WordPress iOS and Android version 14.5 is available for testing. Sign up here to join the beta program on iOS or follow this link on your Android device, tap on Become a beta tester.
Highlights for the last two weeks:
Block Editor: Improvements in “Add block here” indicator, the e2e tests execution and iOS autoscroll behaviour.
Full Site Editing: SPTs 1st iteration and Latest-Posts block shipped. Bug fixing done for sanity tests findings. Refactoring of inner blocks mechanism started.
Other Projects: On Android, worked on media editing functionality and offline support for Pages. On iOS, updating app navigation, moving Me and Create items.
Infrastructure: We continued to add more features to our release tooling like builds on CI and encrypted logging.
All plugins with bounced emails have been closed at this point.
Any plugin that wants to be restored is being required to meet current security and guideline standards, as well as bring their readme up to date. Remember, if your readme doesn’t indicate your plugin works with the latest version of WordPress, then it will eventually drop off the search lists. Best to fix that now.
Many countries are starting to experience the Daylight Savings Time (DST) changes these days, and although a lot of teams change their meeting time when this happens, the support team hasn’t done so for many years, and will keep it’s 17:00 UTC time slot.
Adjusting the meeting format a little
Although a pre-existing weekly time slot, we had no published agenda this week, and just winged it. This turned out to be a popular format, as it allowed for more users to get a word in that would normally feel compelled to sit idle by when an agenda existed.
In light of this, we’ll be looking to do an informal agenda-less meeting regularly, likely once a month, to help spur further such good conversations.
Upcoming changes to WordPress 5.4
The newly introduced full screen editing by default that’s slated for WordPress 5.4 was discussed at length, and although it’s inclusion in the release is still up for debate, we will plan for a scenario where it is included.
The primary concern is users feeling lost, how do we help them find their way back to their usual flow, and the desire for a simple solution to users.
It was mentioned, but has since been discovered to be incorrect, that a keyboard shortcut would let you toggle the mode, this is not the case as of this writing.
Discussions about how to handle older topics which may or may not be relevant followed suit, and one of the better ideas that came forth from this discussion was to add a notice, much like plugins does for older plugins, that information in this topic is more than X times old, and may not be accurate any more.
Checking in with international liaisons
Members of our broader community from Sweden, Russia, Bangladesh, and India took part in the lively discussions this week, and a thank you for that, as broader views are unimaginably valuable!
One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
WordPress iOS and Android version 14.4 is available for testing. Sign up here to join the beta program on iOS or follow this link on your Android device, tap on Become a beta tester.
Highlights for the last two weeks:
Block Editor: Fixed Quote block border color on Dark Mode. Verse block added to editor debug mode.
Full Site Editing: Progress on Column, Cover, Buttons, and Latest Posts blocks.
Other Projects: On Android, worked on media editing functionality and offline support for Pages. On iOS, updating app navigation, moving Me and Create items.
Infrastructure: New release builds on continuous integration for WordPress for iOS and Android.
At the end of last week, we emailed all plugin owners and committers with information about the upcoming WordPress 5.4. This resulted in just over 320 potentially bounced emails. Of those emails, we have 198 left to process.
For those keeping track, we had around 800 for WP 5.2 and the same for 5.3. This is a massive improvement.
For plugin owners, please check the email address on your forum accounts. Remember these emails are meant to be your developer contact email. They must not auto-reply, and they should not be sent to support staff, only developers who have the ability to action on the email.
If your plugins were closed from March 6th through the end of the month without any notification, your email did bounce.
On Wednesday the team met at the usual time of 19:00 UTC. Tuesday saw triage run also in #design. The week before saw 2 triages and a weekly meeting.
This coming week will see both triage sessions trying something a little different. Each will have a ‘live’ zoom link, also recorded for viewing later. The idea is that they will be teaching sessions so others can learn how to run triages.
WordPress iOS and Android version 14.3 is available for testing. Sign up here to join the beta program on iOS or follow this link on your Android device, tap on Become a beta tester.
Highlights for the last two weeks:
Block Editor: New image block size options. Better retry feature on image blocks, fixed link button on rich text, and emoji in post titles.
Full Site Editing: New block shipped: Button. Support for gallery uploads. New block navigation toolbar.
Other Projects: Added a search box to help users find a parent page in page settings. Reader in the Android app: New bottom sheet to filter and navigate followed sites and tags.
Infrastructure: New release builds on continuous integration for WordPress for iOS and new binary signing infrastructure for Android.
