X-post: Proposal for Establishing a Make Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (“DEIB”) Team within the WordPress Community

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Proposal: Criteria for Removing “Beta Support” from Each PHP 8+ Version

Update on August 1, 2023: Added requirement to publish Make/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. post that details the compatibility change for the release (added to the “Beta Support” removal process section). Props @chanthaboune. Officially WordPress Core currently provides “betaBeta A pre-release of software […]

X-post: WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program: Pilot Program Proposal

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Proposal: Retiring Older Default Themes

Since 2010, WordPress has released a new default theme every year but one. Each default theme (though sometimes stylistically opinionated) is meant to provide a solid and flexible foundation that site owners can use to build out their new WordPress site. Though only the three most recent bundled themes are included in new WordPress installs, […]

Proposal for enhancing LCP image performance with the fetchpriority attribute in WordPress core

This post proposes adding the fetchpriority=”high” attribute to LCP images in WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. to enhance LCP performance. The proposal was created as a collaboration between members of the Core Performance Team. Context The fetchpriority attribute is a standard HTML […]

WordPress 6.3 Planning Proposal & Call for Volunteers

After the successful launch of WordPress 6.2, it’s time to start planning for WordPress 6.3, and for WordPress 6.4’s women and non-binary-led release. In preparation, this post includes WordPress 6.3 proposed target dates and a call for its release squad. The timeline for the second release of 2023 takes into consideration this year’s two remaining […]

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 […]