This Week at WordPress.org (June 21, 2024)
News
WordPress 6.6 Dev Notes
- WordPress 6.6 Release Candidate Phase
- WordPress 6.6 Field Guide
- Miscellaneous developer changes in WordPress 6.6
- Updates to the HTML API in 6.6
- Introducing the Token Map
- Proposal: Block Variation Aliases
- Miscellaneous Editor changes in WordPress 6.6
- Internationalization improvements in 6.6
- Section Styles
- WordPress 6.6 CSS Specificity
- Roster of design tools per block (WordPress 6.6 edition)
- Site-wide background images in WordPress 6.6
- Theme.json version 3
- Social Links block changes in WordPress 6.6
- Options API: Disabling autoload for large options
- Improvements to active block variation detection
- Grid layout type
- Preparation for React 19 Upgrade
- JSX in WordPress 6.6
- WordPress 6.6 release squad ready
- Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.6
Accessibility
Community
- Meetup Organizer Newsletter: June 2024
- Community Team June Meeting Recap
- Proposal for a Unified Sponsorship Initiative
Community GitHub
- Organize new contributor workshops – Status: Open
- Update community team handbook – Status: Open
- Plan next WordCamp event – Status: Open
- Improve diversity in community team – Status: Open
Core
- WordPress 6.6 Release Candidate Phase
- Recap Hallway Hangout: Theme Building with Playground, Create-block-theme plugin, and GitHub
- Data Liberation and WordPress Migrations
- Remove woff npm package and use ttf font downloads to generate previews – Status: Open
Performance
- Improve database query performance – Status: Open
- Optimize image loading – Status: Open
- Reduce CSS file size – Status: Open
- Improve caching strategy – Status: Open
- Minimize JavaScript payload – Status: Open
- Enhance server-side rendering performance – Status: Open
- Optimize HTML structure – Status: Open
- Implement lazy loading for videos – Status: Open
- Improve performance monitoring tools – Status: Open
Core Trac
Block Editor
- Revert using regex in block bindings HTML replacement logic – Status: Closed
- Ability to control editor preview breakpoints – Status: New
- Add block bindings support for a __default attribute for pattern overrides – Status: Closed
- block_editor_rest_api_preload function is restoring $wp_scripts and styles enqueued by wp_enqueue_media are lost – Status: New
- Background colour is not working in Calendar block – Status: Closed
- Blocks: Efficiently find and traverse blocks in a document – Status: New
Themes
- Twenty Seventeen: Comment Block Alignment is not working properly on frontend – Status: Closed
- Twenty Seventeen: Comments Form Block’s Button Border Radius is different in editor and frontend – Status: Closed
- Twenty Fifteen: Verse block font family is different in back-end & Front-end – Status: New
- Twenty Seventeen: add border-style for custom Pullquote block borders – Status: Closed
- Twenty Seventeen: Search Block Clear text button not showing on frontend – Status: Closed
- Twenty Twenty: Login/out block font family is different in the editor when added to a post – Status: New
- Twenty Fourteen: List block font size is smaller in the editor than on the front end – Status: Closed
- Twenty Twenty: The Media & Text block paragraph text not align properly when change media size – Status: New
- Twenty Nineteen: Media & Text Block text color and font size issue on editor side – Status: New
- Twenty Nineteen: Button block Appearance setting (font-weight) is not working – Status: New
- Twenty Twenty-Two: Latest comments block left alignment makes the comment next to it – Status: New
- Twenty Fourteen: post content links are not underlined in the editor – Status: Closed
REST API
- REST API: If Super Admin does not exist in subsite, retrieving users is rejected – Status: New
- Move content processing in get_the_block_template_html() to filters – Status: Assigned
- Immediate post Update revision is not available for restoring – Status: Assigned
General
- React: Upgrade to the new JSX transform – Status: Closed
- Woocommerce order list page showing warning – Status: Closed
- Pin highest supported PHP version in .env for 6.5 branch – Status: Closed
- Plugin Dependencies: Refresh plugin-install.php instead of redirecting on activation – Status: New
- Plugins: Revert 6.5.3 changes for showing an admin notice on successful activation – Status: Closed
