WordPress 6.1 rolls out on November 1. Help test 6.1 Release Candidate 3 — and the Rollback feature plugin. Be sure to look over the 6.1 DevNotes, Field Guides, and Team Updates.
Get a sneak peek at WordPress 6.1 with Nick Diego. Help test 6.1 Release Candidate 2 — and the Plugin Dependencies feature plugin. Be sure to browse the 6.1 DevNotes, Field Guides, and Team Updates. WP-CLI 2.7.1 is available now.
WordPress 6.1 RC 1 has shipped with a release date of November 1. It’s time to start testing! Check out the Developer Notes, Field Guide, and related team updates.
Help test WordPess 6.1 Beta 3! 🧪 Check out the latest features that are coming in the 6.1 release. 📦 Follow updates about bringing back the Active Install Growth chart. 📈
A reminder from Anne McCarthy about the importance of your help testing Gutenberg 14.1 in advance of the WordPress 6.1 release: If you have the current Gutenberg (plugin) release installed, you can use block template parts without adopting everything that comes with block templates. For example, you can allow a user to edit and build…
Anne McCarthy is a minimalistic, optimistic, and athletic nomad who enjoys photography, deep conversations, and thought-provoking questions. They stumbled into WordPress as a freshman in college in 2011 and never looked back. What do you enjoy most about working in WordPress? The doors it opens up for others to share their voice, find their people,…
Get new perspectives on last years’ biggest news stories — which ones mattered most, to whom, and why? This is the European edition of the first Annual Post Status News Draft.
Anne McCarthy on the delay of WordPress 5.9, Automattic, COVID’s impact on contributors, Full Site Editing, and the future of the Customizer.
What does it mean to give back to WordPress? Cory and David discuss this and other themes from Matt Mullenweg’s 2021 State of the Word.
With WordPress 5.8 launching on July 20th, Anne McCarthy has compiled a list of the most important resources that will best prepare theme authors. 📚 If you had to choose only the top 3, Anne recommends: Review the Make Themes summary of theme features in 5.8. Read the Dev Notes on introducing theme.json and layout…
Attention WordPress themers — there is a call for testing theme.json for Full Site Editing. 🧪 The theme.json file contains settings to enable or disable theme features and set default styles for a website and its blocks. It’s all done in a consolidated and canonical way. Anne McCarthy describes theme.json as “a big part of…
Anne McCarthy shares how WordPress fundamentally changed her: “I found the world… myself… and my joy. To have the chance to give back to something that has given me so much is something I wake up every day thankful for, even on the tough days.”
Anne McCarthy shows off the list view, a recent improvement to the Core Editor that was originally imagined for the Site Editor. The goal of the list view is to “make it easy to bounce between the exact pieces of content you want to alter.” I haven’t tried this yet, but I’m impressed with the…
Anne McCarthy has published a comprehensive resource guide to help people talk about the upcoming WordPress full-site editing features. 👍
Anne McCarthy has put out the seventh call for testing in the Full Site Editing Outreach Program. 🧪 Now is a great time to help on the way to the 5.8 release. Just head over to #fse-outreach-experiment in Make Slack to join in and receive future announcements and updates.
This update from Anne McCarthy about the block editor raised my interest: “…work is underway to suggest block patterns based on the block one is working with…. in the long run it will be easier to create content and get inspired without leaving the editor. “ There is a video on the post along with…
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