WordPress Contribution Diary

WP 5.8.1: Media: Check the posts_per_page value in wp_ajax_query_attachments() before using it as a divisor – #53773

WP 5.8.1: Bundled Themes: Use correct path for loading images in block patterns – #53769

WP 5.9: Add a comment about the $title global usage in various admin files – [51475]

WP 5.8.1: Help/About: Add / character to <img> and <source> tags – #53716

Contributed to WordPress 5.8 release process: final testing, supported the 2 coordinators of the release

Published A Week in Core – July 19, 2021, the weekly summary of the activity of the WordPress Core team

[FR] Contributed to WP 5.8 Release Candidate 4 release party – final testing

WP 5.8: found a regression in the block editor on the select-all-blocks feature – GH33358

WP 5.8: Updated images URI for the About page – [51413]

Published A week in Core – July 12, 2021, the weekly recap of the WordPress Core Team activity for the past week

WP 5.8: updated jQuery from version 3.5.1 to version 3.6.0 – [51380]

WP 5.8: Update placeholder links on About page – #52775

WP 5.8: Bundled Themes: Correct customzier typo – #53598

Published « A week in Core – July 5, 2021 », the weekly summary of the WordPress Core team activity

WP 5.8: Update the IRC link from Freenode to Libera.chat – #53590

WP 5.8: reviewed the WordPress 5.8 Release Candidate 1 announcement

WP 5.8: contribution to the WordPress 5.8 About page – [51264]

Published A week in core – June 28, 2021, the weekly summary of the WordPress core team activity

WP 5.8: Site Health: Improve readability of site titles – #53535

WP 5.8: Correct undefined variable in wp_ajax_query_attachments – #50105

WP 5.8: add support for the Widgets Editor on after_setup_theme instead of widgets_init – #53424

Published A week in core – June 21, 2021, the weekly recap to the WordPress Core team work

WP 5.8: Add editor styles to the widgets block editor – #53344

WP 5.8: Add a reference to WP_Site_Query::__construct() for information on accepted arguments in get_sites() – #42156

WP 5.8: REST API: Decode HTML entities in widget names and descriptions in widget types controller – [51174]

Published A Week in Core – June 14, 2021, the weekly summary of the activity of the WordPress Core team

WP 5.8: Document the usage of $wp_widget_factory global in WP_Customize_Widgets::sanitize_widget_instance() – #53394

Hosted the weekly meeting of the Core Auto-updates – Upgrade/Install component

Reviewed/helped to write the WordPress 5.8 beta 1 release announcement

WP 5.8: Privacy: Improve naming of user confirmed action email filters – #44314

WP 5.8: Widgets: Ensure that HTML entities are converted in widget descriptions – #53138

WP 5.8: Login and Registration: Improve the unknown username error message – #52915

WP 5.8: Permalinks: Limit pagination for posts with comments – #50233

WP 5.8 / Gutenberg: Ensure that the block editor can be used on the blog page – #45537

WP 5.8: Bundled Themes: Introduce block patterns for Twenty Eleven – #51106

WP 5.8: Widgets: Ensure that HTML entities are converted in widget descriptions – #53138

WP 5.8: Administration: Escape the values of data-colname – #40401

Published A week in Core – June 7, 2021, the recap of WordPress Core team activity for the past week

WP 5.8: Remove parsing of readme.txt files from validate_plugin_requirements() – #48520

WP 5.8: Application Passwords: Allow enter key to submit profile form – #52849

Published the WordPress Core team weekly dev chat meeting notes for Wed June, 2nd 2021

Published A week in core – May 31, 2021, the weekly summary of the activity of the WordPress Core team on the past week

Published a post to celebrate the 18th anniversary of WordPress on the French Locale website

WP 5.8: Twenty Thirteen: Fix missing translations in block patterns, add image credits – [51034]

WP 5.8: Formatting: Introduce the document_title filter – #51643

WP 5.8: Menus: Add bulk delete for menu items –  #21603

WP 5.8: Users: Pass on the user data received by wp_insert_user() to related hooks – #53110

WP 5.8: Toolbar: Prevent username from wrapping when avatars are disabled – #26933

WP 5.8: Include a “View Post” link on the Comments screen for a single post – #52353

