This Week at WordPress.org (March 13, 2023)
Discover WordPress 6.2’s new features, accessibility enhancements, and developer updates. Contribute to the community by joining the Contributor Working Group. Explore new block theme template. Engage in discussions on mentorship programs. Celebrate WP20 and participate in the Wapuu Coloring Giveaway.
WP 6.2 RC2 • Plugin Review Team Announces Mika’s Retirement • WP20 Giveaway
🧪 WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 2
📺 Your WordPress 6.2 Preview
🙋🏾 Help Test WordPress 6.2
🗺️ WordPress 6.2 Field Guide
👋🏻 Advance Notice of Mika’s Plugin Review Retirement
News
- WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 2
- WP Briefing: Episode 51: Is Routine a Rut?
- Your WordPress 6.2 Preview
- Wapuu Coloring Giveaway: Style Your Own Party Wapuu
- WP20 Celebrations – Join in the Party – Online & In-Person
Accessibility
Community
- Combining Roles to Create a New Contributor Ladder
- Proposal: Updates to the Mentor Program
- Launching the Contributor Working Group: Call for Volunteers
- Recap of the Diverse Speaker Training group (#WPDiversity) AMER/EMEA on March 8, 2023
- Running Funds Outside of WPCS
Core
WordPress 6.2
- FYI: Navigation section of new Site Editor experienced removed for 6.2 RC 2
- WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 1
- WordPress 6.2 Translation Status (March 14, 2023)
- WordPress 6.2 ready to be translated
- WordPress 6.2 Field Guide
- Requests library upgraded to 2.0.5 in WordPress 6.2
- Patterns API expanded to include template_types property
- Introduction of Block Inspector Tabs
- Shadows in Global Styles with WordPress 6.2
- Introducing the HTML API in WordPress 6.2
- Miscellaneous Editor changes in WordPress 6.2
- Introducing move_dir() in WordPress 6.2
- Sticky position block support
- Upgrading to React 18 and common pitfalls of concurrent mode
- Add new prop to ServerSideRender component
- Google Fonts are included locally in bundled themes
- Custom CSS for global styles and per block
- Minimum height dimensions block support
- Editor Components updates in WordPress 6.2
- I18N Improvements in 6.2
- Customize settings for any block in WordPress 6.2
- Style Book preview of blocks in global styles
- Update to content only editing filter namespace
- WordPress 6.2 Accessibility Improvements
- WordPress 6.2 Beta 4 Postponed
- WordPress 6.2 Beta 3
- 6.2 Live Product Demo
- Phase 2, Finale
- Hallway Hangout: Performance Improvements for WordPress 6.2
- Roadmap to 6.2
- Bug Scrub Schedule for 6.2
- Early bug scrub schedule for WP 6.2
- WordPress 6.2 Planning Roundup
Meetings
Developer Blog
- Block theme templates: the easy way to build an elegant grid of posts
- What’s new for developers? (March 2023)
- Block deprecation – a tutorial
Design
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Docs
Hosting
Marketing
- Notes: Global Marketing Team meeting, 5 March 2023
- Notes: Global Marketing Team meeting, 28 February 2023
Openverse
Performance
Plugins
Polyglots
- Polyglots Monthly Newsletter: March 2023
- WordPress 6.2 Translation Status (March 14, 2023)
- Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – March 15, 2023 (13:00 UTC)
Plugins
Project
- Proposal: Creating a WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program
- Discussion: Ending the Eternal September
Support
- Agenda for March 16th Support Meeting
- Summary for March 9th Support Meeting
- Support ticket triage session – March 22th 2023 at 16:00 UTC
Test
- Hallway Hangout: Let’s chat about All Things Layout
- Test Chat Summary: 14 March 2023
- Help Test WordPress 6.2
Theme
Training
- Meeting Agenda for March 14, 2023
- Dev-squad update: Triage sessions planning
- Training Team Meeting Recap for March 7, 2023
- Introduction to WordPress Development: A proposed learning path
Online Workshops
- Let’s code: developing user roles and capabilities
- WP dev livestream: Developing WordPress user roles and capabilities
- Updating a blog’s design (Informal live stream) – Part 3
- クラシックエディターからブロックエディターに移行するノウハウ
Lesson Plans
WPTV
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