The Playground team met to discuss recent updates, ongoing projects, and community questions. (Slack script) facilitated by Birgit Pauli-Haack
Announcements
- New Features:
- Playground’s WordPress PR and 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/ PR tester can now be accessed via the three-dot menu, with a modal for PR number input. @ajotka and @bpayton
- A 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 embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.-based Blueprints Editor, created by @ajitbohra, enables building Blueprints visually without 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, as an alternative to XML..
- Upcoming Hallway Hangouts:
- November 29, 2024 (14:00 UTC): Walkthrough of the block-based Blueprints Editor with @ajitbohra and @zieladam.
- December 6, 2024 (14:00 UTC): Discussion on agency use cases for Playground with @karmatosed and @zieladam.
- Details to follow in 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/. and on the Make blog.
Contributor Updates
- Blueprints Development:
- @bpayton reported that discussions are ongoing about integrating Blueprint workflows with a wizard-like content creation flow and developing a Blueprint package format to bundle assets.
- Database Support:
- @janjakes shared that Advanced MySQL support now includes the new merged MySQL parser. Progress on the new SQLite driver continues. You can follow along here
- Playground Compatibility Tester Enhancements:
- It now tests all 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/ themes and plugins for compatibility with Playground. Next step for @berislavgrgicak integrating a runner for continuous updates.
- Data Liberation Efforts:
- More PRs were merged and can be followed along on the tracking issue. Improvements to the next-gen importer include streaming data from WXR files, parsing markdown, downloading assets, resuming interrupted imports, and rewriting URLs. Upcoming work includes progress updates and handling complex WXR inputs.
Open Floor
- CORS Proxy Update:
- A new CORS proxy has been deployedDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. on the Playground domain, with plans to move it to a dedicated domain.
- Contributors discussed the impact of the proxy move and the need to update documentation once the domain stabilizes.
Thank you to all contributors for your participation! Stay tuned for updates in Slack and on the Make WordPress blog.