Image block alignments Historically, the image block with left, right or center alignments used to have an extra div wrapper around the figure tag to help with alignment styling. In WordPress 6.0, for themes that support the layout feature, this Continue reading Block markup updates for image, quote, list and group blocks
WordPress 6.0 no longer ignores the exceptions thrown by the resolvers. In WordPress 5.9 and earlier, an exception thrown inside the resolver kept it in the resolving state forever. It never got marked as finished. In WordPress 6.0, the resolver Continue reading Support for handling resolution errors for Editor data module
Facilitator and notetaker: @jorgefilipecosta This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, May 4 2022, 04:00 PM GMT+1. This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress Slack. Gutenberg 13.2 RCWordPress 6.0 Project boardWordPress 6.0 Beta 4 (May 2nd)WordPress 6.0 Continue reading Editor Chat Agenda: 4 May 2022
Props to @scruffian for writing this dev note. Theme Export The “Export” feature in the Site Editor has been improved so that now you can export your whole theme, including all the edits you have made to your templates and Continue reading Theme export in WordPress 6.0
WordPress 6.0 brings three new features to Themes to offer site owners patterns. Register selected patterns from the public pattern directory, add theme patterns to a separate folder /patterns, and add patterns that can be offered to use when creating Continue reading New features for working with patterns and themes in WordPress 6.0
If you’ve ever worked with post types in WordPress, chances are you’ve used register_post_type_args filter where you had to perform post type check. In WordPress 6.0 you won’t have to do that any more as new object type hooks are Continue reading Object type specific registration hooks in 6.0
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for May 3, 2022, at 15:00 UTC. AnnouncementsFocus group updatesImagesObject CacheSite HealthMeasurementJavaScriptInfrastructureOpen floorThis meeting happens in the #performance channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Continue reading Performance Chat Agenda: 3 May 2022
In #49412 a tweak was made to the upload process. When files are uploaded to the WordPress media library, the file’s size is now stored as part of the metadata. This means that when calling the wp_get_attachment_metadata function, developers will Continue reading Media: storing file size as part of metadata
In WordPress 6.0, websites with more than 10,000 users will see improvements in handling users. Prior to changes in #38741, sites with more than 10,000 users would suffer from slow page loading time in the user and post list screens. Continue reading Performance increase for sites with large user counts (now also available on single site)
Prior to the WordPress 6.0 release the function WP_User_Query would only accept ID and all_with_meta/all in the fields parameter. The change You can now pass any of these options in the field parameter and get the associated values back ShareTweetSharePostSharePin Continue reading WP_User_Query now accepts fields options in WordPress 6.0
As part of the release of WordPress 6.0, the new Performance team has been working on several improvements to the core. There are a few new additions to the WordPress Caching API. Batch API methods for Cache Operations (wp_cache_*_multiple) The function Continue reading Caching improvements in WordPress 6.0
As part of the 6.0 release of WordPress, the new performance team has been hard at work to improve the performance of term queries. There are many term queries on the average page load and improving these improves the performance Continue reading Taxonomy performance improvements in WordPress 6.0
“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, discovering new features included in each release. As a reminder, here’s an overview of different ways to keep up with Continue reading What’s new in Gutenberg 13.1? (27 April)
Notes from the weekly WordPress developers chat held in the #core slack of Making WordPress. Start of the meeting in Slack 1. Welcome ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
Prior to the WordPress 6.0 release plugin and theme developers used the do_parse_request filter to hot-wire requests and hook in early to render custom pages. Not needed post queries and 404 lookups were still run. This resulted in unnecessary SQL Continue reading Changes to do_parse_request filter in WordPress 6.0
WordPress 6.0 introduces a new filter wp_content_img_tag to allow adjustment of images in a blob of HTML content, most prominently post content via the_content filter. WordPress 5.5 originally introduced the wp_filter_content_tags() function to modify certain elements, primarily images, in a Continue reading New filter to modify content images in WordPress 6.0
In this post, we are using the following terms: – Visitor Experience: to refer to the UX of a final user visiting a WordPress site. – Editor Experience: to refer to the UX of a user in the block editor. Continue reading Exploration to enable better Developer and Visitor Experiences with blocks
This has been published later than normal due to the availability of contributors. Thank you for understanding. This weekly meeting takes place in the #Core channel of the Make WordPress Slack on Wednesday April 27, 2022 at 20:00 UTC. All Continue reading Dev Chat Agenda, April 27, 2022
Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. Focus group updates Images ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
Facilitator and notetaker: @bph This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, April 27 2022, 03:00 PM GMT+1. It follows the proposed new format with more emphasis on the Open Floor discussion. This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress Slack. Continue reading Editor Chat Agenda: 27 April 2022