This Week at WordPress.org (September 4, 2023)
Discover the latest from the WordPress community. From the future of WordPress & Gutenberg’s next steps to intriguing discussions at the Community Summit. Plus, get a sneak peek into WordPress 6.4’s development cycle. Stay updated, stay involved!
- WP Briefing: Episode 61: Community, Summit, all at Washington D.C.
- WordPress 6.3.1 Maintenance Release
- The Future of WordPress & What’s Next for Gutenberg
- WP20 – A Heartfelt Thanks
Community Summit Notes
- Community Summit Discussion Notes: Iterating on the Team Rep role
- Community Summit Discussion Notes: Open Source participation in global legislation
- Community Summit Discussion Notes: Communication and Collaboration – Finding Your Way Around WordPress
- Understanding contributor leadership roles in the WordPress open source project
- Part I & II: Communicating…
- Invisible and under-appreciated: bolstering “behind the scenes” contributions
- Community summit discussion notes: Revitalizing contributor teams’ leadership pipeline
- Community Summit Discussion Notes: PHP version support
- Community Summit Discussion Notes: Can WordPress become the household name it deserves to be?
- Community Summit Discussion Notes: Refreshing the contributor pipeline
Accessibility
Community
- WordCamp Mentors’ September check-in!
- The NextGen Event Project: Your Ideas, Your WordPress Community!
- Recap of the Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) AMER/EMEA on August 23, 2023
- Call for ideas: new features for our NexGen WP events central page
- Meetup Organizer Newsletter: August 2023
Core
- Two Weeks in Core – September 4, 2023
- Call for Testing: Performant Translations
- Proposal: An update to the Field Guide
Developer Blog
- Adding and using custom settings in theme.json
- Exploring the future of web development with WebAssembly and PHP
- An introduction to block variations
- The anatomy of a letterform
Meetings
- Default Theme chat summary: September 6, 2023
- Dev Chat agenda, September 6, 2023
- Editor Chat Agenda: 06 September 2023
Design
Docs
Hosting
- Hosting Team meeting agenda 2023-09-06
- X-post: Community Summit Discussion Notes: PHP version support
Marketing
Meta
Openverse
Performance
Plugins
Polyglots
- Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat- September 06, 2023 (07:00 UTC)
- Improving Translation Suggestions from Other Languages
Project
Support
Sustainability
- How the WordPress Sustainability Team was born during WordCamp Europe 2023
- Sustainability Chat Agenda, September 8, 2023
Test
- Test Chat Summary: 29 August 2023
- FSE Program Let’s Start From The Beginning Summary
- Test Team Reps: Call for Nominations
- Test Team Update: 4 September 2023
Theme
Training
- What’s new on Learn WordPress in August 2023
- Learn WordPress Newsletter – September 2023
- WordCamp US 2023 Contributor Day Recap
- Let’s share our notes from the Community Summit
- Information Sources for WordPress 6.4
- Looking for feedback: Learning pathway outlines
Tutorials
- Intro to the Site Editor
- વર્ડપ્રેસ પ્લેગ્રાઉન્ડનો ઉપયોગ કેવી રીતે શરૂ કરવો
- Common APIs – Dashboard Widgets
- How to create a video tutorial for learn.wordpress.org
Online Workshops
- What is the Domain Name System?
- Speaker Workshop for Indian Women in the WordPress Community Part 2
- Speaker Workshop for Indian Women in the WordPress Community Part 1
- Common WordPress APIs: Metadata
- WP dev livestream: Sendig block theme
- APAC: Using the navigation block
- Using the navigation block
- Common WordPress APIs: Metadata
- WP dev livestream: Sendig block theme
Courses
WordPress TV
WPTV
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- PHP 8.3.0 RC 1 available for testing
- PHP 8.2.10 Released!
- PHP 8.1.23 Released!
- PHPMailer 6.8.1
- Changes in MySQL 8.0.35 (Not yet released, General Availability)
- TC39
- Composer 2.6.2
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