This Week at WordPress.org (April 14, 2024)
News
WordPress.org Website Redesign
- The Pattern Directory gets a refresh and is now powered by blocks
- Demo site
- Log issues in the WordPress/pattern-directory repository on GitHub
- Patterns Figma
- The Forums get a refresh
- Homepage updates
- Plugin Directory
- Demo site
- Log issues in the WordPress.org issues queue on GitHub or in Meta Trac
- HelpHub Figma
Accessibility
CLI
Community
- Contributor Working Group: Mentorship Chat Agenda |April18th 07:00 UTC (APAC/EMEA) and 16:00 UTC (AMER)
- Share Your Feedback with Meetup.com
- Feedback needed: DEIB working group Vision and Goals for 2024
- [WordPress Event] Sevilla, España
- [WordPress Event] San José, Costa Rica
- [WordCamp]: Kolkata, India
Core
- WordPress 6.5.3: An upcoming maintenance release
- Bundled Theme Bug Scrubs
- WordPress 6.5 Release Retrospective
- Core Team Update – April 8, 2024
- AJAX plugin activation consequences
Create Block Theme
Core Trac
Editor and UI Enhancements
- Could the WP Admin logo reflect the Site Icon instead of the default WordPress logo?
- Templates no longer load in editor.
- Hide the Editor Page Title when the current Template is “Page No Title”
- Pattern Search for Command gives The editor has encountered an unexpected error.
- Login Form padding issue
- Twenty Eleven: “Follow Blog” pattern has black text on black background
- Block editor color selector displays incorrect color information
- Thickbox modal outputs replacement character in screen reader output
- Twenty Twenty-One: Replace front-end JS with Interactivity API
Plugin and Theme Management
- Plugin management: AJAX plugin activation consequences
- Plugin management: The “Install Now/Activate” button should be a button not a link
- Twenty Twelve: typo correction(s) in block pattern
Functionality and API Issues
- HTML API: Preserve some additional invalid HTML comment syntaxes.
- Allow searching of extra post fields
- REST API: Add stylesheet_uri and template_uri fields to themes endpoint
- Add ‘label’ argument to register_setting
Email and Communication
- WP Mail: support for a plain-text version when sending a html body
- Request to Enable Bulk Copy of Post URLs from WordPress Dashboard
Bug Fixes and Issues
- Github bot detected some high risk security issue in npm packages.
- WordPress 6.5.2 displays multiple h1 – wp_link_dialog is displayed
- Multiple block recovery error
- Weird behavior with categories and titles, URLs
- Shortcode aren’t paste inline in paragraphs
- Duplicate HTML id attribute in Quick/Bulk Edit on pages and post list
- Having Inline SVG breaks the site
- Menu Vanishing On Save
- page_for_posts is automatically reset
- Multisite state ‘Delete’ can only have a value of 1or 0. Not 2. So why is 2 mentioned in the code?
- Twenty Twenty-One: Preformatted block font size is smaller in the editor than on the front end
- The mobile layout displays incorrectly when infinite scrolling is activated in the Media Gallery Modal.
- Do not write in DB when updating a user if no user data has changed
- There is no easy way to add custom states to site-info.php
- Add Bluesky (bsky.app) to oEmbed allowlist
Gutenberg Issues
- A PHP warning is thrown whenever a plugin calls
register_settingwithout theshow_in_restargument - Clear Changelog when cloning a theme
- Flaky Test: The PHP version is rendered if the legacy attribute is true
- Site editor responsiveness
- createInterpolateElement: Add error handling in case unmatched tags are included
- Improvements to
class WP_Theme_JSONand its tests
Gutenberg Discussions
- Can’t get block selectors to work
- Footnotes
- Universal blocks and block hydration
- Getting Started – and other learning resources
- Interactivity API: Roadmap
- Merge/Split Table Cells in default table block
- Attaching multiple handlers to an event and allowing asynchronous event handlers
- WP-ENV: A couple of comments
- More details about Gutenberg Phase4-Multilingual?
