The WordPress coreCoreCore 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 bugbugA 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.
These will focus on open proposals in coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and release items.
This week will provide a discussion opportunity during Dev Chat to explore this open core proposal relating to major release Field Guides.
This post recommends what could be next. One suggestion is to rename the channel as ‘outreach’ and use it in a wider way to reach site builders and extenders. Another use of this channel could be to assist several projects which could use SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. support in the WordPress space for discussion, clarification, and overall ruminating on future features coming to WordPress.
Timescales:
Feedback deadline: February 12, 2024.
A Hallway Hangout is scheduled on February 20, 2024, at 15:00 UTC to further discuss this proposal, the comments, and the next steps.
Could you help curate a Call for Volunteers to review the open proposals on Make/Core and create a list of unresolved ones to discuss during Dev Chat meetings?
Changes on TracTracAn open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between January 22 and January 29, 2024:
48 commits
64 contributors
60 tickets created
4 tickets reopened
67 tickets closed
welcome to two new contributors to core this last week
Core-editor updates
Props to @annezazu for collating and sharing this list.
Pattern overrides: there are some current questions around how this features ties to the BlockBlockBlock 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. Renaming APIAPIAn 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 how the internal block ids are generated and used. Right now, we can find the block names through block ids, but we cannot do the same the other way around.
Block Bindings: the experimental flag was removed along with an outline of next steps for Gutenberg RC, Beta, and what’s out of scope for 6.5 (including when to backportbackportA port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch.). For out of scope, this includes a UI for users to add bindings. A ~4 min video walks you through the current status in trunktrunkA directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision.!
Next major releasemajor releaseA release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.5
Any updates, bugbugA 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. scrub list or updates on betaBetaA 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. 1?
Beta 1 for WordPress 6.5 scheduled for February 13, 2024.
Also see the links under the Core-editor updates for 6.5 heading above.
Latest minor releaseMinor ReleaseA set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality.: 6.4.3
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Jan 30, 2024 at 16:00 UTC. If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.
These will focus on open proposals in coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and release items.
Next week’s dev chat, a discussion opportunity is identified for this open proposal on core relating to major release Field Guides.
Could you help curate a Call for Volunteers to review the open proposals on Make/Core and create a list of unresolved ones to discuss during Dev Chat meetings?
On TracTracAn open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between January 15 and January 22, 2024:
New core contributor meeting – if you were not able to attend and would like to find out more, check out the link to the meeting in Slack on January 24, 2024 which includes useful information on getting started and the contributor mentorship program. The deadline for applications for the second cohort for the program is Wednesday, February 7, 2024.
Section Styling: some questions remain around CSS specificity to unblock this work. Whether that problem can be resolved determines whether this will be included in the release.
Font Library: biggest work continues to be the Font Library: refactor REST API which needs feedback. Please help review if you have experience with the REST APIREST APIThe REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. and review the merge criteria for this feature..
Data Views: the default layout has been set to table layout for template, template parts, and patterns after feedback from design. A PR is in progress to stabilize the new Data Views for Patterns ahead of the release with the grid layout as the default.
Interactivity APIAPIAn 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.: work continues for a public launch with 6.5 with great optimism that it will make the cut off.
Next major releasemajor releaseA release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.5
Any other updates?
Phase 3 media library meeting will take place on Thursday, 8 February 2024 at 00:00 GMT in the #core-media channel. The Media Component team is coordinating a meeting with the Editor team and other interested stakeholders to work on planning for the proposed Phase 3 Media Library.
Core-editor improvement – revisions in the site editor. This is a useful post for understanding some of the changes and new features to current revision functionality in the Site Editor aimed for 6.5 and the wider work in this area.
Important milestones in the Editor for 6.5 – useful post for contributors working or wishing to support the GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/ repository with the scheduled betaBetaA 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. 1 for WordPress 6.5 scheduled for February 13, 2024.
Next minor releaseMinor ReleaseA set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality.: 6.4.3
Any other updates?
