Dev Chat Agenda, April 27, 2022

This has been published later than normal due to the availability of contributors. Thank you for understanding.

This weekly meeting takes place in the #Core channel of the Make WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. on Wednesday April 27, 2022 at 20:00 UTC. All welcome.

1. Welcome

Dev Chat summary from April 20, 2022 meeting

2. Announcements

WordPress 6.0 Beta 3 released on April 26, 2022. This represented the soft string freeze for this release.

Status of Webfonts API for inclusion in WordPress 6.0 (April 22, 2022)

3. Blogblog (versus network, site) posts of note

A Week in Core – April 25, 2022 – thanks to @audrasjb

An update on Preferred Languages Project – thanks to @swissspidy for the post (April 27, 2022) on the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party plans for users to be able to select multiple preferred languages in settings. The post includes a call for contributions to development and testing. For background, more than half of all WordPress sites in the world use a language other than US English.

4. Upcoming releases

Next major: WordPress 6.0

Updates from Release Co-coordinators and members of the squad.

Useful resources/ calls for testing

5. Open floor

If you have any items for Open Floor, please add them in the comments below.

If you are a component maintainer and wish to raise a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. in dev chat or give an update, you can also add information in the comments section.

Could you help with the summary from this week’s meeting? Comment below or message @marybaum and @audrasjb in the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Slack channel.

Props to: @webcommsat and @marybaum for working on the agenda and @desrosj for review.

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