WordPress 6.6 Beta 3 🆕 Theme Directory Refresh 📚 Contributor Handbook v2 📆 Sustainable Events 🌐 Rosetta Sites > New Theme

• Site-wide background images in WordPress 6.6
• Theme.json version 3
• Social Links block changes in WordPress 6.6
• Options API: Disabling autoload for large options
• Improvements to active block variation detection
• Grid layout type
• Preparation for React 19 Upgrade
• JSX in WordPress 6.6
• WordPress 6.6 release squad ready
• Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.6

• Enhance performance tools – Status: open
• Fix bug in performance metrics – Status: closed
• Improve performance tracking – Status: open
• Optimize performance analysis – Status: closed
• Add support for new performance features – Status: open
• Fix issue with performance reports – Status: closed
• Enhance performance documentation – Status: open
• Improve performance security – Status: closed
• Optimize performance settings – Status: open
• Fix bug in performance options – Status: closed
• Enhance performance design – Status: open
• Improve performance accessibility – Status: closed
• Add new performance templates – Status: open
• Fix issue with performance compatibility – Status: closed
• Enhance performance support – Status: open
• Optimize performance framework – Status: closed
• Improve performance deployment – Status: open

Administration

• Escape Output in Storage Count List Item Class – Status: New
• problems with classic editor and password protected pages – Status: Closed

Bundled Theme

• Twenty Seventeen: Search Block Clear text button not showing on frontend – Status: Closed
• Twenty Twenty: Login/out block font family is different in the editor when added to a post – Status: New
• Twenty Nineteen: Media & Text Block text color and font size issue on editor side – Status: New
• Twenty Twenty-Two: Latest comments block left alignment makes the comment next to it – Status: New
• Twenty Fourteen: List block font size is smaller in the editor than on the front end – Status: Closed
• UI Glitch on Themes install page – Status: Closed
• Twenty Twenty-Four: Current screenshot has visible drop shadow, replace screenshot – Status: Closed

Cache API

• Inconsistent cache handling for network (site) meta – Status: New

Comments

• Exipre comment author cookies after 1 year (rather than 0.95129375951 of a year) – Status: Closed
• DivisionByZero issue for comments on PHP8.0+ – Status: New

Cron API

• The recovery_mode_clean_expired_keys cron event is orphaned after converting to Multisite – Status: New

Editor

• Improve class WP_Theme_JSON tests – Status: Closed
• Site editor template description displays encoded characters – Status: New
• Color for search block does not reflect – Status: New
• Editor: update all npm packages for WP 6.6 Beta 2 – Status: Closed
• Editor: update packages for 6.6 Beta 3 – Status: Closed
• Blocks: Efficiently find and traverse blocks in a document – Status: New
• Move content processing in get_the_block_template_html() to filters – Status: Assigned
• Fix root padding for children of alignfull flow layouts – Status: Closed
• registerBlockVariation not holding the blockName param – Status: New
• Fix custom CSS output for block style variations – Status: Closed
• Twenty Fourteen: post content links are not underlined in the editor – Status: New
• Theme JSON: Add missing i18n for variation titles in theme.json – Status: Closed
• Prevent redundant block style variation CSS – Status: Closed
• Improve performance of block style variation registration and retrieval – Status: New

