This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda for 5th of October meeting) held on Wednesday, October 5 2022, 04:00 PM GMT+1 in Slack. Moderated by @paaljoachim.
Gutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ plugin 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 releases
Gutenberg 14.2 What’s new release post.
Thank you @czapla for handling the release.
Gutenberg 14.3 RC1 was released 5th of October.
Thank you @aaronrobertshaw for handling this release.
WordPress 6.1 Beta 3 was released 5th of October.
Key project updates
Key project updates:
Task Coordination
@annezazu
Continued work on the current #fse-outreach-experiment call for testing, a11y Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) roundup post, testing 6.1 as much as possible, reviewing 6.1 items (about page, beta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. posts, video, etc) and working on some updates to the feature projects page.
Open Floor
Announcements, questions and discussions.
@bph
DevNotes Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. for WordPress 6.1.
A huge thank you to all contributors who already finished their DevNotes! They are now being reviewed. You might get contacted to clarify things.
If you haven’t started working on your DevNotes, it’s time. Your deadline for the Dev Note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. is latest Sunday Oct 10. I also contacted a few contributors to see if I can be of assistance to further progress. Let me know how I can assist you. Just ping The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me in a DM and we can chat. As we have a lot of PRs labeled Dev Notes Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase., I am still in the pruning process. So if you haven’t been pinged for a DevNote Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. or I overlooked things, please let me know.
@KubiQ
There is again missing inner container in Group blocks.
@poena
This has been solved in Gutenberg this morning, but not backported to WordPress core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. yet as far as I can tell. Legacy Group inner block wrapper should work with constrained layout.
@annezazu
Additional comment from Anne. Regarding Feature projects page.
In order to add a bit more nuance and to make the various efforts easier to track, I’m working on adding in more feature projects with more information so folks can have an easier way to follow along.
@paaljoachim
The submenu in Twenty Twenty Two feels crammed. I made an issue for it here:
Navigation block: default spacing issue with sub menus.
To get more details go directly to the Open Floor discussions in the Core Editor Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel.
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