WP 5.8: List Tables: Wrap long search terms onto a new line – #52749

WP 5.7.3: Help/About: Reduce space below minor release log – #53067

WP 5.7.3: Do not auto-set locations for new menus – #52949

WP 5.8: Use “sites” terminology instead of “blogs” in application passwords help text – #53225

Published A week in core – May 17, 2021, the weekly summary of the WordPress Core team activity during the the previous week

WP 5.7.2: patch review for the about page changelog update for 5.7.2 and all other maintained branches – [50868]

WP 5.8: Update help key documentation link in REST API response – #53162

Published A week in core – May 10, 2021, the weekly summary of the activity of the WordPress Core team

WP 5.8: Network and Sites: Display site icons in the My Sites menu – #46657

WP 5.8: Enable revisions for the wp_block post type (reusable blocks) – #53072

WP 5.8: Remove infinite scroll from media library and modal – #50105

Hosted the weekly Core-autoupdates team meeting

WP 5.8: Use correct escaping function for form action attributes – #53150

WP 5.8: Use correct escaping function for the plugin icon URL – #53151

Published the agenda of the « Update the updaters » project on Make/Core

Published A week in core – May 3, 2021, the summary of the previous week activity of the WordPress Core team

Published a post on Make/Core: Docs Focus role & workflow during WordPress release cycle

Proofread the Make/Core post [Feature project] Updates on updating the updaters

WP 5.8: Display plugin and theme update counts on WordPress Updates screen – #53031

WP 5.8: Twenty Twenty-One: Display page title as the H1 heading when a static page is selected as the “Posts page” – #52938

WP 5.8: Toolbar: Remove title attribute on pending updates link – #26562

Hosted the WordPress Core team weekly meeting and published the meeting summary

Published A week in core – April 26, 2021, the summary of the activity of the Core Team for the past week

Published A week in core – April 19, 2021, the weekly summary of the core team activity in the previous week

Hosted the weekly Core team devchat and published the meeting summary

WordPress Core Team recap on the quarterly update post

WP 5.7.1: updated the admin about page with WordPress 5.7.1 changelog – [50735]

WP 5.8: Upgrade/Install: Correct the alignment of error messages for the language installer – #52989

Published A week in core – April 12, 2021, the WordPress Core team activity summary for the past week

Wrote and published the WordPress Core team weekly meeting summary

(Co)Published WordPress 5.7.1 Release Candidate 1

WP 5.7.1: Options, Meta APIs: Update default color scheme swatch to match CSS changes – #52750

Published A week in core – April 5, 2021, the weekly summary of the WP Core team activity

Put together the Wednesday March 31, 2021 Core devchat meeting summary

WP 5.8: Clarify return results for a non-existing ID in metadata functions – #51797

WP 5.7.1 : issue with PHPMailer emails in certain use cases – [50628]

Hosted the second WordPress 5.7.1 bug scrub

Contributed to resolve a bug on the PHPMailer upstream library – #2300

WP 5.8: Docs: Fix indentation for wp_term_query->construct method parameters – #52839

Published A week in core – March 29, 2021, the weekly summary of the WordPress Core Team activity

WP 5.7.1: hosted the first bug scrub of the 5.7.1 milestone on March 25, 2021

WP 5.7.1: removed useless / in the edit.php et user.php files – #52878

WP 5.7.1: Login, Registration: Prevent button misalignment on login screen – #52834

Published the March 24, 2021 Core meetings notes

Ran the weekly core dev chat / America-Europe timeslot

WP 5.7.1: Login, Registration: Prevent button misalignment on password reset screen – #52834

WP 5.7.1: Privacy: Wrap text in buttons on privacy policy guide – #52751

Published A week in core – March 22, 2021, the weekly summary of the WordPress Core Team activity

WP 5.8: fixed indentation in the register_post_type function’s documentation – #52836

Published A week in core – March 15, 2021, the summary of the WordPress Core team weekly activity

WP 5.7.1: Twenty Seventeen: Remove extra space around post editor – #52816

WP 5.7.1: Use a darker color for post dates in the Activity and Quick Draft dashboard widgets – #52760

WP 5.7.1: fixed a few hardcoded image URLs on the WP 5.7 about page – #52743

Proofread the weekly WP Core dev chat recap for March 10, 2021

WP 5.7.1: fixed a video resource on the WP-Admin about page – #52756

Final tests and contributed to publish the WP 5.7 Release Candidate 3 announcement