General

• ACF field not supporting in spectra plugin – Status: Closed
• Can’t log into your account – Status: Closed
• Remove unnecessary space – Status: Closed
• Improper docblock definition structure for blocks apply_block_hooks_to_content() function – Status: Closed
• Remove Extra spaces – Status: Closed
• Add missing full stop in wp-includes/class-wp-duotone.php file – Status: Closed
• Fix inconsistency of block style variation names causing duplicate UI options – Status: Closed
• Reading Settings Section not load properly – Status: Reopened
• Error message: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded – Status: Closed
• 403 error on all my published posts – Status: New
• Bulk actions are not working in the editor – Status: Closed
• Remove Content-Security-Policy headers: ‘unsafe-inline’, ‘unsafe-eval’ – Status: Closed
• The pagination results in the Popular Plugins screen is broken – Status: New
• The “is_ssl()” function fails to get the correct protocol when WordPress is deployed on an upstream server – Status: Closed
• 5 WordPress sites suddenly stopped working – Status: Closed
• error in select all box for updates – Status: Closed
• Block fails to register with wp-scripts v28.0.0 – Status: Closed
• Residual of block found in get_blocks_metadata even when block is unregistered using unregister_block_type() – Status: New
• Consistent use of placement of button and link to continue installer or login – Status: New
• Display name doesn’t update correctly when first and last name fields are cleared – Status: New
• Add new filter to attachment_url_to_postid() for short circuit – Status: New
• Interactivity API: not working in classic theme – Status: Closed
• Updating to 6.5.4 makes access to the admin plugin page impossible – Status: Closed
• Synced patterns can not be used on site if pages are copied – Status: New

HTML API

• Revert using regex in block bindings HTML replacement logic – Status: Closed
• HTML Processor: ::create_fragment returns self when subclassed – Status: Closed
• HTML API: Add type annotations – Status: Assigned

Interactivity API

• Adding escaping function in wp_interactivity_data_wp_context PHPDoc – Status: Accepted

Media

• PHP 8.1: Implicit conversion error make it impossible to crop image – Status: Closed
• Inconsistent image scaling error – Status: New
• Featured Image not showing in v6.5.4 – Status: New
• Missing src attribute on <audio> tag prevents m4a audio files playing in safari – Status: New
• Issue with returned url on wp_get_attachment_image_src using FSE – Status: Closed
• Update recommended version of MariaDB to 10.5 or later (https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/61458) – Status: Closed
• ‘src’ not in $attr for wp_get_loading_optimization_attributes – Status: New

Networks and Sites

• 403 error on all my published posts – Status: New

Permalinks

• Trailing Slash Issue in Category Pagination URLs with the_posts_pagination() – Status: New

Plugins

• Bulk update plugins no longer working when 1 Plugin failed to update – Status: New
• allow to disable plugin dependencies feature – Status: New
• New plugins list item breaks if WP version is incompatible – Status: New

Post Thumbnails

• Featured Image not showing in v6.5.4 – Status: New

Quick/Bulk Edit

• JQMIGRATE warnings for bulk edit – Status: New

REST API

• REST API: If Super Admin does not exist in subsite, retrieving users is rejected – Status: New

Script Loader

• Style dependencies are not inlined – Status: New

Security

• remove Content-Security-Policy headers: ‘unsafe-inline’, ‘unsafe-eval’ – Status: Closed

Taxonomy

• Duplicate terms with names in non-ASCII characters in different cases – Status: New
• Taxonomy: Unused variable in wp_set_object_terms() – Status: Closed

Themes

• WordPress 6.6 Beta 1 search box in add themes is misaligned – Status: Closed
• Site logo returns image attachment when no logo is defined – Status: Closed

Upgrade/Install

• Disable maintenance mode when core auto-update fails – Status: Closed
• Delay automatic updates after installation – Status: Closed
• Maintenance Error on Login After Setting Up WordPress 6.6 Beta 1 on Localhost – Status: Reopened

Users

• Add a ‘pre_delete_user’ filter to allows some checks to potentially prevent user deletion – Status: New

Widgets

• Add Cara and Bluesky Icons – Status: New
• Calendar Bug – Status: Closed
• Twenty Nineteen: Button block Appearance setting (font-weight) is not working – Status: New

• Conflict of two Query Loop Variation blocks on the same page.
• Incorporating CSS Encapsulation in create-block Plugin Setup
• Optimistic updates for region based navigation
• @wordpress create-block doesn’t work out of the box for me
• [Suggestion] Post Modified Date block – Fallback to published date
• Core/query-loop help with global $wp-query
• Changing the save function without deprecation
• Disable block controls in a block template
• Possible to use Dataviews on admin page?
• A `data-wp-input` directive for two-way data binding
• [FEATURE REQUEST] options page api for block development

