


<h2>Update on the Webfonts API and Style Variations in Twenty Twenty-Two</h2>



<p>A <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/04/wordpress-6-0-beta-1/">prior announcement</a> for WordPress 6.0 Beta 1 included a reference to “Webfonts API:<strong> </strong>Manage local fonts with PHP or theme.json”, as a feature that would be included in the release. WordPress 6.0 Beta 3 will allow theme authors to use webfonts in theme.json, with a public API for plugins to register and enqueue webfonts available in a future version for WordPress. Beta 3 will also include <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55433">three new style variations</a> to the Twenty Twenty-Two default theme.</p>



<h2>How to Help</h2>



<p>Testing for issues is critical for stabilizing a release throughout its development. Testing is also a great way to contribute to WordPress. If you are new to testing, check out this <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/04/12/help-wanted-test-wordpress-6-0/">detailed guide</a> that will walk you through how to get started.</p>



<p>If you think you have run into an issue, please report it to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/">Alpha/Beta area</a> in the support forums. If you are comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, you can <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket">file one on WordPress Trac</a>. This is also where you can find a list of <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/tickets/major">known bugs</a>.</p>



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<p>Thank you to the following contributors for collaborating on this post: <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/dansoschin/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>dansoschin</a>&nbsp; <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>webcommsat</a>, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>audrasjb</a></p>



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<p><strong>And now another WordPress haiku:</strong></p>



<p>Release day is near<br>6.0 abounds with joy<br>New features soon here</p>
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<p>WordPress 6.0 Beta 2 is now available for testing!</p>



<p><strong>This version of the WordPress software is under development</strong>. Please do not install, run, and test this version of WordPress on a production or mission-critical website. Instead, it is recommended that you test Beta 2 on a test server and site.&nbsp;</p>



<p>You can test the WordPress 6.0 Beta 2 in three ways:</p>



<p><strong>Option 1: </strong>Install and activate the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin (select the “Bleeding edge” channel and “Beta/RC Only” stream).</p>



<p><strong>Option 2: </strong>Direct download the<a href="https://wordpress.org/wordpress-6.0-beta2.zip"> beta version here (zip)</a>.</p>



<p><strong>Option 3:</strong> Use WP-CLI to test: <code>wp core update --version=6.0-beta2</code><br><strong><em>Do not use this option if your filesystem is case-insensitive.</em></strong></p>



<p>The current target for the final release is May 24, 2022, which is about five weeks away.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Additional information on the full <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-0/">6.0 release cycle is available</a>.</p>



<p>Check the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/">Make WordPress Core blog</a> for <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/dev-notes+6-0/">6.0-related developer notes</a> in the coming weeks, which will detail all upcoming changes.</p>



<h2><strong>What’s New In Beta 2</strong></h2>



<p>As a reminder, contributors have fixed&nbsp;<a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;resolution=fixed&amp;milestone=6.0&amp;group=component&amp;order=priority">209 tickets in WordPress 6.0</a>, including&nbsp;<a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;status=reopened&amp;changetime=04%2F12%2F2022..04%2F19%2F2022&amp;type=enhancement&amp;type=feature+request&amp;milestone=6.0&amp;group=component&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=type&amp;col=status&amp;col=milestone&amp;col=changetime&amp;col=owner&amp;col=priority&amp;col=keywords&amp;order=changetime">110 new features and enhancements</a>. Each beta cycle focuses on bug fixes, and more are on the way with your help through testing. Here are a few of the changes you will find in Beta 2 specifically:&nbsp;</p>



<ul><li>Block Editor: Prevent styles from being added to the site editor (#<a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55567">55567</a>)</li><li>Patterns REST API: Add &#8216;inserter&#8217; to the schema&nbsp; (#<a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55567">55567</a>)</li><li>Don’t load remote patterns twice in WP_REST_Block_Patterns_Controller::get_items (#<a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55567">55567</a>)</li><li>Add the ability to filter the whole notification email in retrieve_password (<a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/54690">#54690</a>)</li><li>Avoid translating empty plugin headers (<a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/54586">#54586</a>)</li></ul>



<h3><strong>Note on Webfonts API</strong></h3>



<p>Last week’s announcement for <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/04/wordpress-6-0-beta-1/">WordPress 6.0 Beta 1</a> includes a reference to “Webfonts API:<strong> </strong>Manage local fonts with PHP or theme.json,” as a feature that would be included in the release. This specific functionality was not included in Beta 2 but may be available at RC.</p>



<h2><strong>How to Help</strong></h2>



<p>Testing for issues is critical for stabilizing a release throughout its development. Testing is also a great way to contribute to WordPress. If you are new to testing, check out this <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/04/12/help-wanted-test-wordpress-6-0/">detailed guide</a> that will walk you through how to get started.</p>



<p>If you think you have run into an issue, please report it to the<a href="https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/"> Alpha/Beta area</a> in the support forums. If you are comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, you can<a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket"> file one on WordPress Trac</a>. This is also where you can find a list of<a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/tickets/major"> known bugs</a>.</p>



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<p>Thank you to the following contributors for collaborating on this post: <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/dansoschin/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>dansoschin</a>, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/annezazu/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>annezazu</a>, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/costdev/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>costdev</a>, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/priethor/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>priethor</a></p>



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<h4>And now a WordPress Haiku:</h4>



<p>We code fervently</p>



<p>A breathless pause for the test</p>



<p>Key tapping resumes</p>
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<p>In the twenty-ninth episode of the WordPress Briefing, Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy reminds us of our WordPress roots &#8212; blogging &#8212; and discusses the basics of starting your first blog on WordPress.</p>



<p><em><strong>Have a question you&#8217;d like answered? You can submit them to <a href="mailto:wpbriefing@wordpress.org">wpbriefing@wordpress.org</a>, either written or as a voice recording.</strong></em></p>



<h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>



<ul><li>Editor:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dustinhartzler/">Dustin Hartzler</a></li><li>Logo:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/beafialho/">Beatriz Fialho</a></li><li>Production:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/santanainniss/">Santana Inniss</a> </li><li>Song: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod</li></ul>



<h2>References</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/course/getting-started-with-wordpress-get-setup/">Getting Started with WordPress: Get Setup</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/04/07/6-0-product-walk-through-recap/">6.0 Product Walkthrough</a></li><li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/wordpress-social-learning/events/285233962/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.meetup.com/wordpress-social-learning/events/285233962/">How to Make a WordPress Blog Social Learning Space Event </a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/events/">Upcoming WordPress Events</a></li><li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/pro/wordpress/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.meetup.com/pro/wordpress/">WordPress Meetup Groups</a></li></ul>



<h2>Transcript</h2>



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<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:00:00] </strong>&nbsp;</p>



<p>Hello everyone. And welcome to the WordPress Briefing. The podcast where you can catch quick explanations of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project, some insight into the community that supports it, and get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I&#8217;m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy.</p>



<p>Here we go.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:00:39] </strong>&nbsp;</p>



<p>All right. So you&#8217;ve been listening to this podcast for a while. You may be one of these contributors I keep mentioning; you may be an agency owner or freelancer. Maybe you&#8217;ve wondered how to make a WordPress blog for your big idea. Or, maybe you&#8217;re one of the many people who use WordPress for their project or business. Before WordPress was known as a content management system, as a way to get sites online fast, it was a blogging tool.</p>



<p>We have long since outgrown that, but even 19 years into our journey, blogging is still a key part of what WordPress enables you to do. That&#8217;s because even after those 19 years, the mission of WordPress is still the same. And that is to democratize publishing, to help people have a place online where they can tell their stories or share their projects or set up their businesses.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;ve ever tried to set up a blog, you know that there isn&#8217;t a lot of information about what to know before you get going at all. So I&#8217;m going to talk about that a little bit today. And just by the way, if you heard the word blog right now and thought, oh, Josepha, how old fashioned? I think it&#8217;s important to remember that there&#8217;s a business advantage to having well-written, relevant content on your website.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:01:59]</strong></p>



<p>And if you&#8217;re not blogging for business, because not all of us are, then the benefits are a little different but still important to my mind. Things like the cathartic benefits of journaling, a chance to build community, and the general importance of preserving wisdom for the ages. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Before we can get to any of the fancy things that WordPress can do nowadays, it&#8217;s important to know a few things as you get ready to set up your first ever website.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p>So let&#8217;s dive in. Here is how you need to get yourself started. First, have an idea and a plan. So have an idea for what you&#8217;re doing, the concept of your content, who you want to reach, and some concept of a domain name. I would encourage you to not necessarily get your heart set on a domain name at first. Cause, like, if you want the domain name, wordpress.org, like we own that, you can have that! But if you know that you want a domain like WordPressbloggingforthefuture.com, like that one might be more available. And if you know the kind of words you want in your domain, you can be a bit flexible about what is there.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:03:09]</strong></p>



