5: ensure that category menus with special characters can be updated – #48011

WP 5.5 : Remove multiple viewport meta tags from mobile pages – #47369

Preparation of WordPress 5.5 Beta 1: final scrub, tickets and patchs review and final testing before the public release

WP 5.5 : Prevent repeat emails for identical plugin or theme auto-update attempt failures – [48397]

WP 5.5 : Allow plugin and theme updates from a uploaded .zip file – [48390]

WP 5.5: Allow post boxes on the Dashboard and Classic Editor pages to be reordered by using the keyboard – #39074

WP 5.5: add the ability to pass a variable via get_template_part(), get_header() and get_footer() – #21676

WP 5.5: improve color contrast for the blue links :hover state – #47682

WP 5.5: new styles for disabled state of admin buttons – #48709

WP 5.5: Site Health: Ensure that the user will be notified after a successful snooze action – [48359]

WP 5.5: Twenty Twenty: display an error message on authors archives when the author didn’t publish anything yet – #50421

WP 5.5: introduced support HTML5 nav markup for navigation widgets – #48170

WP 5.5: improvements on the sortable postboxes areas on the Dashboard and Classic Editor pages – #49288

WP 5.5: use HiDPI avatar image on post locked modal – #39633

WP 5.5: new hook: get_the_archive_title_prefix – #38545

WP 5.5: remove login form from password reset screen – #40605

WP 5.5: replace http with https on XFN networks – [48290]

WP 5.5: replace http with https in bundled themes – [48290]

WP 5.5: replace http URL with https in core – [48289]

WP 5.5 : use a default empty alt attribute for the non-linked custom logo on the home page – #37011

WP 5.5: fix responsive issue on plugins management screen – #49231

WP 5.5: Fix the Image Editor mismatching keyboard focus order and visual reading order – #47136

WP 5.5: Administration: Always show the filters on media and post list tables – #38221

Tenue du meeting hebdomadaire de l’équipe de dév des mises à jour automatiques des thèmes et extensions

WP 5.5: add a button to copy attachments URLs on the media library – #50322

WP 5.5: improvement on “copy infos” button’s accessibility in site health screen – #48463

Wrote and published the recap of the weekly Dev chat of the WordPress Core Team – June 24, 2020

WP 5.5: allow wp_update_comment() to return WP_Error() – #39732

WP 5.5 : accessibility enhancements on the “upcoming events” of the dashboard – #50338

WP 5.5: remove auto-updates column from mu-plugins and dropins screens – #50459

WP 5.5: remove DISABLE_WP_CRON checks from plugins and themes auto-updates – #50436

WP 5.5: Remove italic from privacy policy page example content – [48145]

WP 5.5 : Make the heading text for site health check issues easier to select in Firefox – #50281

WP 5.5: remove useless !important instructions from commons.css file – #47569

WP 5.5: embeds support on classic block – #45447

WP 5.5: fix the comment count for pending comments – #8973

WP 5.5: remove xmlns attribute from <html> tags in WP Admin – #49126

WP 5.5: improvements on plugins and themes auto-updates email notifications – #50268

WP 5.5: remove useless italic texts on WP admin – #47327

Published the WordPress Core team meeting summary for June 17th, 2020

WP 5.5: new hooks to allow filtering on plugins and themes auto-updates interface text content – #50280

Ran the WP Auto-updates project weekly meeting on #core-auto-updates Make/WP Slack Channel and published the meeting notes

New definitions in Make/Core glossary: Dev note and Field guide

WP 5.5: Add help tabs to provide informations about plugin & themes auto-updates – #50215

WP 5.5: remove the term “Error:” from error notices – #47656

WP 5.5: units are now translatable in size_format() function – #50194

WP 5.5: Provide menu settings when creating a new menu – #44286

WP 5.5: Remove link to homepage from function get_custom_logo() when we’re already on the homepage – #37011

WP 5.5: add WhatsApp and Telegram support on Twenty Seventeen social menu – #43999