WP 5.7: Help/About: Clarify two strings – [50495]

WP 5.7: Help/About: Clarify a string about lazy-loading iframes – [50492]

WP 5.7: Help/About: Clarify a string about lazy-loading iframes – [50483]

Tested the release and proofreaded the announcement of WordPress 5.7 Release Candidate 2

WP 5.7: adjustments in the WP about page content – [50478]

Published A week in Core – March 1st, the summary of the Core team activity for the past week

WP 5.7: Help/About: Remove extra space in the 5.7 About page copy – #52632

Reviewed the summary of the WP Core team weekly meeting

WP 5.7: Help/About: Remove extra space in the 5.7 About page copy – #52632

WP 5.7: contributed to the WordPress 5.7 About page – #52347

WP 5.7: Docs: Improve documentation for WP_Block_Type properties – #48640

WP 5.7: Users: Only include the IP address in password reset email if the user is not logged in – #34281

Reviewed the WordPress 5.7 Release Candidate 1 announcement

WP 5.7: Users: Ensure reset password emails are in the receiving user’s locale – #52605

WP 5.7: Users: Relocate the Password Reset feature to the Account Management section – #52597

Published A week in Core – February 22, the summary of WordPress Core team activity for the past week

Participated to the minor release squad for the version 5.6.2 of WordPress, led by Jonathan Desrosiers

WP 5.6.2: updated the WP-Admin About page – [50402]

Proofread the « Rollback Update Failure » feature plugin announcement

WP 5.7: Users: Correctly display an error message after clicking the “Send Reset Link” button – #52573

WP 5.7: Bring admin color schemes back into the customizer – #52230

Contributed to the release of WordPress 5.6.2 RC: last tickets review, final testing, and peer-review of the release announcement

WP 5.7: Add noindex robots meta tag to search results – #52457

Contributed to the release of WordPress 5.7 beta 3: last tickets review, final testing, and peer-review of the release announcement

WP 5.7: Twenty Twenty-One: Remove background color from Social Links the dark gray style – #52499

WP 5.7: Twenty Ten: Correct the fallback to the default header if the featured image width is narrower than the twentyeleven_header_image_width setting – #52516

WP 5.7: Twenty Eleven: Correct the fallback to the default header if the featured image width is narrower than the twentyeleven_header_image_width setting – #52516

WP 5.7: Posts, Post Types: Update the styling of the legacy Links editing screen – #48782

Published A week in Core – February 15, the summary of WordPress Core team activity for the past week

WP 5.7: Twenty Twenty-One: Correct accent marks in block pattern alt text – #52500

Published the WordPress Core Team weekly meeting summary on Make/Core

Published the Upgrade/Install team weekly meeting summary and announced the upcoming Feature plugin: «Rollback Update Failure»

Contributed to the release of WordPress 5.7 beta 1: last tickets review, final testing, and peer-review of the release announcement

Ran the weekly meeting of the core-auto-updates WP team

WP 5.7 : amélioration des contrastes de couleurs sur les éléments d’interface de l’administration – #52402

WP 5.6: Site Health: Link to the support article on troubleshooting in “There has been a critical error” message – #52392

WP 5.7: Clarify the documentation about the return value of get_post() when a falsey value is passed – #33068

Published A week in Core – February 8, a recap of what the WP Core team did on past week

WP 5.7: Docs: Clarify the @return value for wp_get_attachment_image_url() and get_the_post_thumbnail_url() – #52183

WP 5.7: Menus: Add sticky footer to avoid duplicate save buttons – #51631

WP 5.6.2: Editor: Correct the check for unsaved content in wp.autosave.server.postChanged() – #52440

WP 5.6.1: Help/About: About page changes for 5.6.1 – #52346

Contributed to the release of WordPress 5.7 beta 1: last tickets review, final testing, and peer-review of the release announcement

WP 5.7: Taxonomy: Add filter for post statuses when updating term count – #38843

WP 5.7: Administration: use shorthand css properties to improve readability – #52148

WP 5.7: Twenty Twenty-One: Fix wrapping for long text within comments – #52380

WP 5.7: Login and Registration: Improve the UX of the Reset Password screen – #39638

Published A week in Core – February 1, a recap of what the WP Core team did on past week

