This Week at WordPress.org (July 21, 2024)
News
Accessibility
Community
- Venue Policy Update
- WordPress Meetup Trends
- Community Team Event Updatesβ July 16, 2024
- Monthly Planning (Triage) – July 9, 2024 – Status: Open
Core
- Proposal: Adjusting Dev Chat times for the 6.7 release
- Aligning Committer-Level Access Across the Code Base
- The Crowdstrike disaster is goodβ¦
Block Development Examples
Create Block Theme
- Enhancement: Support for Additional Custom Templates – Status: Open
- Feature Request: Improved Onboarding Process – Status: Open
- Bug: Inconsistent Theme Export – Status: Open
Core Trac
Awaiting Review
- Can’t insert a reusable block and other problems – Status: New
- Extra margin in tablet and mobile login button in admin login – Status: New
- CSS error using grid in Customizer – Status: New
- quick draft added images and categories free – Status: New
- Suggestion: Add a post_type column in the wp_postmeta table – Status: New
- Make overriding and back porting classes from gutenberg repo easier – Status: New
- Post via email: Login Name field triggers Safari’s login autocomplete – Status: New
- Password-protected pages lacking appropriate ‘Cache-Control’ request header – Status: New
- After wordpress 6.6 gutenburg editor is so slow , i can’t even write a word , it is that slow – Status: New
- Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /sites/site.com/wp-includes/media.php on line 795 801 – Status: New
- WP_HTML_Tag_Processor doesn’t allow to set a valid image src – Status: New
- Background: add background attachment support to theme.json styles – Status: New
- Filters on pattern archive page not working – Status: New
- JS Error when mouving mouse on pattern archive – Status: New
- Function comment missing – Status: Closed
- Add
$context
parameter toget_edit_comment_link()
to get the URL without HTML entities – Status: Reviewing - preg_match fails when className when $block[‘attrs’][‘className’] is an array which is case when “extraClasses” is set – Status: New
Editor
- category widget is not scrolling – Status: Closed
- WordPress 6.6. Editor on top off screen hardly clickabel – Status: New
- Ensure compat functions do not rely on external functions – Status: New
- Editor: Update packages for 6.6.1 – Status: Closed
- New WP Core 6.6 prevents switching views in Gutenberg Page Builder – Status: New
- Stabilize experimental Typography block support keys – Status: New
- Body element specificity still bumped – Status: Closed
- global-styles-inline-css rule introduces breaking changes ” :root :where(body)” – Status: Reviewing
Bundled Theme
- Twenty Twelve: navigation block submenus are cut off – Status: New
- Twenty Thirteen: Code block does not adjust font size with block settings – Status: New
- Twenty Sixteen: correct Code block font family, line-height and padding in the editor – Status: New
- Twenty Twenty-Four: fix typos in pattern descriptions – Status: Closed
- Twenty Nineteen : Column Block inner spacing issue – Status: New
- Twenty Sixteen: Image Block Alignment Offset (Left/Right) – Status: New
- Twenty Twenty Four Theme Issues – Status: Closed
General
- is_utf8_charset() undefined when called by code in compat.php – Status: Closed
- PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Object of class WP_Comment could not be converted to string – Status: Closed
- URL-encoded _wp_http_referer causes Apache AH10508, leading to 403 in several places – Status: Closed
- On responsive device the padding above and below the Dashboad sidebar are not the same – Status: Assigned
- After updating the version, the sidebar stopped working – Status: Closed
- Capture and inform users when plugins or themes are
_doing_it_wrong()
– Status: New - Reduce number of users initial loaded and replace by select2 – Import page – Status: New
Security
- Support for storing and getting encrypted options – Status: New
Site Health
- Why doesn’t Jetpack’ Connection Token Health accept in its latest update? What should we do? – Status: Closed
- Why is Jetpack’s Connection Token Health not accepted in the site health in its latest update? What should we do? – Status: Closed
- Site health: directory sizes not shown (if font directory doesn’t exist?) – Status: Closed
Interactivity API
Comments
Plugins
Customize
- 6.6-de_DE missing β¦ – Status: Reopened
Posts, Post Types
Administration
Script Loader
Taxonomy
- Not providing optional
$taxonomy
parameter inget_edit_term_link()
leads to incorrect URL – Status: Closed
Media
- Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /sites/site.com/wp-includes/media.php on line 795 801 – Status: New
Networks and Sites
- wp-activate.php tries to set undefined property – Status: New
Build/Test Tools
- Performance workflow cannot find artifact in branches on
workflow_dispatch
– Status: Closed - Rate limiting can occur when sending Slack notifications out through GitHub Actions – Status: New
- Slack notifications removed from E2E testing for the 6.3-5.8 branches – Status: Closed
HTML API
External Libraries
Options, Meta APIs
Toolbar
- admin_bar_menu node my-account returns null – Status: New
REST API
- REST API: Implement ‘targetHints’ property – Status: New
I18N
- Text “None” disappeared from Align Display in WordPress 6.6 – Status: Closed
Upgrade/Install
- Old WordPress core file not removed during update – Status: Closed
Editor
- global-styles-inline-css rule introduces breaking changes ” :root :where(body)” – Status: Reviewing
Performance
- Issue: Improve unit tests execution – Status: Open
- Issue: Optimize plugin performance – Status: Open
- Issue: Addressing slow loading times – Status: Open
- Issue: Enhancing image placeholder efficiency – Status: Open
- Issue: Core performance tests improvements – Status: Open
- Issue: Fix caching issues – Status: Open
- Issue: Resolve compatibility issues – Status: Open
Gutenberg Discussions
- Question: Modal with Interactivity API
- Option to add name to group blocks removed?
- data-wp-each is there an iterator available?
- State of React 2023 Results
- Let’s discuss Core block extensibility
- Does the block editor need a client side alternative to the `render_block` filter?
- Nested data-wp-each loops
- Native multilingualism in Gutenberg: Future development of synced patterns / synced pattern overrides
- Get WordPress block templates content similar to $post_content
- data-wp-text shows <br>, not parsed as break
- Register Block Type
- Hooking into transform event Classic Block -> Any gutenberg block
- Interactivity API how to use data-wp-bind–checked in a loop?
- Filtering theme, default, and custom colors (add_theme_support(‘editor_color_palette’) not working)
- Given the javascript/editor representation of a block, is there a way to get it’s rendered html?
- initialize Interactivity API directives on asyncronously loaded content
- How can I pass a dynamic value to an action?
- Dynamically generate a core block via PHP
- Programmatically change global style variation
- Custom post meta values are null despite setting default values
Gutenberg Issues
[Type] Enhancement
- Term Query Block/Query Block Group By Term – Status: Open
- Remove the site logo block from core – Status: Open
[Type] Developer Documentation
- Small Typo in Inline Document – Status: Open
[Status] In Progress / [Type] Bug
- Mobile width + Distraction Free: Toolbar shows non-functional style and sidebar buttons – Status: Open
[Feature] Patterns / General Interface / [Type] Bug
[Type] Bug
- WordPress 6.6(.1) issue: Template parts list does not indicate modified items – Status: Open
- In Grid layout the template description field renders when empty – Status: Open
- Typesets section renders a list of installed fonts – Status: Open
- Do not render empty column blocks in the editor when viewing mobile and stacked – Status: Open
- Pseudo-element selectors in
styles.**.css
property no longer work in 6.6 compared to 6.5 – Status: Open - an error when running npm start – Status: Open
- Differing CSS specificity between Non-Iframed Editor and Front end – Status: Open
- Missing semantics for which view option is chosen – Status: Open
- React methods are executed infinited times when block is inserted through a custom pattern – Status: Open
- Docs: Create a section about Block Hooks in the Block Editor Handbook – Status: Open
- Pattern Shuffle: Add Editor setting to disable shuffling – Status: Open
- The Shadow Range controls are unlabeled – Status: Open
- Data views grid, remember filters and view options when exiting editing canvas. – Status: Open
- Change default site editor layout – Status: Open
- Typography: Font appearance control sits at different height to line height and other controls – Status: Open
- Post Edit Screen Restricted by Metaboxes – Status: Open
- Image block view script causes errors when client-side navigation is enabled – Status: Open
- Synced Pattern Overrides: Different Blocks within a synced pattern override at different locations – Status: Open
- DataViews: Action label function not execute in bulk editing menu – Status: Open
