Last year’s proposal to stop merging experimental APIs from Gutenberg to WordPress Core is now mostly implemented. To recap: Due to JavaScript technical limitations, the recurring merge of the Gutenberg plugin to WordPress core led to a premature release of Continue reading Experimental APIs in WordPress Core have largely been tamed
After the successful launch of WordPress 6.2, it’s time to start planning for WordPress 6.3, and for WordPress 6.4’s women and non-binary-led release. In preparation, this post includes WordPress 6.3 proposed target dates and a call for its release squad. Continue reading WordPress 6.3 Planning Proposal & Call for Volunteers
With WordPress 6.2 released and available to the world, it would be very helpful to this and future release squads if all those who contributed could take the time to reflect and share thoughts on the release process to learn, Continue reading WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy” Retrospective
This post summarizes the feedback received from the WordPress 6.1 retrospective. Due to an error in the form linked in the original retrospective post, the results of the retrospective are shared later than anticipated, and your patience is appreciated. Thank Continue reading Recap: WordPress 6.1 “Misha” Retrospective
1. Welcome and housekeeping The WordPress Developers Chat meeting took place on April 12, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of Make WordPress Slack and was led by @ironprogrammer. Start of the meeting in core channel. ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
WordPress Playground was recently used at a hackathon to prototype three different ways of building WordPress plugins with very little setup and directly in the browser: WP-CLI and PHPUnit in the browser WordPress as a VS Code extension ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript), held in the #core-editor Slack channel, on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 14:00 UTC. General Updates Gutenberg 15.5.1 has been released with a brief list of bug fixes. ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
Last month’s summary, courtesy of @webcommsat. Thanks for your in-depth coverage! Transcript in #core-dev-blog channel Attendees: @milana_cap, @mburridge, @oglekler @ndiego @marybaum @bph @greenshady ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
The next weekly WordPress developers chat will take place on April 12, 2023, at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of Make WordPress Slack. 1. Welcome/ housekeeping Dev Chat summary, April 5, 2023 – thanks to @ironprogrammer ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
Facilitator and notetaker: @andraganescu This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, April 12 2023, 03:00 PM GMT+1. This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress Slack. Gutenberg plugin 15.6 RC will be released on Wednesday. ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript), held in the #core-editor Slack channel, on Wednesday, April 05, 2023, 14:00 UTC. General Updates Gutenberg 15.5.0 has been released and is available for download! ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
Now that we’ve shipped WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy,” it’s time for a little planning for the other major releases this year. Volunteers are needed for the WordPress 6.3 squad (release target mid-July), especially those willing to dedicate time toward mentoring the Continue reading Preparing for the Next Women & Nonbinary Release Squad
The WordPress Developers Chat meeting took place on April 5, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of Make WordPress Slack. Key Links Start of the Dev Chat on Slack. ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing 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 15.5? (05 April)
With the latest WordPress release out in the world, this post seeks to recap the performance improvements available for all sites. According to this analysis done by @flixos90 that you’re encouraged to dig into, WordPress 6.2 loads 14-18% faster for Continue reading WordPress 6.2 Performance improvements for all themes
Facilitator and notetaker: @ajitbohra. This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, 5 April 2023 at 19:30 GMT+5:30. This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress Slack. ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
Since the last update on the Preferred Languages feature plugin, a lot of work has been accomplished both on the plugin side and in core to make the solution more robust in a variety of ways. Today, I want to Continue reading Preferred Languages: Help test the latest version
What if effortlessly creating performant, fluid, and idiomatic frontend interactivity on block-based WordPress sites was possible? Imagine plugins providing interactions like “heart this post” or “add to cart” without page reloads. Picture instant search, commenting, and native full-page transitions as Continue reading Proposal: The Interactivity API – A better developer experience in building interactive blocks
This post summarises the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda for 29th March meeting) held on 2023-03-29 14:00 UTC in Slack. Moderated by @get_dave. Status Updates WordPress 6.2 is due to be released today (Update: as of this post it has Continue reading Core Editor chat summary: 29th March 2023
Say hello to WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy,” named for the woodwind jazz wiz, the multi-instrumentalist—Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. Dolphy is acclaimed for having brought the bass clarinet to prominence in the jazz scene, creating a place for the flute and extending Continue reading WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy”