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Feedback and Testing: Fluid Typography, Pre-Publish Sidebar, Editor Configuration, Expired Session Autosave, and Contribute Style Variations to Twenty Twenty Three

Courtney Robertson

August 17, 2022

DesignHosting

Get your feedback in now about features coming in WordPress 6.1. Feature freeze is September 20.

Back Compat & Experimental APIs, Safely Handling SVG via “Insert URL”, WordPress 6.1 Bug Scrub Schedule, Database Performance Health Checks

Courtney Robertson

August 10, 2022

DesignMake WordPress

Is it safe to insert an SVG via URL? How healthy is your database? Performance Team Rep Nominations.

Gutenberg 13.8 Drops / What’s Ahead in WordPress 6.1

Dan Knauss

August 8, 2022

Notes

George Mamadashvili has a nice update and overview of the latest Gutenberg release: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/08/04/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-8-3-august/ The new monthly summaries for WordPress.org news are really nice — here's July from Reyes Martinez: https://wordpress.org/news/2022/08/the-month-in-wordpress-july-2022/

Free Rider Problem, JSON Core Block Styling, Redesigned Home & Download Pages

Courtney Robertson

August 3, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Have you seen the new home page demo? Is there a problem with Free Riders? Do you want block styling standardized?

SVG and WebP…finally

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

HostingNotes

I'm looking forward to lots of good things coming in the future on the new WordPress core Performance Team blog, and I'm glad SVG and WebP are finally going to be usable in WordPress by default. (This is already the…

Barriers to Contributing

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

FeaturesMake WordPress

Small teams face frustrating barriers trying to make their contributions count TL;DR: Small teams have common barriers to contributing to Five for the Future. Making efficient use of their time and team members is hard when tooling and communication can…

Mentorship as Contribution: What does Five for the Future mean to you? (Part 2)

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

NotesWordPress News

Have you been thinking about that question? I hope so. Everyone should, as long as we have a 5ftF program. Some low-hanging fruit — recognition of non-code contributors — has already been picked, according to Angela Jin's latest update. I…

New Home and Download Pages for WP.org

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

Notes

WordPress.org is getting new Home and Download pages. The current mockups look very nice! Leave your feedback in the comments.

How to Create a Basic Child Theme for Block Themes

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

Notes

Here's a nice tutorial at learn.wordpress.org for learning how to get started with child block theme development and a good model for tutorials you can contribute! If you have any questions about being a tutorial presenter please join the #training…

A short history of WordPress APIs — and their future

Dan Knauss

July 28, 2022

BusinessDevelopment

Here's an older post about the history of WordPress APIs from Automattic's mobile apps development team that you may not have seen before. (New to me.) It explains the technical background of the current entanglements of .org, .com, and Jetpack:…

PHP 8.2 Compatibility, Renaming FSE, Custom Template Options, WP Feature Notifications Project

Courtney Robertson

July 27, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Getting Ready for PHP 8.2, Rebooting Feature Notifications, Additional Custom Template Options, and Renaming Full Site Editing.

Refocusing the WordPress Mobile App on the Core User Experience — without Jetpack

Dan Knauss

July 27, 2022

FeaturesMake WordPress

The boundaries between WordPress .com and .org have never been very clear. That may change as the WordPress mobile app sheds features the Jetpack app will gain.

The Decline of Speed Booster Pack

Barış Ünver

July 21, 2022

BusinessFeatures

WordPress success stories are great, but this time, you’re going to read about a failure. It’s about the Speed Booster Pack plugin and the depressing, constant decline of its active installs.

A New Kind of Default Theme, the Performance Team Gets Its Own Site, and the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Recipients

Courtney Robertson

July 21, 2022

HostingMake WordPress

A new approach to creating the next default theme has been proposed. • Cache Audit and Site Health Checks • Full-Site Editing Program Calls for Testing Category Customization • Parsell Scholarship recipients announced.

WordPress Certifications, SVG Uploads, FSE Category Testing, Fortnightly NPM updates, Persistent Object Cache and Full Page Cache

Courtney Robertson

July 15, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

What are your thoughts about WordPress certification? Join the call for testing FSE Category Customization.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 62) — The Open Web Universe with Matt Mullenweg

Olivia Bisset

July 6, 2022

BusinessDesign

David and Olivia Bisset sat down for a chat with Matt Mullenweg about open source, Tumblr, and how Matt deals with negativity. Matt has three roles today: CEO of Tumblr, CEO of Automattic, and project lead for the next release of WordPress. He shares what went wrong with post formats and what he would love to acquire next if he could. The answer may (or may not) surprise you! Recorded shortly before WordCamp Europe 2022.

Feedback and Testing: Fluid Typography, Pre-Publish Sidebar, Editor Configuration, Expired Session Autosave, and Contribute Style Variations to Twenty Twenty Three

Back Compat & Experimental APIs, Safely Handling SVG via “Insert URL”, WordPress 6.1 Bug Scrub Schedule, Database Performance Health Checks

Gutenberg 13.8 Drops / What’s Ahead in WordPress 6.1

Free Rider Problem, JSON Core Block Styling, Redesigned Home & Download Pages

SVG and WebP…finally

Barriers to Contributing

Mentorship as Contribution: What does Five for the Future mean to you? (Part 2)

New Home and Download Pages for WP.org

How to Create a Basic Child Theme for Block Themes

A short history of WordPress APIs — and their future

PHP 8.2 Compatibility, Renaming FSE, Custom Template Options, WP Feature Notifications Project

Refocusing the WordPress Mobile App on the Core User Experience — without Jetpack

The Decline of Speed Booster Pack

A New Kind of Default Theme, the Performance Team Gets Its Own Site, and the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Recipients

WordPress Certifications, SVG Uploads, FSE Category Testing, Fortnightly NPM updates, Persistent Object Cache and Full Page Cache

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