- Graduate data view options out of a menu to allow more design expression – Status: Open
- Components: Add eslint rules to prevent usage without
__next40pxDefaultSize
prop – Status: Open - Zoom Out: Focus search when showing an insertion point – Status: Open
- Zoom Out: Update the insertion point when selecting a block. – Status: Open
- Zoom Out: Integrate into Create new page flow – Status: Open
- iAPI: Merge of state and context after client-side navigation – Status: Open
- Zoom Out: Hold to drag and drop nested patterns. – Status: Open
- Zoom Out: Prevent nested patterns when in zoom out – Status: Open
- Zoom Out: Add a control to the preview drop down – Status: Open
- Update the
Button
component – Status: Open - Is it possible using registerBlockType with apiFetch? – Status: Open
- Zoom Out: Canvas size incorrect in Post Editor – Status: Open
- Empty gap between block settings panel and post title – Status: Open
- Block Setting Panel should prevent interaction with blocks beneath it – Status: Open
- Paragraph Block covered by keyboard on post/page editor when working on Mobile – Status: Open
- Non-iframed Editor: Compound selectors within
:where
are not prefixed correctly – Status: Open - PHP backports for WP 6.7 – Status: Open
- Headings not pasted from Word in the browser – Status: Open
- Adding
remove_theme_support( 'block-templates' )
for site with existing user created template causes error – Status: Open - Query Loop block: allow certain aspects of a query to be changed without losing permalink structure – Status: Open
- Font size picker: fix translatable strings and accessibility – Status: Open
- Inconsistent spacing in zoom out vertical toolbar – Status: Open
- Query Loop: add ability to define (toggleable) custom filters – Status: Open
- Grid blocks cannot be called with English block names using ‘/’ in Japanese environment – Status: Open
- Spacer block: unlabeled Range and Input controls – Status: Open
- Publicly expose
useGlobalStyle
hook – Status: Open - [Flaky Test] should select title if the cursor is on title](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63794) – Status: Open
- Posts page should directly editable in the Site Editor – Status: Open
- When viewing the posts page, βEdit pageβ control should open the template – Status: Open
- DocumentBar: Use home icon and label for default “Your latest posts” setup – Status: Open
- Update the βEdit siteβ admin bar control to open the Site Editor at the top-level, consistently – Status: Open
- When set to a static page “Edit site” should open the assigned homepage – Status: Open
- Homepage: Posts page & static home page in the Site Editor – Status: Open
- [wordpress/scripts] 5 high severity vulnerabilities](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63771) – Status: Open
- TreeSelect: Support
multiple
selection – Status: Open - Cannot edit page when content block is located inside a template part on a template – Status: Open
- Block Bindings: Add support for the Cover block background image – Status: Open
- Issue when installing block in the block editor itself. – Status: Open
- Shadows / Elevation – Status: Open
- Find consensus around using
cursor: not-allowed
on disabled elements and apply across – Status: Open - Site Editor: The canvas remounts when resizing the browser window – Status: Open
- iAPI: Enforce correct namespaces in all places (directives, functionsβ¦) that accept a namespace – Status: Open
- Improve the experience when editing the page that displays latest posts according to reading settings – Status: Open
- Simplify editing and resetting template parts – Status: Open
- Sorting Patterns Overflows Viewport on Mobile – Status: Open
- Add help text support to individual radio button options – Status: Open
- Update the RadioControl header design – Status: Open
- Editor not loading – Status: Open
- WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver_Gutenberg::get_user_data_from_wp_global_styles() doesn’t return the post that it creates. – Status: Open
- Pages grid: Improve the preview field – Status: Open
- Data Views: filtering by author for pages doesn’t scale with 2+ authors – Status: Open
Core Meetings
- Performance Chat Summary: 23 July 2024
- Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday July 24, 2024
- Performance Chat Agenda: 23 July 2024
Developer Blog:
Dev Blog Content
Design
do_action
Documentation
- Summary for Docs Team Meeting (16-Jul-2024)
- Online monthly Docs Team Contributor Day July 23 & 30, 2024
- Localization and translation of HelpHub β Meeting notes
