WordPress 6.1 Walkthrough, Dropping 3.7 – 4.0 Security Updates, WordPress Advanced Administration Handbook
This Week at WordPress.org (September 5, 2022)
Get ready for WordPress 6.1! There’s a live walkthrough coming for it on September 13, and the feature freeze is September 20. Other important news: security updates will no longer be backported for WordPress 3.7-4.0, and there’s a new Advanced WordPress Administration handbook.
Get Ready for WordPress 6.1
Feature freeze is coming on September 20, 2022.
🚶♂️ 6.1 Product Walk-Through
🔽 Dropping security updates for WordPress versions 3.7 through 4.0
📚 WordPress Advanced Administration Handbook
News
- Dropping security updates for WordPress versions 3.7 through 4.0
- The Month in WordPress – August 2022
- WP Briefing: Episode 38: All About LearnWP with Special Guest Hauwa Abashiya
Accessibility
Community
Core
Meetings
- Core Editor chat summary: 7th September 2022
- Editor chat agenda – 7th September 2022
- Devchat agenda: postponed to September 11
- Dev Chat Summary, August 31, 2022
Docs
- Documentation team meeting postponed to WCUS Contributor Day
- WordPress Advanced Administration Handbook
Five for the Future
- Deactivate inactive pledges
- Remove contributor hours when account banned
- Use last 5ftF contribution as inactivity criteria
Hosting
Marketing
Meta
Mobile
Openverse
- Frontend Release v3.4.8 and a call for a11y testing
- Community meeting recap (6 September 2022)
- Openverse Biweekly Update – September 5th
- Applying ECS to the ingestion server/data refresh
Performance
Plugins
Polyglots
- Word counting type setting for Locales
- Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – Sep. 7, 2022 (7:00 UTC)
- Announcement: WordPress Translation Day 2022
Test
Themes
- FEEDBACK REQUESTED: Testing and Feedback for the Fluid Typography Feature
- Themes Team Meeting Notes – August 23, 2022
- Test Team Update: 30 August 2022
Training
Tutorials
Online Workshops:
WPTV
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