Releases
In September, work on WordPress 5.9 continued and WordPress 5.8.1 was released.
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//Full Site Editing (FSE)
- What’s next in Gutenberg? (Mid-September 2021)
- Gutenberg 11.4, 11.5 and 11.6 were released.
- The Full Site Editing Outreach Program continued to propose interesting testing calls and occasions for intereaction with the team working on it.
- Anne also posted the
- There were XX Hallway Hangouts
- Hallway Hangout: Discussion on Full Site Editing Issues/PRs/Designs (10 September)
- Announcement and summary of the discussion about the adoption pathways for FSE
- Core Editor Improvement: Cascading impact of improvements to featured images
Miscellaneous blog posts, updates, and discussions published in the Core Blog
- WordPress JavaScript Standards Change Proposal
- Changes to the WordPress Core PHP Test Suite
- Implementing a Webfonts API in WordPress Core
- Do you want a more granular recap of what is going on in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.? Don’t miss the “A week in Core” posts that @audrasjb has been publishing regularly.