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• Meetup Durango – Status: Open
• Meetup Guwahati, Assam, India – Status: Open
• Meetup Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) – Status: Open
• WordCamp Osogbo, Nigeria – Status: Open
• WordCamp Bhopal, India – Status: Open
• Team Meeting Recap – December – Status: Open
• Team Meeting Recap – November – Status: Open
• Team Meeting Recap – October – Status: Open
• Team Meeting Recap – September – Status: Open
• Team Meeting Recap – August – Status: Open
• Team Meeting Host – December session #2 – Status: Open
• Team Meeting Host – November session #2 – Status: Open
• Team Meeting Host – October session #2 – Status: Open
• Team Meeting Host – September session #2 – Status: Open
• Team Meeting Host – August session #2 – Status: Open

• Ability to reset all settings in one click – Status: Open
• Add support for Section Styles – Status: Open
• HTML inside text blocks renders as text – Status: Open

• Weekly Round-Up
• ✨ Enhancement
• Prime notoptions within delete_option(), delete_network_option(). – Status: Assigned, Owner: pbearne, Milestone: 6.7, Component: Options, Meta APIs
• Refactor Etag-based cache busting for styles and scripts solution and add tests – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Script Loader
• Script Modules: Allow scripts to depend on modules – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Script Loader
• KSES Allow more custom data attributes to align with browsers – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: General
• Improve wp_count_posts() query performance for users without read_private_posts capabilities – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Posts, Post Types
• Add support for positioning child blocks inside a Grid block – Status: New, Milestone: 6.7, Component: Editor
• Use empty_trash_days to show how many days deleted posts will be kept for in the trash – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Administration
• Interactivity API: Use Script Module filter to pass data to the client – Status: Assigned, Owner: jonsurrell, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Interactivity API
• Switch locale to admin locale when sending admin notifications – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: I18N
• HTML API: Audit class name methods for consistency and correctness – Status: Assigned, Milestone: Future Release, Component: HTML API
• HTML API: Performance Improvements for 6.7 – Status: New, Milestone: 6.7, Component: HTML API
• Modify Events and News Widget to Show Global Events Separate from Local Events + Improve Accessibility of the Widget – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Administration
• Theme.json: enable block-level background image styles – Status: New, Milestone: 6.7, Component: Themes
• Make wp_delete_file return to be compliant both with PHP and WPCS – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Filesystem API
• 🐛 Defect (bug)
• 6.5.5 Makes Theme Files Inaccessible – Status: Reopened, Owner: jorbin, Milestone: 6.5.6, Component: Filesystem API
• Hook parent_file – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Administration
• Attention points in Pentest – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: General
• wp_audio_shortcode() outputs invalid HTML – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Media
• New swap template feature make website not repond – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Editor
• Plugins page keeps making HTTP requests for plugin dependencies which are not in the WordPress Plugin Directory – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Plugins
• Test tool and unit test improvements for 6.7 – Status: New, Milestone: 6.7, Component: Build/Test Tools
• HTML API: Fragment parser should not add context node to stack of open elements – Status: New, Milestone: 6.7, Component: HTML API
• autofocus query string parameter in customizer url is broken in WP6.6-RC2 – Status: New, Milestone: 6.6.1, Component: Customize
• Twenty Twenty-One Theme: Latest post block does not appear selected text color on editor & front end sides – Status: New, Milestone: Future Release, Component: Bundled Theme
• HTML API: Improved spec support in 6.7 – Status: New, Milestone: 6.7, Component: HTML API
• health check count display bug – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: General
• Issue with search functionality in installed themes section – Status: Accepted, Owner: joedolson, Milestone: 6.6.1, Component: Themes
• WordPress 6.6 RC2 Issues report – with Customizer Redirect Sections in WordPress RC2 – Status: New, Milestone: 6.6.1, Component: Customize
• WP_REST_Templates_Controller::get_wp_templates_author_text_field() doesn’t always return value – Status: New, Milestone: 6.7, Component: REST API
• Cannot Insert Images in WordPress 6.5.5 – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: General
• Multiple bundled themes: block editor style is added incorrectly – Status: New, Milestone: Future Release, Component: Bundled Theme
• 6.6-RC2 Editing/Inserting Synced pattern (reusable block) with server side rendering broken – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Editor
• Unused variables in wp-includes/rest-api/*.php files – Status: Reviewing, Owner: SergeyBiryukov, Milestone: 6.7, Component: REST API
• Twenty Thirteen: Search block button background does not reflect block setting of solid color – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Bundled Theme
• Hyphenation problem in Dutch language – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Formatting
• Resized images larger in filesize than original, when setting jpeg_quality to 100 – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Media
• 🛠️ Task (blessed)
• Test tool and unit test improvements for 6.7 – Status: New, Milestone: 6.7, Component: Build/Test Tools
• GitHub Actions updates and improvements for 6.7 – Status: New, Milestone: 6.7, Component: Build/Test Tools
• Tests: Reduce usage of assertEquals for 6.7 – Status: New, Milestone: 6.7, Component: Build/Test Tools
• 📈 Feature Request
• Conditional that checks whether WordPress is currently performing updates – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: General
• 🌟 Feature Request
• Easily upload mu-plugins – Status: New, Milestone: Awaiting Review, Component: Plugins