WP 5.7: Introduce new functions for determining if a post has a parent (has_post_parent()) and to fetch the post parent (get_post_parent()) – #33045

WP 5.7: Upgrade/Install – Display correct message about the current version in the admin footer – #51976

WP 5.7: Introduce “Filter by date” and “Filter by category” as post type and taxonomy labels, respectively – #42421

WP 5.7: Login: Enable filtering the back to blog link – #35449

WP 5.7: Menus – Add sticky footer to avoid duplicate save buttons – #51631

WP 5.7 : Accommodate long translations of user roles in the “Role” list table column – #52184

WP 5.7: Upgrade/Install: Allow WordPress sites to opt-in to development releases – #51978

Co-wrote the announcement for WordPress 5.6.1 Release Candidate 1

Participated to the organization, testing and releasing of WP 5.6.1 Release Candidate 1

Published the WordPress 5.6.1 schedule announcement

WP 5.6.1: Site Health: Update php update strings to not overpromise performance – #52327

WP 5.6.1: Ensure that wp_get_attachment_metadata can return values from the global $post, if available – #52196

WP 5.6.1: removed a false positive check on WP_Site_Health_Auto_Updates – #52135

Ran the last bug scrub before WordPress 5.6.1 release candidate

WP 5.7: Twenty Twenty: remove aria-expanded on Close Search button – #52355

WP 5.7: Respect the prefers-reduced-motion media query for update icon spinner animations – #52263

WP 5.7: Rotate the Updates icon in the admin bar when performing inline updates on the Plugins screen – #51476

WP 5.7: Administration: Standardize colors used in CSS to a single palette – #49999

WP 5.7: Make sure the SMTP class is only required once if a plugin requires wp-includes/class-smtp.php directly – #52369

Published A week in Core – January 25, a recap of what the WP Core team did on past week

WP 5.7: Toolbar: Update Documentation and Support links – #52352

WP 5.6 : create an export-specific filter for post titles – #52250

WP 5.7: Correct default value for the number argument of wp_tag_cloud() – #52348

WP 5.7: Docs: Fix typo in WP_Links_List_Table DocBlock – #52349

Ran the weekly meeting of WordPress #core-auto-updates team

WP 5.7: Display version number on the “Re-install now” button on WordPress Updates screen – #51774

WP 5.7: Introduce a new hook to filter paginate_links() output – #44018

WP 5.7: Improve code layout in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-media-list-table.php – #51014

WP 5.7: Remove unused source file for wp-a11y.js which was replaced with the @wordpress/a11y package – #50093

WP 5.7: minor UI issues on Edit Menus screen on smaller viewports – #49245

Core team update for the general Q4-2020 yearly update of the individual teams of WordPress.org

WP 5.7: Add context for the Public string in site attributes list on Edit Site screen – #52309

WP 5.7: Administration: Update hover and focus states in admin menu – #28599

WP 5.7: Accessibility: Remove <strong> tags from labels on plugin/theme editor screens – #52232

Published A week in Core – January 11, a recap of what the WP Core team did on past week

WP 5.7: Privacy: Clarify the “Contact information” heading in default privacy policy content – #52272

WP 5.7: Add missing <p> tags to error message in wp-load.php – #52254

WP 5.7: added a necessary alt attribute on the custom logo image placeholder in the customizer – #51846

WP 5.7: Use more descriptive link text for the Privacy Policy link on the Privacy screen – #52233

Ran the weekly meeting of WordPress #core-auto-updates team

Ran the WordPress #core-auto-updates weekly team meeting

Published A week in Core – January 4, a recap of what the WP Core team did on past week

Hosted the last WP Core team meeting for 2020 and published the meeting notes

Published A week in Core – December 28, a recap of what the WP Core team did on past week

WP 5.7: Add more contrast to input borders during
installation – #51854

Published A week in Core – December 21, a recap of what the WP Core team did on past week

Proofread of the WordPress 5.7 roadmap with Francesca Marano

WP 5.7: fixed a typo in WordPress readme.html file – #52125

WP 5.7: fixed a typo in the documentation of the JS function getCursorMarkerSpan() – #52128

Copy review on the WordPress 5.6 «Simone» post-release call for feedback

Ran the weekly meeting of WordPress #core-auto-updates team

Published A week in Core – December 14, a recap of what the WP Core team did on past week