WP 5.4.2: updated the changelog of WordPress Admin “about” page – #50269

Ran the WP Auto-updates project weekly meeting on #core-auto-updates Make/WP Slack Channel and published the meeting notes

WP 5.5: add custom HTML support on Twenty Twenty images captions – #49833

WP 5.5: fix Twenty Twenty comments internationalization – #49058

WP 5.5: introduction of an official environment variable to define the type of environment where the WordPress instance is located (development, stage or production) – #33161

WP 5.3.4, 5.2.7 and 5.1.6: ensure that unmoderated comments won’t be search indexed

Participated to WordPress 5.4.1 Release Candidate 1 deployment and published the release announcement

WP 5.4.2: ensure that unmoderated comments won’t be search indexed – #49956

WP 5.5: unify the date structure in “list” view and “excerpt” view – #35391

WP 5.5: Add the ability to disable redirect_guess_404_permalink() and 3 new filters – #16557

WP 5.5: search engines visibility information improved on WP-admin dashboard – #35288

WP 5.5: few fixes on some filter names on auto-updates feature – #50052

WP 5.5: fixed a small CSS validation error on Gutenberg project – PR #22583

Published the WordPress Core Team meeting recap for May 20, 2020

Ran the WP Auto-updates Feature Plugin weekly meeting on #core-auto-updates Make/WP Slack Channel

WP 5.5: handle browser animation preferences before using CSS animation on WP login screen – #49723

WP 5.5: Replaced TikTok icon on Twenty Twenty with a GPL compliant icon – #49893

Ran the WP Auto-updates Feature Plugin weekly meeting on #core-auto-updates Make/WP Slack Channel and published the meeting summary

WP 5.5: improvement on esc_url_raw function’s inline documentation – #50147

WP 5.4.2: Move the changelog for WordPress 5.4.1 after the main heading to preserve correct heading hierarchy. – #50121

WP 5.5: add a Cancel link to the screen for creating a new menu – #46367

Ran the WP Auto-updates Feature Plugin weekly meeting on #core-auto-updates Make/WP Slack Channel and published the meeting summary

WP 5.5: Denote the special pages (home, blog, privacy policy) in the Customizer menu editor – #46829

WP 5.5 : Menus – Allow empty taxonomy terms to be surfaced when searching for items – #45298

WP 5.5: Unlink the logo on the installation and config setup screens – #47759

WP 5.5: Better rendering of PHP notices in WP-Admin – #35155

Ran the WP Auto-updates Feature Plugin weekly meeting on #core-auto-updates Make/WP Slack Channel and published the meeting summary

WP 5.4.1: add version changelog into WP-Admin About screen – #50033

WP 5.5: Link to Nginx documentation on Network Setup screen when Nginx is in use – #41166

Participated to WordPress 5.4.1 Release Candidate 1 deployment and published the release announcement

Ran the WP Auto-updates Feature Plugin weekly meeting on #core-auto-updates Make/WP Slack Channel and published the meeting summary

WP 5.5: Remove some unused commented code on navigation menu screen – #49967

WP 5.5: visual bugfix on widgets checkboxes on small screens – #49228

WP 5.5: added TikTok in Twenty Twenty’s social menu – #49893

Ran the WP Auto-updates Feature Plugin weekly meeting on #core-auto-updates Make/WP Slack Channel and published the meeting summary

WP 5.4.1: undeprecation of category_link and tag_link filters – #49759

WP 5.5: Block theme activation if it’s not compatible to the current WordPress or PHP version – #43992

WP 5.4.1: added a new default favicon to WordPress for better support of browsers using dark mode – #49798

Hosted the weekly meeting of WordPress Core Team and published the meeting notes

Ran the WP Auto-updates Feature Plugin weekly meeting on #core-auto-updates Make/WP Slack Channel and published the meeting summary