- Using blocks.registerBlockType block-filter to change core block markup. Is this how it’s supposed to be done?
- Does the Query Loop only accept patterns that are pre-registered in a plugin/theme?
- How to access the Query Loop Block’s data on the fly?
Core Meetings
- Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Performance Chat Summary: 16 April 2024
- Performance Chat Agenda: 16 April 2024
- Summary, Dev Chat, April 10, 2024
- Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday April 10, 2024
- Performance Chat Summary: 9 April 2024
Developer Blog:
WordPress Developer Blog Content Discussions
Design
Documentation
- Summary for Docs Team Meeting, 2 April 2024
- Documentation Team Update – April 8, 2024
- Documentation Team Update – April 15, 2024
- Redirects after renaming HelpHub articles
Documentation-Issue-Tracker
Hosting
Marketing
Meta
- The Pattern Directory gets a refresh and is now powered by blocks
- The Forums get a refresh
- Homepage updates
- Meeting Agenda for April 17, 2023
Meta Trac & GitHub
User Interface and Design
- Please restore left border to new support theme
- Design Issue: Underlines in submenu of polyglot sub page
- Improve the button design
- Add Hover effect on link
Plugin and Theme Contributions
- Plugin/Theme Developer badges should be persistent
- Discussion: Plugin name length, readability and consistency.
- Adding Support Reps: Include an “I have read the support guidelines” checkbox
Documentation and Support
- Request to clear and update HelpHub support articles for zh_CN
- Edited reviews do not show as recent
- Fix singular/plural form for Persian language on WP Site
Code Efficiency and Quality
Feature Enhancements and Requests
Openverse
- Community Meeting Recap (2024-04-15)
- Introducing Collection views for Tags, Creators, and Sources
- A week in Openverse: 2024-04-08 – 2024-04-15
- TypeError: Failed to set the ‘currentTime’ property on ‘HTMLMediaElement’: The provided double value is non-finite
- Site theme switcher
Playground
- Playground plugin: % signs lost during the import
- Suggestions for improving the WordPress Playground ‘Get Started’ documentation page
- UpdraftPlus plugins doesn’t fully work in Playground
- Documentation updates for Yoast’s Online Contributor Day ⭐️
- WordPress crashes when connecting to MySQL
- Offer Playground puzzle pieces to WCEU sponsors
- Support DELETE LIMIT
Pattern Directory
- The Pattern Directory gets a refresh and is now powered by blocks
- Style adjustments for selected item and apply button in multiple selection flow
Plugins
- Plugin Review Team: 15 April 2024
- Notify Plugin or Theme developer of support requests
- Proposal to remove the non-block editor option from support forums:
- Bug report on edited reviews not showing as recent:
- Enhancement suggestion to include checkbox for support reps acknowledging forum guidelines
Polyglots
- Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – April 17, 2024 (07:00 UTC)
- Add click to copy button to stats summary
Support
Sustainability
Test
Themes
- Themes team update April 16, 2024
- Block theme: Applying “all” filter and searching for term resets to “curated”
- Notify Plugin or Theme developer of support requests
- Enhancement suggestion to include checkbox for support reps acknowledging forum guidelines
Training
WPTV
- Upgrading jQuery: Working Towards a Healthy Web
- Curl for 8.7.1
- Node 21.7.3
- React 18.2.0 (teaser for 19)
- PHP 8.3.6 Released!
- PHP 8.2.18 Released!
- PHP 8.1.28 Released!
- PHPCS 3.9.1
- WPCS 3.1.0
- Requests 2.0.11
- PHPMailer 6.9.1
- PHP Parallel Lint 1.4.0
- LibZip 1.10.1
- MySQL 8.3
- Composer 2.7.2
- Homebrew 4.2.18
- TC39
- Chromium Roadmap
- Firefox Release Calendar
- Safari Release Notes
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