In the code reference under developer.wordpress.org/reference you can find all functions, hooks, classes and methods of WordPress. For example, an entry for a function displays which parameters it expects, what return value there is and what the code looks like. Here I describe briefly how something similar can be done.
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WordPress weekly recap #41: account security improvements in 4.9 and more
The WordPress 4.9 release will contain a few improvements for the account security.
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Sometimes it may be useful to trap the focus inside a specific area of the website so that no other focusable elements outside of this area can be reached (for example via using the tab key). Here I show you how to do that.
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The first beta of WordPress 4.9 was released, and the core team needs your help testing it.
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I really like the web hoster Uberspace, and the team started the public beta of Uberspace 7 (U7) a few days ago:
They invested a lot of work into the new system, and it comes with a lot of improvements compared to Uberspace 6 – even now, in the beta version. All domains on U7 get automatic SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt, and HTTP requests are redirected to HTTPS. U7 supports HTTP/2, comes with PHP-FPM (no more start delay) and MariaDB 10.1 as default database solution. The command line toolchain is fresher than before, and there is a new handbook on manual.uberspace.de. More on that in the post »Die U7 Public Beta« by Jonas Pasche.
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This week the core team integrated the gallery widget into the core – it will be part of WordPress 4.9.
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It is not trivial to compile an SCSS file with Webpack, which is not included in the JS file, into its own CSS file. This post shows you how to do that.
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This week the core team releases WordPress 4.8.2, which fixes several security issues.
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Until recently, I just used Xdebug for debugging PHP locally with XAMPP. But now I needed to debug a problem with PayPal in WooCommerce on a remote server. This post shows you how to get this working.
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This week, the CodeMirror integration was merged into core. That is a code editor which will be available for the theme and plugin editor, the HTML widget and the custom CSS field in the customizer.
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