February 24, 2016

Week in Core, Feb. 16-23 2016

Welcome back the latest issue of Week in Core, covering changes [36671-36541]. Here are the highlights:

  • 131 commits
  • 82 contributors
  • 89 tickets created
  • 9 tickets reopened
  • 140 tickets closed

Ticket numbers based on trac timeline for the period above.

Note: If you want to help write the next WordPress Core Weekly summary, check out the schedule over at make/docs and get in touch in the #core-weekly-update Slack channel.

Code Changes

Accessibility

  • Improve the color contrast ratio for the input placeholders. [36619] #35777
  • Remove title attributes from the Plugin details modal. [36618] #35111
  • Remove the revisions limit warning from the Publish box. [36612] #35029
  • Fix displaying of Universal time and Local time info on the General Settings screen. [36585] #35064
  • Improve color contrast updating any #999 gray used for text or icons to a darker gray. [36587] #35660
  • Accessibility: after [36000] conditionally print out the aria-describedby attribute on the Featured Image postbox. [36584] #35076
  • Accessibility: Reduce the WordPress shades of grey, Episode 2. [36582] #35783

Administration

  • Replace the custom comment form with comment_form() and reduce number of links. [36595] #35888
  • Remove extra spaces between function names and brackets [36572] #16774, #34365
  • Remove slashes from search terms and use urldecode() in non-URL contexts. [36560] #35712

Authentication

  • Allow users to log in using their email address. [36617] #9568

Autosave

  • Do not strip slashes from the whole &_POST when doing autosaves. [36543] #35408

Bootstrap/Load

Build/Test Tools

Comments

  • Rename $linea to $remote_source for clarity. Add remote_source to comment data, so it’s available to preprocess_comment and comment_post filters. Pass the original (unfiltered) response source to the filters too (as remote_source_original in comment data). [36661] #34141
  • Pass comment data to the comment_post filter. [36660] #34141
  • Look for wp_error when checking whether $wpdb->get_col_length() has failed. [36542] #10377
  • Refresh the Moderate Comment screen for a friendlier experience with email moderation actions. [36588] #34133

Customize

  • Let WP_Customize_Selective_Refresh class be final to match manager and other component classes. [36624] #27355
  • Ensure dynamic_sidebar() finishes with removing the sidebar ID from the current_dynamic_sidebar_id_stack. [36623] #27355
  • Prevent dropping backslashes from input on general settings and settings for nav menus and some widgets. [36622] #35898
  • Fix and extend broken ajax unit tests to account for partials being skipped from rendering. [36650] #35914
  • Skip exporting partials to client and handling rendering requests if user can’t modify associated settings. [36643] #27355, #35914
  • Add visual feedback to reorder buttons. [36641] #35041
  • Contain “No image set/selected” in dashed border. [36639] #35826
  • Update unit test for WP_Customize_Nav_Menu_Item_Setting::value_as_wp_post_nav_menu_item() to account for slashing if user can’t unfiltered_html. [36610] #35869
  • Prevent PHP notice and JS error caused by widgets and nav menus components if user only has customize capability. [36611] #35895
  • Fix previewing and updating of nav menu items containing slashed/slashable characters. [36608] #35869
  • Fix “Loading…” message from persisting in panel title when user does not have manage_options cap to edit blogname. [36606] #35579
  • Add selective refresh framework with implementation for widgets and re-implementation for nav menus. [36586] #27355
  • Prevent consecutive refresh requests from preview from causing JS error. [36583] #27355, #35866
  • In nav menus show the location name instead of slug. [36573] #34755
  • Add missing test changes for [36573]. [36574] #34755
  • Autoprefixer for [36532]. [36548] #31195

