WordPress 6.5.4 • JSX in WP 6.6 • Challenges of Events • Shaping Plugin Review Team • Contributor Handbook v2

• JSX in WordPress 6.6
• WordPress 6.6 release squad ready
• Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.6

Bundled Theme

• Bundled block themes: The theme.json schema version is incorrect – Status: New
• Twenty Seventeen: Comment Block Alignment is not working properly on frontend – Status: Closed
• Twenty Seventeen: Comments Form Block’s Button Border Radius is different in editor and frontend – Status: Closed
• Twenty Fifteen: Verse block font family is different in back-end & Front-end – Status: New
• Twenty Seventeen: add border-style for custom Pullquote block borders – Status: New
• Twenty Seventeen: Search Block Clear text button not showing on frontend – Status: Reopened
• Twenty Twenty: Login/out block font family is different in the editor when added to a post – Status: New

Build/Test Tools

• React: Upgrade to the new JSX transform – Status: Closed
• Pin highest supported PHP version in .env for 6.5 branch – Status: Closed
• Tests: Cached data in WP_Theme_JSON_Resolver causes cross pollution in unit tests – Status: Closed
• Pin macos-13 for the 6.3 branch and earlier – Status: Reopened
• Composer slow – add script to skip install – Status: Closed

Editor

• Ability to control editor preview breakpoints – Status: New
• Add block bindings support for a __default attribute for pattern overrides – Status: Closed
• Background colour is not working in Calendar block – Status: Closed
• Editor: update packages to latest version – Status: Closed
• On mobile devices, the first element of the Navigation block is focused by default – Status: Assigned
• Dashicons are not available in Tablet and Mobile view in the Block editor – Status: Closed
• Dashicons are not available in Tablet and Mobile view in the Block editor – Status: New
• Swapping templates hangs site – Status: New
• Simplify the block bindings HTML replacement logic – Status: Closed
• Continuous issue to access due to maintenance – Status: New
• Improve class WP_Theme_JSON tests – Status: New
• Site editor template description displays encoded characters – Status: New

General

• Woocommerce order list page showing warning – Status: Closed
• Post via email – Password field default value trips Google Chrome warning – Status: New
• PHP deprecation warning in /wp-includes/general-template.php – Status: New
• WordPress Playground POST request issue – Status: Closed
• Dodavanje dotataka – Status: Closed
• Help! – Status: Closed
• Warnings appearing in log – PHP 8.3 related deprecations? – Status: New
• wp_enqueue_script() was called incorrectly. “wp-editor” script should not be enqueued together with the new widgets editor (wp-edit-widgets or wp-customize-widgets) – Status: New
• Escape Output in Storage Count List Item Class – Status: New
• 404s related to caching – Status: Assigned

Administration

• Admin Menu: The admin submenu gets hidden behind the “Theme Details” modal – Status: Closed
• Improve description on image upload error – Status: Assigned
• Escape Output in Storage Count List Item Class – Status: New

Upgrade/Install

• Plugin Dependencies: Refresh plugin-install.php instead of redirecting on activation – Status: New

Plugins

• Plugins: Revert 6.5.3 changes for showing an admin notice on successful activation – Status: Closed
• Error message: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded – Status: Closed

Widgets

• block_editor_rest_api_preload function is restoring $wp_scripts and styles enqueued by wp_enqueue_media are lost – Status: New
• Improve caching in get_calendar function – Status: New
• wp_enqueue_script() was called incorrectly. “wp-editor” script should not be enqueued together with the new widgets editor (wp-edit-widgets or wp-customize-widgets) – Status: New

Database

• wpdb::prepare function null value convert to empty String – Status: New

REST API

• Backport: Output post classes in the editor – Status: Closed
• Refactor fixture replacements for the “class_list” REST API field – Status: Closed

HTML API

• HTML API: Report real and virtual nodes in the HTML Processor – Status: Closed
• Editor: Introduce XML Tag Processor and XML Processor – Status: New
• HTML Processor: ::create_fragment returns self when subclassed – Status: Assigned

Script Loader

• Lack of escaping in Moment.js localization – Status: Closed
• Add $is_module as an extra strategy argument when enqueueing js script – Status: New

HTTP API

• Add Support to HTTP 2 in WP_Http Class – Status: New

Login and Registration

• A password change should not destroy a user’s session data – Status: New
• Long Site Titles Cause Layout Issues on wp-admin Login Page – Status: New

