WordPress Contribution

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