<p>The second thing that you need to do is that if you are just getting started, ask yourself the question, what sort of host do I want? We kind of mentioned all along the WordPress process that, like, you need a good host, but it’s not always clear where that decision has to happen. It happens right here at the start, before you even know what WordPress is most of the time.</p>



<p>So, the earliest question that you have to answer for yourself is what sort of host do I want? Where do I want my site to live? So ask yourself how much you want to get into the maintenance and configuration of your website and the hardware that it lives on versus creating content or keeping your shop up to date.&nbsp;</p>



<p>There&#8217;s this whole spectrum of hosting options, and they range from full service where they will keep your WordPress software up to date, provide daily backups, and have customer support if something goes really wrong. So it ranges all the way from full service like that all the way down to essentially zero services, just kind of hands-off.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:04:11]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>They give you a space to keep your WordPress software, to keep your WordPress site. But they leave everything else up to you. They leave the backups up to you. They leave updating up to you, things like. So that&#8217;s the first thing you have to ask yourself. And the first question you have to be able to answer. Most of the time, you will want to start with one of the full-service options. That way, you know that your software is set up correctly and safely from the start. And as you learn more about the software and what you want and what you need, and you have the ability to learn in the time that you have, the more that you can add on either service with the existing hosts that you chose or moving to a different host; however that works out for you.</p>



<p>So if that one sounds like the right option, then you choose a host, go to their site, and actually most of them will have a way to walk you through how to set up a WordPress site inside their system. Most of the time, it&#8217;s just one click and then they ask you some questions to get some configurations right.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:05:10]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>The other option that on the like zero, zero service side, that&#8217;s not quite fair, but you know, the other side of that spectrum that probably will be appealing to you if you are already familiar with code or already know how to manage a server or, or you know how to work in this thing called c-panel, et cetera.</p>



<p>So if you already have a lot of information on how all of that works, you can, if you want to, head over to wordpress.org/download, and you can download a zip file of the WordPress software and set that up in your own environment.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Okay, quick check here. If this all sounds roughly doable to you, or at least it feels like we&#8217;re in the right starting point, but you find yourself thinking, gosh, I just wish she would slow down a little.</p>



<p>I&#8217;ve got you covered. In the show notes, you&#8217;ll find a link to one of the Learn WP courses for getting started with WordPress. There&#8217;s a section on choosing a host as well as various other early steps of this process. So if you felt like I blazed through all of that, which honestly I kind of did, you can work through those lessons in that course, at your own pace, and it&#8217;s, and it&#8217;s really a very good guide.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:06:24]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>All right. Let&#8217;s pretend we did all of that. Now you&#8217;ve got yourself a website. The thing that you will want to do next, or rather the first thing that you&#8217;ll notice once you get your site up and running, is that there&#8217;s this ‘Hello World’ post– there&#8217;s a post that already exists in there. The Hello World post is a placeholder for the common features of a blog post.</p>



<p>There, you can find your featured image, your title, your content, and even some fake comments. You can either edit this post so that you can see how your writing will look from the start, and you can kind of compare like, okay, the Hello World part over here on this page, exists in this field over here on this page. So you can kind of see where everything works, how it all looks together. Or, if you&#8217;re more familiar with WordPress or CMS in general, you can simply remove that and start fresh.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:07:17]</strong></p>



<p>So we&#8217;ve got now a website, we know, kind of, how to look at our posts and create posts, where comments are, where they can kind of be moderated and stuff. And so, the most fun task for everyone is choosing a theme. But if it&#8217;s not a fun task, if it doesn&#8217;t sound like a fun task to you, I can help you kind of do some, choose your own adventure guiding questions here.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Firstly, you can ask yourself how you want the site to look. Do you want it to mostly be a lot of photos or entirely words, mostly animations? You can head to the theme directory and search for a theme with most of the features that you want. There&#8217;s like a filtering system where you can put in, like, you want three columns so that you can have three columns of text if you want it to look kind of like an old school newspaper kind of layout and things like.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:08:12]</strong></p>



<p>There&#8217;s also a way to look for themes inside your instance, your WordPress site, but like, if you haven&#8217;t set that up yet, but you do still want to see kind of what your theme options are, you can go to wordpress.org/themes and and take a look at what&#8217;s out there. Just as a quick side note, if you get to that theme directory, if you get to wordpress.org/themes, and it feels overwhelming, which I can understand, I recommend starting with a theme that is designed for blogging specifically so that you can see how things look right away.</p>



<p>And there&#8217;s actually a theme that does come with every WordPress site. So if you&#8217;re not ready, you can skip this thing entirely and just work with the theme that&#8217;s already there. Every word, press instance ships with a theme and it is fully functional when you, when you get your site up and running. So you don&#8217;t need to choose a theme right now if you don&#8217;t feel ready.</p>



<p>And then the other very fun thing that people do with their WordPress sites is to add plugins to them. So plugins are these little pieces of software that you add on to the WordPress software that lets it do additional things. It adds additional functionality. The questions that you can ask to kind of guide yourself through what sorts of plugins you might want, what sorts of functionality you might want to add to your site are a little similar to the ones that you want to ask for figuring out which theme.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:09:36]</strong></p>



<p>So figure out if there are tasks that you need visitors to do. Do you need them to contact you? Do you want them to watch a video? Should they review and respond to questions?</p>



<p>If you have a concept of the things that you want users to do on your website, then you can head to the plugin directory and search for a plugin with features that you need. Also, there are just endless lists of recommended plugins out there; if that is something that you find valuable as part of your research, those are also easy to find.</p>



<p>And as a general side note here, there are even more plugins than there are themes. So if you have gotten to this point and feel like you don&#8217;t quite know the answers to the questions that I shared, and, and it&#8217;s going to be a while until you feel like you can know what those answers are. That&#8217;s totally fine.</p>



<p>I&#8217;ll tell you this. I have never seen a site without a contact form. So feel free to begin your journey there. There are a lot of great plugins for contact forms and it can kind of help you figure out how to work with plugins in that way. So yeah, I made it sound like you can get a WordPress website built in like seven minutes and on the one hand you definitely can.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:09:36]</strong></p>



<p>And on the other hand, it&#8217;s still a little bit more complicated. So here I have a final note for everyone. You will hear around the WordPress ecosystem. And obviously, here, are some things that could make you feel a little nervous about doing this for the first time. Things like the five-second installation, which WordPress has been famous for years.</p>



<p>But also about how easy and simple it all is. And as somebody who was once in the position of learning WordPress for the first time, like I first encountered a WordPress site in 2009 and I started learning how to use WordPress in 2010. So I can say with confidence that once you learn it, it&#8217;s easy.</p>



<p>We are the easiest of the hard options for CMS. Like content management systems are just complicated, but we are the easiest one out there. And so, as you&#8217;re learning, I want to just remind you to celebrate your small wins along the way. If you feel like you&#8217;re late to this blogging game, like you should have had a website for years. I mean, sure that could be true. And yes, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. But the second-best time to plant that tree is today.&nbsp;</p>



<p>WordPress didn&#8217;t start out powering over 40% of the web, and your first site can&#8217;t be immediately measured in the millions of readers. So, what will your small beginning lead you to?&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:12:25]</strong></p>



<p>And now that brings us to our small list of big things.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The first one, the next release of WordPress, WordPress 6.0, has reached its beta phase. That means the full focus is on finding and fixing the bugs we accidentally created during this development cycle. Beta two comes out tomorrow and you can follow along in the core channel in the Making WordPress Slack.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;ve never seen how those releases get packaged, and if you just want to keep an eye on what everybody&#8217;s doing so that you can be the first to know, yeah, Making WordPress Slack is the way to go.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The second thing on our small list is that speaking of WordPress 6.0, we had the public walk through a couple of weeks ago, which means that in a few weeks, I&#8217;ll do a WordPress 6.0 sneak peek. I&#8217;ll share some highlights of the release features and why I think they are super important for you to take a look. Sooner rather than later.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:13:22]</strong></p>



<p>And then the final, big thing, if you are new to WordPress and this episode has you all fired up to start your blog, we have a bunch of contributors over on the Learn WP team that have just the thing for you.</p>



