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Women & Nonbinary Release • WP-CLI 2.8.0 • Redesign Update • Build Block Theme

Courtney Robertson

April 12, 2023

Sign up soon to mentor and be a part of the upcoming women and nonbinary release squad. Join the Test team in building a block theme. WP-CLI 2.8.0 is coming soon with PHP 8.2 compatibility. Get the latest updates on the WordPress.org redesign.

Build a Block Theme • Theme Performance Improvements * Interactivity API • Why Jazz?

Courtney Robertson

April 5, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

Matt shares why WordPress releases are named after jazz musicians. The FSE block theme explores functionality gaps and gathers feedback on the Site Editor experience. WordPress 6.2 improves load times and server-side performance for block and classic themes. The Interactivity API proposal standardizes frontend interactivity for Gutenberg blocks.

WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy” • Gutenberg Phase 3 • Test Plugin Dependencies

Courtney Robertson

March 29, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

🥳 WordPress 6.2 is now available! If you haven't started testing yet, now is the time.

Gutenberg is a 4 phase approach to nearly all areas of WordPress. Phase 1 was Posts and Pages. Phase 2 included Themes. Matias Ventura shares what we could see in Phase 3.

Andy Fragen has posted a call for testing on the Plugin Dependencies plugin.

WordPress 6.2 RC4 • Code Generators and GPL

Courtney Robertson

March 22, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

We're just one week away from WordPress 6.2. Have you tested it and read the field guide yet? If you write code for a plugin that is in the WordPress Plugins Repo, you'll want to ensure the code is GPL compatible.

WordPress 6.2 RC2 • Plugin Review Team Retirement News • WP20 Giveaway

Courtney Robertson

March 16, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

Discover WordPress 6.2's new features, accessibility enhancements, and developer updates. Contribute to the community by joining the Contributor Working Group. Explore new block theme template. Engage in discussions on mentorship programs. Celebrate WP20 and participate in the Wapuu Coloring Giveaway.

Post Status Picks for the Week of July 18

Dan Knauss

July 20, 2022

BusinessPlanet

Your Post Status Podcast Picks of the week include Seeking Satisfaction with Victor Ramirez on the importance of networking, managing anxiety, and rethinking the way websites are built. WP Coffee Talk features the woman with the best personal Wapuu, Michelle Frechette, talking with Mark Westguard, founder of the WS Form plugin about his work, the love and opportunity in the WordPress community, and more.

Post Status Notes #493

David Bisset

April 8, 2022

PlanetSecurity

It's your weekly roundup of news briefs for busy WordPress professionals! @dimensionmedia, can you believe we've done almost 500 of these? -Ed.

Block Test Patterns Rich Tabor explains…

Dan Knauss

March 13, 2020

Block Test Patterns Rich Tabor explains why block patterns are the future of page building in WordPress. He also describes what a Block Patterns API may look like. 🏗️ Right now you can copy whole templated sections of block patterns…

Shaping a vision of success

Jenny Beaumont

January 19, 2017

Planet

With the next edition of WordCamp Europe on the horizon, Jenny Beaumont finds herself thinking about event growth past and present, and about what success might look like for all of us in this new year.

If you attended WordCamp London 2016,…

April 21, 2016

If you attended WordCamp London 2016, check out the photos from the event. If nothing else, check out the pictures of the giant Wapuu. Really, a human in a Wapuu suit.

The origins of Wapuu

Brian Krogsgard

December 15, 2015

Who doesn't love Wapuu, the adorable Japanese WordPress mascot? Nick Hamze shared a great post about the origins of the mascot: In 2009 at the WordCamp Tokyo after-party, Matt asked Japanese users what should we do to promote WordPress in…

Wapuu for you

Brian Krogsgard

June 2, 2015

Wapuu is the adorable little yellow WordPress mascot, largely popularized by the Japanese WordPress community. They have a whole page of forkable Wapuus. But to further ease creating new Wapuu variations, Michelle Schulp has shared her "My Wapuu" repository so…