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
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!
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
TL;DR Proposals for Interop 2023 focus areas are open and can be submitted as a GitHub issue until October 15, 2022. What is Interop? ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
This early demo runs a full WordPress directly in the browser without a PHP server! While it isn’t fully stable yet, it is a major breakthrough that could transform learning, contributing, and using WordPress. This post explores the opportunities and Continue reading Client-side WebAssembly WordPress with no server
This call for feedback will be open for the next four weeks until September 7th. I propose a way of harmonizing the process of merging new APIs from the Gutenberg plugin to the WordPress core. Right now, the two projects Continue reading Proposal: Stop merging experimental APIs from Gutenberg to WordPress Core
1. Welcome @marybaum and @webcommsat led the meeting on this agenda. If you’re interested, you can also check out the summary from July 20. @marybaum welcomed new people and observers, encouraging them to say hey with an emoji. ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
Here’s the summary from last week—July 6, 2022. 1. Announcements WordPress 6.0.1 has landed! ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
This post is a follow up to the “Enabling WebP by default” proposal post (and the follow up to that post). TL;DR – The Performance Team has reviewed feedback, conducted research, and reassessed the approach based on our findings. Our Continue reading Plan for adding WebP & multiple MIME support for images
The CSS rendered by the block editor needs improvement. The challenges are many and they have been documented. There are, nevertheless, several recurring themes: An overabundance of rendered inline style tags and duplicated CSS rules. For example, see #41434.Confusing or Continue reading Block editor styles: initiatives and goals
In just a few weeks, the community empanels a new release squad to take on the focused work of WordPress 6.1, due in mid-October. Some parts of the Core handbook are need of review and update, especially to reflect big Continue reading Let’s update the Core handbook! Sprints start June 20, 2022
This weekly WordPress Developers Chat takes place in the #Core channel of the Make WordPress Slack on Wednesday 8 June 2022, 21:00 UTC. All welcome. 1. Welcome Dev Chat summary from the meeting on May 18, 2022 ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
Back in August, 2020 a Gutenberg issue proposed the following enhancement: It’d be nice to allow to have fluid typography option so that design would look good on all viewports. This would open the door for designers to make a Continue reading Block Font Sizes and Fluid typography
Since WordPress 5.9 ushered in the era of block themes, there have been questions and concerns about the relationship between theme and Core styles in the context of Gutenberg. Much of the feedback centers around the notion of how themes Continue reading Core Styles and Theme Customization: the next steps
This post is a follow up to last month’s Enabling WebP by default, which proposed a feature that would generate both JPEG and WebP images and output WebP sub-sized images in WordPress core. The post received quite a bit of Continue reading Follow-up on WebP by default proposal