<p>You can join the online social learning space called How to Make a WordPress Blog. It&#8217;s a free online event that will help you get started. I&#8217;ll link the information in the show notes below. And I&#8217;ll also share in the show notes, a list of WordPress Meetup groups, where you can find more opportunities to learn and get support from other people locally who are also doing things with WordPress.&nbsp;</p>



<p>But you can also find a list in the dashboard of your newly installed WordPress blog you no doubt have after this podcast.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p>And that my friends is your small list of big things. Thank you for tuning in today for the WordPress Briefing. I&#8217;m your host Josepha Haden Chomphosy, and I&#8217;ll see you again in a couple of weeks.</p>
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<p>WordPress 6.0 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing.</p>



<p><strong>This version of the WordPress software is under development</strong>. Please do not install, run, and test this version of WordPress on a production or mission-critical website. Instead, it is recommended that you test Beta 1 on a test server and site.&nbsp;</p>



<p>You can test the WordPress 6.0 Beta 1 in three ways:</p>



<ul><li>Option 1: Install and activate the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin (select the “Bleeding edge” channel and “Beta/RC Only” stream).</li><li>Option 2: Direct download the <a href="https://wordpress.org/wordpress-6.0-beta1.zip">beta version here (zip)</a>.</li><li>Option 3: Use WP-CLI to test: <code>wp core update --version=6.0-beta1</code>. <br><strong><em>Do not use this option if your filesystem is case-insensitive.</em></strong></li></ul>



<p>The current target for the final release is May 24, 2022, which is about six weeks away.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Additional information on the full <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-0/">6.0 release cycle is available</a>.</p>



<p>Check the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/">Make WordPress Core blog</a> for <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/dev-notes+6-0/">6.0-related developer notes</a> in the coming weeks which will detail all upcoming changes.</p>



<h2><strong>Keep WordPress Bug Free – Help with Testing</strong></h2>



<p>Testing for issues is critical for stabilizing a release throughout its development. Testing is also a great way to contribute. If you have never tested a beta release before, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/04/12/help-wanted-test-wordpress-6-0/">this detailed guide</a> will walk you through how to get started.</p>



<p>Testing helps make sure that this and future releases of WordPress are as stable and issue-free as possible. And anyone can do it – especially great WordPress community members just like you.</p>



<p>Want to know more about testing releases like this one? Read about the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/">testing initiatives</a> that happen in Make Core. You can also join a <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-test/">publicly-accessible channel</a> on the <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com">Making WordPress Slack workspace</a>.</p>



<p>If you think you have run into an issue, please report it to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/">Alpha/Beta area</a> in the support forums. If you are comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, you can <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket">file one on WordPress Trac</a>. This is also where you can find a list of <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/tickets/major">known bugs</a>.</p>



<p>To review features in the Gutenberg releases since WordPress 5.9 (the most recent major release of WordPress), access the <em>What’s New In Gutenberg</em> posts for 13.0 (release pending), <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/30/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-9-30-march/">12.9</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/16/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-8-16-march/">12.8</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/02/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-7-2-march/">12.7</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/02/16/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-6-16-february/">12.6</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/02/03/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-5-february-2nd/">12.5</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/19/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-4-19-january/">12.4</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-3-5-january/">12.3</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-2-22-december/">12.2</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/08/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-1-8-december/">12.1</a>, and <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/11/29/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-0-24-november/">12.0</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p>Beyond the noted changes, which include more than 400 updates and 500 bug fixes for the editor, contributors have fixed <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=6.0&amp;group=component&amp;max=500&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=owner&amp;col=type&amp;col=priority&amp;col=component&amp;col=version&amp;order=priority">189 tickets for the WordPress 6.0</a> core, including <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&amp;status=reopened&amp;type=enhancement&amp;type=feature+request&amp;milestone=6.0&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=type&amp;col=status&amp;col=milestone&amp;col=owner&amp;col=priority&amp;col=changetime&amp;col=keywords&amp;order=changetime">91 new features and enhancements</a>. More fixes are on the way.</p>



<h2><strong>Some Highlights</strong></h2>



<p><em>Want to know what’s new in version 6.0? Read on for some highlights.</em></p>



<p>The WordPress 6.0 release will be packed with all kinds of improvements. Here are just a few:</p>



<ul><li><strong>Style Switching:</strong> <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/03/core-editor-improvement-choose-your-style/">switch up the look and feel of your site</a>, all in one block theme. No need to change themes!</li><li><strong>More template options:</strong> use blocks to edit five more templates (author, date, categories, tag, and taxonomy).</li><li><strong>Multi-select: </strong>Easily select text across multiple blocks. Edit to your liking.</li><li><strong>Retain Styles: </strong>Keep your custom styles in place, whether transforming between blocks or creating new buttons.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>More patterns in more places:</strong> the Quick Inserter surfaces patterns that might work well for the condition you’re in, baking in relevant patterns for template parts and pages you’re working on.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>List View improvements: </strong>New keyboard shortcuts (shift + click) let you select multiple blocks to modify in bulk (reposition, delete, etc.), see your content at a glance with a collapsed by default view, and more.</li><li><strong>Refined design tools: </strong>Explore<strong> </strong>a new color panel, transparency options, more group block variations to create new layout options (Stack, Row), the ability to set your featured image in a Cover block, control the exact size of your featured image, gap support for the Gallery block, and more.</li><li><strong>New blocks: </strong>Comments, Read More, No results in Query Loop, Post Author biography, Avatar blocks.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Block Locking UI: </strong>Choose to disable the option to remove a block, move it, or both, right in the editor.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Export block themes: </strong>Explore the improved block theme export tool, as WordPress heads closer to codeless visual block theme building.</li><li><strong>Webfonts API: </strong>Manage local fonts with PHP or theme.json.&nbsp;</li></ul>



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<p>Thank you to the following contributors for collaborating on this post: <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/annezazu/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>annezazu</a>, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>chanthaboune</a>, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/marybaum/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>marybaum</a>, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/priethor/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>priethor</a>, and <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>webcommsat</a>.</p>
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<p>WordPress 5.9.3 is now available!</p>



<p>This maintenance release features&nbsp;9 bug fixes in Core and 10 bug fixes in the block editor.</p>



<p>WordPress 5.9.3 is a short-cycle maintenance release. The next major release will be version&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/6.0/">6.0</a>.</p>



<p>You can&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/wordpress-5.9.3.zip">download WordPress 5.9.3 from WordPress.org</a>, or visit your Dashboard&nbsp;→ Updates and click “Update Now”.</p>



<p>If you have sites that support automatic background updates, they’ve already started the update process.</p>



<p>For more information, browse the&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/30/wordpress-5-9-3-rc-1/">full list of both Trac and GitHub changes in the release candidate post</a>, or check out the&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-9-3/">changelog of version 5.9.3 on HelpHub</a>.</p>



<h2 id="thanks-and-props">Thanks and props!</h2>



<p>The 5.9.3 release was led by&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/">Jb Audras</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mamaduka/">George Mamadashvili</a>.</p>



<p>Special props to&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/">Sergey Biryukov</a>&nbsp;for running mission control.</p>



<p>Thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 5.9.3 happen:</p>



<p class="alignfull is-style-wporg-props-medium"><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wildworks/">Aki Hamano</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexstine/">Alex Stine</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aliakseyenkaihar/">aliakseyenkaihar</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/antonvlasenko/">Anton Vlasenko</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/binarymoon/">binarymoon</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbravobernal/">Carlos Bravo</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/costdev/">Colin Stewart</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbaumwald/">David Baumwald</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dd32/">Dion Hulse</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mamaduka/">George Mamadashvili</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/glendaviesnz/">glendaviesnz</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gziolo/">Greg Ziółkowski</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ironprogrammer/">ironprogrammer</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/iulia-cazan/">Iulia Cazan</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/">Jb Audras</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson/">Joe Dolson</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joen/">Joen A.</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorgefilipecosta/">Jorge Costa</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jsnajdr/">jsnajdr</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/clorith/">Marius L. J.</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ndiego/">Nick Diego</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pbiron/">Paul Biron</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/psmits1567/">Peter Smits</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pgpagely/">pgpagely</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/rafiahmedd/">Rafi Ahmed</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/richybkreckel/">Richard B. Kreckel</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/noisysocks/">Robert Anderson</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/rufus87/">Rufus87</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/">Sergey Biryukov</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/tobifjellner/">Tor-Bjorn Fjellner</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hellofromtonya/">Tonya Mork</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/">Abha Thakor</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/webmandesign/">Oliver Juhas</a>, and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/westonruter/">Weston Ruter</a>.</p>
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<p>In parallel to the work the community is doing in preparation for the next major release, WordPress 6.0, March has seen the launch of some exciting projects and proposals. Read on to find out more about the latest updates and how to get involved. </p>



