Can you help with topics for the WordPress Developer Blog?

The tenth article has just been published on the WordPress Developer Blog! Check out A walk-through of layout classes in WordPress 6.1 and the other posts available on this new venture.  

The blogblog (versus network, site) has a content board 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/ and you can add directly to the discussions on topic ideas. You can add new ideas, help to flesh out the topics already suggested, or volunteer to be involved in writing a post. Below is the current list of topics ideas:

• How to use nonces the right way
• Best Practices: How to enable internationalization for your WordPress Code
• What the heck is wp-env?
• Optimizing your WP_Query queries for better performance
• How tests work in Gutenberg components
• Introduction to the Storybook tool
• Static blocks vs Dynamic blocks – what’s the difference
• How Webpack and WordPress packages interact

Before you get started, check out How to contribute and the Tips and Guidelines for Writers pages on the site. There will be more information on these pages as the blog moves out of betaBeta A 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..

You can ask questions and join discussions async in the #core-dev-blog channel of the Make WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. 

Monthly meetings of the editorial group take place every first Thursday of the month in the Slack channel.

The next meeting will take place on February 2, 2023 at 13:00 UTC.

Props to @bph for co-authoring and reviewing this post.

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