• Responsive Spacer Block with the Interactivity API template Newton-Adams started 2 days ago in Interactivity API · Closed 2
• Missing Gutenberg Ad block in blocks inserter list and search realthemes asked last week in Q&A · 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 · Closed · Answered 4
• Incorporating CSS Encapsulation in create-block Plugin Setup ZoomREI asked 2 weeks ago in Q&A · Unanswered 0
• Optimistic updates for region based navigation fabiankaegy started 2 weeks ago in Interactivity API

Weekly Round-Up

📦 [Package] Components

• Tabs: “With Tab Icons” story has duplicated focus styles – Status: Closed

🛠️ [Package] Editor

• Popovers with form controls for settings should use Cancel and Save buttons – Status: Open

📦 [Package] Edit Site

• Add heading title and optional sub-header to all panels – Status: Open

📦 [Package] Edit Widgets

• Add heading title and optional sub-header to all panels – Status: Open

📦 [Package] Interactivity Router

• iAPI Router: don’t remove region when it’s not present in the new page – Status: Open

📦 [Package] Block editor

• URLPopover: improve vertical alignment of the Apply and Link settings buttons – Status: In Progress

🐛 [Type] Bug

• Image block can be resized beyond the bounds of the column that it’s in – Status: Open
• No ability to edit Inline Image alternative text in context – Status: Open
• Inspector: Template descriptions should not be elided – Status: Closed
• Grid Block layout issues with Twenty Twenty-One – Status: Open
• theme.json schema only allows version 3 – Status: Closed
• Grid resizers not working well when resizing an embed block down – Status: Open
• Post Editor: 40vh padding applied to the bottom is overwritten with zero – Status: Closed
• URLPopover: improve vertical alignment of the Apply and Link settings buttons – Status: Open
• Converting an overridable block inside a pattern causes the block to break – Status: Open

✨ [Type] Enhancement

• Post Date Block: Offer relative date option – Status: Open
• Shape Divider Block – Status: Open
• Section Styles: Enable default block styles to be defined using styles/*.json files – Status: Open
• Drag and Drop: allow dragging image/full text/multi selection directly – Status: Open

🛠️ [Type] Project Management

• Gutenberg plugin v18.8, stable release July 17, 2024 – Status: Open

📝 [Type] Developer Documentation

• Tabs: “With Tab Icons” story has duplicated focus styles – Status: Closed

🖌️ [Type] Tracking Issue

• Tracking: Writing and Editing Flow / Block Editor Core Polish – Status: Open

🌐 [Feature] Data Views

• Data Views: better distinguish templates provided by theme, plugin, or user rather than grouping all under “author” – Status: Open
• Data Views: Enable List View for Patterns – Status: Open
• Data Views: Items per page, sort by filters, and fields preferences should be persistent – Status: Closed
• De-emphasise bulk actions on Grid layout – Status: Open

🧩 [Feature] Layout

• Grid resizers not working well when resizing an embed block down – Status: Open
• Grid: resizer/visualizer popover appears over the list view/block tools sidebars in mobile mode – Status: Open

💾 [Feature] Site Editor

• Page editor: Double-click to edit template part – Status: Open

🖋️ [Feature] Writing Flow

• Cmd+A (select all) does not work when all text is formatted – Status: Open

🏗️ [Feature] Block Multi Selection

• Multi selection: Shift+Arrow stops working after selection becomes full – Status: Open

🔄 [Feature] Inserter

• In-between Inserter: can’t scroll over it – Status: Open

🖼️ [Block] Image

• Image block can be resized beyond the bounds of the column that it’s in – Status: Open
• Site Logo: editing aspect ratio isn’t respected when selecting square option – Status: Closed

🏷️ [Block] Site Logo

• Site Logo: editing aspect ratio isn’t respected when selecting square option – Status: Closed

🗄️ [Block] Pattern

• Converting an overridable block inside a pattern causes the block to break – Status: Open

🖼️ [Block] Group

• Grid Block layout issues with Twenty Twenty-One – Status: Open

🖌️ [Block] Pattern

• Converting an overridable block inside a pattern causes the block to break – Status: Open

📦 [Block] Block Style Variations

• Bring “section style” JSON partials to feature parity with WP_Block_Styles_Registry::register – Status: Open

✨ [Feature] Themes

• Post Editor: 40vh padding applied to the bottom is overwritten with zero – Status: Closed

📊 [Feature] Data Views

• Data Views: better distinguish templates provided by theme, plugin, or user rather than grouping all under “author” – Status: Open
• Data Views: Enable List View for Patterns – Status: Open
• Data Views: Items per page, sort by filters, and fields preferences should be persistent – Status: Closed
• De-emphasise bulk actions on Grid layout – Status: Open

🛠️ [Package] Block editor

• URLPopover: improve vertical alignment of the Apply and Link settings buttons – Status: Open

📦 [Package] Components

• Tabs: “With Tab Icons” story has duplicated focus styles – Status: Closed

✨ [Feature] Site Editor

• Page editor: Double-click to edit template part – Status: Open

• Tutorial on aspect ratios in WordPress 6.6 – Status: Open
• Do you really need a custom block? Exploring alternatives to block development in WordPress – Status: Open
• Color and typography variations/options in WP 6.6 – Status: Open

• Theme handbook: Explain that the attachment pages are disabled on new installations – Status: Open
• Monthly Planning (Triage) – July 9, 2024 – Status: Open

• Where should we make public the Media Corps partners or their form responses? – Status: Open
• Gather feedback from media partners for upcoming briefings – Status: Open
• Review second batch of WordPress Media Corps self-assessment form responses – Status: Open
• Establish baseline for metrics to track media coverage and measure success – Status: Open