This Week at WordPress.org (April 8, 2024)
News
Accessibility
CLI
Community
- WordPress Contributor Mentorship: 2024 Q1 Cohort Graduates
- Share Your Feedback with Meetup.com
- Community Team April Meeting Recap
- Suggested Updates Based on Feedback of the events.wordpress.org Site
- Feedback needed: DEIB working group Vision and Goals for 2024
- [Meetup] Asunción, Paraguay
- [Meetup] Metairie
Core
- Core Team Update – April 8, 2024
- What’s new in Gutenberg 18.1? (10 April)
- What Happened to WordPress 6.5.1?
- Speculative Loading in WordPress
- Dropping support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1
- Conducting WordPress performance research in the field
- XPaths in Optimization Detective are invalid due to being zero-based instead of one-based
Core Trac
Enhancement and Feature Requests
Awaiting Review
- Coding standard change
- Need new hook at paginate_links
- JSON serialization for meta values
- Create action
edit_form_before_title - Admin notice layout improvement
Future Release
- Introduce a GitHub Actions workflow for bumping the version number in a branch
- Introduce a GitHub Actions workflow for syncing package updates to a branch
Defects and Bugs
Milestone 6.6
- Menu link validation
- get_custom_logo returns an empty link when no logo image is set
- Remove PHP capability-block from uploading webp and avif
- Images Being Renamed in 6.5
- Ensure Gutenberg Plugin e2e Tests only run on WP versions supported by Gutenberg
- Clicking twice on a plug-in update deletes the plug-in.
- URLs for the “An alt Decision Tree” page by language
- Validation of custom links in admin menu not accessible
Milestone 6.5.3
- Interactivity API: Fatal error with empty image
- Layout: Output of base layout rules conflicts with wide alignment of blocks in classic themes
- Fix get_item_features() in class-avif-info.php
Awaiting Review
- parse_blocks stopped returning content and text in attrs in 6.5
- defect (bug): WP 6.5 | function “multisite_over_quota_message” not found or invalid function name
- Missing calling
exitafter usingwp_redirect - Option to detach pattern from Block Editor is not always available.
- Deprecated notice: the_block_template_skip_link()
- The ‘get_users’ function triggers a fatal error if a role is added without any capability assigned.
- Twenty Twenty-Four Theme > Site Editor Image Upload To Media Library Not working (loading)
- Internal Subnets are being blocked by wp_parse_url and why?
- Twenty Seventeen: Button block font weight does not change when using block Appearance setting
- When post and page have same title then post redirect to page
- “Quick Edit” in Posts and Pages doesn’t work in 6.5
- calling get_post_type_object in wp-admin/includes/post.php may return null
- shortcodes that return with no value / text will break if shortcode is being used as an attribute value
- Completely broken out of the box: can’t edit “hello world” post, lots of errors in browser console in wp-admin
- Lists are not visible in the editor
- Incorrect copy-paste behavior in the header
- Install fonts in Font Library in WP 6.5 not working on multisite using Twenty Twenty-four
- How to put older order to a created new registration account
- A way to rename a pattern (similar to post title)
- Custom query, inherit main query, show scheduled posts
- Coding Standards: Fix missing strict in_array on global-styles-and-settings.php
- register_block_type not working with Oxygen
- 6.5 adds the “is-layout-constrained” class to the wrong place for classic themes
- wp update 6.5 and 6.5.2 rewrite multisite bdd entries wp_options.siteurl and wp_options.home
- WP_Query is returning the two same post instead of one
- Twenty Fifteen: Replace frontend jQuery usage with Interactivity API
- Twenty Twelve: Replace front end jQuery usage with Interactivity API
- Twenty Sixteen: Replace frontend jQuery usage with Interactivity API
- safecss_filter_attr() should support query strings with “&” as used by Gutenberg
- “Edit site” means two different things on a Multisite network
- Add missing escapes
Gutenberg Issues
- Create Block Theme Plugin: Font library management no longer stores font in theme folder on theme export
- Add the ability to create an inline tag with a custom class in RichText fields via the Toolbar
- Support multiple
data-wp-on-windowordata-wp-on-documentdirective with the same event - Unable to reset Additional CSS to theme.json defaults
- Unable to Activate Themes from Live Preview without Changes
- Editor loses focus if there’s an error in iframe
- Wrong select function types in @wordpress/data
- TabPanel: Focus styles on
tabpanelare wrong - Storybook: Replace implicit actions with explicit ones
- Replace “Syncing” term in the details of pattern
- Latest Posts block breaks in Editor (‘prevOffset’ error) when site is in Spanish and posts have long texts
Gutenberg Discussions
- Using blocks.registerBlockType block-filter to change core block markup. Is this how it’s supposed to be done?
- Attaching multiple handlers to an event and allowing asynchronous event handlers
- Does the Query Loop only accept patterns that are pre-registered in a plugin/theme?
- Global styles and blocks colors
- How to access the Query Loop Block’s data on the fly?
- Re-render <head> content differences when using client-side navigation?
- Interactivity API showcase
- Seeking clarity and more understanding of the Interactive API
- Support for Components
- Multiple Instances of Same Block On 1 Page – How To Have Unique State For Each One
- Exploring version control and Git workflows in block themes (Site Editor)
- Using the Interactivity API with Core Blocks
- HTML API: Plans for 6.6
Core Meetings
- Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday April 10, 2024
- Performance Chat Summary: 9 April 2024
- Developer Blog editorial meeting summary, April 4, 2024
Developer Blog:
- A first look at the Interactivity API
- What’s new for developers? (April 2024)
- Introduction to Playground: running WordPress in the browser
WordPress Developer Blog Content Discussions
Design
Documentation
Hosting
Marketing
Meta
Meta Trac & GitHub
Enhancements
- Plugins: Please split long rejection letters into one paragraph per string
- Run PCP function to test plugin in plugin submission process
- Swahili /support and /team
- Plugin Review Tool – Best Practices – check if your plugin will pass the review guidelines
- Create repo @WordPress/contributor-handbook
- Notify Plugin or Theme developer of support requests
Defects (Bugs)
Mobile
Openverse
- Community Meeting Recap (2024-04-08)
- A week in Openverse: 2024-04-01 – 2024-04-08
- Update Science Museum DAG to use new API response format
- Use batched update to clean up empty JSON objects in tags fields
Playground
Pattern Directory
- Update the opengraph image for social media previews
- Pattern Creator: pattern previews are misleading due to lack of full width and layout features in the post editor
Plugins
Polyglots
Support
- The Forums get a refresh
- 11th April Support Team meeting
- Brainstorming a Support Team Contributor Ladder
Sustainability
Test
Themes
Training
- Contributor Spotlight: Cynthia Norman
- Training Team Meeting Recap – 04th April 2024
- Looking for feedback: Thumbnails for the Learn redesign
Online Workshops
WPTV
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- PHP 8.3.6 Released!
- PHP 8.2.18 Released!
- PHP 8.1.27 Released!
- PHPCS 3.9.1
- WPCS 3.1.0
- Requests 2.0.11
- PHPMailer 6.9.1
- PHP Parallel Lint 1.4.0
- LibZip 1.10.1
- MySQL 8.3
- Composer 2.7.2
- Homebrew 4.2.17
- TC39
- Chromium Roadmap
- Firefox Release Calendar
- Safari Release Notes
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