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The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

Found a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.? Create a ticket in the bug tracker.
Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.
Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

Helen Hou-Sandi 8:18 pm on November 5, 2013

#22862: Consider a CSS preprocessor

In #22862, it was proposed that coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. move to using a CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. preprocessor. Given that we now have the appropriate tooling in place and MP6 has been greenlighted for preparation to merge into core, it is […]

Vicente Canales 11:36 pm on December 6, 2023
Tags: block-editor ( 99 ), core-editor ( 705 ), gutenberg ( 476 ), gutenberg-new ( 164 )

What’s new in Gutenberg 17.2? (6 December)

“What’s new in 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/…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg […]

Mario Santos 6:49 pm on March 30, 2023
Tags: block-api ( 4 ), block-developer-experience ( 5 ), gutenberg ( 476 ), interactivity API ( 6 )

Proposal: The Interactivity API – A better developer experience in building interactive blocks

What if effortlessly creating performant, fluid, and idiomatic frontend interactivity on 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 […]

Marcus Kazmierczak 12:21 am on January 4, 2022
Tags: 5.9 ( 104 ), core-editor ( 705 ), dev-notes ( 520 )

Miscellaneous block editor changes in WordPress 5.9

This dev notedev 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 […]

Daniel Richards 6:07 am on August 5, 2021
Tags: block-editor ( 99 ), core-editor ( 705 ), gutenberg ( 476 ), gutenberg-new ( 164 )

What’s new in Gutenberg 11.2.0? (4 August)

Two weeks have already passed since 11.1, so this week 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/ 11.2 was released. This […]

Dan Farrow 7:15 pm on July 15, 2021
Tags: core-css ( 191 ), summary ( 821 )

CSS Chat Summary: 08 July 2021

The meeting took place here on Slack. @ryelle facilitated and @danfarrow wrote up these notes. Housekeeping @ryelle shared the news that the 5.8 release candidate is now available – check it out! Discussion: Custom Properties (#49930) @ryelle has updated her PR with some custom-property additions to common.css @ryelle observed that a small subset of custom-properties […]

Dan Farrow 9:05 am on June 4, 2021
Tags: core-css ( 191 ), summary ( 821 )

CSS Chat Summary: 03 June 2021

The meeting took place here on Slack. @notlaura facilitated and @danfarrow wrote up these notes. Housekeeping @danfarrow offered to run the next bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the […]

Jonathan Desrosiers 11:06 pm on April 8, 2021
Tags: build-test-tools ( 3 ), github-actions ( 2 )

Recent Build/Test Tool changes and GitHub Actions update

It’s been a busy year so far for the Build/Test Tool component! Here are some notable changes to be aware of, and an update on the transition to using GitHub Actions for all automated testing. NodeJS 14.x LTS support NodeJS 14.x has been the active LTS version since April of 2020. While dependencies were updated […]

Dan Farrow 9:31 am on March 9, 2021
Tags: core-css ( 191 ), summary ( 821 )

CSS Chat Summary: 04 March 2021

The meeting took place here on Slack. @notlaura facilitated and @danfarrow wrote up these notes. Housekeeping A leader is needed for next week’s (Thursday 11 March @ 21:00 UTC) coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, […]

Dan Farrow 10:03 am on February 11, 2021
Tags: core-css ( 191 ), summary ( 821 )

CSS Chat Summary: 04 February 2021

The meeting took place here on Slack – @notlaura facilitated and @danfarrow wrote up these notes Housekeeping The next bugscrub (Thursday February 11, 9pm UTC) will be for 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 […]