Developer Blog – Editorial meeting: January 5, 2023

January 5, 2023 meeting

Start of the meeting in the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-Developer-Blogblog (versus network, site) 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/..

Attending live during the meeting: @bph, @webcommsat, @milana_cap, @greenshady, @bcworkz, @ndiego, @psykro, @mburridge. Async updates: @marybaum

 1. Project status

Project Board on the Developer Blog repo on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/.

Notes from the November 2022 and December 2022 Editorial meetings.

@bph update: Since the last meeting four posts have been published: Huge thank you to the contributors and their reviewers.

• 2022: the block developer’s year in review
• Building a book review grid with a Query Loop block variation
• Application state managed withDispatch, withSelect and compose 101
• Leveraging theme.json and per-block styles for more performant themes

Authors @mburridge, @greenshady, @dsas – reviewed / edited by @milana_cap, @bph, @webcommsat, and others.

Posts in the works

Assigned, discussions in progress:

• Intrinsic design vs. device view points Please chime in on the discussion: writer @colorful-tone

Posts in progress:

• Convert Shortcodes to blocks – @psykro
• Adding a block on enter – @dsas

2. Approval of topics

Discussion on Topic Ideas from the discussion board.
A few of the topics in the pipeline were discussed. They are not all ready to proceed, but some have writers who are considering the topics.

The topics in the list below were agreed and ready proceed.

• Tutorial on custom block that stores post meta – Ryan Welcher
• Tutorial on using the box-shadow support for themes – Justin Tadlock
• Block Theme Resource Round-Up 2022 – Daisy Olsen, similar to the 2022 Roundup for BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Developers
• Tutorial: Deep dive into block styles – Justin Tadlock
• Repurpose a tutorial on A Walk-Through of Layout Classes in WordPress 6.1 and published it on the Gutenberg Times. This was published on the GutenbergGutenberg 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/ Times before the core dev blog was available to utilize.

Topic ideas that are still looking for input and writers:

• How to use nonces the right way
• Best Practices: How to enable internationalization for your WordPress Code
• What is wp-env?
• Optimising your WP_Query queries for better performance
• How tests work in Gutenberg components
• Introduction to the Storybook tool
• Static blocks vs Dynamic blocks – what’s the difference
• How Webpack and WordPress packages interact

Some writers volunteered during the meeting. It was agreed to promote a call for input and writers wider and various options were discussed to encourage awareness, mentor and share learning, and increase the number of voices. Options included: Month in WordPress newsletter, a P2P2 A free theme for WordPress, known for front-end posting, used by WordPress for development updates and project management. See our main development blog and other workgroup blogs. blog post and cross-posting to other teams and in specific meetings, individual networks on social.

The core dev blog is still in betaBeta 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., so a larger promotion /marketing campaign will be at the end of the current cycle. Post-beta stage, there could be more analysis on referrers to the core dev blog and identifying developer advocates who may be able to help promote awareness.

Work on the beta version continues, with identified issues to address with design and metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.. No date as yet for the marketing launch. GitHub repo for more information on design areas.

3. Open Floor

Discussion on the approval process for topics as it develops.

The next meeting will be on February 2, 2023, 13:00 UTC

Reviewed by @bph

#core-dev-blog, #summary