- Post via email – Password field default value trips Google Chrome warning – Status: New
- Admin Menu: The admin submenu gets hidden behind the “Theme Details” modal – Status: Closed
- Tests: Cached data in WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver causes cross pollution in unit tests – Status: Closed
- wpdb::prepare function null value convert to empty String – Status: New
- Editor: update packages to latest version – Status: Closed
- Pin macos-13 for the 6.3 branch and earlier – Status: Reopened
- Improve caching in get_calendar function – Status: New
- On mobile devices, the first element of the Navigation block is focused by default – Status: Reopened
- Dashicons are not available in Tablet and Mobile view in the Block editor – Status: Closed
- Swapping templates hangs site – Status: New
- HTML API: Report real and virtual nodes in the HTML Processor – Status: Closed
- Slideshare embeds returning a 404 error – Status: Closed
- Composer slow – add script to skip install – Status: Closed
- Simplify the block bindings HTML replacement logic – Status: Closed
- PHP deprecation warning in /wp-includes/general-template.php – Status: New
- WordPress Playground POST request issue – Status: Closed
- Dodavanje dotataka – Status: Closed
- Help! – Status: Closed
- Add $is_module as an extra strategy argument when enqueueing js script – Status: New
- View Theme Version Details – Status: New
- Add Support to HTTP 2 in WP_Http Class – Status: New
- No Opener – Status: Closed
- Backport: Output post classes in the editor – Status: Closed
- Improve description on image upload error – Status: Assigned
- warnings appearing in log – php 8.3 related deprecations? – Status: New
- wp_enqueue_script() was called incorrectly. “wp-editor” script should not be enqueued together with the new widgets editor (wp-edit-widgets or wp-customize-widgets) – Status: New
- Editor: Introduce XML Tag Processor and XML Processor – Status: New
- A password change should not destroy a user’s session data – Status: New
- Long Site Titles Cause Layout Issues on wp-admin Login Page – Status: New
- Continuous issue to access due to maintenance – Status: New
- Refactor fixture replacements for the “class_list” REST API field – Status: Closed
- Global styles code quality refactoring – Status: Closed
- Improve class WP_Theme_JSON tests – Status: Closed
- Error message: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded – Status: Closed
- HTML Processor: ::create_fragment returns self when subclassed – Status: Closed
- PHP 8.1: Implicit conversion error make it impossible to crop image – Status: Closed
- Improve performance of WP_Theme_JSON_Gutenberg::compute_style_properties – Status: Closed
- Feature Request: Add a filter for the
secure
flag for authentication cookies – Status: Closed - Error message: There has been a critical error on this website – Status: Closed
- White screen when trying to create a new post or edit an existing one – Status: Closed
- Date/Time attribute validation is incorrect for old date format – Status: Closed
- WordPress 6.5 Beta 4 Color Scheme Bug – Status: New
- Allow adding custom css class – Status: Closed
- Remove unnecessary .htaccess files – Status: Closed
- Improper DocBlock defination structure for blocks apply_block_hooks_to_content() function – Status: Closed
- Add Cara and Bluesky Icons – Status: New
- Fix custom CSS output for block style variations – Status: Closed
- Allow to disable plugin dependencies feature – Status: New
- Fix inconsistency of block style variation names causing duplicate UI options – Status: Closed
- Improve performance of block style variation registration and retrieval – Status: Closed
- Bulk actions are not working in the editor – Status: New
Performance
- Disable zstd decompression support in curl for better compatibility – Status: Closed
- Reading Settings Section not load properly – Status: Reopened
- Improve caching in get_calendar function – Status: New
Media
- Error uploading media – Status: Closed
- Image upload failure due to user roles – Status: Closed
- Media items fail to save changes – Status: Closed
- Missing src attribute on tag prevents m4a audio files playing in safari – Status: Accepted
Users
- A password change should not destroy a user’s session data – Status: New
- Add a ‘pre_delete_user’ filter to allows some checks to potentially prevent user deletion – Status: New