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<h2>The Pattern Directory is open for public submissions</h2>



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<p>The <a href="https://wordpress.org/patterns/new-pattern/">WordPress Pattern Creator</a> is live! This new tool allows anyone with a WordPress.org user account to build, edit and submit their best block patterns to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/patterns/">Pattern Directory</a>.<br><br>If you&#8217;ve used patterns in WordPress, you&#8217;ll know that they make it easy to add unique layouts to your website. These include galleries, testimonials, pricing tables, and more. Opening the directory to public submissions enables any WordPress user to enjoy a wider variety of patterns to use on their sites.</p>



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<h2>WordPress 6.0 Walkthrough scheduled for April 5, 2022</h2>



<p>A few updates to the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/11/wordpress-6-0-planning-update/">WordPress 6.0 planning</a> were published last month. In case you missed them, <strong>today (April 5) at 15:00 UTC</strong> there is a live and interactive <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/30/6-0-product-walk-through/">WordPress 6.0 walkthrough</a> hosted by contributors of the release squad.</p>



<p>The event will take place via Zoom and include a discussion on the new features, potential blockers, and a Q&amp;A session with the community. Attendance is open to anyone who wants to know more about what’s coming in WordPress 6.0.</p>



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<h2>Gutenberg releases: Versions 12.8 and 12.9 are here</h2>



<p>Versions 12.8 and 12.9 of the Gutenberg plugin were released last month. With them, some new exciting features and updates.</p>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/16/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-8-16-march/">Gutenberg 12.8</a> includes a new Webfonts API, iterative UX enhancements, and bug fixes to increase the editor’s stability.</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/30/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-9-30-march/">Gutenberg 12.9</a> introduces the new block locking UI and support for spacing between Gallery images. Also, many other improvements to give you more control over what is editable and presented to users.</li></ul>



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<h2>Team updates: Team Reps for the Photo Directory team, community proposals, and more</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/03/wordpress-5-9-2-security-maintenance-release/">WordPress 5.9.2</a> is available for download. This security and maintenance release features one bug fix and three security fixes.</li><li>The Team Representatives for the Make Photo Directory team for 2022 <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/photos/2022/03/23/announcement-photo-directory-team-reps-2022/">have been announced</a>. Congrats to Marcus Burnette (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/mdburnette/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>mdburnette</a>), Katie Richards (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/katiejrichards/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>katiejrichards</a>), and Topher DeRosia (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>topher1kenobe</a>)!</li><li>The Community team considered <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/03/17/discussion-revisiting-in-person-regional-wordcamps/">revisiting the existing guidelines</a> for in-person regional WordCamps. Conclusions and next steps will be shared soon.</li><li>On a similar note, Cate DeRosia (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/mysweetcate/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>mysweetcate</a>) is <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/03/23/return-to-events-blue-sky-thinking/">looking for ideas</a> on how to support organizers who are trying to restart in-person events in their communities. Share yours by April 13, 2022.</li><li>The Training team published new lesson plans, workshops, and social learning spaces on Learn WordPress. <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2022/04/01/whats-new-on-learnwp-in-march-2022/">Check out what’s new in March 2022.</a></li><li>How has WordPress helped grow your story? The Make Marketing team <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2022/04/01/grow-your-story-on-wordpress/">wants to hear about your experience</a>!</li><li>The <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/07/the-performance-lab-plugin-has-been-released/">Performance Lab plugin</a>, a set of modules that aim to improve performance in WordPress, was released last month.</li><li>Openverse released <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/openverse/2022/03/10/openverse-frontend-v3-1-1-release/">new updates</a> in March. They include a redesigned content reporting flow and new image detail pages.</li><li>WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy posted a <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/03/23/removal-of-the-zamir-plugin/">public statement</a> on the removal of the Zamir plugin a few weeks ago.</li><li>The March 2022 editions of the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/03/14/meetup-organizer-newsletter-march-2022/">Meetup Organizer Newsletter</a> and the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2022/03/22/polyglots-monthly-newsletter-march-2022/">Polyglots Monthly Newsletter</a> were published.</li><li>The latest edition of People of WordPress features the contributor story of the Argentinian web developer and product manager <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/03/people-of-wordpress-juanfra-aldasoro/">Juanfra Aldasoro</a>.</li><li>WordPress community members launched the <a href="https://block-museum.com/">Museum of Block Art (MOBA)</a>. This initiative seeks to inspire creativity and push the limits around what can be done with WordPress. All the art curated in this virtual museum is built using the block editor.</li></ul>



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<h2>Testing requests: WebP feature, template for author pages</h2>



<ul><li>The Performance Team published a <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/28/enabling-webp-by-default/">proposal</a> to integrate the WebP image format by default into WordPress core. Your feedback on this feature is appreciated.</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2022/04/04/call-for-testing-wordpress-for-ios-19-6/">Version 19.6</a> of WordPress for iOS is available for testing.</li></ul>



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<h2>The first flagship WordCamp Asia is looking for organizers</h2>



<ul><li>WordCamp Asia is tentatively scheduled for February 2023. After two years since the organizing team announced that the first flagship WordCamp Asia was canceled due to the pandemic, they are back together and <a href="https://asia.wordcamp.org/2023/call-for-organisers/">looking for more members</a> to join them in planning the event.</li><li>The <a href="https://us.wordcamp.org/2022/apply-to-speak-at-wcus/">Call for Speakers</a> for WordCamp US 2022 is now open. You can submit your application by April 17, 2022.</li><li>Three in-person WordCamps are happening this month:<ul><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1e8-1f1ed.png" alt="🇨🇭" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://geneve.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp Genève</a>, Switzerland on April 9, 2022</li><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1ec-1f1f7.png" alt="🇬🇷" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://athens.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp Athens</a>, Greece on April 9-10, 2022</li><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1e6-1f1f9.png" alt="🇦🇹" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://vienna.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp Vienna</a>, Austria on April 23-24, 2022</li></ul></li><li>Check out the latest episodes of WordPress Briefing with Josepha Haden:<ul><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/04/episode-28-coming-to-a-wordcamp-near-you-a-return-to-in-person-wp-events/">Coming to a WordCamp Near You: A Return to In-Person WP Events</a></li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/03/episode-27-is-wordpress-made-for-me/">Is WordPress Made for Me?</a></li></ul></li></ul>



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<p><strong><em>Have a story that we could include in the next ‘Month in WordPress’ post? Let us know by filling out </em></strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/month-in-wordpress-submissions/"><strong><em>this form</em></strong></a><strong><em>.</em></strong></p>



<p><em>The following folks contributed to this Month in WordPress: </em><a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/rmartinezduque/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>rmartinezduque</a>, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/mysweetcate/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>mysweetcate</a>, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/anjanavasan/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>anjanavasan</a>.</p>
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<p>In the twenty-eighth episode of the WordPress Briefing, Executive Director, Josepha Haden Chomphosy discusses returning to in-person WordPress events.</p>



<p><em><strong>Have a question you&#8217;d like answered? You can submit them to <a href="mailto:wpbriefing@wordpress.org">wpbriefing@wordpress.org</a>, either written or as a voice recording.</strong></em></p>



<h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>



<ul><li>Editor:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dustinhartzler/">Dustin Hartzler</a></li><li>Logo:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/beafialho/">Beatriz Fialho</a></li><li>Production:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/">Chloé Bringmann</a> &amp; <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/santanainniss/">Santana Inniss</a> </li><li>Song: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod</li><li>Special thanks to: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/angelasjin/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://profiles.wordpress.org/angelasjin/">Angela Jin</a></li></ul>



<h2>References</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://wordcampcentral.survey.fm/2022-host-in-person-wordpress-event-checklist">Event Safety Checklist</a></li><li><a href="https://asia.wordcamp.org/2023/call-for-organisers/">WordCamp Asia Call for Organizers</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/03/23/return-to-events-blue-sky-thinking/">Open Discussion: Returning to In-Person Events</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/03/17/discussion-revisiting-in-person-regional-wordcamps/">Open Discussion: Returning to Regional Events</a></li></ul>



<h2>Transcript</h2>



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<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:00:00] </strong>&nbsp;</p>



