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X-post: Announcing the Third Cohort (2024 Q4) of the WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program

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Design Share #65 (Sep 23-Oct 4)

This is a bi-weekly update of work the design group contributed to. Work happens in overview issues, and in needs design, or needs design feedback issues.

If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, drop a note in the #design channel. If you have questions, you can also ask them there, or as a comment on this post.


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Design Share #64 (Sep 9-Sep 20)

This is a bi-weekly update of work the design group contributed to. Work happens in overview issues, and in needs design, or needs design feedback issues.

If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, drop a note in the #design channel. If you have questions, you can also ask them there, or as a comment on this post.


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Data Views Update #2

This is the second update on Data Views, a series to provide more frequent information about the latest and greatest, so folks can follow along, provide feedback, and explore using this component. It builds on the initial update shared in June and will share biweekly updates going forward as it remains helpful.

To get started in learning more:

  • Documentation on it in the Storybook space.
  • On the Developer blog, Using Data Views to Display and Interact with Data in Plugins, explains how to add a ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. app to a pluginPlugin A 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 page and use the Data Views component to display a data list.
  • 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/, you can chime in or post on issues regarding Data Views development.
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Design Systems: Storybook Improvements 

Related to the recent post @joen shared about advancing the WordPress Design Systems, I’ve been taking a look at the Storybook site and thinking through ways we could improve it as a resource for everyone. 

Before we dive in, let’s take a look at some examples. 

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X-post: The Five for the Future site gets a refresh

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Design Share #63 (Aug 26-Sep 6)

This is a bi-weekly update of work the design group contributed to. Work happens in overview issues, and in needs design, or needs design feedback issues.

If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, drop a note in the #design channel. If you have questions, you can also ask them there, or as a comment on this post.


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Data Views Update #1

The Data Views component is a key part of the future of WordPress, used both in the site editor and by early adopter pluginPlugin A 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 developers. It’s being built collaboratively with the goal to streamline, standardize, and improve its functionality. This component will play a crucial role in future WordPress versions and is central to the Admin Design efforts.

This update is the start of a series to provide more frequent information about the latest and greatest, so folks can follow along, give feedback, and explore using this component. It builds on the initial update shared in June and will share biweekly updates going forward as it remains helpful.

To get started in learning more, you can find documentation on it in the Storybook space. A post on the Developer blog, Using Data Views to Display and Interact with Data in Plugins, explains how to add a ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. app to a plugin page and use the Data Views component to display a data list.

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Advancing the WordPress Design System

We’re excited to introduce a long requested initiative focused on consolidating and enhancing design system efforts across WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/. The goal, specifically, is to bring together existing tools like @wordpress/components, the new Figma library, and Storybook into a unified design system reference site that anyone can use to contribute back to WordPress or extend WordPress in line with a shared design language. This means that anyone contributing to WordPress can be confident they are building consistent, accessible, and coherent experiences. This is especially important considering Phase 3 and the Admin Design effort that seeks to make it straightforward for pluginPlugin A 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 authors to offer great, intuitive user experiences.

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