Published a call for testers for version 0.4 of WP Auto-updates Feature Plugin

Preparation of the WordPress 5.4 Release Candidate 5 : final scrub, tickets and patchs review and final testing before the public release

WP 5.4: Some last minute fixes and final testing of the WP 5.4 About page – #49295

Published the recap of the weekly meeting of the WordPress core development team – March 25th, 2020

Creation of WP Auto-updates repository on WordPress organization GitHub account – I’m leading that with Paul Biron

Ran the WP Auto-updates Feature Plugin weekly meeting on #core-auto-updates Make/WP Slack Channel

Preparation of the WordPress 5.4 Release Candidate 4 : final scrub, tickets and patchs review and final testing before the public release

WP 5.4: creation of the WP 5.4 About page (CSS) – #49295

Preparation of the WordPress 5.4 Release Candidate 3 : final scrub, tickets and patchs review and final testing before the public release

Published the WP Core team meeting summary for March 12, 2020

Ran the first – kick-off – meeting of the WP Auto-updates Feature Plugin team and published the meeting summary

Preparation of the WordPress 5.4 Release Candidate 2 : final scrub, tickets and patchs review and final testing before the public release

Preparation of the WordPress 5.4 Release Candidate : final scrub, tickets and patchs review and final testing before the public release

WP 5.4: contribution to the About Page of WordPress 5.4 – #49295

Announcement of the public release of WP Auto-updates Feature Plugin, meant to develop the future automatic updates features for Themes & Plugins in WordPress Core

Preparation of the WordPress 5.4 beta 3 release : final scrub, tickets and patchs review and final testing before the public release

WP 5.4: add some CSS classes to Calendar Widget – #39763

WP 5.4: remove an unwanted element in the media library, to improve its accessibility – #47611

WP 5.4: remove potential double ID issues with Recent Comments widget – #46747

WP 5.4: fixes in wp_insert_user() function’s inline documentation – #49087

WP 5.4: fix <select> elements rendering inside WP-Admin Widgets – #49401

WP 5.4: enhancement on Menus management in the Customizer – #46830

WP 5.4: fix a JavaScript error inside the Widget Admin screen – #49505

Mentoring of the dev chat summary team for WordPress Core dev-chat

Preparation of the WordPress 5.4 beta 2 release : final scrub, tickets and patchs review, official announcement review and final testing before the public release

WP 5.4: remove italic text usage in several places in WP-Admin – #47327

WP 5.4: visual bugfix on the themes management screen – #49302

WP 5.4: Remove a useless label on the media moda: of the Image widget – #48931

WP 5.4: fix for form fields elements inside custom metaboxes – #49013

Published the WordPress Core team meeting summary for January 12th, 2020

Preparation of the WordPress 5.4 beta 1 release : final scrub, tickets and patchs review, official announcement review and final testing before the public release

WP 5.4: Fixes an internationalization bug in WP-Admin Export Screen – #49306

WP 5.4: visual fix on the upload form located on the Add Plugin screen – #48859

WP 5.4: Prevent currently active wide widget controls from being partially covered by another widget’s controls – #42001

WP 5.4: remove blank space on comments widgets in WP-Admin dashboard when avatars are disabled – #42938

WP 5.4: Better display of internal pagination links in Twenty Twenty – #48979

WP 5.4: Add What’s App support in Twenty Twenty’s social menu – #49098

WP 5.4: standardization of “found in trash” messages – #38669

WP 5.4: introduced TikTok embed block in Gutenberg editor – PR #19345

WP 5.4: enhancement on Calendar Widget to make it W3C-compliant – #39763

WP 5.4: fix incorrect usage of ID attributes on custom fields – #46964

WP 5.4: Load WP-Admin toolbar in wp_body_open when available – #47053

WP 5.4: Media modal – make the toolbar and inline uploader visual order always match the DOM order – #48403

WP 5.4: add TikTok oEmbed support in WordPress Core – #49083

Published the WordPress Core team meeting summary for January 15th, 2020

WP 5.4: enhancement on the focus management interface controls of the customizer – #48694