- Documentation Team Update β July 15, 2024
Docs Issue Tracker
- Two version(6.4.4 and 6.5.5) missing in wordpress version page – Status: In progress
- Monthly Planning (Triage) – July 9, 2024 – Status: To do
Five for the Future
- Make use of new usermeta
last_activity_tracker
– Status: New
Hosting
- WordPress 6.6 Server Compatibility
- The Image Revolution: AVIF and WebP
- Wrong redirect for Network Admin Sites Screen
Meta
WordCamp.org
- Issue: Meetup application for “Montpellier, France” – Status: Open
- Issue: Add internationalization support – Status: Open
Openverse
Openverse Issues
- Issue: Image search pagination issue – Status: Open
- Issue: Audio search not working – Status: Open
- Issue: License filter bug – Status: Open
- Issue: Update documentation – Status: Open
- Issue: API rate limiting – Status: Open
- Issue: Improve search speed – Status: Open
- Issue: Add support for new media types – Status: Open
- Issue: Fix image cropping tool – Status: Open
- Issue: Improve user interface – Status: Open
- Issue: Enhance security measures – Status: Open
- Issue: Update dependencies – Status: Open
- Issue: Add user analytics – Status: Open
- Issue: Bug in keyword search – Status: Open
Playground
- Issue: Some pull requests aren’t showing up in the changelog – Status: Open
- Issue: Improve developer documentation – Status: Open
- Issue: Add new testing tools – Status: Open
- Issue: Fix bugs in existing tools – Status: Open
- Issue: Improve UI for playground – Status: Open
- Issue:
show create
generates invalid default values for columns – Status: Open - Issue: Fix bugs in the playground environment – Status: Open
- Issue: Ensure all PRs are in the changelog – Status: Open
- Issue: Add new features to the playground – Status: Open
- Issue: Improve playground stability – Status: Open
- Issue: Enhance user experience – Status: Open
- Issue: Update playground dependencies – Status: Open
- Issue: Improve documentation – Status: Open
- Issue: Add more interactive tutorials – Status: Open
Plugins
Plugin Check
- Issue: Enhance plugin security checks – Status: Open
- Issue: Improve compatibility testing – Status: Open
- Issue: Add new plugin validation rules – Status: Open
- Issue: Update plugin-check-action documentation – Status: Open
Polyglots
Project
Support
Sustainability
Test
Themes
Theme Directory
- Warnings in theme upload show above the entire page – Status: New
- Inconsistent name in local nav – Status: New
Twenty Twenty Five
- Post format archive templates – Status: New
- Automatic dark mode – Status: New
Training
Learn Issues
- Storybook – Status: Open
- Add Your Plugin to the Block Directory – Status: Open
- Block Specific Plugin Guidelines – Status: Open
- Using Subversion – Status: Open
- How Your Plugin Assets Work – Status: Open
- Planning and Submitting a Plugins – Status: Open
- Detailed Plugin Guidelines – Status: Open
- Introduction to the Plugin directory – Status: Open
- Authentication: OAuth – Status: Open
- Authentication: JSON Web Tokens – Status: Open
- Custom Controller Classes – Status: Open
- Personal Data Erasure – Status: Open
- Personal Data Export – Status: Open
- Privacy Policy Content and Tools – Status: Open
- Working with User Metadata – Status: Open
- Working with Users – Status: Open
- Internationalization Security – Status: Open
- Interacting with custom tables – Status: Open
- Rendering Post Metadata – Status: Open
- Custom Meta Boxes – Status: Open
- Working with Custom Post Types – Status: Open
- Building a Custom Settings Page – Status: Open
- Options API – Status: Open
- Using Settings API – Status: Open
- Sub-Menus – Status: Open
- Top-Level Menus – Status: Open
- Custom content types and capabilities – Status: Open
- How to check user capabilities – Status: Open
- How to create/modify/remove roles and capabilities – Status: Open
- Block Bindings – Status: Open
- Performance optimization – Status: Open
- Meeting Agenda July 18, 2024 – Status: Open
Courses
Online Workshops
WPTV
- Second Beta of jQuery 4.0.0 NEW
- Curl 8.9.0 NEW
- Node 22.5.1 NEW
- React 18.3.1 / React 19 Upgrade Guide
- PHP 8.4.0 Alpha 2 available for testing
- PHP 8.3.9 Released!
- PHP 8.2.21 Released!
- PHP 8.1.29 Released!
- PHPCS 3.10.2 NEW
- WPCS 3.1.0
- LibZip 1.10.1
- Changes in MySQL 8.4.1 (Not yet released, LTS Release) –
- Composer 2.7.7
- Homebrew 4.3.10
- TC39
- Chromium Roadmap
- Firefox Release Calendar
- Safari Release Notes
- Safari 17.5 Release Notes
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