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This Week at WordPress.org (January 3, 2022)

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Courtney Robertson
Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don't want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we've got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this…

A new action wp_after_insert_post has been…

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Dan Knauss

A new action wp_after_insert_post has been added to WordPress 5.6 to allow theme and plugin developers to run custom code after a post and its terms and metadata have been updated. The 5.6 Release Candidate is available now and needs…

Joost de Valk has proposed a…

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Dan Knauss

Joost de Valk has proposed a font enqueue API for WordPress core. 🔡 Explaining why we should implement .wp_enqueue_font, Joost writes: "Building this so that fonts are always loaded the same way allows us to continuously improve the way we…

Tom MacWright makes a case for…

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Dan Knauss

Tom MacWright makes a case for a "clean start for the web," spurred at least in part by the monoculture in browser engines and Mozilla's recent layoffs. 🧼 What made me think and look more deeply into his proposals (which…

Matt Mullenweg closed a ticket opened…

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Dan Knauss

Matt Mullenweg closed a ticket opened by Juliette Reinders Folmer about four days ago. The ticket had to do with ending support for PHP 5.6, which was a milestone within the original release scope and is currently the minimum required…

WordPress 5.5 Beta 2 is out.…

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Dan Knauss

WordPress 5.5 Beta 2 is out. The final release is expected to drop on August 11th, 2020 as planned. 📅 👉 Several tooling additions and improvements have gone into the WordPress 5.5 cycle. Developers should take note of the build…

Juliette Reinders Folmer notes that some…

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Dan Knauss

Juliette Reinders Folmer notes that some updates are proposed for implementation in WordPress Coding Standards 3.0.0: "With the change to PHP 5.6 as the minimum PHP version for WordPress Core, and with the outlook of a minimum version of PHP…

Video and Podcast Picks of the…

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Dan Knauss

Video and Podcast Picks of the Week 📹 Here's my recommendation for video watching this week: Alex Young

A new version of the WordPress…

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Brian Krogsgard

A new version of the WordPress Coding Standards (2.1.0) is out. All code sniffs are tested against PHP 7.4 (unstable) now. 👃

Since PHP 5.6 or higher will…

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Brian Krogsgard

Since PHP 5.6 or higher will be required as of WordPress 5.2, Gary Pendergast reviewed some of the relevant WordPress Coding Standards and proposed a few changes to them, including anonymous functions and namespaces.

Seasonal Affective Reflections

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David Bisset

2018 was one of the most exciting years in the history of WordPress for me, but at the same time, it was very stressful and emotionally draining for more than a few people in the community. Two of the most…
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