With WordPress 5.9 slated to ship on January 25th, 2022, this post seeks to consolidate ways for folks to help test specific features that will be included in this release. This is meant to bolster… | Continue reading
We believe that WordPress needs an official Performance team responsible for coordinating efforts to increase the performance (speed) of WordPress. This proposal outlines why we believe that this i… | Continue reading
Google is rolling out Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) for the Chrome browser. TL;DR: FLoC places people in groups based on their browsing habits to target advertising. Why is this bad? As the … | Continue reading
WordPress 5.7 brings you the best features and enhancements to help start 2021 on a positive note! A small and experienced release squad lead the development of new features and resolved defects th… | Continue reading
Well friends, it’s time for what I’m sure you’ve all been waiting for: an announcement about the next WordPress default theme! The rumors are true; WordPress 5.6 will launch with a brand new defaul… | Continue reading
As most people that follow core development already know, a new feature in WordPress 5.5 is editing of images right in the block editor. The new image editor looks a lot better and is much easier t… | Continue reading
Until May last year, contributions to WordPress Core were bound to PHP 5.2 syntax and most plugins and themes stuck to the PHP 5.2 minimum requirement as well. However, with the change to PHP 5.6 a… | Continue reading
Foreword: To help anchor some of the main concerns from the comments, I’d like to highlight a few important points in this post. – Josepha This post contains a careful roll out plan. Th… | Continue reading
To better understand how we can integrate Gutenberg into WordPress, it’s crucial to know how the Gutenberg plugin is organized. JavaScript Packages The Gutenberg plugin is mostly a JavaScript… | Continue reading
Wanted to give a general update on where we are standing with Gutenberg development. Version 4.0-rc should be coming out in the next few days, marking the 40th release since we began distributing t… | Continue reading
Goals (To be posted) | Dev Chat Agendas | Dev Chat Summaries | Dev Notes | Field Guide (To be posted) | All Posts Tagged 5.0 WordPress 5.0 will be the first “major” release of 2018, inc… | Continue reading