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WordPress 6.3 Beta 2 • Help Test • WPDiversity • Plugin Team Next Phase • Mentorship

Courtney Robertson

July 1, 2023

Release season is upon us as we approach WordPress 6.3's August 8th release. Your help is needed testing the latest changes.

Do you run or attend WordPress events and notice only one type of person is attending? What can you do to be a good ally to foster, promote, and support diversity and an inclusive space? Sign up now for the July 20th WPDiversity workshop.

Stop by the Plugin team to wish Mika a happy retirement as she hands over the work to the 6 new Plugin Review teammembers.

Applications to be mentored as a contributor in the inaugural Mentorship Program have now closed. The team is selecting both mentors and mentees at this time and will kick off the first cohort on July 12.

Sustainability Team • Supporting Organizations • Commercial & Community Themes & Plugins • Pattern Curation

Courtney Robertson

June 15, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

The WordPress Sustainability Team has launched. What's that?
The main objective of the team is to embed sustainable practices into the WordPress community and its processes. We focus on ensuring longevity; socially, economically, and environmentally.

Several organizations exist to support the work of WordPress, such as The WP Community Collective and HeroPress. Matt is proposing a way of displaying such supporting organizations.

Filters arrive for Themes and Plugins around what are Commercial efforts and what are Community efforts, while the Patterns Directory ponders using filters for displaying all patterns associated with a theme.

Improving Visa Support • Event Tooling • WP-CLI Updates • Block Inspector Sub-groups

Courtney Robertson

June 7, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

Community team is considering tooling around the building and using the WordCamp websites, in addition to the naming of events. To help speakers attend WordCamps, additional lead time for visas is requested as well. Share your thoughts now.

WP-CLI has released 2 updates. Get a look at what new features are available.

See the dev blog for more ways to use the block inspector.

Business Roundup Week Ending June 2

Mike Demopoulos

June 2, 2023

BusinessThe Week in Review

Business Roundup Week Ending June 2. Check out what happened in WordPress business this week!

WP 6.3 Planning • WP20 • AI Forum Replies • LearnWP Survey Results

Courtney Robertson

May 31, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

How did you celebrate WordPress's 20th birthday? Read Building Blocks: The Evolution of WordPress, now available on GitHub and e-reader formats.

WordPress 6.3 is underway. Core has shared the planning roundup, and the Design team is starting to prepare now.

Support forums recently discussed considerations on using AI to respond to forum issues. Human intervention is still necessary for the foreseeable future.

Training team surveyed attendees at the last 3 flagship WordCamps and any additional respondents. The data is in with feedback on the content and site functionality of Learn.WordPress.org.

WP 6.2.2 • WP Playground • Client-side Filtering • Future WordCamp Brainstorms • Plugin Review Update

Courtney Robertson

May 24, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 6.2.2 is available now for update. This reintroduces shortcodes in Block Theme Templates in a more secure way.

Rich Tabor and WordPress Playground innovator Adam Zielinski discuss the capabilities and promise of WP Playground.

What do you want to see for future WordCamps? Share your ideas on the post.

Do you want to disable border settings for everyone but Administrators, and only for posts? See the Dev Blog.

What's the fate of the plugin review team with the primary maintainer soon to retire? It appears to have a bright future with additional contributors and tooling.

WP 6.2.1 • PHP8 Compatibility • Translation Playground • Contributor Mentorship Program

Courtney Robertson

May 18, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

It's time to update your WordPress websites now. This week's release breaks shortcodes used in Block Themes on Templates, but is related to a security issue.

Is WordPress, and the plugin and theme ecosystem around it, ready for PHP 8? Earlier versions of PHP, such as 7.4, are now considered End of Life, and hosts are eager to deploy supported versions. But first, Core compatibility needs additional testing to come out of beta compatibility.

Translating WordPress just got a little bit easier for contributors with the WP Translation Playground.

A Community team working group announces a pilot proposal for a Contributor Mentorship Program, helping all contributors onboard.

Business Roundup Week Ending May 12

Mike Demopoulos

May 12, 2023

BusinessThe Week in Review

WordCamps: The Next Generation The official WordPress Community blog recently published a post titled "The Next Generation of WordCamps," outlining the future of in-person WordPress conferences in the post-pandemic world. The successful transition of WordCamps from in-person to virtual during…

WP 6.2.1 RC1 • Annual Survey Results • WCUS Scholarship Fund

Courtney Robertson

May 11, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 6.2.1 RC1 is now available for testing, and planning is underway for the 6.3 AND 6.4 release squad members. Head over to the Core team website for more information.

Each year the WordPress community has an opportunity to participate in the annual survey. The results from 2022 are now available.

Contributors that are a self-identifying female, have a financial need and have never attended WordCamp US are encouraged to apply by June 12, 2023, 11:00 pm Eastern time

Business Roundup Week Ending May 5

Mike Demopoulos

May 5, 2023

BusinessThe Week in Review

WishList is Joining the Caseproof Family of Products • WishList Products, the parent company of WishList Member™ and CourseCure, has been acquired by Caseproof and its CEO Blair Williams. • Tracy Childers, Co-Founder of WishList Products, will no longer be…

Blogs to Blocks • Core + AI • LCP Image Performance • Testing FSE Front Page

Courtney Robertson

May 3, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

The WordPress Marketing Team is hosting a Blogs to Blocks celebration and invites you to get involved by creating and responding to daily prompts around blogging, design, development, photos, community, and more ways to contribute.

The Core Team is considering how to include extendible technology to integrate AI. Additionally, there is a proposal needing your feedback around improving image performance. Felix Arntz notes that adding fetchpriority=”high” to the LCP image typically improves LCP performance by 5-10%.

The latest call for testing from the Test team includes an exercise using the new Grid view, as well as creating pages from patters.

Business Roundup Week Ending April 28

Mike Demopoulos

April 28, 2023

BusinessThe Week in Review

Ultimate Tech Event Sponsorship Deck is a comprehensive list of over 450 tech events tailored to connect tech innovators with the ideal platform for showcasing their groundbreaking ideas or solutions. The deck promises to offer crucial details about each event,…

WP Feature Notifications • Prioritizing Performance Benefits • DevBlog updates

Courtney Robertson

April 26, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

Tired of the overwhelm of WordPress notifications? Join the WP Feature Notifications effort to streamline the alerts.

What performance gains have happened in WordPress 6.2?

From the Developer Blog: How webpack and WordPress packages interact.

Member Spotlight: Jack McConnell

Michelle Frechette

December 16, 2022

BlogsMember Spotlights

Jack is a one-man WordPress web design and development agencywhose clients include Peter Gabriel, Disney & Real World Records.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 72) — Can We Get to “Yes” on Better UX?

Dan Knauss

October 27, 2022

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

This week in an article shared in Post Status Slack, Eric Karkovack suggested some ways to improve the WordPress user experience, especially for DIY users setting up a website for the first time. Some of the things Eric wants to see happen, like a standard interface for plugins and a curated view of the plugin ecosystem, are also commonly expressed by designers, developers, and people in other roles at WordPress agencies serving enterprise clients. Can we get everyone to "yes" on a better UX?

WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022

Daniel Schutzsmith

September 22, 2022

DesignDevelopment

Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week: WP Tests from the Abstract Agency, ACF 6.0, and Simple Social Images. Cool Tool of the week Warp goes into plaid.