This Week at WordPress.org (September 26, 2022)
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News
- WordPress 6.1 Beta 2 Now Available
- Help Test WordPress 6.1
- The First In-Person WordCamp in India is Looking for Speakers!
Accessibility
Community
- By 15 October – Please complete the Annual Meetup Survey and share widely!
- Celebrating APAC WPDiversity Network Building: Update on Our 10th Meeting
- Meetup Organizer Newsletter: September 2022
Core
- Roadmap to 6.1: Core Companion
- A Week in Core – September 26, 2022
- Core Editor Improvement: Catalyst for creativity and control
- Client-side WebAssembly WordPress with no server
Meetings
- Dev Chat agenda, September 28, 2022
- Performance team meeting summary 27 September 2022
- Editor Chat Agenda: 28th September 2022
- Summary, Dev Chat, September 21, 2022
- Core Editor chat summary: 21st September 2022
Design
Documentation
Developer Articles:
- Global Styles Filters
- Tools & Resources
- Propagating updates for block types
- @wordpress/create-block External Template
- Block patterns
- Cherry-picking automation
- Edit Site
- Block directory
- Edit Widgets
- The Keyboard Shortcuts Data
Marketing
- Notes, WordPress global Marketing Team meeting, September 21, 2022
- Agenda, global WordPress Marketing Team meeting, September 28, 2022
Openverse
Performance
Polyglots
Plugins
Support
Test
Themes
Training
- How did you learn WordPress?
- September 2022 Monthly Faculty Meeting
- Meeting Agenda for September 27, 2022
- Training Team Meeting Recap – September 20
- #WPTranslation Day Sept 30 – Contributor Day
- Summary Update: Courses Currently in Development (22 September 2022)
Tutorials
- Using Block Attributes to Enable User Editing
- Image Optimization
- Introduction to block theme development (for beginners)
Online Workshops:
- Let’s code! Creating your Primary Templates in the Editor
- Part 2: Re-Creating Block Designs
- Part 1: Re-Creating Block Designs
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