<p>Hello everyone! And welcome to the WordPress Briefing: the podcast where you can catch quick explanations of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project, some insight into the community that supports it and get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I&#8217;m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Here we go.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:00:40]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>I was checking the list of upcoming events recently as part of just my regular work and saw that the call for organizers for WordCamp Asia is open. On the one hand, it made my heart skip a beat with excitement. That event is six years or so in the making. And on the other hand, it reminded me of February 10th, 2020, the day that Matt told me that we had to proactively cancel WordCamp Asia. That week was truly heartbreaking for me as well as I think the entire organizing team.</p>



<p>But it also, fortunately, was prescient. As I think back over the two years since then, I&#8217;m grateful for our community wranglers and deputies who have consistently hosted important discussions about how to return to in-person events safely. And with two of our major flagship events returning this year, I&#8217;m here to summarize, sort of, what the rules and guidelines are.</p>



<p>But certainly I hope that you come away from this with an idea of what&#8217;s being done to keep everyone safe as we are best able.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:01:44]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>Firstly, before we dig into specifics, I want to be clear upfront that the guidelines for COVID-aware events are mandatory, unless otherwise stated. For folks who&#8217;ve been attending WordPress events, or participating in the community for a long time, this is a change. As a program, we have always done our best to be flexible with guidelines so that we can prioritize local knowledge. But our responsibility is to the long-term success of this community and this program. So moving forward with in-person events that risk the health of our community members poses risks to the program itself. So with that in mind, let&#8217;s learn what we&#8217;re going to see at events for the rest of the.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:02:28]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>For any WordPress event that is gathering more than 50 people, the new mandatory guidelines are:</p>



<p>Number one, follow local laws and guidelines. If your area has suggested guidelines on top of the mandatory ones, follow those.</p>



<p>Second, is if you are in a location where laws or guidelines require or permit venues to limit admission based on a person&#8217;s vaccination status and masking, then events can only happen in venues that are willing to provide staff to check for vaccination status at the door. And then also to remind participants to wear masks during the event.</p>



<p>And the third thing is if your area or venue legally cannot check vaccination status, your area must pass the in-person checklist, which I will link in the show notes below. But that in-person checklist has to be passed at the time of the application and then again at the time of the event. And in addition to that, the venue must be willing to provide staff who will remind participants to wear masks and check for temperature during the event.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:03:33]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>Organizers in these areas must be prepared to move online or cancel if the region fails the safety checklist, which again, will be linked in the show notes below. So those are the three things and they are pretty dense, but also I think allow for a fair amount of flexibility. There is also a tidy flow chart linked in the sidebar of make.wordpress.org/community that will help you to decide what sort of event your own area can support right now.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So those are the mandatory guidelines for WordPress events in general right now, but you probably also have a few specific questions. So I&#8217;ve got the three most common questions ready to go with answers from Angela Jin who helped me to kind of pull together the information for this particular podcast props to Angela. Thank you.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:04:25]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>So, first question, anything specific to know about WordCamp Europe? WordCamp Europe will be following these guidelines as well. All attendees and participants are expected to wear a mask while they are at the event and catering will be offered outside so people can remove their masks to eat.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The second common question is how will these guidelines change as countries and local governments begin deescalating restrictions and safety measures? We should consider these guidelines to be subject to evolution based on what the team is hearing and seeing from the community. But right now we intend to keep these stricter guidelines in place until we see how the loosened rules play out elsewhere.&nbsp;</p>



<p>And then a third frequent question is what&#8217;s going to happen to all these online events?</p>



<p>The community team will continue to support online events right now. So if your community doesn&#8217;t feel ready to have an in-person event, but still wants to kind of get everyone together that is still allowed, and still&nbsp; encouraged. And finally the community team will continue to keep a close eye on situations around the world.</p>



<p>If it becomes safe to do so, and your community is interested, they of course will be happy to chat with you about a WordCamp. There is an application that I will share the link to in the show notes below as well. In case that is something that your community is wanting to look into.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:05:54]</strong></p>



<p>Oh, and I have a little postscript also. I know I was like finally, and now I&#8217;m doing a finally, finally. That&#8217;s what postscripts are about. P.S. If you have not stopped by the community team’s site or any of their meetings, they&#8217;ve been doing a really great job of keeping things moving through two years of unpredictable changes. If you are a community team member, I want to offer you a huge thanks. Thank you so much for helping us to stay aware and able to move forward.&nbsp;</p>



<p>If you are an organizer, pat yourself on the back. I want to thank you for pivoting with us, moving through online events, even though they are not at all the same as in-person events and certainly they don&#8217;t share the reasons that we get people together sometimes.</p>



<p>And finally, if you are an end to end attendee, if you go to WordPress meetups or you go to any sort of WordPress online events or WordCamps, anything like that, thank your local organizer. They have been doing this probably for a while, and I&#8217;m sure that they are looking forward to getting back to in-person events themselves, but even, so they have been putting in a lot of volunteer hours to help make sure that we all know how to use WordPress.</p>



<p>And so find them, thank them, and I&#8217;m sure that they&#8217;ll appreciate it.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:07:20]</strong></p>



<p>And with that, it is time for our small list of big things. Number one, WordCamp Asia has a call for organizers open! This event will be in 2023. And I think that we all simply cannot wait. So I&#8217;ll link the call for organizers in the show notes. And then of course you can follow that whole site to stay up to date on what&#8217;s happening there.</p>



<p>The second thing is, while we&#8217;re on the topic of events, there&#8217;s also an open discussion about how we can best support organizers who are getting back to in-person events. We&#8217;d like thoughts from both organizers and attendees. So feel free to drop by and leave a note in the comments section. And while you&#8217;re over there, the third thing in my small list of big things, there&#8217;s also an open discussion about regional events. So go over there, get all your thoughts about WordPress events together. Get them all sorted out in one go. Just leave comments, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. All over the place.&nbsp;</p>



<p>And that my friends is your small list of big things. Thank you for tuning in today for the WordPress Briefing. I&#8217;m your host Josepha Haden Chomphosy.</p>



<p>And I&#8217;ll see you again in a couple of weeks.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:08:54]</strong></p>



<p>So my most embarrassing WordCamp story actually has to do with where I was supposed to be versus where people thought I was supposed to be. This was early on in my time with WordPress, with Automattic. And I had convinced someone, I had convinced a colleague and friend of mine to go to my home WordCamp, WordCamp Fayetteville over there in Arkansas.</p>



<p>And then I didn&#8217;t go. But I knew I wasn&#8217;t going, I knew I was going to WordCamp Boston, but he did not know that I was not going to go. And so he arrived at WordCamp Fayetteville, WordCamp Northwest Arkansas. I can&#8217;t remember what it was called at the time. And immediately was confused about where I was and why I wasn&#8217;t there.</p>



<p>And so there was this excellent moment of mass confusion among states where the folks at WordCamp Fayetteville started tweeting about how I had convinced this contributor to go to that event and then didn&#8217;t show up. And then the folks at WordCamp Boston, we&#8217;re looking at all of those tweets, because if you are a WordCamp organizer, you are always looking at the tweets from all the other WordCamps happening in your weekend.</p>



<p>And people got very confused about why I was in Boston while they were thinking that I was in Fayetteville, even though the tweets were talking about how, like, I wasn&#8217;t in Fayetteville. They probably didn&#8217;t say that it was probably more along the lines of like, “Hey, let&#8217;s share a photo with Josepha” to, like, make fun of the fact that I wasn&#8217;t there.</p>



<p>And so I caused mass confusion in multiple states. That&#8217;s probably my most embarrassing WordCamp story. You&#8217;re welcome. Bye!</p>
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<p><strong>In this series, we share some of the inspiring stories of how WordPress and its global network of contributors can change people’s lives for the better. This month we feature a website developer and product manager from Argentina, who found in the software a way to live his life in the way he dreamed.</strong></p>



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<p>WordPress offers something to everyone. For Juan Aldasoro, a developer and product manager for a large distributed company, it provides an opportunity to combine his different interests and skills to live the type of life he wanted.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“I like visual, creative and technical things. The joy of WordPress is that you can do all of these things, you don’t have to limit yourself to any one aspect . You can also do this from almost anywhere in the world!”</p>



<p>From working in products since 2012, Juan sees WordPress as a major part of his skillset and toolbox. He said: “It gives you an opportunity to be part of building a product which could potentially be used by thousands of people and more on your site. It encourages you to think about different languages and how you can make it accessible. It allows you to work on different platforms. Working in WordPress gives you this broad approach. Working this way on products ended up pushing me into learning about all these different things. Only in open source can you really do this and use your creative side to find solutions.”</p>



<h2><strong>Learning about being part of a community</strong></h2>



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<p>Born in a mid-sized city in Argentina, Juan was raised in a family in which music, arts and sports were always an essential part of everyday life.</p>