Docs

  • Correct $number type in number_format_i18n(). [36644] #35893
  • Update the type for $callback parameters to callable in DocBlocks for add_settings_section() and add_settings_field(). [36642] #35772
  • Improve documentation for WP_REST_Request to highlight a caveat of ArrayAccess when it comes to passing similar arguments for multiple request methods. [36636] #35799
  • Improve description of get_term() return value. [36634] #35919
  • Correct param types on some filters in wp_filter_comment(). [36626] #35908
  • WP_Meta_Query accepts ‘EXISTS’ or ‘NOT EXISTS’ for $compare. [36609] #35891
  • Fix two incorrect notations of the $show_admin_bar global to specify a boolean type, not WP_Admin_Bar. [36601] #35686
  • Add missing @since and @access tags to get_curies method and filter from r36533 [36593] #34729, #32246
  • Add an explanation for the dynamic portion of the {$taxonomy}_term_edit_form_top hook, introduced in [36526]. [36577] #32246
  • Add formatting to a changelog entry in the hook doc for the rest_dispatch_request filter. [36576] #32246
  • Remove a duplicate @static tag from the WP_Customize_Panel->instance_count property DocBlock. [36568] #32246

Embeds

  • Only display an iframe when it was successfully loaded. This prevents showing a blank iframe by first checking if a message was successfully received from it. [36648] #35894
  • Make the click event handler work for dynamically added links. [36637] #35630
  • Load the default site icon from the wp-includes directory. [36635] #35322

External Libraries

  • Update Backbone and Underscore to the latest versions. [36546] #34350

Feeds

Formatting

  • Avoid a PHP warning when wptexturize() is called with a trailing less-than symbol. [36578] #35864

Help/About

HTTP API

  • Certificate bundle: Attempt to move a certificate lower in the file to allow older OpenSSL versions to parse it & communicate with WordPress.org securely again. The OpenSSL version which was failing in this case was OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007. [36570] #35637, #30434, #25007

I18N

  • Add translator comments and context to “New Site Created” email notification strings. [36669] #35716
  • Replace hardcoded URL in a translatable string with a placeholder in wp-admin/upload.php. [36668] #35743
  • Add missing periods to two strings in wp-admin/network/sites.php [36664] #35720
  • Add translators comments to wp-admin/users.php. [36621] #35885
  • Remove HTML tags from translatable strings in wp-admin/plugins.php. [36662] #35679
  • Add the ability to parse a whole directory with add-textdomain.php. [36600] #35499
  • Remove PHP4 constructor from add-textdomain.php. [36599] #31982
  • Add test for wp_dropdown_languages(). [36631] #35294
  • Respect the coding standards when adding textdomains with add-textdomain.php. [36603] #21616
  • Remove tag from translatable string in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php. [36670] #35741
  • Remove tag from translatable string in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-ms-sites-list-table.php. [36663] #35676
  • Remove tag from translatable string in wp-admin/theme-install.php. [36666] #35739
  • Remove tag from translatable string in wp-admin/options-general.php. [36656] #35673
  • Remove tags from translatable strings in wp-admin/install.php. [36665] #35738
  • Remove tags from translatable strings in wp-admin/custom-header.php. [36658] #35675
  • Remove tags from translatable strings in wp-admin/themes.php. [36657] #35745
  • Remove tag from translatable string in wp-admin/user-edit.php. [36655] #35672
  • Remove tag from translatable string in wp-admin/import.php. [36653] #35671

Media

Menus

  • Ensure backslashes are saved in menu item fields. [36613] #14134

Multisite

  • Make view mode sticky for network users and sites list tables. [36562] #34365
  • Avoid a PHP Notice when saving a site address without a path. [36561] #35631

Performance

  • In wp_upload_dir() do not cache error from wp_mkdir_p() when a directory cannot be created. Keep trying to create the dirs. This happens mostly in file upload context. [36628] #34359
  • Replace wp_upload_dir() with the new wp_get_upload_dir() in all cases where a file is not being uploaded. Deprecate _wp_upload_dir_baseurl(), and replace it with wp_get_upload_dir(). [36569] #34359
  • Reintroduce term meta unit test accidentally removed in [36566]. [36567]
  • More performance improvements to metadata lazyloading. [36566] #35816
  • Improve the performance of wp_upload_dir(): [36565] #34359

Plugins

Posts

  • Introduce get_post_types_by_support(). Similar to get_post_types(), this new function returns a list of post type names that support a specific feature. [36652] #34010
  • Non-trashed posts should take slug priority over trashed posts. [36607] #11863

