This Week at WordPress.org (May 25, 2024)
News
- WP Briefing: Episode 80: Unlocking Your WordPress Potential with Learn WordPress Tools
- Apply for the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship for WordCamp US 2024
- jQuery 4 Update Test
Community
DEIB Working Group
- 2024-05-17 DEIB Working Group Meeting
- [WCEU 2024] Prepare for the Contributor Day
- [Blog post] Announce Handbook Project Overtaking by the DEIB Working Group
Core
Core Trac
Results (49)
Help/About
Editor
- Block Styles: Allow registration across multiple block types at once
- I recommend adding the Table of Contents Block to WordPress version 6.6
- Editor: update all packages to the latest versions
- Issue with Custom HTML Block in Gutenberg Version 18.4
- Font Directory uploads ignore
subdirproperty - Improve consistency of root padding
- Add section styling via extended block style variations
- Negative margins for alignfull children of blocks with custom padding
Site Health
- Add “Audit Autoloaded Options” Site Health Check
- Directories and Sizes label should have translation comment that Sizes also related to db
General
- PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Undefined constant “ABSPATH” direct access to wp-includes/rss.php on line 19
- Critical error on my site
- PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Undefined constant “ABSPATH” in wp-includes/cache.php
- Backport theme.json version 3 migrations
- Remove links to https://mercantile.wordpress.org/ on WordPress.org
- HTML API: Tag bookmark length is incorrect
- Request to increase permalink character limits in WordPress
- Uncaught exception ‘Error’ with multiple messages in wp-include directory files during direct access
- wp_trigger_error() strips out allowed HTML tags
Upgrade/Install
- Plugin having dependent plugins not checkable for the bulk actions
- Plugin Dependencies: Change AJAX activation handler to restore auto-redirect after plugin activation
Bundled Theme
- Twenty-Twenty-Four: Cover-element is not displayed correctly on smartphone
- Twenty Sixteen: Code Block Background color is not reflecting in frontend
- Twenty Sixteen: pre element has less padding in the editor
- Twenty Twenty Four: The code block border color not change when we change text color from block settings
- Twenty Twenty Two theme: Search block button border not appear
- Twenty Twenty: consider improving Pullquote block padding when user adds a border
Shortcodes
Login and Registration
Administration
- WP-Admin Categories and Post Edit Page Slow Rendering Due to lot of hidden Taxonomies and Authors
- Regression with bulk checkbox on updates table
Plugins
Options, Meta APIs
Formatting
WordPress.org Site
Security
REST API
Customize
Query
HTML API
Menus
Users
Sitemaps
Gutenberg Discussions
Interactivity API
- Changelog – Tracking Breaking Changes in the Interactivity API
- Instant search based on search template FSE
- Interactivity API and extensibility
- Interactivity outside blocks or as “standalone” (like Alpine.js)?
General
- Provide a framework for building out react powered settings pages
- CSS Specificity for WordPress 6.6
- Attaching multiple handlers to an event and allowing asynchronous event handlers
HTML API
Q&A
Gutenberg Issues
Global Styles
- Update typography variations UX to resemble colors flow
- Add UI to Global styles to allow modification of font size presets
- Add UI to Global styles to allow modification of spacing scale values
- Layout Styles: Adding block gap global styles does not work for Columns block
- Layout Styles: Block list appender causes inconsistent application of layout margin styles
- Color Presets: Unexpected scroll to color presets when selecting a style variation
- Update alt text decision tree links to be translatable
- Revisiting the color purple in the editing experience
- Pattern overrides: Button and Image blocks sharing the same name have incompatible attributes
[Type] Enhancement
- Keyboard shortcut to rename a Block
- Ability to control editor preview breakpoints
- Comments Pagination: Remove unwanted bottom margin from links
- Make the ellipsis button more visible
- Enable contextual content editing from within the site editor
- Help users understand what ‘Mark as nofollow’ means in edit link control
- Attach css and js to patterns
- Inspector: Polish “Link” button / dialog for static homepage
- Sidebar panel selection should persist between blocks
- Data views: Switching layout shouldn’t reset filters
- @wordpress/scripts][markdownlint-cli] Some internal modules are deprecated.
