Marius L. J. 9:14 am on June 2, 2023
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Support Team Meeting Updates for June 1st

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Community headlines and updates

This is where news that are relevant or good to know for the team from across the community are brought up and shared.

Suggested stance on the use of AI-tooling

This past week a post on suggested wording, and how to approach the use of AI-tooling in support scenarios on 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/ was posted, looking for acknowledgement and input.

See the full post at https://make.wordpress.org/support/2023/05/suggested-stance-on-the-use-of-ai-tooling/

WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe

Next week will be WordCamp Europe, not much to say ahead of time, other than the team hoping to see many of you there!

With travel involved, there’s not currently a planned weekly meeting for Thursday June 8th, but please reach out if you’d like for there to be one organized!

#support

Benjamin Evans 2:07 am on June 2, 2023
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What’s new on Learn WordPress in May 2023

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

Courses

Course are a series of online lessons individuals can complete. Come and check out the newest developer-focused course:

 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!

May stats:

  • 32 Online Workshops facilitated
    • Of which 1 was in Japanese
  • Average of 26 attendees per workshop

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 March

 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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#learnwp, #training

twstokes 8:31 pm on May 31, 2023
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Mobile Team Update – May 31st

WordPress iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android version 22.5 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:
    • The Cell component has a new style to properly reflect when it’s in a disabled state.
    • Nested blocks can now be tapped on directly for selection.
    • We fixed a bug related to undo / redo history when inserting a link configured to open in a new tab.
    • We fixed a bug related to merging a list item with sub-items into a paragraph.

#mobile

Emily Clarke 2:41 pm on May 31, 2023
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Core Performance Team Update: May 2023

Performance Lab

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

April’s release 2.3.0 includes further enhancements to creating stand-alone plugins as well as some small bug fixes. 

The second 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, Fetchpriority has been approved by the WordPress plugin team, awaiting approval of Dominant Color Images. 

The Performance Lab plugin has also reached 70k active installations this month!

Proposals and Discussion

Performance Team chats are held weekly on Tuesdays; check https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/ for current time.

A PR has been created for the work against enhancing the Scripts API with a loading strategy. The focus in May has been on addressing initial feedback which has mainly been completed. There are some final decisions to make around handling deferred and async dependencies, and inline scripts attached to defer/async scripts. 

The Plugin Checker engineering of the infrastructure, admin screens and 2 initial checks has been completed. May’s focus has been around final iterations following the architectural code review, QA testing. Progress can be seen in this GitHub repo, which eventually should be transferred to the WordPress organization. 

A blog post was published outlining the WordPress 6.2 server performance analysis summary to identify the biggest opportunities to target for future performance enhancements, from which a notable inclusion has already landed for 6.3 #58394 resulting in ~7% faster 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 2% faster classic themes (full results). 

Last week saw the ‘More accurate lazy-loading’ work committed. Related to this, great progress has been made on adding fetchpriority support against #58235 in this pull request.

Additional work across the team has seen Several new TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets have been created for improving the automated performance testing workflow that was introduced in the WP 6.2 release cycle (#58358, #58359 and #58360).

Tickets

In addition to Performance Lab, the Performance Team also 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 Bash on Wednesdays; check https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/ for current time.

In the last two weeks, several fixes for more accurate lazy-loading were committed to WordPress core. Here are all the commits and tickets:

The WordPress core pull request mentioned last month, to enhance get_block_templates() performance was committed, and improves overall server response time for sites using a block theme by a significant ~15%.

Some initial improvements to translations have already been applied ahead of a broader performance initiative for translated sites (#58321 and #58317).

Additional improvements have been committed around lazy loading metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. data #58185, #5780, #57701, and #58230.

Work continues on #58394 for the performance of wp_maybe_inline_styles ahead of the 6,3 release. The work here demonstrates a significant performance improvement for block themes (~7% faster) and for classic themes (~2% faster).

The team is heavily working on further performance tickets prioritized for the upcoming 6.3 release.

#core-performance, #performance

KafleG 3:24 am on May 30, 2023
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Themes team update May 30, 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
  • 46 tickets are assigned.
    • 8 ticket is older than 4 weeks
    • 16 ticket is older than 2 weeks
    • 30 tickets are older than 1 week
    • 39 tickets are older than 3 days
  • 0 is approved but is waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

  • 593 tickets were opened
  • 611 tickets were closed
    • 597 tickets were made live.
      • 26 new Themes were made live.
      • 571 Theme updates were made live.
      • 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
    • 14 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: 2 (@kafleg, @acosmin)

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

  • 11 Block themes are currently reviewing
  • We have 317 Block Themes in the themes repository.

iii) 💡HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 7Messages Received 10
Replies Sent 6Emails Created 0
Resolved 5Resolved on First Reply 80%

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 3000+ active installs. There are 58 active issues and 9 Pull requests in GitHub.
  • Theme Check Plugin has 7 PRs and 38 issues.

#themes, #weekly-updates

ironprogrammer 6:53 pm on May 29, 2023
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Test Team Update: 29 May 2023

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

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

📊 Current totals (since 22 May 2023):

  • Need testing info: 17 (change: +1)
  • Need reproduce issue: 1855 (change: +3)
  • Need patch testing: 203 (change: +0)
  • Need unit tests: 119 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 159 (change: -3)

🟢 New/Changed last week:

  • Need testing info: 2 (change: +1)
  • Need reproduce issue: 10 (change: -3)
  • Need patch testing: 9 (change: +4)
  • Need unit tests: 4 (change: +2)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 5 (change: +1)

🟣 Closed last week:

  • Need testing info: 1 (change: +1)
  • Need reproduce issue: 3 (change: +2)
  • Need patch testing: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need unit tests: 2 (change: +2)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 8 (change: +5)

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

+make.wordpress.org/test/

#test

Milana Cap 1:55 pm on May 29, 2023
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Documentation Team Update – May 29, 2023

The Documentation team has a new meeting schedule:

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

Past 7 days

15 issues closed:

7 issues opened:

26 unresolved conversations:

Current projects:

#docs

ironprogrammer 4:27 pm on May 22, 2023
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Test Team Update: 22 May 2023

Test Ticket Queue 🎟

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

📊 Current totals (since 15 May 2023):

  • Need testing info: 16 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 1852 (change: +6)
  • Need patch testing: 203 (change: +3)
  • Need unit tests: 119 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 162 (change: +0)

🟢 New/Changed last week:

  • Need testing info: 1 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 13 (change: +2)
  • Need patch testing: 7 (change: +6)
  • Need unit tests: 4 (change: +3)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 8 (change: +6)

🟣 Closed last week:

  • Need testing info: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need reproduce issue: 1 (change: -1)
  • Need patch testing: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: +0)
  • Need review (have patch and unit tests): 5 (change: +2)

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

+make.wordpress.org/test/

#test

twstokes 3:57 am on May 18, 2023
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Mobile Team Update – May 17th

WordPress iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android version 22.4 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:
    • We fixed a crash that could occur when trying to convert a regular block to an undefined or deleted reusable block.
    • We changed the behavior of tapping on nested blocks.
    • We now show the host app namespace in the message displayed when trying to edit a reusable block.

#mobile

Hari Shanker R 8:12 pm on May 17, 2023
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