Accessibility

• Bug – Media & Text block – Link doesn’t work when a media item is added – Status: Open
• Accessibility issue with column resizing – Status: Open
• Screen reader issue with image block – Status: Open

Block Editor

• Block Editor not loading in some themes – Status: Open
• Custom CSS not applying to block editor – Status: Open
• Block editor freezing on large pages – Status: Open
• Issues with reusable blocks – Status: Open

Block Library

• Feature request – New block for social media icons – Status: Open
• Bug – Gallery block layout issues – Status: Open
• Block library – Enhancements needed for the audio block – Status: Open
• New feature – Add custom attributes to block library – Status: Open

Core

• Core updates causing issues with older plugins – Status: Open
• Bug – Core functions not working as expected – Status: Open
• Core – Feature request for improved REST API – Status: Open

Design Tools

• Design tools – Need better color picker options – Status: Open
• Bug – Design tools not saving changes – Status: Open
• New feature – Add gradient background options – Status: Open

Documentation

• Documentation updates needed for new features – Status: Open
• Documentation error in block registration – Status: Open
• Need better examples in documentation – Status: Open

General

• General performance improvements – Status: Open
• General bug – Intermittent issues with save function – Status: Open
• General feature request – Better support for RTL languages – Status: Open

Global Styles

• Global styles – Add more typography options – Status: Open
• Bug – Global styles not applying correctly – Status: Open
• Feature request – Global styles for custom post types – Status: Open

Gutenberg Plugin

• Gutenberg plugin – Compatibility issues with other plugins – Status: Open
• Bug – Gutenberg plugin causing site to crash – Status: Open
• Feature request – Add more block options in Gutenberg plugin – Status: Open

Mobile

• Mobile – Issues with block alignment on mobile – Status: Open
• Bug – Mobile editor not saving changes – Status: Open
• Feature request – Better mobile previews – Status: Open

Performance

• Performance issues with large number of blocks – Status: Open
• Performance – Slow loading times in block editor – Status: Open
• Feature request – Performance improvements for media blocks – Status: Open

REST API

• REST API – Add support for new block types – Status: Open
• Bug – REST API not returning correct data – Status: Open
• Feature request – Extend REST API for better integration – Status: Open

Security

• Security issue with file uploads – Status: Open
• Bug – Security settings not applying correctly – Status: Open
• Feature request – Enhanced security for block editor – Status: Open

Themes

• Themes – Issues with theme compatibility – Status: Open
• Bug – Theme styles not loading in editor – Status: Open
• Feature request – Better theme support in block editor – Status: Open

UI/UX

• UI/UX – Improvements needed for block inserter – Status: Open
• Bug – UI/UX issues with block settings – Status: Open
• Feature request – Enhanced UI/UX for mobile editor – Status: Open

Widgets

• Widgets – Issues with custom widgets – Status: Open
• Bug – Widgets not saving changes – Status: Open
• Feature request – Add more widget options – Status: Open