Earlier today there were four open tickets – update in 6.4 release leads channel.
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Jan 23, 2024 at 16:00 UTC. If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.
The Media Component team is coordinating a meeting with the Editor team and other interested stakeholders to work on planning for the proposed Phase 3 Media Library. There are a few issues already open about the Media Library proposal, but this major development depends on close coordination between the Media and Editor teams to work effectively together.
In a recent Media Component meeting it was suggested that there should be a dedicated meeting time to kick off a round table discussion about some of the opportunities and challenges ahead in the development of Phase 3. The Media Component Maintainers hope to find areas of focus where contributors can lean in to align efforts with folks working on Phase 3.
In previous meetings the team has gone through the backlog of over 600 issues and categorized tickets as phase-3-media-triage for discussion around how Phase 3 could potentially solve these tickets alongside a rebuild of the Media Library. Some of these tickets are an opportunity to change lower level issues like db structure, but the redesign is a good time to address these possibilities.
Brief presentation on the goals and vision of Phase 3 redesign for the Media Library
Discussion on alignment of CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Media focus to help the process
Agree on communication channels and checkpoints for regular updates
A more detailed agenda will be published prior to the meeting.
If you would like to join this meeting please join the #core-media channel February 7, 2024 at 24:00 UTC. This time seems to align with most of the world as a decent hour to meet for stakeholders and folks active in Media.
This meeting happens in the #core-media channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Make WordPress Slack. Props @joedolson for helping prepare and proofread this post.
Using the weekly curated agenda post for live and asynchronous usage, this meeting will begin an experiment to dedicate time to current proposals in coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and to help specifically with progressing releases.
Through the summaries of the discussions and SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. links, those unable to join live, will continue to be able to read and contribute asynchronously.
The links in the various agenda sections below will not be shared in full in the meeting, but be available for pre and post-reading. Anything for particular discussion can still be highlighted.
If you have ticketticketCreated for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. requests for help, please do continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this post.
Discussions
These are some of the current proposals in core for awareness and which may be suitable for further discussion in Dev Chats.
This focuses on considering how the team approaches the maintenance of the default themes to make them easier to maintain, and more future-compatible. With the release of Twenty Twenty-Four, there are now 14 default themes maintained by the project.
This proposal is focused on a workflow for merging GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/ into Core
This could be an ideal time to discuss to discuss and experiment based on 6.4 learnings for the benefit of 6.5.
As Dev Chat now has a combined input from the Gutenberg and Core meetings, there is opportunity for discussing this further during the meetings and for a deeper discussion on what could be done in 6.5.
Could you help curate a Call for Volunteers to review the open proposals on Make/Core and create a list of unresolved ones to discuss during Dev Chat meetings?
Announcements
6.4.3 – next maintenance release – the post includes the planned schedule, the dates of the bugbugA 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. scrubs, and the final release date of 30 January 2024.
Highlighted posts for information
These will not be re-shared in full in the meeting itself to enable time for discussions in a new experimental approach to Dev Chat.
In 2023, the WordPress Core team shipped 2211 commits (2597 in 2022). 2751 tickets were opened, 2545 tickets were closed, and 365 were reopened.
Also, 1079 people contributed to WordPress source code using TracTracAn open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. (988 in 2022), and 472 people made their very first contribution to WordPress Core (398 in 2022).
The Feature Projects page has had an update and worth checking out for the latest statuses. Feature Projects are intended to concentrate a group of people together, to explore potential ideas for WordPress Core.
Font Library: biggest work for now is the Font Library: refactor REST API which needs feedback. Please help review if you have experience with the REST APIREST APIThe REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/..
Pattern overrides: work is ready to test starting with making paragraph blocks overrideable. Up next, headings, buttons and images are expected to be added soon as blocks that can have overrides.
Design tools: PR merged to add backgroundSize feature with implicit repeating backgrounds to add more functionality to the Group blockBlockBlock 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.’s background image support that was added in 6.4. Needs PHPPHPThe web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher backports.