- Need to Correct the placement of @since tag in Php Docs
- theme.json h1 tag font size is override by core heading block font size
- Pattern overrides: Button and Image blocks sharing the same name have incompatible attributes
[Type] Bug
- Publish flow: ensure setting date to the past sets the status to draft
- Publish flow: changing date/time doesn’t update in both places
- Site Editor: Unwanted top margin added to the first block inside flow layout container
- Disabling Custom Fields in Preferences prevents to listen Paste Event in Block Editor
- Paragraph block margin left and right is not working properly
- Double border on buttons with outline variation applied
- Padding component doesn’t respond for non-block theme
- Layout Styles: Adding block gap global styles does not work for Columns block
- Layout Styles: Block list appender causes inconsistent application of layout margin styles
- Color Presets: Unexpected scroll to color presets when selecting a style variation
- @wordpress/scripts][rtlcss-webpack-plugin] Some internal modules are deprecated.
- @wordpress/scripts][eslint] Some internal modules are deprecated.
- @wordpress/scripts][babel-jest] Some internal modules are deprecated.
- @wordpress/scripts][jest] Some internal modules are deprecated.
- @wordpress/scripts][npm-packlist] Some internal modules are deprecated.
- @wordpress/scripts][puppeteer-core] Some internal modules are deprecated.
- Invalid configuration object error when using –experimental-modules
- jest-console throwing errors in conjunction with jest.restoreAllMocks()
- Widgets not working when using Gutenberg editor but load fine on Classic view.
- Interactivity API: aria-modal is not sufficient to hide content from assistive technology
- Synced Pattern: A possible error when a block is unmounted
- Footnotes Do Not Appear In Search Results
- Custom template add new section Flickering issue
- Autocomplete no longer supports overlapping triggers
- Make the ellipsis button more visible
- Enable contextual content editing from within the site editor
- Latest Comments: Line Height is not reflecting in editor
- Attach css and js to patterns
- Data views: Switching layout shouldn’t reset filters
- @wordpress/scripts][markdownlint-cli] Some internal modules are deprecated.
- Invalid configuration object error when using –experimental-modules
- jest-console throwing errors in conjunction with jest.restoreAllMocks()
- Widgets not working when using Gutenberg editor but load fine on Classic view.
- Interactivity API: aria-modal is not sufficient to hide content from assistive technology
- Synced Pattern: A possible error when a block is unmounted
- Footnotes Do Not Appear In Search Results
- Custom template add new section Flickering issue
- Autocomplete no longer supports overlapping triggers
- @wordpress/scripts][eslint] Some internal modules are deprecated.
- @wordpress/scripts][babel-jest] Some internal modules are deprecated.
- @wordpress/scripts][jest] Some internal modules are deprecated.
- @wordpress/scripts][npm-packlist] Some internal modules are deprecated.
- @wordpress/scripts][puppeteer-core] Some internal modules are deprecated.
[Feature] Site Editor
- Site Editor: The sidebar becomes inaccessible on mobile when editing Templates, Pages, and Patterns
- Site Editor: Pages three pane view overlaps on certain screen sizes
- Site Editor inconsistencies with section labels, descriptions, and “Add new” buttons
- Page Inspector: Move page attributes UI to updated summary panel
- Post Inspector: Move taxonomy term select UI (categories + tags) to updated summary panel
- Enable contextual content editing from within the site editor
[Feature] Patterns
- Comments and Pingbacks get cleared out when a pattern is edited (within the editor) and a metabox is shown
- Filtering ‘My patterns’ category in the Inserter is a bit clunky
- Pattern overrides: Button and Image blocks sharing the same name have incompatible attributes
[Focus] Accessibility (a11y)
- Interactivity API: aria-modal is not sufficient to hide content from assistive technology
- Consistent Sidebar DOM and Open/Closing Interactions
- Make the ellipsis button more visible
- @wordpress/scripts][puppeteer-core] Some internal modules are deprecated.