Published a call for volunteers to lead the WordPress 5.7 early bug scrubs on Make/Core

WP 5.6: contributed to WordPress 5.6 Release Candidate 5 testing

Published A week in Core – December 7, a recap of what the WP Core team did on past week

WP 5.7: Twenty Twenty-One: Use consistent HTML comments after closing HTML tags – #51950

WP 5.6 : Check $wp_version global for displaying “You are using a development version” message in the admin footer – #51892

WP 5.6: Move trailing punctuation in the jQuery Migrate Helper plugin link outside of the HTML tag – [49729]

WP 5.6: Fixed unnecessarily split of translatable strings in block patterns – #51893

Gutenberg: pointed out a fatal error on some specific date/time formats in the editor – #27246

WP 5.6: Upgrade/Install: Display “You are using a development version” message on WordPress Updates screen for Beta or RC versions – [49712]

Published A week in Core – November 30, a recap of what the WP Core team did on past week

WP 5.6 / Gutenberg: text change on a block pattern to avoid to split a translation in two parts – PR#27361

WP 5.6 : correction de la fermeture de balise sur le sous-titre de la chaîne « Résultats de recherche pour : » – #51889

Gutenberg: raised an error caused by alternative time formats in the block editor – PR#27246

Published A week in Core – November 9, a recap of what the WP Core team did on past week

WP 5.6: Help/About: Move trailing punctuation in the jQuery Migrate Helper plugin link outside of the HTML tag – #51813

WP 5.6 : modification de la logique conditionnelle de vérification de la constante AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED – #51827

WP 5.6: contribution to WordPress 5.6 field guide

WP 5.6: fixed some translation strings on WordPress 5.6 About page screen – [49651]

WP 5.6: contributed to WordPress 5.6 Release Candidate testing and reviewed the official release announcement

WP 5.6: Contributed to the WordPress 5.6 About page screen – #51415

WP 5.6: numerous bugfixes and enhancements on the Core auto-updates feature  – #51742

Co-published the weekly update of the Core team on Make/Core, with Francesca Marano

WP 5.6 : documentation de la variable $args au sein de la fonction wp_oembed_get() – #51269

WP 5.6: Account for the automatic_updater_disabled filter in core auto-update settings UI – [49592]

Contributed to WordPress 5.6 beta 4 and to the related press release

WP 5.6: Better UI for auto-update settings on update screen – #51742

WP 5.6: Make sure auto-update counts properly update when bulk deleting plugins or themes – #50870

WP 5.6: Enable core auto-updates for major versions on new installations – #51743

Participated to the monthly recap of the Core Team works, published by Francesca Marano

Co-published the monthly update of the Core team on Make/Updates, with Francesca Marano

Hosted the Core Auto-updates team meeting and published the meeting notes

Contributed to the announcement of the details concerning the delay for WP 5.6 beta 4, following the changes decided concerning major core versions auto-updates

Published A week in Core – November 9, a recap of what the WP Core team did on past week

WP 5.6: Media: Adjust box-sizing for audio players – #51685

WP 5.6: App Passwords: Further accessibility improvements – #51580

WP 5.6: unification of several translation strings concerning links to previous screens – #47235

WP 5.6: merge some translation strings in WordPress Core – #47259

WP 5.6: fixed pluralization of some translatable strings in the Rest API – #51727

WP 5.6: fixed list block alignement on Bundled themes – #51157

WP 5.6: replaced the information notice with a success notice on Updates admin screen – #51701

Hosted the Core Auto-updates weekly team meeting

Helped to test WordPress 5.6 Beta 3 packages before publishing the release

WP 5.6: Update help tab text to include major WordPress updates – #51653

WP 5.6: Update docs for $context in sanitize_title_with_dashes() – #50569

WP 5.6: Site Health – Site errors are for *this* site, not necessarily *your* site – #51524

WP 5.5.3 : Updated the About page changelog on WordPress Admin – #51684

WP 5.5.3: made version bumps for WP 5.1.x, WP 5.2.x, WP 5.3.x, WP 5.4.x and WP 5.5.x

WP 5.5.2: Updated the About page changelog on WordPress Admin – #51649

WP 5.5.2: Remove Facebook and Instagram as an oEmbed Source as Facebook has deprecated all non-authenticated endpoints for Facebook and Instagram – #50861