Data Views: Templates is now stabilized with Pages, Patterns, and additional views in Templates added in as experimental. Questions around extensibility came up recently — extensibility is very much part of the plan with the focus currently being on stabilizing the base APIs.
Add appearance tools support for classic themes: this work has been completed and merged into Core trunk. This opens a world of design options that, up until this point, have been only available with Block Themes, or themes using theme.jsonJSONJSON, 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, as an alternative to XML..
Block bindings API: block bindings prototype is being split into smaller PRs to move work forward in smaller chunks with the PR that sets the basis for the API recently merged (this doesn’t add a UIUIUser interface to create the bindings).
January 23, 2024 at 12:00 UTC: Next Extensibility Issues TriagetriageThe act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. meeting (Project board) in #core-editor channel.
Next major releasemajor releaseA release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.5
Please also view the updates relating to 6.5 related updates under the core-editor heading above.
A release squad announcement is expected shortly. Next milestone: BetaBetaA 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. 1 is Feb 13, 2024.
Could you help with running a bug scrub around a particular area, component, or towards 6.5? More information on running scrubs. More dates for 6.5 bug scrubs will also be added once a squad is in place.
Next minor releaseMinor ReleaseA set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality.: 6.4.3
As shared above in Highlighted Posts, the next maintenance release will be 6.4.3.
Milestone: RC1 January 25, 2024
Release slated for: January 30, 2024
Bug scrubs and more information is in the link above.
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Jan 16, 2024 at 16:00 UTC. If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.
Performance Lab pluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party release today for version 2.8.0
The agenda for the first dev chat after the seasonal break is below. The meeting takes place on the CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. channel of the Make WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. on January 10, 2024 at 20:00 UTC .
(Update: GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/ testing requests have been added under the Releases heading.)
Posts during the break were highlighted in the following post. Many of the items in that post are still relevant, including a reminder that the core team repTeam RepA Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. nomination period had been extended until January 12, 2024 at 23:59 UTC, to give more time for Core contributorsCore ContributorsCore contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org. to consider and nominate other contributors and/or themselves. Nominations post for 2024 core team reps.
On TracTracAn open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between January 1 and January 8, 2024:
19 commits
20 contributors
26 tickets created
2 tickets reopened
21 tickets closed
Phase 3, agency outreach recap@s1m0nd on an outreach exercise to enterprise WordPress agencies specializing in enterprise projects, inviting them to a series of informal show-and-tell sessions.
Update from the Developer Blogblog(versus network, site)
To volunteer or ask further queries, comment on the GitHubGitHubGitHub 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/ tickets linked. If you need further assistance, post a message in the in the #core-dev-blog channel.
Core-editor update
Props to @annezazu for this update from January 2, 2024.
Design tools: early draft PR to add backgroundSize feature with implicit repeating backgrounds to add more functionality to the Group blockBlockBlock 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.’s background image support that was added in 6.4.
Performance: loads of recent performance improvements particularly from ellatrix (too many to link to) with more to come that should greatly improve both the post and site editor experience. Please share feedback as these fixes and enhancements land!
RevisionsRevisionsThe WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision.: integrate style book into revisions, show change summary on selected item, and add pagination all recently merged.
Pattern overrides (new working name for the previous partial sync patterns): the UXUXUser experience of the experience is being established and refined with the PR to edit source pattern in focus mode in post editor.
Work continues to align page editing features in Site and Post Editor with the latest update here.
Appearance tools for classic themes: work has been completed to resolve outstanding problems resulting in a new trac ticket opened to re-enable support.
Next major releasemajor releaseA release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.5
WordPress 6.5 Roadmap: a few features are already available in Gutenberg pluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and could use some testing and feedback (the links below are tracking issues)
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Jan 9, 2024 at 16:00 UTC. If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.
Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Jan 2, 2024 at 16:00 UTC. If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.
Call for 2024 roadmap priorities https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/903 – the issue will remain open for project priorities until January 5, 2024
