Anne McCarthy

WordPress 6.1 RC5 • WP-CLI 2.7.1 • Help Test Plugin Dependencies Feature Plugin

Courtney Robertson

October 28, 2022

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.

WordPress 6.1 RC2 • 6.1 Sneak Peek with Nick Diego • WP-CLI 2.7.1 • Help Test Plugin Dependencies Feature Plugin

Courtney Robertson

October 20, 2022

DesignHosting

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 RC1 • DevNotes • Field Guides • New LearnWP Course

Courtney Robertson

October 12, 2022

DesignHosting

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.

WordPress 6.1 Beta 3 • Active Install Growth Chart

Courtney Robertson

October 6, 2022

DesignHosting

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. 📈

New Features to Test in Gutenberg 14.1

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2022

DesignDevelopment

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…

Member Spotlight: Anne McCarthy

Michelle Frechette

August 1, 2022

Member SpotlightsWordPress News

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…

Post Status Comments (No. 6) — The State of the WordPress News European Edition

David Bisset

January 13, 2022

BusinessComments

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.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 39) — WordPress 5.9: Delays, the Customizer, and Contributing

David Bisset

December 29, 2021

BusinessDesign

Anne McCarthy on the delay of WordPress 5.9, Automattic, COVID's impact on contributors, Full Site Editing, and the future of the Customizer.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 38) — In Person For State of the Word

David Bisset

December 22, 2021

BusinessPlanet

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…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

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…

Attention WordPress themers — there is…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

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…

Anne McCarthy shares how WordPress fundamentally…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

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,…

Anne McCarthy shows off the list…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

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…

Anne McCarthy has published a comprehensive…

Dan Knauss

June 4, 2021

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…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

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…

This update from Anne McCarthy about…

Dan Knauss

May 19, 2021

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…