This Week at WordPress.org (December 18, 2023)
Accessibility
Community
- Meetup Organizer Newsletter: December 2023
- Contributor Working Group: Mentorship Chat Agenda | December 21st 07:00 UTC (APAC/EMEA) and 16:00 UTC (AMER)
- Reminder: Annual Meetup Survey
Core
- Updating WordPress to use more modern versions of Node.js/npm: Part 2
- What’s new in Gutenberg 17.3? (20 December)
- Proposal: Add company icons to sponsored contributors on about page
- WordPress performance impact on Core Web Vitals in 2023
- 6.4.3 Maintenance Release Bug Scrub
Core Meetings
Data Liberation
- New Guide: WP Bakery to Core Blocks
- New Guide: Avada to Core Blocks
- New Guide: Divi to Core Blocks
- New Guide: Elementor to Core Blocks
- New Guide: Migrate Magento to WordPress
- New Guide: Migrate Joomla to WordPress
- New Guide: Migrate Drupal to WordPress
- New Guide: Import Movable Type/TypePad to WordPress
Documentation
Five for the Future
Marketing
- Vote for the 2024 MakeWP Global Marketing Team Reps
- Election process and nominations for MakeWP Marketing Team Reps 2024
Meta
W.org Websites
Openverse
- Community meetings for 2023 canceled – see you next year!
- A week in Openverse: 2023-12-11 – 2023-12-18
- Introducing Enhanced Content Safety Features on Openverse
Performance
Playground
- Blueprints: Invalidate cached WordPress plugins
- Failure when activating plugin zip containing files in subdirectory
- Consider Playwright for E2E testing
- w.org demo: Make the Playground URL configurable
Plugins
Polyglots
- Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat- December 20, 2023 (13:00 UTC)
- Merging the “History”, “Other locales” and “Translation Memory” tabs
- How can we best handle local channels in WordPress global Slack?
Showcase
Test
Theme
- Introducing new Themes Team representatives for the 2024 Edition
- New requirements for settings pages & onboarding in themes
- Themes team update December 19, 2023
Training
- Brainstorm & Table Lead – WordCamp Asia 2024 Contributor Day
- Training Team 2024 Goals Setting
- Training Team 2023 Year In Review
- Training Team Meeting Recap – 12th December 2023
Online Workshops
WPTV
Related News:
- jQuery 3.7.1 Released: Reliable Table Row Dimensions
- Curl for 8.5.0
- Node 21.5.0
- PHP 8.3.1 Released!
- PHP 8.2.14 Released!
- PHP 8.1.27 Released!
- PHPCS 3.8.0
- WPCS 3.0.1
- PHPMailer 6.9.1
- Changes in MySQL 8.0.36 (Not yet released, General Availability)
- Composer 2.6.6
- Webpack 5 release (2020-10-10)
- Homebrew 4.2.0
- TC39
- Chromium Roadmap
- Firefox Release Calendar
- Safari Release Notes
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