WordPress 6.1 is scheduled for release next week on November 1, 2022! This RC4 release is the last milestone for testing ahead of the official release. The following issues have been addressed since RC3: Global Styles: Not working for third-party Continue reading WordPress 6.1 Release Candidate 4 (RC4) Now Available for Testing
Release Candidate 3 (RC3) is now available for testing! The general release is just one week away with WordPress 6.1 scheduled for release on Tuesday, November 1, 2022. This RC3 release is the final opportunity for you to test and Continue reading WordPress 6.1 Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Now Available
Preparation for WordPress 6.1 final release is underway. This post shares the release process, including the timeline and how you can help. The post will be kept up to date as the release process evolves. Release Timeline Overview The current Continue reading WordPress 6.1 Release Day Process
Welcome back to a new issue of Week in Core. Let’s take a look at what changed on Trac between October 17 and October 24, 2022. 49 commits 75 contributors ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
If you received a notification about this post, the reason is (most probably) that you’re registered as a General Translation Editor for one or several WordPress locales. If you believe that is an error, please reach out to the Polyglots Continue reading WordPress 6.1 Translation Status (October 20, 2022)
Welcome back to a new issue of Week in Core. Let’s take a look at what changed on Trac between October 10 and October 17, 2022. 73 commits 141 contributors ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
The meetings take place on Wednesdays at 20:00 UTC in the #core channel on Slack, and usually last an hour. All are welcome to attend or catch up via the summary. About Dev Chat. The publication of the Dev Chat agenda was held until after Continue reading Dev Chat agenda, October 19, 2022
The second release candidate (RC2) for WordPress 6.1 is now available! “Release Candidate” means that this version of WordPress is ready for release and it is a key milestone in the 6.1 release cycle! Before the official release date, the Continue reading WordPress 6.1 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Now Available
WordPress 6.1 Release Candidate 1 is out and it’s time to take a look at what changes we can expect. Release squad and many contributors worked hard on both Trac and GitHub; with over 120 enhancements and feature requests, 241 Continue reading WordPress 6.1 Field Guide
WordPress 6.1 introduces several new Block API features available via the block.json file. As a recap, the block.json file was introduced in WordPress 5.5 and has been encouraged as the canonical way of registering block types since the WordPress 5.8 Continue reading Block API changes in WordPress 6.1
WordPress 6.1 comes with an experimental content locking for block, patterns, and templates, as well as a template lock inheritance for the Column block. Almost any layout using the core blocks can be composed and shared as pattern. End users Continue reading Content locking features and updates
The @wordpress/core-data JavaScript package in 6.1 ships new React hooks that make accessing WordPress data easier than before. useEntityRecords With useEntityRecords developers, can fetch a list of records with a single hook call: ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
The meetings take place on Wednesdays at 20:00 UTC in the #core channel on Slack, and usually last an hour. All are welcome to attend or catch up via the summary. About Dev Chat. The publication of the Dev Chat agenda was held until after Continue reading Dev Chat agenda, October 12, 2022
With WordPress 6.1, theme developers can style elements with references from other settings. Theme designs often require consistency in the styles applied to blocks. This can be achieved by setting Styles properties which are inherited by blocks using the inheritance Continue reading Reference Styles values in theme.json
The first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 6.1 is now available! This is an important milestone in the 6.1 release cycle. “Release Candidate” means that this version of WordPress is ready for release! Before the official release date, time is Continue reading WordPress 6.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) Now Available
WordPress 6.1, planned for November 1, 2022, is now ready to be translated on translate.wordpress.org! The new strings are in the development projects. The strings for WordPress 6.0 have been moved to projects/wp/6.0.x. As for previous releases, most of new Continue reading WordPress 6.1 ready to be translated
Thank you to @joedolson and @alexstine for collaborating to write this post. With WordPress 6.1 around the corner, this post brings together the many accessibility improvements and fixes to look forward to that might be hard to discover amongst the Continue reading WordPress 6.1 Accessibility Improvements
WordPress 6.1 introduces a number of important performance improvements which will have impact in all aspects. The most significant improvements are done in caching WP_Query as well as REST API. Improvements to WP_Query Database queries in WP_Query being cached is Continue reading Performance Field Guide for WordPress 6.1
WordPress 6.1 enhances the TypeScript support for the frontend data stores. The types it ships for the @wordpress/data and @wordpress/core-data npm packages enable auto-completion and improvements in static type checks. As a recap, @wordpress/data is the foundational package powering all Continue reading Enhanced TypeScript support in WordPress 6.1
For WordPress 6.1, there was a concerted effort to add design tools consistently to blocks, via block support and make them available via Inspector Controls and for themes in theme.json file. In this post, you will find a roster for Continue reading Roster of design tools per block