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News
- WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate 1
- WordPress 6.0 Beta 4
- WordPress 6.0 Field Guide
- WP Briefing: Episode 30: A Sneak Peek at WordPress 6.0
- People of WordPress: Meher Bala
- New Five for the Future section below!
Accessibility
Central
Core
Reminder: Gutenberg 13.0 ships with WordPress 6.0.
DevNotes
Leading up to releasing WordPress 6.0, DevNotes and release-related information will remain.
- WordPress 6.0 Field Guide
- Block Locking Settings in WordPress 6.0
- WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate Phase
- Miscellaneous Dev Notes for WordPress 6.0
- Block Editor miscellaneous Dev Notes for WordPress 6.0
- Page creation patterns in WordPress 6.0
- Global Styles variations in WordPress 6.0
- Separator block: Updated to use block supports color settings
- Block markup updates for image, quote, list, and group blocks
- Support for handling resolution errors for Editor data module
- Taxonomy performance improvements in WordPress 6.0
- Changes to the do_parse_request filter in WordPress 6.0
- Caching improvements in WordPress 6.0
- New filter to modify content images in WordPress 6.0
- Media: storing file size as part of the metadata
- Updates to the @wordpress/create-block templating system
- Object type-specific registration hooks in 6.0
- Taxonomy performance improvements in WordPress 6.0
- New features for working with patterns and themes in WordPress 6.0
- Theme export in WordPress 6.0
- WP_User_Query now accepts fields options in WordPress 6.0
- Performance increase for sites with large user counts (now also available on a single site)
Docs
Developer Docs:
Support Docs:
Five for the Future
What’s happening specific to Five for the Future? Provide your feedback on these posts:
- Tracking contributions: receiving special access
- Tracking contributions: meeting attendance
- Tracking Contributions: HelpScout
- Tracking Contributions: Contributors share their contributions periodically.
- Manual “props” for team activity
- The minimal onboarding process for newly pledged contributors
- Outreach process for various types of incomplete and dormant pledges
- Prevent and remove spam/dormant pledges
- Require logging in for submitting the company pledge form
- Prevent company pledges from becoming a public without pledges
- Include the number of pledges in the pledge listing
- Team Pledges: Link to Slack user for convenience
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