[Feature] Link Editing
Performance
- Improve image handling approach in Modern Image Formats
- Improve Settings for Modern Image Formats
- composer test failed with error
- Prepare Performance Lab 3.2.0 release
- Parse width presets for use in sizes values
- Trac 61276: Add Audit Autoloaded Options Site Health Check
- Parse padding presets for use in sizes values
- Promote new features when they are added to the plugin
Core Meetings
- Summary, Dev Chat, May 29, 2024
- Performance Chat Summary: 28 May 2024
- Agenda, Dev Chat, Wednesday May 29, 2024
- Summary, Dev Chat, May 22, 2024
Developer Blog:
WordPress Developer Blog Content Discussions
- What’s new for developers? (June 2024) – Status: Open
DevHub Block Examples
Design
do_action
Documentation
Documentation-Issue-Tracker
Hosting
Five for the Future
- Organizations sponsoring non-staff
- Update PHPCS runner
- Pledges with either 0 hours or 0 individuals should be hidden
Marketing
Media Corp
Meta
WP Org Main (Theme)
Openverse
Openverse GitHub
- Include report filing in admin media view
- Make admin media endpoint work for all media items not just those with reports
- New About page
- Add support for aliases in
ov - Use
ovin CI/CD workflows - Capture thumbnails during Europeana ingestion
- Local Plausible setup can fail
- Add a favicon to our Docs site
- Create a script for load-testing the frontend
Playground
- Scaling GitHub proxy
- Blueprints Builder: Offer the possibility to load the blueprints at the Blueprints Gallery directly within the Blueprints Builder
- Enable networking for WordPress PR viewer
- Rotate PHP runtime on crash so it can continue to satisfy subsequent requests
- SQL and JS errors with Yoast SEO
- Error modal doesn’t show WordPress debug logs
- Update blueprint builder to include $schema and remove some unnecessary entries
- Import WXR: Post authors not mapping
Plugins
Polyglots
- Translation Events: Inviting GTEs to Create and Manage Events
- Agenda: Weekly Polyglots Chat – May 29, 2024 (07:00 UTC)
- What to display when there are no new events
- test_get_past_events_for_user is flaky
Project
Sustainability
Test
Themes
- Themes Team Meeting Notes – May 28, 2024
- WordCamp Europe 2024: Theme’s team table on contributor day
- Themes team update May 28, 2024
Community Themes
Training
- Proposal: Learn WordPress Content Maintenance Process
- Training Team Meeting Recap – 23rd May 2024
- WordCamp Europe 2024 Contributor Day
Learn Issues
Accessibility
Theme and Design
- RTL Audit
- Add My Courses link to local navigation
- Add featured image to upcoming online workshop cards
- Add fallback image in cards for Courses and Lessons
- Complete footer content
- Add subscription form to footer
Translations
- Bangla translation for “Exploring category templates with block themes”
- Bangla translation for “Applying duotone filters to change color effects”
Workshops and Courses
- Online Workshop: Recording awesome videos for WordPress demos, courses, and more
- Online Workshop: Using the Interactivity API outside of WordPress
Administration and Feedback
- Requests to paginated views of the homepage should redirect to the homepage
- How to Change the WordPress Administration Email Address Without email Verification
- Feedback – Image Comparison Problem (Single Image Adde)
Meetings and Agendas
Courses
Online Workshops
- Developer Hours: Exploring Synced Pattern Overrides in WordPress 6.6
- Recording awesome videos for WordPress demos, courses, and more
- Using the Interactivity API outside of WordPress
WPTV
- Upgrading jQuery: Working Towards a Healthy Web – jQuery 4.0.0 BETA
- Curl 8.8.0 – NEW
- Node 22.2.0
- React 18.3.1 / React 19 Upgrade Guide
- PHP 8.3.7
- PHP 8.2.19
- PHP 8.1.28
- PHPCS 3.10.1
- WPCS 3.1.0
- Requests 2.0.11
- PHPMailer 6.9.1
- LibZip 1.10.1
- Changes in MySQL 8.4.1 (Not yet released, LTS Release) – New
- Composer 2.7.6
- Homebrew 4.3.2 – NEW
- TC39
- Chromium Roadmap
- Firefox Release Calendar
- Safari Release Notes
- Safari 17.5 Release Notes
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