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This is the list from the updated GitHub issue a bit more organized: All updates are collected from various sources, mainly GitHub. Editor (1 of 11) Also: Site Editor & Templates Roadmap Blocks (1 of 5) Tools (1 of 3)  Design Tools Overview #33447 Patterns (2 of 6) Building with Patterns #38529 Styles (7)  Global Styles Ongoing Roadmap #41232 […]

For the WordPress Developer Blog, which is about to go live next month, I needed to have the GitHub repo where we discuss future content for the blog to have issues posted to the Slack channel. Reading the Slack’s GitHub Integration documentation was enough. I seemed to have proper privileges as I typed the subscribe […]

For Gutenberg 14.0, the release lead noticed some funky test results. As the release of 13.7, I performed was mostly without hick-ups, I was curious how a local performance test would work. This is a record on how this works. Gutenberg 14.0 release was published on August 31, 2022 The documentation states: Let’s translated to […]

Below post was originally written in March 2022. In July, 2022 Josepha Haden Chomphosy published Episode 36: Beginner’s Guide to Contributions 2.0. It might be worthwhile to listen before you continue reading below information. Chomphosy talks about the five stages of a contributor’s journey. The five stages of a contributor’s journey. More explanation is provided […]

Paul Biron, one of the contributors to the Beta Tester Plugin mentioned during today’s WordPress 5.9.1 RC release party: remember, you can’t update to point-release RCs via the Beta Tester plugin until the Nightlies are built at the end of the party. Paul Biron I should be able to test a point-release via wp-cli, though. […]

I just chuckled through most of this video: Doug Crockford: JavaScript the Good Parts It is a bit dated, but it is still relevant. I am pretty confident that most of the “I hate JavaScript” WordPress devs utter is from that era and has lasted until today in some PHP developers, who refuse to touch […]

Joe Casabona discussed in his post if you should really write in the WordPress Editor, be it in its classic or block editor. Casabona uses Ulysses as his writing app (mac only, paid). I mostly use Google Doc as I often collaborate on topics, especially at work working with WordPress teams on the Make blogs. […]