Query

  • Search should match post_excerpt in addition to title and content. When ordering search results, exact matches in the post excerpt are weighted above those in post content, but below those in the post title. [36647] #35762
  • Allow a seed value to be passed when using ‘rand’ $orderby. [36632] #35692
  • In WP::handle_404() introduce a filter pre_handle_404 to short-circuit default header status handling. [36629] #10722
  • is_*( $int ) should not falsely match strings starting with “$int”. [36625] #24674, #35902

Revisions

Schema

Script Loader

  • Don’t parse $src if the current color scheme isn’t registered. [36591] #35882
  • Pass the media attribute as an argument to the style_loader_tag filter. [36592] #34765
  • Bail if WP_Styles::_css_href() returns an empty value. [36590] #35229
  • Make sure that inline styles for handles without a source are printed. [36550] #35229
  • JSHint for [36602]. [36605] #33301
  • Fix missing script output when the groups of dependencies are different. [36604] #35873
  • Introduce wp_add_inline_script(). [36633] #14853
  • Restore loading order for wp-admin: open-sans, dashicons, etc. [36551] #35229

Styles

  • Clarify the allowed values for the $media parameter of wp_register_style()/wp_enqueue_style(). [36649] #35921

Taxonomy

  • Make $taxonomy parameter optional in get_edit_term_link(). [36646] #35922
  • Allow get_terms() to fetch terms regardless of taxonomy. [36614] #35495
  • In get_terms(), assemble WHERE conditions in an array instead of concatenating. [36598] #35495
  • Add changelog entry for publicly_queryable argument in register_taxonomy(). [36564] #34491

Template

Themes

TinyMCE

Updates

  • Pass locales of all available languages to the themes/plugins update API. [36630] #34937

Upgrade/Install

  • Prevent further actions if an update button is disabled. [36558] #35257
  • Add a hook to the end of the network’s Add New User form. [36556] #15389
  • Add a hook to the end of the Add Site form. [36555] #34739
  • Enhance the language of the “Success” message. [36553] #34897
  • Improve wording on the page for the database connection details. [36545] #26879
  • Use “Username” instead of “User Name”. [36544] #35850

Users

  • Pass the array of user IDs being deleted to the delete_user_form action hook in two places. [36640] #35063
  • Introduce _wp_get_current_user() for improved backward compatibility. [36651] #19615

Widgets

  • Avoid a PHP notice in is_dynamic_sidebar() is a sidebar is registered but does not yet have an index in the sidebars_widgets option. [36667] #35928

Props

Thanks to @dnewton,@joemcgill, @abiralneupane, @adamsilverstein, @afercia, @aidanlane, @Ankit, @apaliku, @atimmer, @azaozz, @barryceelen, @boonebgorges, @charlestonsw, @chris_dev, @ckoerner, @coffee2code, @coreymcollins, @danielbachhuber, @dd32, @Denis-de-Bernardy, @dlh, @DrewAPicture, @dshanske, @ericlewis, @ethitter, @flixos90, @GaryJ, @gitlost, @groovecoder, @Gupta, @hakre, @helen, @hlashbrooke, @iamntz, @igmoweb, @iseulde, @JamesDiGioia, @jdgrimes, @jeremyfelt, @JoeFusco, @joehoyle, @johnbillion, @jorbin, @K, @karmatosed, @kjbenk, @kovshenin, @lpawlik, @mayukojpn, @mdgl, @meitar, @melchoyce, @MikeHansenMe, @mikejolley, @mikeschroder, @netweb, @nicd, @ocean90, @pento, @prettyboymp, @ptahdunbar, @rachelbaker, @ramiy, @realloc, @ryan, @ryankienstra, @salcode, @sc0ttkclark, @sebastianpisula, @SergeyBiryukov, @stevegrunwell, @stevenkword, @swissspidy, @thewanderingbrit, @thisisit, @usermrpapa, @valendesigns, @vhomenko, @welcher, @westonruter, @williamsba1, and @wpsmith for their contributions! for their contributions!



Week in Core, Feb. 16-23 2016 by Andrew Rockwell was originally posted at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/02/24/week-in-core-feb-16-23-2016/
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