This Week at WordPress.org (January 3, 2022)
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 resource with your product and project managers.
News
Community
- WordPress 5.9 Talking Points for Meetup Organizers: Six Features You Will Love About This Release
- Proposal: Automatically send emails to WordCamp attendee requesting details about their accessibility accommodation or life-threatening allergy
Docs
Marketing
Polyglots
Themes
Training
- Social Learning Spaces Streaming Platforms
- Learn WordPress Version Taxonomy
- January 2022 Sprint
- Team Goal Setting 2022
Test
Openverse
Core
There’s a lot of information coming over the next few weeks leading up to the WordPress 5.9 release. Check back on the dev-notes section as it will grow throughout the week when new posts are published.
Dev Notes, Field Notes, 5.9:
- WordPress 5.9 Field Guide
- WordPress 5.9 and PHP 8.0-8.1
- Updates for Settings, Styles, and theme.json
- Locking Blocks in WordPress 5.9
- Theme-focused changes and filters in WordPress 5.9
- State of the Customizer with block themes in WordPress 5.9
- The new Navigation block
- Bundled theme updates with WordPress 5.9
- WordPress 5.9 Performance Improvements
- New Capability Queries in WordPress 5.9
- Miscellaneous Core changes in WordPress 5.9
- Introducing new language switcher on the login screen in WP 5.9
- Block themes, a new way to build themes in WordPress 5.9
- New API to access global settings & styles
- Miscellaneous block editor changes in WordPress 5.9
- Enhanced lazy-loading performance in 5.9
- Take more control over Inner Block Areas (as a block developer)
- Using multiple stylesheets per block
- Posts, Post types and Taxonomy changes in WordPress 5.9
General
- What’s new in Gutenberg 12.3? (5 January)
- Proposal: Changes to JavaScript Coding Standards for Full Prettier Compatibility
- A Week in Core – January 3, 2022
- A Week in Core – December 27, 2021
- Discussion: 2022 Major Release Timing
- Proposal: Approving Block Pattern Directory Submissions
- A Year in Core – 2021
- Updater initiative status report: December 25, 2021
- What’s new in Gutenberg 12.2? (22 December)
Reminder: Gutenberg 11.9 ships with WordPress 5.9
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