<p>“These activities encourage human beings to be creative and participative, and at the same time they are highly formative when it comes to mould people in order to become part of a group, a team, a community.”</p>



<p>The youngest of five siblings, Juan became highly motivated, trying to follow the steps of his siblings. Having a computer at home, he started to make connections that laid the foundation for his career as a developer. His interest in computers grew through that access to a machine running MS-DOS &#8211; the one with the black screen command line! Mastering this became a challenge to him and something to share with others. Through doing this, he found a way to more social interaction and new friendships.&nbsp;</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>Without being conscious of it, my friends and I were sharing pieces of code.</p></blockquote>



<p>He said: “I started learning some super easy stuff that made me feel like Houdini at that time. I could save a game play, something intangible, on a floppy disk and carry that piece of plastic and magnetic material back home. I was saving the play or game in a square object and then loading that back at home. I now realize, those were my first interactions with computer commands. Without being conscious of it, my friends and I were sharing pieces of code in a unique way.”</p>



<p>This interest grew further through computer magazines and experimenting as &#8220;there was always something new to learn.” Although sport became a big part of Juan’s life in his teens, he kept up his computer learning. Taking a new direction, he found online tutorials enabling him to learn how to play the guitar. This led to setting up a punk rock band with his friends.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“Education has always been important in my family, and thanks to my parent’s efforts, I attended a school where I learned to express myself in another language.” The school had hired a satellite internet connection in the mid-nineties and had HTML on the computer studies program. These facilities were not that common in Argentina or many other countries either at that time. Also, his parents had the foresight to secure a rare internet connection at the house in 1997. </p>



<p>Juan recalled: “Browsing around the Internet opened a new universe in my mind. This new universe was extremely fantastic but also extremely expensive. I needed to make the most of every second online.”<br><br>“It was a whole new world and one thing led to the other. I started learning a bit of everything, editing graphics, scripting and so on. I still remember my first website in the fantastic sunset strip, Geocities.”</p>



<h3><strong>Trying to go pro</strong></h3>



<p>After high school, Juan moved to the city along with his brother and began to study IT at University. When he was asked by a friend to work at a software company, he decided to try that whilst continuing his studies. Through his job he had the chance to explore web-related opportunities, and with a friend from university, they started managing teams and projects across Latin America and Spain.<br><br>Juan describes this experience as one of the most fulfilling in his life. He was able to travel abroad for work, experience remote working, manage teams, present projects and speak formally in front of senior people. As the company grew at a fast pace, they learned how to set up and run a large organization. Eventually, he decided to drop out of his university program and focus on the opportunity of learning first hand.</p>



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<p>One of the key early learning from working internationally was that business and web development could be just as fast-moving and successful in Argentina as in other places. “I realized there’s no such thing as a secret sauce for success. Projects are backed by people’s talent and time, and you can find that in any latitude.”<br><br>By his mid-20s, Juan decided he wanted to try building something from scratch. He created a social network for photo sharing in Latin America, which was used by more than 30,000 people across Latin America and Spain in its time. Through this, he discovered that other people had a blog and he did not want to be left behind. The discovery of WordPress was to change the focus of his life.<br></p>



<h2>Hello to WordPress</h2>



<p>Spending some time traveling around Europe, Juan found himself ‘surrounded by uncertainty’ and worried about what the future could bring. “I had some clues, but under uncertainty, the more you ask the less you answer. I started thinking about embracing the following philosophy: I didn’t want to be part of a large company, I didn’t want to continue studying and I wanted to travel as much as I could.” He did not realize at that time how this vision for his life was to mirror what he would find in WordPress.</p>



<p>He started using WordPress for a few sites in 2005. By 2007 he was using it for almost everything. He was struck by the magnitude and range of what the software could do, from a simple tool used to create a blog in the blink of an eye through to complex projects.</p>



<p>His first problem-solving project was simple and saved data received through a contact form plugin. “To complete this project I discovered the Codex and I learned how easy and intuitive it is to create a plugin. I had fallen in love with WordPress.”</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>I was truly amazed by how I could learn from others.</p></blockquote>



<p>As he explored the options with the software, Juan was unsure of how intellectual property worked and wanted to be respectful of other people’s work. “I didn’t understand open source yet, and I wasn’t sure if I was stealing from others. That was my first interaction with GPL and open source. I was truly amazed by how I could learn from others and improve things created by others or by myself.”</p>



<p>He realized: “WordPress was the way to go if I wanted to pursue a dream of traveling, skipping winter, and working at the same time; what we now call a digital nomad. I already knew how to work remotely, I could work for companies located anywhere, as long as they could communicate in English or Spanish.”</p>



<p>Juan started his own web agency, where he provided services to small and medium-sized companies abroad in the USA, UK, and Australia. He built his reputation and developed strong relationships in WordPress. “The experience couldn’t be better. I was learning, having fun, making a living out of it, and at the same time exploring the world.”</p>



<p>In mid-2012, he discovered the full power of the WordPress community firsthand. In his spare time he started developing themes and from all he heard, wanted to attend a major event with lots of others in WordPress, a WordCamp. He took the plunge and booked for WordCamp in Edinburgh, in the UK. He said: “I got to meet many super talented people, and the atmosphere of the event was awesome. A place where competitors were also colleagues. Seeing the humility of somebody like Mike Little, the co-founder of WordPress, was amazing.”</p>



<p>He added: “While there, unconsciously, I started dreaming of holding something like that in Argentina &#8211; the joy of hosting the WordPress community in my home country.”</p>



<p>Back home, while browsing the Codex, he happened to see that WordPress was turning 10. A lot of meetups were going to be organized worldwide to celebrate the birthday. But there was nothing organized in Argentina. This was a catalyst for starting a local meetup. Together with a colleague, he&nbsp; organized an Argentinian 10th birthday meetup. </p>



<p>More than 20 people showed up. “There was a common denominator. We all loved WordPress, it was part of our day-to-day life. We wanted to share experiences, make new friends and continue growing from what we could learn from others. That day we were a group of people with shared interests. That’s the simplest way to define a community, isn’t it?” This early meetup led to the formation of what is now called <a href="http://wpargentina.org/">WordPress Argentina</a>.</p>



<p>In his desire to skip winters and do more traveling, his next adventure was to take him to visit family working in the US and attend one of the biggest WordCamps in the world in San Francisco. His interest kept growing and he traveled across Europe to be part of the first edition of WordCamp Europe in the Netherlands in 2013.</p>



<p>He said: “There’s almost nothing I could write to fully express what you experience in such events. They are the main WordPress events worldwide. The best part: I made a lot of good friends from many different places. I’m glad I have more excuses to continue traveling.”</p>



<p>Once again in Argentina, our organization started growing thanks to the energy of the whole group, we started hosting formal meetups. In May 2015, we crowned all these efforts with a new <a href="https://buenosaires.wordcamp.org/2015/">WordCamp in Buenos Aires</a>, Argentina.</p>



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<p>“Organizing such an event in my home country with many of the contributors I had met from the very first meetup was an experience I will always keep with me.”</p>



<p>Juan believes one of his biggest contributions to open source was as part of being able to expand the community in Argentina and to share this with other Latin American and Spanish speaking countries. He also contributes as a volunteer translator in the Polyglots Team, to the Make WordPress Support team, and contributes to code blocks and Gutenberg. “I am really excited about seeing the future of Gutenberg as it is the future of WordPress.”</p>



<p>Throughout his time contributing, Juan believes in helping to set the foundations and encouraging others to give their time and talents. He is keen to share that contributing does not have to be the same all the time and that you can have breaks and focus on one area in a particular period too. He gives the example of how in his spare time he watches Trac, where tickets about the software are logged, and looks where he might be able to help or think of solutions.</p>



<p>He said: “Anytime I find I can contribute to or make improvements in code-related areas, I will do as it is important to keep giving to the community. I enjoy crawling over meta, trac, GitHub and the different places that are requesting help. There is always somewhere you can help. At the moment, my focus is code and translations. I always try to save time to help these two areas. It is like you give and you get, you learn things. You meet amazing people and opportunities arrive.”</p>



<h2>Finding your path in WordPress</h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" width="768" height="1024" src="https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/Juanfra_1505.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1" alt="Juan sat in a street cafe surrounded by parked motorcycles" class="wp-image-12527" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/Juanfra_1505-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/Juanfra_1505-scaled.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/Juanfra_1505-scaled.jpeg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/Juanfra_1505-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/Juanfra_1505-scaled.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure>



