This Week at WordPress.org (November 1, 2021)

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.

Updates

• Team Rep Nominations – All teams are asked to elect team representatives.

Community

• Tuesday Training: How to run a successful Help Desk meetup.

Core

New:

• Core Editor Improvement: Introducing template part focus mode.
• WordPress 5.9 Editor Update – 1 November.
• WordPress Performance Team kick off.
• What’s new in Gutenberg 11.8.0? (27 October).
• Webfonts API needs comments. See Testing Instructions.
• Consider changing some theme.json settings to opt-out needs comments

Ongoing:

• WordPress 5.9 Release Squad.
• Thunks in Gutenberg.
• WordPress 5.9 Editor Update – 26 October.

Design

New:

• Background editor improvements
• Redesign of the Gutenberg Page

Ongoing:

• Site Editing IA concepts – Part 2.
• Site editing IA concepts: How to surface and access new features.

Mobile

• Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 18.6
• Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 18.6

Plugins

• Reminder: Check Your Accounts’ Emails (and your Committers)

Project

• Suggested iterations for the Five for the Future program and tool.

Support

• Planning our shared component-push.

Test

• Week in Test – 1 Nov 2021.
• Overview of the 5.9 Test Leads’ Approach.
• FSE Program: Answers from Round Three of Questions.

Themes

• Gutenberg + Themes: Week of October 25th, 2021.

Training

• A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team.
• Documentation of Procedures Session.