This Week at WordPress.org (May 5, 2024)
News
- WordPress 6.5.3 Maintenance Release
- Apply for the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship for WordCamp US 2024
- Interactivity API Showcase Thread
- jQuery 4 Update Test
Accessibility
Community
DEIB Working Group
Core
- Core Editor Improvement: Upgrade your designs
- What’s new in Gutenberg 18.3? (8 May)
- Recap: WordPress 6.5 “Regina” Retrospective
- Merge Proposal: Preferred Languages
- Progress Report: HTML API
- Proposal: Server to client data sharing for Script Modules
- Roadmap to 6.6
- Core Performance Team Update: April 2024
- Data Liberation: Project plan
- Data Liberation: Outreach recap and updates
Core Trac
Bugs
- Twenty Twenty Theme: Quote block align text is not working properly in front-end side
- Update
get_attachment_link()to return image URL when attachment pages are turned off - CSS: Parse Error. html :where([style * =border-top-color])
- wp:post-date format including html tag
- Our rest api User listing has chances to reveal username of Administrator User “wp-json/wp/v2/users”
- Multisite: Marking a user account as spam, also marks the blogs he’s a member of as spam
Enhancements
Gutenberg Discussions
Discussions
- Query Loop Block – Insert block after so many posts
- Why not have the style engine generate reasonable semantic classes instead of repetitive .wp-container-whatever classes?
- Why is removeEditorPanel deprecated and is there a new alternative?
- Expand on Click for Galleries is Clunky and Inefficient – Toggle for Entire Gallery?
- FSE: Issue applying Gutenberg Template for Custom Post Type in a Plugin
- Changelog – Tracking Breaking Changes in the Interactivity API
- Attaching multiple handlers to an event and allowing asynchronous event handlers
- Interactivity API showcase
- Move away from the verb ‘Toggle’ in the UI
- Interactivity outside blocks or as “standalone” (like Alpine.js)?
- Router region replacement funky with Query-No-Results block after Post-Template block
- Block not working when using custom webpack
- Support for lazy hydration techniques: idle and view
Gutenberg Issues
Feature Requests
- RichText not focusable in InnerBlocks
- Avoid more occurrences of the term ‘sidebar’ in user-facing strings
- Social Icons: Add Bluesky social icon
- Interactivity API: Improve readability in directives check function inside vdom.ts
- Command Palette: add command to switch back to the site editor
- Custom HTML Block should display content in LTR layout for all languages
- Navigation block: unable to explore block settings moving with Tab key
Fixes
- Pattern Overrides: Button block left empty in original pattern and used as an override throws an error in pattern instances
- Calendar Block Color options are not working properly
- Focus ring doesn’t match button Site Hub Icon size
- Custom attributes for list block are lost when migrating from WordPress 5.5.1 to WordPress 6.1.1
- Several Typo Correction in Inline doc
- Patterns: Unable to insert pattern in nested location
- Time to Read block showing “this block has encountered an error”
- Regression: Hovering preview frame no longer scales it up
- [@wordpress/components] [TypeScript] Unnecessary Requirement of Pointer Events on SVG Components
Other Updates
Performance Plugin
Core Meetings
- Summary, Dev Chat, May 8, 2024
- Performance Chat Summary: 7 May 2024
- Performance Chat Agenda: 7 May 2024
Developer Blog:
WordPress Developer Blog Content Discussions
- Curating the Editor Experience: Tips & Tricks
- How JSON schema versioning works and how it’s different from the theme.json version
- Customizing and extending the Formatting Toolbar
- Classic themes: tutorial on moving away from widgets to template parts
- Performance best practices
- Tutorial on how to create custom components
Design
Documentation
- Summary for Docs Team Discussion Meeting (07-May-2024)
- Documentation Team Update – May 6, 2024
- Create a Mail page under Server Configuration
Documentation-Issue-Tracker
Hosting
Five for the Future
- Update Five for the Future Documentation to Support Company and Contributor Onboarding and Retention
- Request: create two report tools for Five for the Future
Marketing
Meta
Showcase
WP Org Main (Theme)
Meta Trac & GitHub
Meta Trac
- “Views” widget missing in Theme’s and Plugin’s forum views
- Update Credits for WordPress 6.5.3
- Allow images in plugin and theme pages
WordPress.org
- Improve font size, underlining, other, in plugin sidebar
- Modify search results total when there are more than 1000 results
- Proposal to refine plugin search bar layout
- Add “Community” and “Commercial” descriptions to search archives
- Considerations for future homepage redesigns
- Add a resource that teaches people what plugins are and how to use them
Theme Directory
Meta WordCamp
Openverse
Openverse GitHub
- Remove the
ssrReffrom provider store - Initialize the feature flag store state on server request
- Replace invalid license value in the catalog database
- Audio waveform should return 424 instead of 500 when waveform cannot be generated
- Replace the sample string in a secret with a more obviously safe value
- The
just api/initcommand fails when executed repeatedly in succession - Incorporate
djlintto lint HTML templates
Playground
- wpCLI step in the example doesn’t match with the heading
- runPHPWithOptions step in the example doesn’t match with the heading
- Remove “Step” word after each step heading
- ifAlreadyInstalled does not work
- Unexpected error when exporting to Github
Plugins
Polyglots
Sustainability
Test
- Early opportunities to Test WordPress 6.6
- Test Team Chat Agenda for 7 May 2024
- Test Team Update: 6 May 2024
Themes
Community Themes
Training
- Training Team Meeting Recap – 02nd May 2024
- Request for feedback: AI-generated voiceovers for video content
- Project thread: The second Learn WordPress Course Cohort
- Training Team Update – May 2024
Online Workshops
- Homepage displays: Latest posts vs static
- How to facilitate Online Workshop for the WordPress Training Team
- How to facilitate Online Workshop for the WordPress Training Team
- Testing Studio by WordPress.com
- Developer Hours: Alternatives to Custom Meta Boxes in the Block Editor
Learn GitHub Issues
- Learning Pathways landing page
- Single Lesson page
- Add locale suggestion banner
- Feedback – Introduction FULL-FEATUERD WP-Version
- Meeting Agenda May 9, 2024
- Language post meta field
- Feedback – wrong answer in sitemaps lesson plan
- Understanding the Difference Between Action Hooks and Filter Hooks
- Add Audience taxonomy to Lessons and Courses (Closed)
- Lessons landing page template
WPTV
- Upgrading jQuery: Working Towards a Healthy Web
- Curl for 8.7.1
- Node 22.1.0
- React 18.3.1 (April 26, 2024), React 19 Upgrade Guide
- PHP 8.3.7 Released!
- PHP 8.2.19 Released!
- PHP 8.1.28 Released!
- PHPCS 3.9.2
- WPCS 3.1.0
- Requests 2.0.11
- PHPMailer 6.9.1
- LibZip 1.10.1
- MySQL 8.3
- Composer 2.7.4
- Homebrew 4.2.20
- TC39
- Chromium Roadmap
- Firefox Release Calendar
- Safari Release Notes
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