<p>“Life is about experiences, it is about the people you surround yourself with and trying to do what you love. What you can find in an open source project like WordPress is an environment full of people who work with a tool they love. An environment that is ready to help and to give advice. Follow what makes you happy, try to be surrounded by people who make you better, try to empower others, try to give back. Try. Make your own path.”</p>



<h2 id="share-the-stories">Share the stories</h2>



<p>Help share these stories of open source contributors and continue to grow the community. Meet more WordPressers in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/category/newsletter/interviews/">People of WordPress series</a>.</p>



<h2 id="contributors-to-this-feature">Contributors to this feature</h2>



<p>Thank you to Juan Aldasoro (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/juanfra/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>juanfra</a>) for sharing his story.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Interviews and feature by Abha Thakor (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>webcommsat</a>) and Surendra Thakor (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/sthakor/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>sthakor</a>). Reviews by Mary Baum (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/marybaum/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>marybaum</a>), Chloe Bringmann (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>cbringmann</a>), Meher Bala (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/meher/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>meher</a>), Anjana Vasan (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/anjanavasan/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>anjanavasan</a>) and Yvette Sonneveld (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/yvettesonneveld/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>yvettesonneveld</a>).</p>



<p><em>Thanks to Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp;(<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>chanthaboune</a>) and Topher DeRosia (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>topher1kenobe</a>) and others for their support&nbsp;</em>of this initiative.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><em>This People of WordPress feature is inspired by an essay originally published on </em><a href="https://heropress.com/"><em>HeroPress.com</em></a><em>, a community initiative created by Topher DeRosia. It highlights people in the WordPress community who have overcome barriers and whose stories might otherwise go unheard. </em>#HeroPress </p>
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			";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:4:{s:0:"";a:6:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:45:"Get Creative with the All-New Pattern Creator";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:81:"https://wordpress.org/news/2022/03/get-creative-with-the-all-new-pattern-creator/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:34:42 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:8:"category";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"General";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:35:"https://wordpress.org/news/?p=12460";s:7:"attribs";a:1:{s:0:"";a:1:{s:11:"isPermaLink";s:5:"false";}}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:351:"It’s been less than a year since the WordPress Pattern Directory was launched, and we already have more exciting news to share. The Pattern Creator is live! You can now build, edit, and submit your best block patterns to the Pattern Directory—submissions are open to all with a WordPress.org user account! The WordPress Pattern Directory [&#8230;]";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:12:"Anjana Vasan";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:40:"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:5700:"
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<p>The <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/block-pattern-directory/" target="_blank">WordPress Pattern Directory</a> includes attractive, handy patterns created by designers that can make your experience building a stunning site <em>much</em> easier. <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/block-pattern/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patterns</a> can save you a significant amount of time and also give you greater freedom when you’re building your site. With patterns, you can make or replicate complex layouts with just a few clicks, and using them is as simple as copy and paste.</p>



<h2>Create Your Own Bold, Beautiful Patterns Built Entirely with Blocks</h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/submission-2.png?ssl=1"><img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="683" src="https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/submission-2.png?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1" alt="Pattern submission screen, successfully submitted pattern with a &quot;Thank you&quot; modal." class="wp-image-12479" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/submission-2.png?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/submission-2.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/submission-2.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/submission-2.png?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/submission-2.png?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a></figure>



<p>As the name implies, the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://wordpress.org/patterns/new-pattern/" target="_blank">Pattern Creator</a> allows anyone, from designers to content creators, to make custom patterns: a collection of blocks arranged in any way, for any purpose intended by the creator. Like most things in WordPress, these are available for public use once it’s submitted to the WordPress Pattern Directory. Have a look at <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://wordpress.org/patterns/about/" target="_blank">these guidelines</a> to learn more about what makes a pattern suitable for listing in the directory.</p>



<p>So what are you waiting for? Check out <a href="https://wordpress.org/patterns/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">all the patterns</a> already available or better yet, make your own!</p>



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			";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:4:{s:0:"";a:7:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:50:"WP Briefing: Episode 27: Is WordPress Made for Me?";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:71:"https://wordpress.org/news/2022/03/episode-27-is-wordpress-made-for-me/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:57:38 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:8:"category";a:2:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Podcast";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}i:1;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:11:"wp-briefing";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:53:"https://wordpress.org/news/?post_type=podcast&p=12451";s:7:"attribs";a:1:{s:0:"";a:1:{s:11:"isPermaLink";s:5:"false";}}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:416:"Who is WordPress actually made for? Join our host, WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy, as she explores this controversial question and three things that can help find the answer. Have a question you&#8217;d like answered? You can submit them to wpbriefing@wordpress.org, either written or as a voice recording. Hosts: Josepha Haden Chomphosy Editor:&#160;Dustin HartzlerLogo:&#160;Beatriz [&#8230;]";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:9:"enclosure";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:0:"";s:7:"attribs";a:1:{s:0:"";a:3:{s:3:"url";s:60:"https://wordpress.org/news/files/2022/03/WP-Briefing-027.mp3";s:6:"length";s:1:"0";s:4:"type";s:0:"";}}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:14:"Santana Inniss";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:40:"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:9785:"
<p>Who is WordPress actually made for? Join our host, WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy, as she explores this controversial question and three things that can help find the answer.</p>



<p><strong><em>H</em></strong><em><strong>ave a question you&#8217;d like answered? You can submit them to <a href="mailto:wpbriefing@wordpress.org">wpbriefing@wordpress.org</a>, either written or as a voice recording.</strong></em> </p>



<p>Hosts: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/">Josepha Haden Chomphosy</a> <br>Editor:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dustinhartzler/">Dustin Hartzler</a><br>Logo:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/beafialho/">Beatriz Fialho</a><br>Production:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/santanainniss/">Santana Inniss</a></p>



<h2>References</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/call-for-volunteers/">WordCamp Europe call for volunteers</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/photos/">WordPress Photo Directory team</a></li><li><a href="https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/unicef-children-crossfire-ukraine-crisis/39542?utm_campaign=20220225_Emergencies&amp;utm_medium=Organic&amp;utm_source=UkraineWebStoryChildrenFeb2022&amp;utm_content=LearnMoreUkraineWebStoryChildrenFeb2022&amp;ms=Organic_PRL_2022_Emergencies_20220225_UkraineWebStoryChildrenFeb2022_LearnMoreUkraineWebStoryChildrenFeb2022_none_none&amp;initialms=Organic_PRL_2022_Emergencies_20220225_UkraineWebStoryChildrenFeb2022_LearnMoreUkraineWebStoryChildrenFeb2022_none_none">UNICEF</a></li><li><a href="https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/countries/ukraine">Médecins Sans Frontieres</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://www.icrc.org/en/where-we-work/europe-central-asia/ukraine">International Committee of the Red Cross</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://help.rescue.org/donate/ukraine-acq?ms=gs_ppc_fy22_ukraine_mmus_feb&amp;initialms=gs_ppc_fy22_ukraine_mmus_feb&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiAjoeRBhAJEiwAYY3nDHNlEUUNRM4wKl1bY0ploy1RNl0M7G1OlLTqawZdg_XhrJ0TircZ_RoCfh8QAvD_BwE">International Rescue Committee</a></li><li><a href="https://www.unrefugees.org/what-we-do/">UN Refugee Agency</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://donate.wck.org/give/236738/#!/donation/checkout">World Central Kitchen</a></li><li><a href="https://www.techtotherescue.org/tech/tech-for-ukraine">Tech For Ukraine</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wp4ukraine">#WP4Ukraine</a></li></ul>



<h2>Transcript </h2>


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<p><strong>Episode 27</strong></p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:00:00]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>Hello everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing: the podcast where you can catch quick explanations of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project, some insight into the community that supports it, and get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I&#8217;m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Here we go!</p>



<p>Today, we&#8217;re talking about who WordPress is built for. I was talking to a group of contributors last week and we encountered some questions around just who WordPress is built for. And it&#8217;s a question that you&#8217;ll find any time that you&#8217;re working on user testing or on triaging tickets, and especially when that comes up when you look at the big picture, roadmap sorts of things. The easiest answer for this question is, of course, everyone because WordPress&#8217; mission is to democratize publishing and that should be available to everyone.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy </strong><strong>[00:01:11]</strong></p>



<p>However, everyone is a really big target and certainly doesn&#8217;t help get your mind around the people that you&#8217;re wanting to actually build it for, the people that you actually want to be able to use your product, your software on a day-to-day basis. So let&#8217;s take a look at the one question that can help us figure out who it&#8217;s built for today and how we get it to being something that&#8217;s built forever.</p>



