Information Sources for WordPress 6.4

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With every release comes a need to revise and create content on LearnWP. You can help. Here’s a list of what is ready for us to prepare for the release.

When assessing what content will need to be updated and revised for LearnWP, these are sources of information.

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Announcements:

• 6.4 Release Parties Schedule and Hosts
• WordPress 6.4 Development Cycle
• Bug Scrub for 6.4
• Roadmap to 6.4
• WordPress 6.4: What’s on your wishlist?

News

• WordPress 6.4 Beta 4
• WordPress 6.4 Beta 3
• WordPress 6.4 Beta 2
• WP 6.4 Beta 1

Twenty Twenty Four Theme

• Introducing Twenty Twenty-Four

Source of Truth

Coming during 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. Release cycle.

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/ Labels

• Needs User Docs
• Needs Dev Docs

Core DevNotes

• Image loading optimization enhancements in 6.4
• New option functions in 6.4
• HTML markup improvements to the Login and Registration page
• Replacing hard-coded style tags with wp_add_inline_style()
• Improvements to Object Caching in WordPress 6.4
• Improvements to Template Loading in WordPress 6.4
• Miscellaneous Editor changes in WordPress 6.4
• Script loading changes in WordPress 6.4
• Changes to attachment pages
• Introducing admin notice functions in WordPress 6.4
• Updates to user-interface components in WordPress 6.4
• Editor Components updates in WordPress 6.4
• New `registerInserterMediaCategory` API
• Introducing Block Hooks for dynamic blocks

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/

Changelogs (on Core)

• What’s new in Gutenberg 16.2? (12 July)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 16.3? (26 July)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 16.4? (9 August)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 16.5? (23 August)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 16.6? (06 September)
• What’s new in Gutenberg 16.7? (27 September)

TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.:

• Core Trac 6.4 Milestone
• Milestone 6.4, Keywords needs-docs or needs-user-docs
• Gutenberg-Merge
• Trac Tickets

Topics to be determined

These topics should be addressed, but need additional consideration where to create that content.

• Image Lightbox
• Implement Block Hooks

Editor Team:

• Editor Tasks

Docs team:

Design team:

• Design GitHub Project Board

Training / LearnWP Project

• Issue labeled 6.4
• LearnWP Content Development Project View for WP 6.4

RevisionsRevisions The 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. Extended

We revise content ahead of release while preserving the current content until release. Think of it as a Pull Request that ships on release day. Here’s how we do that: