Destiny Kanno 4:50 am on October 2, 2023
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What’s new on Learn WordPress in September 2023

In September 2023, the Training team published the following resources on Learn WordPress.

 Lesson Plans

Lesson plans are teaching guides ideal for MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. organizers and trainers to use when facilitating a WordPress learning session.

 Tutorials

Tutorials are short, standalone videos ideal for on-demand direct learners. They can also be shown in Meetups and other WordPress events.

For WordPress users:

For WordPress Developers:

 Online Workshops

Online Workshops are free live events that cover a wide variety of topics relating to WordPress. These are safe spaces where attendees can ask questions, exchange theories, and develop new ideas. You can sign up to an upcoming Online Workshop, or watch a recording!

September stats:

  • 26 Online Workshops facilitated
    • Of which 1 were Japanese
  • Average of 9 attendees per workshop (22 being the highest)

Topics included:

 Projects

In addition to creating content, the Training Team also work on projects to advance the Learn WordPress site’s presence in the WordPress community. Here are projects the team worked on in September

 Contribute

These resources are available to use and promote. If you would like to contribute to Learn WordPress, come complete our team onboarding and join an upcoming meeting.

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Emily Clarke 1:39 pm on September 29, 2023
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Core Performance Team Update: September 2023

Tickets and contributions

The Performance Team works on performance-related tickets in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and holds a fortnightly Bug Scrub on Wednesdays; check https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/ for current time.

In September, the Performance Team published a post regarding Analyzing the Core Web Vitals performance impact of WordPress 6.3 in the field, which details the findings from the analyses that were conducted to assess the performance impact using public data sets from HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. Archive and Chrome User Experience Report.

The focus in September was on tickets prioritized for the upcoming WordPress 6.4 release for which 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. 1 was released on September 26, 2023. Early indications of benchmarking are showing positive improvements in performance. Noteworthy inclusions in WordPress 6.4 include: improvements to template loading performance for 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. Themes and Classic Themes, usage of the new script loading strategies “defer” and “async” in core, blocks, and themes, additional enhancements to optimize image loading performance, and new functions to optimize the use of autoloaded options.

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 Checker

The Performance Team has been working with the Plugin Review team to launch an early version of the Plugin Checker discussed in the Turning the Tide blog post. This has now been merged into a single repo under the WordPress organization https://github.com/WordPress/plugin-check. Look out for updates over the coming weeks.

Performant Translations Plugin

Further updates have been made to the Performant Translations plugin and next steps here would be to test the plugin and determine a path forward to integrate into WordPress Core. To test the plugin, please see the Call for Testing: Performant Translations post.

Team headlines and updates

In October, the Performance Team also has a Hallway Hangout scheduled (announced in this blog post) for  2023-10-19 15:00, where we will review WordPress 6.3 performance impact in the field, diving into WordPress 6.4 performance improvements and looking ahead at what can be learned for WordPress 6.5. 

Performance Lab Plugin

Performance Lab plugin updates are released monthly on the third Monday of the month.

September’s release 2.6.1 was a smaller release including removing the PHPStan config file from the plugin directory and also adding assets to the various Performance Lab plugins (Fetchpriority and WebP Uploads). The Dominant Color Images plugin was approved, and work continues on the next set of enhancements around uncoupling the plugin features from the Performance Lab plugin related to the settings screen UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing.. 

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ironprogrammer 9:32 pm on September 28, 2023
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twstokes 2:22 pm on September 26, 2023
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Mobile Team Update – September 26th

WordPress iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android version 23.3 is available for testing. Sign up here to join the 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. program on iOS or follow this link on your Android device, tap on “Become a beta tester”.

Highlights for the last two weeks:

  • 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. Editor:
    • Updated logic for placeholder text color.
    • Inserting using a URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org now leverages a bottom sheet.

#mobile

KafleG 5:57 am on September 26, 2023  

Themes team update September 26, 2023

i) 🎟 Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 new ticket is waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 0 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 60 tickets are assigned.
    • 5 ticket is older than 4 weeks
    • 18 ticket is older than 2 weeks
    • 39 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 51 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 3 is approved but is waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 734 tickets were opened
  • 739 tickets were closed
    • 733 tickets were made live.
      • 36 new Themes were made live.
      • 697 Theme updates were made live.
      • 3 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 6 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.

Number of reviewers: 6 (@acosmin, @kafleg, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @ShresthaRaaz, @bijayyadav)

ii) 💻 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. Theme Stats

  • 22 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 10 Block themes live

iii) 💡HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 13Messages Received 14
Replies Sent 11Emails Created 1
Resolved 9Resolved on First Reply 89%

iv) 📝Extras

  • Create Block Theme 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 now has 5000+ active installs. There are 73 active issues and 10 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 9 PRs and 38 issues.
  • Twenty Twenty-Four theme is currently under development. You can find it on GitHub.
  • @greenshady is working on the Theme handbook.
Paco Marchante 6:50 pm on September 25, 2023
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Plugin Review Team: 25 September 2023

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 Status Change Stats

  • Plugins requested : 107
  • Plugins rejected : 0
  • Plugins closed : 9
  • Plugins approved : 26

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

  • Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 2087
  • → (older than 7 days ago)** : 1947
  • → (2023-09-18 – 2023-09-24) : 111
  • → (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 1265
  • → (pending; replied to)* : 822

Help Scout Queue Stats

  • Total Conversations: 420
  • New Conversations: 160
  • Customers: 378
  • Conversations per Day: 52
  • Busiest Day: Wednesday
  • Messages Received: 270
  • Replies Sent: 304
  • Emails Created: 74

#plugins

ironprogrammer 4:01 pm on September 25, 2023
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Test Team Update: 25 September 2023

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

👉🏻 “(change: N)” represents changes from prior week (unless noted).

📊 Current totals (since 18 September 2023):

  • Need testing info: 18 (change: -1)
  • Need reproduce issue: 1998 (change: +16)
  • Need patch testing: 213 (change: -5)
  • Need unit tests: 115 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 171 (change: -2)

🟢 New/Changed last week:

  • Need testing info: 1 (change: -1)
  • Need reproduce issue: 14 (change: -3)
  • Need patch testing: 13 (change: +5)
  • Need unit tests: 3 (change: +2)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 15 (change: +8)

🟣 Closed last week:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 1 (change: +1)
  • Need patch testing: 4 (change: +4)
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: -2)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 17 (change: +9)

To discuss queries used in this report, please comment below, or connect with the Test Team over in #core-test.

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#test

Milana Cap 10:45 am on September 25, 2023
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Documentation Team Update – September 25, 2023

The Documentation team has a new meeting schedule:

A new GitHub repo is created for end-user documentation and its translations to all locales. More info about this can be found here.

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

Past 7 days

1 pull request merged:

1 issue closed:

9 issues opened:

135 unresolved conversations.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Julia Golomb 8:52 pm on September 21, 2023
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X-post: Community Summit 2023: Your Role in What’s Next

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KafleG 3:17 am on September 19, 2023
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Themes team update September 19, 2023

i) 🎟 Theme directory stats

Currently,

  • 0 new ticket is waiting for review.
    • 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
    • 0 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 0 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 66 tickets are assigned.
    • 3 ticket is older than 4 weeks
    • 14 ticket is older than 2 weeks
    • 27 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 56 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 4 is approved but is waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 734 tickets were opened
  • 738 tickets were closed
    • 725 tickets were made live.
      • 35 new Themes were made live.
      • 690 Theme updates were made live.
      • 4 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 13 tickets were not-approved.
    • 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well.

Number of reviewers: 6 (@kafleg, @acosmin, @fahimmurshed, @vowelweb, @bijayyadav, @greenshady)

ii) 💻 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. Theme Stats

  • 21 Block themes are currently being reviewed
  • 12 Block themes live

iii) 💡HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 10Messages Received 13
Replies Sent 14Emails Created 0
Resolved 14Resolved on First Reply 71%

iv) 📝Extras

  • Create Block Theme 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 now has 5000+ active installs. There are 73 active issues and 9 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 9 PRs and 38 issues.
  • Twenty Twenty-Four theme is currently under development. You can find it on GitHub.
  • @greenshady is working on the Theme handbook.

#themes, #weekly-updates