Plugin Dependencies
- Plugin Dependencies: Refresh plugin-install.php instead of redirecting on activation – Status: New
- Plugins: Revert 6.5.3 changes for showing an admin notice on successful activation – Status: Closed
- allow to disable plugin dependencies feature – Status: New
- Plugins: Remove unassigned sprintf from wp_get_plugin_action_button() – Status: Closed
Script & Style
- Dashicons are not available in Tablet and Mobile view in the Block editor – Status: Closed
- wp_enqueue_script() was called incorrectly. “wp-editor” script should not be enqueued together with the new widgets editor (wp-edit-widgets or wp-customize-widgets) – Status: New
- Add $is_module as an extra strategy argument when enqueueing js script – Status: New
Site Health
- PHP 8.1: Implicit conversion error make it impossible to crop image – Status: Closed
- Add Support to HTTP 2 in WP_Http Class – Status: New
- Warnings appearing in log – php 8.3 related deprecations? – Status: New
- Reading Settings Section not load properly – Status: Reopened
- error in select all box for updates – Status: Closed
- UI Glitch on Themes install page – Status: Closed
- PHP 8: Too few arguments to function WP_Widget::__construct() – Status: Closed
- WordPress 6.6 Beta 2 Font Library Issue – Status: Closed
- Fix inconsistency of block style variation names causing duplicate UI options – Status: Closed
Security
CLI
- wp-cli scaffold tests does not add .distignore – Status: Closed
Interactivity
- registerBlockVariation not holding the blockName param – Status: New
- Upload Fonts: Invalid parameter(s): font_family_settings – Status: New
- Inconsistent image scaling error – Status: Accepted
Gutenberg Discussions
- Responsive Spacer Block with the Interactivity API template Newton-Adams started 2 days ago in Interactivity API Β· Closed 2
- Missing Gutenberg Ad block in blocks inserter list and search realthemes asked last week in Q&A Β· Unanswered 0
- Differentiating between suffixes and unique-ids in the directive names luisherranz started last week in Interactivity API 9
- Conflict of two Query Loop Variation blocks on the same page. realthemes asked last week in Q&A Β· Closed Β· Answered 4
- Incorporating CSS Encapsulation in create-block Plugin Setup ZoomREI asked 2 weeks ago in Q&A Β· Unanswered 0
- Optimistic updates for region based navigation fabiankaegy started 2 weeks ago in Interactivity API
Gutenberg Issues
[Type] Code Quality
react
import should not be restricted – Status: Open- Types: Add missing type information for @types/react – Status: Open
- Add missing annotations for
@types/react-dom
– Status: Open
[Type] Bug
- Responsive Grid: Some blocks ignore min-height values in responsive contexts – Status: Open
- Cover block: Text within the cover block does not always scale correctly – Status: Open
- Cover block: Video within the cover block does not always play correctly – Status: Open
- @wordpress/scripts error “Cannot find module ‘ajv/dist/compile/codegen'” – Status: Open
- Sticky blocks are overlapped by blocks with left/right alignment – Status: Open
[Feature] UX
- Navigation: Implement better handling for focus management – Status: Open
- Navigation: Improve the accessibility of the navigation block – Status: Open
[Type] Feature Request
- Grid: Add more control over responsive behavior – Status: Open
- Grid: Allow custom breakpoints – Status: Open
[Feature] Grid
- Grid: Aspect ratio controls are disabled on Image blocks in Grids – Status: Open
- Grid: Drag handles can become quite unintuitive and lead to unexpected results – Status: Open
[Feature] Synced Pattern Overrides
- Synced Pattern Overrides: Image metadata like data-permalink, data-image-title, keeps original image data – Status: Open
[Type] UI
- Navigational dead end on smaller viewports – Status: Open
- Make usage of the
settings
icon more consistent and meaningful – Status: Open
[Type] RC
- WP 6.6 RC 1: Image cropping fails in the block editor – Status: Open
[Type] Bug Report
- Version 6.6 (nightly) Front-page.html template causes unexpected error on Editor main view. – Status: Open
[Type] Enhancement
- Improve Lock modal description and options naming – Status: Open
[Type] Design
- Improve the readability of the external icon – Status: Open
- Latest Post Block having padding/space issue when we changed its background color. – Status: Open
[Type] Error
[Type] Accessibility
- Allow width settings inside full-width blocks – Status: Open
[Type] Schema
[Feature] Grid
- Design tools exploration: Contextual color controls and new panels for Background, and Elements – Status: Open
[Feature] Data Views
- Site view: Resize handle should resize both frame and data view – Status: Open
- Site view: Resize handle does not allow scaling up to snap to fullscreen editor – Status: Open
[Block] Search
[Type] Build Tooling
[Feature] Zoom Out
[Feature] Extensibility
Needs Dev
[Feature] Typography
[Block] Navigation
- Navigation Block: block wrapper class name applied to both outer element and its child element – Status: Open
[Block] Page List
- In the many different theme the “Page List” block not displaying text underline on editor, front-end, or both sides. – Status: Open
[Type] Iteration
- Feedback on building a block theme – Status: Open
Core Meetings
- Summary, Dev Chat, June 26, 2024
- Performance Chat Summary: 25 June 2024
- Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday June 26, 2024
- Performance Chat Agenda: 25 June 2024
- Summary, Dev Chat, June 19, 2024
Developer Blog:
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Design
do_action
Documentation
Five for the Future
- Visual inconsistency for one of the link present on 5FTF handbook page
- accessible issue on https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/manage-pledge/ page
- Tweak Sustainability badge
Hosting
- Hosting Team meeting agenda 2024-06-26
- The Image Revolution: AVIF and WebP
- Hosting Directory: Next Steps
Marketing
Media Corp
- First Media Corps Briefing: WordPress 6.6 with Anne McCarthy
- Update on the Media Corps Process and Open Call for Participation
Meta
- Meeting Agenda for June 26, 2024
- The Theme Directory gets a refresh and is now powered by blocks
- Unify the favorite button across sites
Meta Trac
API
- Update Credits for WordPress 6.5.4 – Status: Closed
Handbooks
- Broken link to VVV howto – Status: New
International Forums
- Switch international support sites to new theme – Status: New
Make (Get Involved) / P2
- underline the link for “contributor wizard” message – Status: Closed
- Allow assigning badges manually to sustainability team members and contributors – Status: Closed
Photo Directory
- Photos: Add the ability for folks to share how they used a photo and to have that sent to the photo contributor – Status: New
Profiles
- Request for a badge for the sustainability team – Status: Closed
Support Forums
- Alter sensitive data replacement mechanism – Status: New
- Change help link in editor – Status: Closed
Trac
- New Trac text line-height hinders readability – Status: Closed
Version Control
- core release process: Verify ZIP recreation is intended – Status: New
WordPress.org Site
- Permanently deleted media files are still on the server – Status: Closed
- Lang guess: Support learn.wordpress.org – Status: Closed
- Bump recommended MariaDB version to 10.5 – Status: Closed
WordPress.tv
- WordPress.tv comments – list not formatted properly – Status: Closed
Theme Directory
- Theme star rating different between theme view and review forum view – Status: Open
- Update theme preview images – Status: Open
WP Org Main (Theme)
Showcase
Openverse
Openverse GitHub
Type: Bug
- Fix music browse test overflow in search bar – Status: Open
- Audio endpoint should fetch filtered tracks from catalog – Status: Open
- Remove elasticsearch duplicate entry query hack – Status: Open
- Consider removing the renovate validator from local pre-commit linting – Status: Open
- Add parent comments to json entries when generating pot files – Status: Open
priority: low
aspect: dx
- Consider removing the renovate validator from local pre-commit linting – Status: Open
- Add parent comments to json entries when generating pot files – Status: Open
goal: improvement
- Consider removing the renovate validator from local pre-commit linting – Status: Open
- Add parent comments to json entries when generating pot files – Status: Open
stack: mgmt
Playground
- An old blueprint.json fails to load, no error
- (Meetup use case) Add interface-based solution for saving / re-using the result of the session
- (Meetup use case) Create a ‘filtered’ version for use in Meetups
- Playground window size lags relative to page resize
- WP.org site feedback: Why aren’t Playground docs hosted on WP.org?
