This week, Mel Choyce published a post about the goals for WordPress 4.9. One part, for example, is theme and plugin updates via ZIP upload.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
One of the topics of the meeting was the accessibility of Select2 \u2013 a script for replacing select boxes. WooCommerce uses that script, but because none of the raised accessibility issues and pull requests made it into the script, WooCommerce forked it to create a more accessible version<\/a>. The script was also of interest for the a11y team, as a possible solution for performance problems of multisite networks and sites with many users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More about that and the other topics can be found in the post \u00bbThis week in WordPress Accessibility, August 7th, 2017<\/a>\u00ab by Joe Dolson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The team concentrated on one topic this time: the informational landing page about why and how to update PHP. They discussed that they need to divide the audience of that page into segments, and noted the following as a starting point: site-owners, developers, and hosters. They do not want to create a landing page for each of that target groups but have a default page for site-owners, which provides links to sub pages or sub sections for the other segments of the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More on that in the summary post \u00bbPHP Meeting Recap \u2013 August 7th<\/a>\u00ab by Alain Schlesser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mel Choyce published the post \u00bbWordPress 4.9 Goals<\/a>\u00ab which contains a draft of the tickets and improvements that the core team is looking at bringing into 4.9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The main topics are (quoted from Mel\u2019s post):<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more details on each topic, check out her post.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCore<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
PHP meeting from August 7<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
4.9 goals<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Polyglots<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Misc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n