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Post Status Notes #489

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David Bisset
An App Store for WordPress.com? Performance Team Gathers Steam. WP Notify. FSE Beta. Block is Beautiful. Security, Plugin, Dev, Acquisitions.

This Week at WordPress.org (January 31, 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…

This Week at WordPress.org (January 24, 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…

WordCamp US 2021 Summary

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David Bisset
Some highlights and an overview of WCUS 2021 from David Bisset. Catch up on anything you missed and learn how you can get more involved in WordPress.

Footnotes #456

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Dan Knauss
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…

WordPress 5.8 “Tatum” was released as…

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Dan Knauss

WordPress 5.8 “Tatum” was released as planned this past Tuesday. Matt Mullenweg was the lead on this release. There were 530 volunteers along with 320+ tickets on Trac and over 1,500 pull requests on GitHub. Courtney Robertson has a good…

Tammie Lister has started a lexicon…

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Dan Knauss

Tammie Lister has started a lexicon to help “define and collate links” related to “themes and the new functionality in WordPress as full site editing happens.”🔖

Carolina Nymark is looking for feedback…

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Dan Knauss

Carolina Nymark is looking for feedback — especially from WordPress theme authors — to help improve the theme directory requirements. She asks, “What would make it easier for you to submit themes? What requirement would you like to change or…

With the release of WordPress 5.8,…

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Dan Knauss

With the release of WordPress 5.8, block templates have been on the minds of some developers. Rich Tabor has a great guide to building your first block template, and it explains how to leverage template parts within block templates. 🦮…

Video Picks đź“ş Here are my…

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Dan Knauss

Video Picks 📺 Here are my video picks: 5 Plugins to Make Your WordPress Site More Efficient 🔥: Scott Wyden Kivowitz from Imagely shows

With WordPress 5.8 launching on July…

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Dan Knauss

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…
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