- WP.org site feedback: SEO improvement suggestions
- WP.org site feedback: WP-for-native-iOS-apps page looks outdated
- Improve and explain migration of media from standard WP install to playground
- Provide unit and e2e test instructions in the top-level README
- Improving the learning journey of WordPress Playground in the Docs
Plugins
- Keeping Your Plugin Committer Accounts Secure
- How should we shape the future of the Plugin Review team?
- Plugin Review Team: 24 June 2024
Plugin Check
- Allow static checks to be run against an arbitrary path – Status: Open
- Add support for external dependencies – Status: Open
- Fix typo in documentation – Status: Open
Polyglots
- Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat β June 26, 2024 (7:00 UTC)
- Internationalization improvements in 6.6
- WordPress 6.5.5 has been releasedβ¦.
- Transitioning All Rosetta Sites to the New WP.org Theme
Project
Security
Support
Sustainability
Test
Themes
Training
- Training team testing GatherPress
- Training Team Meeting Recap β 20th June 2024
- WordCamp Europe 2024 presentation recap
Learn Issues
- Add new courses on WordPress security – Status: Open
- Create tutorial for using the block editor – Status: Open
- Update existing lessons with new screenshots – Status: Open
- Translate lessons into Spanish – Status: Open
- Fix broken links in lessons – Status: Open
- Add quizzes to the end of each lesson – Status: Open
- Improve lesson accessibility – Status: Open
- Create video tutorials for lessons – Status: Open
- Update lesson plans for WordPress 6.0 – Status: Open
- Add lessons on theme development – Status: Open
- Create interactive exercises for lessons – Status: Open
- Translate quizzes into multiple languages – Status: Open
- Fix typos in lesson content – Status: Open
- Update lesson images for retina displays – Status: Open
- Add new lesson on plugin development – Status: Open
Courses
Online Workshops
- Developer Hours: Do you really need a custom block? Letβs explore alternatives
- Exploring WordPress 6.6
- Developer Hours: Editor unification and extensibility in WordPress 6.6
- Shape the Future: Your Role in WordPress Open Source Contribution
- Letβs build LIVE series: A beginnerβs guide to block themes & the Site Editor-3
- Letβs build LIVE series: A beginnerβs guide to block themes & the Site Editor-2
- Letβs build LIVE series: A beginnerβs guide to block themes & the Site Editor-1
- Thumbnail-a-thon: Letβs make graphics together for the new Learn.WordPress.org!
WPTV
- Upgrading jQuery: Working Towards a Healthy Web – jQuery 4.0.0 BETA
- Curl 8.8.0
- Node 22.3.0
- React 18.3.1 / React 19 Upgrade Guide
- PHP 8.3.8 Released!
- PHP 8.2.20 Released!
- PHP 8.1.29 Released!
- PHPCS 3.10.1
- WPCS 3.1.0
- Requests 2.0.11
- PHPMailer 6.9.1
- LibZip 1.10.1
- Changes in MySQL 8.4.1 (Not yet released, LTS Release) –
- Composer 2.7.7 – NEW
- Homebrew 4.3.7 – NEW
- TC39
- Chromium Roadmap
- Firefox Release Calendar
- Safari Release Notes
- Safari 17.5 Release Notes
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