Media

• Improve description on image upload error – Status: Assigned
• PHP 8.1: Implicit conversion error make it impossible to crop image – Status: Closed

Embeds

• Slideshare embeds returning a 404 error – Status: New

• A `data-wp-input` directive for two-way data binding
• [FEATURE REQUEST] options page api for block development
• Interactivity API and extensibility
• Provide a framework for building out react powered settings pages
• CSS Specificity for WordPress 6.6

[Focus] Accessibility (a11y)

• Button component: aria-disabled focusable button should use consistent focus style
• Button component: link buttons should not use aria-disabled
• Global Styles: Pagination buttons must have a tooltip

[Feature] Block bindings

• Create abstractions for Block Bindings Panel and other ItemGroups
• Editing bound paragraph in post editor causes “Site Updated” message to appear

[Feature] Blocks

• Add support for section dividers in the Color section in the Inspector
• Consider adding a general purpose Link block or block supports

[Feature] Data Views

• DataViews for Posts, Categories and Tags
• Data views: Bulk toolbar covers other clickable buttons

[Feature] Patterns

• Detaching patterns not available when editing pages in the Site Editor
• The pattern shuffle feature includes synced patterns but they are inserted unsynced

[Feature] Synced Patterns

• Pattern navigation toggles zoom out view
• Pattern overrides: Initial number of number set (or $ + 2 numbers) disappear from edited Paragraph & Heading Blocks

[Feature] Template Editing Mode

• Themes: Being able to delete templates one do not plan to use

[Feature] Typography

• Font size control is broken in some classic themes on 6.6 alpha
• Update typography variations UX to resemble colors flow

[Package] Components

• Button: add support for iconPosition top and showDescription
• Text alignment controls in global styles for irrelevant blocks

[Package] Data

• Data: Stores become unresponsive when batched actions trigger an error

[Package] Scripts

• New created block doesn’t show in the block list when using devDependency latest @wordpress/scripts version 28.0.0
• Bug in @wordpress/scripts

Global Styles

• Color style variations don’t resolve CSS custom properties
• Global Styles: Can’t remove a custom color from palette in Safari

[Block] Cover

• Cover block – accept term/taxonomy featured image

[Block] List

• Support “Add Before” and “Add After” for list items

[Block] Navigation

• Navigation: Make ‘Manage menus’ button link to site-editor.php?postType=wp_navigation
• Navigation: Block toolbar obscures submenu items when Navigation block is at top of editor

[Block] Paragraph

• Paragraph block margin left and right is not working properly

[Type] Bug

• Site editor template description displays encoded characters
• Text alignment controls in global styles for irrelevant blocks
• Meta field not sent even after postmeta change on save post
• The Navigation Block has an Inline Style Without Declarations
• Appearance -> Template Parts not present for hybrid/classic theme in 6.6-beta-1
• Editing bound paragraph in post editor causes “Site Updated” message to appear
• Pattern navigation toggles zoom out view
• Pattern overrides: Initial number of number set (or $ + 2 numbers) disappear from edited Paragraph & Heading Blocks
• The pattern shuffle feature includes synced patterns but they are inserted unsynced
• Site editor template description displays encoded characters

[Type] Enhancement

• DataViews for Posts, Categories and Tags
• Button: add support for iconPosition top and showDescription
• Allow theme authors to opt out of color and typography preset autogeneration in WordPress 6.6
• Detaching patterns not available when editing pages in the Site Editor
• Create abstractions for Block Bindings Panel and other ItemGroups
• Text alignment controls in global styles for irrelevant blocks

Needs Design

• DataViews for Posts, Categories and Tags
• Consider adding a general purpose Link block or block supports

• Disable autoload for large optionsAudit Autoloaded Options Site Health should extend Core’s check if availableRun test cases with WP_DEBUG enabledConditionally load images initially-visible in some breakpoints without lazy-loading performance penaltySite Health: detect web server AVIF mime type supportImprove image handling approach in Modern Image Formatscomposer test:plugins failed with errorPrepare Performance Lab 3.2.0 releaseParse width presets for use in sizes values

• Rules for space indentation instead of tabs, specifically in multiline arrays
• The “previous” exception object can not be escaped

• What’s new for developers? (June 2024) – Status: Open

• Add editable-block-no-build example

• [HelpHub] [6.6] Advancing the new Data Views in the Site Editor
• WordCamp Europe Contributor Day – June 13, 2024 Contributor Day 
• wp_enqueue_style example brings E_NOTICE developer documentation