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

• Add Developer Hours recordings to the site
• Color and typography variations/options in WP 6.6
• Tutorial on using block style variations in WordPress 6.6
• An introduction to overrides in synced patterns
• Creating a low-code block theme development workflow with WordPress Playground and the Create Block Theme plugin
• The WordPress Developer Survey
• Curating the Editor Experience: Tips & Tricks
• How JSON schema versioning works and how it’s different from the theme.json version
• Customizing and extending the Formatting Toolbar
• Classic themes: tutorial on moving away from widgets to template parts
• Performance best practices
• Tutorial on how to create custom components
• Bad coding practices with Block Themes
• Version Control Considerations and Workflows in a Site Editing paradigm
• How to use WordPress Playground for handovers
• WP-CLI for site owners and admins
• Timeline block with animated line (Interactivity API)
• Using Data Views in your plugin/preparing for the future
• A real-world use case: custom meta + block bindings + variations + usage in templates
• Share change in process for agencies building sites with the site editor
• How to register block variations with PHP in WP 6.5
• Case Study: How Pew Research Center is using the interactivity api to use blocks as interactive components
• Patterns – tips and tricks for developers
• Box Shadow – a sneak peek
• Tutorial on how to create a custom font collection
• Tutorial on WP 6.5’s Block Bindings API and connecting custom fields
• What you *can* and *cannot* do with PHP in patterns
• Learnings from two Site Migrations
• Updates from the Developer Blog: January 10, 2024
• Migrate classic sidebars and widgets to block for themers
• React best practices and pitfalls
• Tutorial on building a “hover reveal” pattern
• Overview of “block theme” stuff you can do with classic/hybrid themes
• First Editorial Group meeting in 2024
• How to build a theme demo with WP Playground blueprints
• Why you might not need a child theme
• Building dynamic attachment templates in block themes
• Tutorial on using create-block scaffolding to write a multi-block plugin
• How to add a template via a plugin (podcast, woo, LMS)
• Pitfalls working with @wordpress/data, useSelect and useDispatch and how to avoid those.
• Introduction on using Gutenberg components for plugin pages
• Tutorial: Creating a mega menu with the block system
• Adding a “screen reader text” block option via themes
• Tutorial: Adding Starter Page and Template Patterns
• Dev Blog: 2023 Year in Review
• A walk-through tutorial on using the Create Block Theme plugin
• Proposal: An update to the Field Guide
• An overview of the “Block hooks” feature
• Creating a custom External Template for the @wordpress/create-block package
• Overview of the coding standards tooling available to WordPress developers
• New developer focused workflow article about how the login and registration works in WordPress.
• How to add commands to the command palette
• A tutorial on how to create block variations
• Periodic video round-ups
• A first look at the Interactivity API
• Working with custom slotfills
• How to disable specific blocks in WordPress
• Attributes: what do the source and selector properties do?
• A tutorial about the highlights of the browser and focus modes of the Navigation Block
• 10 things that all WordPress plugin developers should avoid
• Exploring the future of web development with WebAssembly and PHP
• Taking advantage of settings.custom in theme.json
• When Block Styles Are Not Enough: Extending Blocks in Themes
• Using CSS custom properties in a block.
• Examples using the _fields and _embed parameters
• Migrate custom post type with classic metaboxes to the Gutenberg UI
• Nicer UX with custom template part areas
• Summary Editorial Meeting May 4th, 2023
• Why you need a multisite and how to build one
• WordPress architecture from foundation to skyscrapers
• Tutorial on building block-based templates in classic themes
• How to manage block governance
• Share post announcing removal of some APIs
• Adding custom color options for blocks
• How to create block plugin using WordPress core blocks
• Tutorial on building patterns and block styles with Details/Summary block
• Tutorial on style variations in theme.json
• How to add starter content to WordPress themes
• Make your site’s typography make a statement.
• Performance benefits of creating your site with WordPress in 2023
• Navigating the Block Editor Handbook
• Using the Grid layout type for theme creators
• theme.json custom CSS tutorial
• A Deep-dive Tutorial on the New Style Book
• Tutorial on how to use theme.json filters

• Multi Block Build and Plugin/SlotFill (or Custom Data Store) not specifically related to a block (or specific block)
• Which example would you like to see in this repository?
• Welcome to gutenberg-examples Discussions!

