Developer Blog editorial meeting summary 1 August 2024

Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the  #core-dev-blog channel on 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/.. Start of the meeting in Slack.

Attendees: @milana_cap, @oglekler, @ironnysh (async), @bcworkz (async) and @bph (facilitator).

Last meeting notes: Developer Blog editorial meeting summary 4 July 2024

Newly published post since the last meeting: 

Since the last meeting, we published the following articles

• JSON Schema in WordPress by Alex Lende, reviewed by Justin Tadlock and Birgit Pauli-Haack, Nick Diego, Milarna Cap
• What’s new for developers? (July 2024) by Justin Tadlock, reviewed by Nick Diego and Birgit Pauli-Haack
• Mixing and matching styles, colors, and typography in WordPress 6.6 by Justin Tadlock, reviewed by Ronny Shani and Birgit Pauli-Haack
• 15 ways to curate the WordPress editing experience by Nick Diego, reviewed by Justin Tadlock and Birgit Pauli-Haack
• Building a card layout with a “hover reveal” effect by Damon Cook, reviewed by Ronny Shani, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Justin Tadlock

Huge Thank You to the writer and reviewers! 

Project Status

The project board for Developer Blog content is 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/.

In review

• Optimizing your WP_Query queries for better performance
• WP-CLI for site owners and admins
• Create Figma designs for WordPress Block Theme

In Progress:

• What’s new for developers? (August 2024)
• Case Study: How Pew Research Center is using the interactivity api to use blocks as interactive components
• Why you might not need a child theme
• Customizing and extending the Formatting Toolbar
• How to build a theme demo with WP Playground blueprints
• Do you really need a custom block? Exploring alternatives to block development in WordPress

Post on the To-do-list, assigned to writers.

• Overview of the coding standards tooling available to WordPress developers
• Tour Guide for First-time writers on the Developer Blog
• Adding a “screen reader text” block option via themes
• What you can and cannot do with PHP in patterns
• Migrate classic sidebars and widgets to block for themers
• Overview of “block theme” stuff you can do with classic/hybrid themes
• Tutorial on how to create custom components /
• Performance best practices
• How to add a template via a plugin (podcast, woo, LMS)
• Classic themes: tutorial on moving away from widgets to template parts

Topics, approved, in need of a writer

• React best practices and pitfalls

If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to write about them, comment on the Issue or pingPing 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.” @bph in Slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.

New Topics approved

• Building a multi-block plugin #289 
• An overview of available directives for the Interactivity API

The latter is part of the roll-out of video content type for the Developer Blog, proposed and approved during a meeting on July 4th, 2024: “The next step is that Ryan will submit an overview of all directives of the Interactivity APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. and provide an example of the first video. It will also be the test drive of the suggested process from which we can iterate afterward.“

Next meeting: September 5, 2024, at 13:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel

Props to @oglekler for the review of the post.

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