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Jonathan Desrosiers 8:09 pm on February 1, 2024  

New Commit Message Requirements in Git: Hello Props Bot

Note: This post was updated to correct the format used in one example and remove references to the wapuu w.org username (not officially associated with the project). A note was also added under a list saved as a synced pattern to indicate the contents of the list may change over time. 2/2/2024 – @desrosj In […]

marybaum 8:04 pm on March 10, 2023  

6.2 Live Product Demo Q&A

Out now: Answers to more questions from the WordPress 6.2 preview that happened March 2, 2023.

Pascal Birchler 9:33 am on April 27, 2022
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An Update on Preferred Languages

5 years after announcing the Preferred Languages feature project and implementing the first prototype, it’s time for a long overdue update on where things currently stand. More than half of all WordPress sites in the world use a language other than US English. For these sites and users, the options to change the site and […]

Michał Czapliński 3:27 pm on September 30, 2022
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What’s new in Gutenberg 14.2? (28 September)

“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 tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to […]

Jonathan Desrosiers 1:37 pm on May 16, 2023
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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, […]

Marcus Kazmierczak 4:33 pm on January 10, 2022
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WordPress 5.9 Field Guide

WordPress 5.9 unlocks the ability to build with blocks across all parts of your site, bringing advanced design tools to build your templates, themes, and style your sites in new and exciting ways. Let’s take a look at what to expect in WordPress 5.9. BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of […]

Jonathan Desrosiers 1:21 pm on January 31, 2022  

Ensuring Proper Attribution for Contributions to WordPress on GitHub

Edit Feb. 1, 2022 @ 00:45 UTC: Added note clarifying that this is currently a suggested change for 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 […]

Riad Benguella 8:28 am on June 29, 2021
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Various Block Editor API removals in WordPress 5.8

Removed APIs Keeping deprecated JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com APIs around has a cost on performance […]

Riad Benguella 5:29 pm on June 29, 2021
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On layout and content width in WordPress 5.8

WordPress 5.8 introduces Global Settings and Global Styles. They allow theme authors to control and style the available features in the editor and the different blocks using a theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, […]

Jonathan Desrosiers 11:01 pm on March 16, 2021  

Trial run: Consistent minor release squad leaders for each major branch

Minor releases (X.Y.Z+1) are WordPress releases that fall between major releases (X.Y+1) providing 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. fixes, small, self […]