Back Compat & Experimental APIs, Safely Handling SVG via “Insert URL”, WordPress 6.1 Bug Scrub Schedule, Database Performance Health Checks
This Week at WordPress.org (August 9, 2022)
Is it safe to insert an SVG via URL? How healthy is your database? Performance Team Rep Nominations.
Backwards Compatibility and Experimental Gutenberg APIs
Give your feedback on this proposal to stop merging experimental APIs from Gutenberg to Core. Today, experimental APIs are merged to Core and sometimes removed later. See the WP 6.0 Experimental APIs.
As the WordPress handbook states: Historically, WordPress has been known for preserving backward compatibility across versions.
News
- The Month in WordPress – July 2022
- Proposal: Stop merging experimental APIs from Gutenberg to WordPress Core
Accessibility
Community
Core
- Hallway Hangout: Editor Tech Lead role 101
- What’s new in Gutenberg 13.8? (3 August)
- Safely handling SVG via “Insert URL”
- Moving Core block styling to JSON
- FEEDBACK REQUESTED: WP_HTML_Walker: Inject dynamic data to block HTML markup in PHP
- A Week in Core – August 8, 2022
- Bug Scrub Schedule for 6.1
Meetings
Design
- Twenty Twenty-Three default theme — Project kickoff
- Design Exploration: Encourage editor configuration during on-boarding
- Proposal: A new kind of default theme
Docs
- Kick-off WordPress 6.1 release docs
- Summary of Docs Team Biweekly Meeting August 2, 2022
- Documentation Team Update – August 8, 2022
Five for the Future
Marketing
Meta
- Developing the redesigned Home and Download Pages
- Pattern Previews for Themes in the Directory – Beta
Mobile
- Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 20.5
- Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 20.5
- Mobile Team Update – Aug 9th
Openverse
Performance
- Performance Team Rep Nominations
- Module Proposal: Database performance Health Checks
- Performance team meeting summary 9 August 2022
Plugins
Project
- Open Source and the Free Rider Problem
- Updates on the Five for the Future program, and proposed improvements
Support
Test
Themes
Training
- Information Sources for WP 6.1
- Minimizing Zoom Disruptions in Online Workshops
- June & July 2022 Sprint Retrospective
- Meeting Agenda August 9, 2022
- August 2022 Sprint
Video Tutorials
Online Workshops:
- Intro to Multisites
- Troubleshooting in WordPress
- Using Create Block Theme
- Taking Block Patterns to the Next Level
- Exploring the Power of Block Variations
- Block Theme Builders: Design With Figma
WordCamp Central
WPTV
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