Component: Plugin Handbook

• Page images on wporg are not displaying – Status: open
• Update page “In-line Documentation Standards” – Status: open

Component: Developer Hub

• WordPress Theme Handbook: Clearer distinction for Plugin Authors and Plugin Developers – Status: closed
• How to set a proper schema for sub resource integrity? – Status: closed

Component: Core Handbook

• Update Code of Conduct in WordPress Core Handbook – Status: open
• Missing “safe_redirect” function in the Codex – Status: closed

Component: HelpHub

• Incorrect link in an article – Status: closed
• Create anchor links on the “WordPress User Roles” page – Status: open

Component: Developer Docs

• Fix a missing reference link – Status: open
• Update Code of Conduct – Status: closed

Component: General

• Add new-in WP version to hooks & classes – Status: closed
• Fix outdated link – Status: closed
• Add note about “generate_ssl_verification” filter – Status: closed
• Broken link to VVV howto – Status: open
• Add information about wp_ajax_nopriv_ – Status: closed
• Fix typo in “Settings API” – Status: closed
• Missing references for is_rest_request() – Status: closed
• Update the list of bundled themes – Status: closed
• Add note for “rewrite_rules_array” filter – Status: closed
• Improve search results in developer documentation – Status: open
• Typo in “Multisite Network Administration” – Status: closed

Component: Block Editor Handbook

• Add missing use_block_editor_for_post filter – Status: closed
• Document new block_editor_rest_api_preload_paths filter – Status: closed
• Add note about “set-mt” filter – Status: closed

Component: Plugin Developer Handbook

• Document wp_skip_dev_password_changes filter – Status: closed
• Fix outdated link – Status: closed
• Fix a missing reference link – Status: closed
• Document new wp_get_attachment_image_srcset filter – Status: closed

Component: Theme Handbook

• Document wp_get_attachment_image_srcset filter – Status: closed
• Fix typo in “Theme Handbook” – Status: closed
• Add add_settings_error function – Status: closed
• Update examples for wp_mail function – Status: closed

Component: REST API Handbook

• Fix broken example link – Status: closed
• Add note about “wp_is_site_initialized” function – Status: closed
• Fix typo in “REST API Handbook” – Status: closed
• Document get_block_file_path function – Status: closed

Component: Security Handbook

• Fix typo in “Security Handbook” – Status: closed
• Document sanitize_key function – Status: closed

Component: Design Handbook

• Fix typo in “Design Handbook” – Status: closed
• Document wp_send_json_success function – Status: closed

Component: Miscellaneous

• Fix outdated link – Status: closed
• Add information about wp_ajax_ – Status: closed
• Fix typo in “Miscellaneous” – Status: closed
• Document wp_nonce_ays function – Status: closed

Component: Mobile Handbook

• Fix typo in “Mobile Handbook” – Status: closed
• Document wp_localize_script function – Status: closed

Component: Installation Handbook

• Fix typo in “Installation Handbook” – Status: closed
• Document wp_register_script function – Status: closed

Component: Coding Standards Handbook

• Fix typo in “Coding Standards Handbook” – Status: closed
• Document wp_register_style function – Status: closed

Component: Performance Handbook

• Fix typo in “Performance Handbook” – Status: closed
• Document wp_add_inline_script function – Status: closed

Component: Database Handbook

• Fix typo in “Database Handbook” – Status: closed
• Document wp_add_inline_style function – Status: closed

API

• Update Credits for WordPress 6.5.4 – Status: Closed

Handbooks

• Broken link to VVV howto – Status: New

International Forums

• Switch international support sites to new theme – Status: New

Make (Get Involved) / P2

• underline the link for “contributor wizard” message – Status: Closed
• Allow assigning badges manually to sustainability team members and contributors – Status: Closed

Photo Directory

• Photos: Add the ability for folks to share how they used a photo and to have that sent to the photo contributor – Status: New

Profiles

• Request for a badge for the sustainability team – Status: Closed

Support Forums

• Alter sensitive data replacement mechanism – Status: New
• Change help link in editor – Status: Closed

Trac

• New Trac text line-height hinders readability – Status: Closed

Version Control

• core release process: Verify ZIP recreation is intended – Status: New

WordPress.org Site

• Permanently deleted media files are still on the server – Status: Closed
• Lang guess: Support learn.wordpress.org – Status: Closed
• Bump recommended MariaDB version to 10.5 – Status: Closed

WordPress.tv

• WordPress.tv comments – list not formatted properly – Status: Closed