Helped to test WordPress 5.6 Beta 2 packages before publishing the release

WP 5.6: Menus: Better responsive display for accordion items – #49375

WP 5.6: Adjust a string in core_auto_updates_settings() for consistency – #50907

WP 5.5.2: Check if taxonomy is set for the tax_input parameter of wp_insert_post() – #51320

WP 5.6: added CSS hyphenation to the “Posts” column of the User screen in WP Admin – #50838

WP 5.6: fixed the description of the documentation of the wp_pre_insert_user_data filter – #51637

WP 5.5.2: Community Events: Display dates and times in the user’s time zone – #51130

WP 5.6: Added an user interface to opt-in to WordPress Core major automatic updates – #50907

WP 5.6 : Include “from” version for plugins/themes in plugins and themes auto-updates email notifications – #50774

WP 5.6: added a new filter for the wp_get_attachment_image() function HTML rendering – #50801

WP 5.6: Remove noreferrer from wp_targeted_link_rel() and other uses – #49558

WP 5.6 : Introduce before_sidebar and after_sidebar arguments for
register_sidebar() – #19709

WP 5.6: Allow users to open embed links in a new tab using cmd/ctrl + click shortcut – #39097

WP 5.6 : Hide the link to the initial parent comment in the reply heading when replying to another comment – #51175

WP 5.6 : Administration: wrap the list table items count to a new line on small screens – #49246

WP 5.6: conditionally wrap the tag cloud widget in a <nav> element – #51455

WP 5.6: Denote removed suggested privacy policy text in a more noticeable way – #51435

Ran the first bug scrub for WordPress 5.5.2 milestone

WP 5.5.2: check if plugin or theme update results are available before applying the notification filters – #51400

WP 5.6: Upgrade/Install: Reduce secondary buttons for less visual complexity – #51523

WP 5.6: Better wrapping for long menu item names – #42201

WP 5.6: Community Events widget – Display dates and times in the user’s time zone – #51130

Ran the Core Auto-updates weekly team meeting and published the meeting summary

WP 5.6: added a cancel button to the widget accessibility mode – #49354

Hosted the #core-auto-updates weekly meeting

Gutenberg: replaced an occurence of esc_attr with esc_html – PR#25476

WP 5.6: Add the aria-hidden attribute to admin menu icons – #51012

WP 5.5.1: updated WordPress 5.5.1 About Page changelog – #51202

Helped to ship WordPress 5.5.1 Release Candidate 2; wrote and published the release announcement on Make/Core

WP 5.5.1: Add a @since note to the display_post_states filter to clarify that it is now also applied in the Customizer context – #51081

WP 5.5.1: Clarify the usage of null for auto_update_{$type} filter – #50848

Led the WordPress 5.5.1 RC 1 “release party” and co-published the announcement post on Make/Core

WP 5.5.1: Only display the auto-update links on the Network Admin > Themes screen for themes that support the feature – #51129

WP 5.5.1: Disable concatenation for scripts with translations to ensure they are printed in the right order – #50999

WP 5.5.1: Update wp_add_inline_script() unit tests to account for the jquery handle being an alias for jquery-core again – [48892]

WP 5.5.1: Auto-updates email notifications – Pass details about the specific plugin and theme updates attempted to filters – #50988

WP 5.5.1: disable lazy-loading for custom logos by default – #50933

WP 5.5.1: bugfix on the bulk edit tool for posts and users screens – #50882, #50998

Published the expected planning for the release of WordPress 5.5.1 and contributed to the related tickets triage

Hosted the second bug scrub meeting for WordPress 5.5.1 and created a spreadsheet to track the milestone

WP 5.5.1: Make some hardcoded strings in block patterns translatable in the editor – #50845

WP 5.5.1: added documentation about the new loading attribute, used to trigger lazyload in wp_get_attachment_image() function – #51122

Hosted the core-auto-updates weekly team meeting and published the meeting notes

WP 5.5.1: added missing docblocks on get_the_archive_title() function – #51050

WP 5.6: Toolbar: Don’t output the “Skip to toolbar” link in modern themes that support the wp_body_open action – #50702

WP 5.5: finalisation of WordPress 5.5’s about page – #50416

Preparation of the WordPress 5.5 Release Candidate 3: final testing before the public release

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