WP 5.4: enhancement concerning navigation/accessibility in the menu items selection panels in WP-Admin – #49211

WP 5.4: better support for unicode characters in some languages in Twenty Twenty menu items – #48970

WP 5.4: Gutenberg compatibility for the quick draft widget on WP-Admin dashboard – #48120

WP 5.4: interface enhancement on Site health screen with a focus effect on accordion elements – #48578

WP 5.4: support multi-days events in the WP-Admin Dashboard widget – #47798

WP 5.4: enhancement of text inputs rendering for both Recent Comments & Recent Posts widgets – #49195

WP 5.4: remove duplicate <label> in function show_blog_form() on wp-signup.php screen – #49174

WP 5.4: add a missing HTML landmark role="main" on wp-signup WordPress screen – #48657

Published the WordPress Core team meeting summary for January 15th, 2020

WP 5.3.3: fixed an alignment bug in Publish metabox – #49115

WP 5.3.3: fixed a visual bug on the WordPress installation screen – #49018

WP 5.4: doc fix in register_post_meta() function – #49180

Published the WordPress Core team meeting summary for January 8th, 2020

Raised a bug in WP media library that prevented a string to be translated – #49134

WordPress 5.3.2: add 5.3.2 changelog to WP-Admin about.php page – #49019

Lead WordPress 5.3.2 release candidate 1 and published the release announcement on Make/Core

WP 5.3.2: fix potential PHP warnings on wp_unique_filename() when destination directory is unreadable – #48960

WordPress 5.3.2: fix active buttons appearance on permalink settings screen with alternate color schemes – #49003

Ran the two bug scrubs before the release of WordPress 5.3.2

WordPress 5.3.1: add 5.3.1 changelog to WP-Admin about.php page – #48945

Led WordPress 5.3 release candidate 2 and published the release announcement on Make/Core

WordPress 5.3.1: Fix aesthetic Issues with Language Select on Install introduced in 5.3.1 RC1 – #48927

Lead WordPress 5.3 release candidate 1 and published the release announcement on Make/Core

WordPress 5.3.1: replacement of jQuery dependencies on front-end admin bar with native JavaScript – #47069

WordPress 5.3.1: testing a new package generated to fix a merge issue with last Gutenberg enhancements – #48884

WordPress 5.3.1: bugfixes related to WP 5.3 Admin CSS changes – #48420

WordPress 5.3.1: enhancement on media editor fields compatibility/accessibility – #48907

WordPress 5.3.1: enhancement on WP-Admin About page link styles – #48582

WordPress 5.3.1: bugfix on WP-Admin comments management page on small screens – #48815

WordPress 5.3.1 : disable menu content fields on WP-Admin when no menu is selected – #48409

WordPress 5.3.1 & Twenty Twenty: replacement of the javascript smooth scroll animation with scroll-behavior CSS property – tickets #48763, #48551 et #48866

WordPress 5.3.1: bugfix on :active state of secondary buttons in WP Admin alternative color schemes – #48598

WordPress 5.3.1: better secondary buttons in WordPress alternative admin color schemes – #48585

Fourth 5.3.1 bug scrub on Make/WP Slack team, prior to WordPress 5.3 release

Third bug scrub on Make/WP Slack team, to handle WordPress 5.3 core tickets

Second bug scrub on Make/WP Slack team, to handle WordPress 5.3 core tickets

Posted the schedule of WordPress 5.3.1 bug scrubs on Make/Core

Enhancement: dashboard links accessibility for WordPress 5.3.1 – #48406

Removed CollegeHumor embed from WordPress oEmbed list – #48696

Gutenberg: remove CollegeHumor embed block since this service doesn’t exists anymore – Pull Request #18591

WP Core patch: improve the appearance of tag cloud in Tags meta box in classic editor – #48592

Ran the first WordPress 5.3.1 core team bug scrub – Slack link

Final tests before releasing WordPress 5.3

Coordinated WordPress 5.3 Release Candidate 5 and published the announcement on Make/Core Blog

