This Week at WordPress.org (September 12, 2022)
WordPress 6.1 walkthrough replay • Matt: WebP no go • Matt: Core needs to be more editorial • Survey: How do you learn WordPress?
WP 6.1 Feature Freeze 1 Week to Go
WordPress Beta 1 & Feature Freeze is coming on September 20. Here’s what we know so far:
🚶🏻♂️ WordPress 6.1: Product Walk-Through Recap
🔌 Core needs to be more editorial
📸 Matt: WebP no go for Core for 6.1
📚 Survey: How did you learn WordPress?
News
Accessibility
Community
Core
- 6.1 Product Walk-Through Recap
- Let’s make WordPress officially support SQLite
- New is_login_screen() function for determining if a page is the login screen
- Canonical Plugins Revisited
- WebP in Core for 6.1
Meetings
- Dev Chat summary, September 14, 2022
- Editor Chat Agenda: 14th September 2022
- Devchat summary, September 11, 2022
Design
Docs
- Agenda for Docs Team Bi-Weekly Meeting 27 September 2022
- Summary of Docs Team Meeting September 13, 2022
- WordPress Advanced Administration Handbook
Developer Articles (DevHub)
Five for the Future
- Deactivate inactive pledges
- Remove contributor hours when account banned
- Use last 5ftF contribution as inactivity criteria
- Hyperlink not readable on Program Expectations page
Hosting
Marketing
- Agenda, WordPress global Marketing Team meeting, September 14, 2022
- Notes, WordPress global Marketing Team meeting, September 7, 2022
Meta
Mobile
- Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 20.7
- Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 20.7
- Mobile Team Update – September 6th
Openverse
Performance
Plugins
- Heroku Free Tier Being Retired
- Top reasons not to use setlocale() for character encoding conversion
- Plugin Review Team: 12 Sept 2022
Polyglots
Test
- Testing and Feedback for using block based template parts in classic themes
- Test Team Update: 12 September 2022
Themes
- Testing and Feedback for using block based template parts in classic themes
- Themes team update September 14, 2022
Training
- How did you learn WordPress?
- Training Team Meeting Recap for September 13, 2022
- [Discussion] Reimagining the Training Team contributor roles
- August Sprint Retrospective
- Meeting Agenda for September 14, 2022
- WordCamp US 2022
Video Tutorials
- Customizing a footer with patterns
- Styling your WordPress Blocks
- Customizing a header with patterns
- Converting a Shortcode into a Block
Online Workshops:
- Let’s code! What Happens When You Make Theme Changes in the Editor?
- Security
- Uncovering the Cover Block
- Let’s Build a Custom Block in One Hour
- Block Theme Builders: Choosing & Using Fonts
- Block & Theme Global Styles Customization
- All About Reusable Blocks
- Let’s code! A Beginners Guide to Block Locking in Block Themes
WPTV
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