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ByDan Knauss

The 4th WordPress Translation Day will take place on May 10th-11th, depending on your time zone. The event will be live-streamed, and a schedule has been posted. There is also a great deal more information and background on the event itself on the Make WordPress.org site.

This Week at WordPress.org (October 25, 2021)
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This Week at WordPress.org (October 25, 2021)

ByCourtney Robertson

Each week we’ll highlight 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 resource with your product and project managers. Core New: WordPress 5.9 Release Squad Thunks in Gutenberg WordPress…

Inside Jetpack

ByBrian Krogsgard

Sarah Gooding has an interesting long form piece that goes inside Jetpack’s multiple team setup at Automattic, and how they think about development and the structure of the plugin. I found the bit about installs… odd. Automattic is aware of the number of people currently using Jetpack but will not be disclosing that information publicly….

wJosepha Haden shared her “early thoughts”…

ByDan Knauss

wJosepha Haden shared her “early thoughts” 💭 on WordPress 5.8 planning, including this intention: “For the release that includes full site editing, I would like to pause our cohort mentorship processes and replace it with a public coordination channel for the release squad that allows passive learning through observation and release squad transparency.” Josepha recently…

Yet another survey for the WordPress recommended hosting page

ByBrian Krogsgard

In discussing the Pressable story, a few folks have asked me about the WordPress recommended hosting page, and if Automattic’s ownership of Pressable will affect that page. The answer is that I don’t think so, but I don’t know for sure. However, I did ask Matt about that page yesterday and it appears it will be a…

New WordPress.org plugin naming policy

ByBrian Krogsgard

There is a new WordPress.org naming policy that prevents plugins from using the names of companies and other plugins as the first item in the name and slug. For instance, if a reader submitted, “Post Status Extender Widget” to the repo it wouldn’t be accepted but, “Extender Widget for Post Status” would. Here’s the full text…