Participated to WordPress 5.3 “dry run”

Contributed to the final version of the about.php screen for WordPress 5.3 – #47708

Published the November 6th Core Dev Chat meeting notes on Make/Core

Ran WordPress Core developers chat –Octobre 30th 2019– and published meeting notes on make.wordpress.org

Ran the weekly meeting of the WordPress development team – check out the meeting notes

Core Contribution for WP 5.3: fixed an accessibility regression on disabled state of admin buttons – #48396

Participation to final tests of WordPress 5.3 Release Candidate 2 packages

Core Contribution for WP 5.3: fix on the about page for better accessibility – #47708

Core Contribution for WP 5.3 : pre-commit validation for a fix on the implementation of the UGC value for the rel attribute in comments

Made and published a testing campaign of the new Admin styles of WordPress 5.3 against the top 20 plugins

Participation to final tests of WordPress 5.3 Release Candidate package

Core Contribution for WP 5.3: contributed to the creation of the WP 5.3 about page – #47708

Contributed to testing WordPress 5.2.4 security release packages before the release

Core Contribution for WP 5.3 : fix the admin bar for theme that don’t use jQuery – #47069

Core Contribution for WP 5.3 : better wording on WP-Admin login screen – #43037

Core Contribution for WP 5.3: use proper labels in media upload modal windows – #47138

Core Contribution for WP 5.3: documentation enhancement in function add_image_size – #42463

Core Contribution for WP 5.3 : add language management in video widget subtitles feature – #47559

Core Contribution for WP 5.3: use ARIA tabs pattern on media modal menus – #47149

Core Contribution for WP 5.3: handle text zoom on attachments details screen – #47115

Core Contribution for WP 5.3 : fix WordPress colorpicker line-height – #48131

Contribution Core for WP 5.3 : add ugc value support for rel attribute and implementation in WordPress comments – #48022

Core Contribution for 5.3 : blue border for secondary buttons in WP-Admin – #34904

Core Contribution for WP 5.3: Post titles accessibility enhancement on Classic Editor – #47318

Core Contribution for WP 5.3 : Ensure visual consistency with large titles in the WP-Admin Menu – #42201

Core Contribution for WP 5.3 : replace http protocol with https by default on custom menu items – #46312

Core contribution for WP 5.3 : remove duplicate pages in Menu admin screen – #37782

Core Contribution for WP 5.3: added a “Show password” button to WP-Login login form – #42888

Core Contribution for WP 5.3: redesign of checkboxes and radio buttons in WP-Admin for a better accessibility – #47498

Core Contribution for WP 5.3: complete redesign of WP-Admin interface by backporting parts of Gutenberg editor styles to the whole admin – #47153

Core Contribution for WP 5.3 : better contrasts on WP-Admin form fields borders – #47150

Core Contribution for WP 5.3 : better management of browers text zoom in WP-Admin – #47477

Core Contribution for WP 5.3 : modernization of contrasts and color schemes on the whole WP-Admin – #48101

Core Contribution for WP 5.3 : better outline and focus design for buttons on the whole WP-Admin – #34904

Core contribution for WP 5.3 : Better navigation menu item selection interface – #47048

Unusual contribution to WP 5.3 : replace “caca URL” string (means “poop URL” in french) in a non well known part of WP-Admin 😅 – #48067

WP 5.3 : added aria-current support on native Widgets – #47094

WP 5.3 Core contribution : remove the possibility to use integers for menu slugs – #45361

WP 5.3 : fixes the publication date/time string accessibilitity – #47832

Ran the WordPress core developers chat on 4 September – see the dev chat summary

WP 5.3 Core Contribution – Widgets: Fix “jumpiness” when reordering widgets by dragging them – #46941

WP 5.3 Core Contribution – Bundled Theme: Twenty Nineteen: Fix the nesting of the main element. – #47066