<p>Firstly, there&#8217;s a basic premise of open source that informs this thought. And that premise is that we are citizens of a community of contributors therefore the decisions are made by the people who show up. In general, I believe that to be true, though, I also believe that some basic qualifications are needed.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:01:50]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>So with that in mind, the one question that can help us figure out who a software is built for is this: how do your active contributors see themselves? I would bet that most contributors to open source software projects, like WordPress, are developers of some sort, it is sort of written right into the definition of the project.&nbsp;</p>



<p>If you work on software, then you need developers. And what I love about WordPress, in particular, is that we do work to include contributors who are not developers. Yet it still remains true that there is a fairly high level of technical knowledge required to actively contribute.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:2:25]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>Which kind of brings us to the second half of the original question of how can we make sure that WordPress can be something that&#8217;s built for everyone? The answer to this one is easy to say, hard to do, and that is to make sure to include them as co-creators in the development process.&nbsp;</p>



<p>We&#8217;ve talked about co-creators in open source before. It&#8217;s this idea that people who use the software every day are likely to know the biggest pain points. So if you want your software to be used by people who don&#8217;t know HTML, talk to a bunch of people who don&#8217;t know HTML about how it is to use your software.&nbsp;</p>



<p>If you want your software to be mostly used by enterprise agencies, talk to enterprise agencies, but also ask them what their clients hate, because everyone has more than one stakeholder. And I know that I said this already, but it bears repeating that, obviously, this is all very easy to say and hard to do.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:3:20]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>So what is my best guess for the how-to-do part for WordPress? There are three things.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The first is testing. This not only helps bring in new contributors and helps train future contributors, which I&#8217;ve talked about on the podcast before. But testing also gives us a higher chance of actionable feedback from folks who don&#8217;t necessarily spend time directly in the WordPress project.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Frequently the feedback that we do get that is just kind of undirected and ad hoc is exactly that– it is undirected and ad hoc and is then hard to follow up on and make sure that we understand what was wrong and how we can help fix it. And so testing is important for that. And testing it turns out is important for a bunch of things. When you&#8217;re working in open source.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The next thing is support. So checking in with support teams at hosts, as well as the hardworking support teams in the project. And that can really help us to get early indications of what difficulties exist now. They have routinely seen problems and issues that are raised in support forums, and from their everyday users that they are providing support to.&nbsp;</p>



<p>That probably could be fixed in WordPress if we had a good understanding of just what was not going right, how many people really needed it to go better, and what our targets were to fix that particular problem.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:4:45]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>And the third thing is communication. I know that I&#8217;ve gone on record in many places as saying that most of our problems at the end of the day are communication problems. And I&#8217;m going on record about it again here in this podcast, establishing better communication patterns with users is key.&nbsp;</p>



<p>That can be a multi-year project in itself. And even after that, it&#8217;s going to be an ongoing journey. But it is one of the many things that WordCamps and other WordPress events have given to us over the years, an opportunity to really hear from and see the struggles that people who are not building with WordPress every day, or literally building WordPress every day are actually having.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:5:34]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>So now that you&#8217;ve heard my small list of way too big things, that brings us to our regular small list of big things. The first thing is that WordCamp Europe is still looking for volunteers. If you&#8217;ve never done that before, I think it&#8217;s quite fun. You get to meet a lot of people and the team of organizers is super fun, but I&#8217;ll leave a link for you in the show notes.</p>



<p>We also have a new code-free way to contribute through the photo directory. That team is just getting started and still is working toward building out its programs. So now&#8217;s a good time to drop in and just kind of see what they are up to. And finally, a reminder that we do have contributors who are affected by the war in Ukraine right now. I will reshare the list of humanitarian organizations in case you missed them a couple of weeks ago as well.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:6:21]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>And that my friends is your small list of big things. Thank you for tuning in today for this WordPress Briefing. I&#8217;m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. I&#8217;ll see you again in a couple of weeks.</p>
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<p><strong>WordPress 5.9.2&nbsp;</strong>is now available!</p>



<p>This security and maintenance release features <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/54578">1 bug fix</a> in addition to 3 security fixes. Because this is a <strong>security release</strong>, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 3.7 have also been updated.</p>



<p>WordPress 5.9.2 is a security and maintenance release. The next major release will be version&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-0/">6.0</a>.</p>



<p>You can&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/wordpress-5.9.2.zip">download WordPress 5.9.2 from WordPress.org</a>, or visit your Dashboard&nbsp;→ Updates and click “Update Now”.</p>



<p>If you have sites that support automatic background updates, they’ve already started the update process.</p>



<p>The security team would like to thank the following people for responsively reporting vulnerabilities, allowing them to be fixed in this release:</p>



<ul><li>Melar Dev, for finding a Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in a jQuery dependency</li><li>Ben Bidner&nbsp;of the WordPress security team, for finding a Stored Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability</li><li>Researchers from <em>Johns Hopkins University, </em>for finding a Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in the block editor</li></ul>



<p>For more information, browse the&nbsp;<a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?milestone=5.9.2&amp;group=component&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=owner&amp;col=type&amp;col=status&amp;col=priority&amp;col=milestone&amp;order=priority">full list of changes</a>&nbsp;on Trac, or check out the&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-9-2/">version 5.9.2 HelpHub documentation page</a>.</p>



<h2 id="thanks-and-props">Thanks and props!</h2>



<p>The 5.9.2 release was led by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/">Jb Audras</a>, with the help of <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorgefilipecosta/">Jorge Costa</a> on package updates, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/">Sergey Biryukov</a> on mission control, and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbaumwald/">David Baumwald</a> on backport commits.</p>



<p>In addition to the release squad members and security researchers mentioned above, thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 5.9.2 happen:</p>



<p class="is-style-wporg-props-short alignfull"><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alanjacobmathew/">Alan Jacob Mathew</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/xknown/">Alex Concha</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/oandregal/">André</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/antonvlasenko/">Anton Vlasenko</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbaumwald/">David Baumwald</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ehtis/">ehtis</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/">Jb Audras</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/">Jorge Costa</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterwilsoncc/">Peter Wilson</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/">Sergey Biryukov</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hellofromTonya/">Tonya Mork</a>, and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ironprogrammer/">ironprogrammer</a>.</p>



<p class="has-text-align-right has-small-font-size"><em>Props <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbaumwald/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>davidbaumwald</a> and <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>sergeybiryukov</a> for peer review.</em></p>
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<p>Matt Mullenweg speaks to WordPress contributors worldwide on this special edition of the WP Briefing podcast with Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Join us to hear Matt’s thoughts on Ukraine.</p>



<p><strong><em>H</em></strong><em><strong>ave a question you&#8217;d like answered? You can submit them to <a href="mailto:wpbriefing@wordpress.org">wpbriefing@wordpress.org</a>, either written or as a voice recording.</strong></em></p>



<h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>



<ul><li>Hosts: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/">Josepha Haden Chomphosy</a> and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/">Matt Mullenweg</a></li><li>Editor:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dustinhartzler/">Dustin Hartzler</a></li><li>Logo:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/beafialho/">Beatriz Fialho</a></li><li>Production:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/">Chloé Bringmann</a> &amp; <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/santanainniss/">Santana Inniss</a></li></ul>



<h2>How You Can Help</h2>



<p><a href="https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/unicef-children-crossfire-ukraine-crisis/39542?utm_campaign=20220225_Emergencies&amp;utm_medium=Organic&amp;utm_source=UkraineWebStoryChildrenFeb2022&amp;utm_content=LearnMoreUkraineWebStoryChildrenFeb2022&amp;ms=Organic_PRL_2022_Emergencies_20220225_UkraineWebStoryChildrenFeb2022_LearnMoreUkraineWebStoryChildrenFeb2022_none_none&amp;initialms=Organic_PRL_2022_Emergencies_20220225_UkraineWebStoryChildrenFeb2022_LearnMoreUkraineWebStoryChildrenFeb2022_none_none">UNICEF</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/countries/ukraine">Médecins Sans Frontieres</a>&nbsp;</p>



<p><a href="https://www.icrc.org/en/where-we-work/europe-central-asia/ukraine">International Committee of the Red Cross</a>&nbsp;</p>



<p><a href="https://help.rescue.org/donate/ukraine-acq?ms=gs_ppc_fy22_ukraine_mmus_feb&amp;initialms=gs_ppc_fy22_ukraine_mmus_feb&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiAjoeRBhAJEiwAYY3nDHNlEUUNRM4wKl1bY0ploy1RNl0M7G1OlLTqawZdg_XhrJ0TircZ_RoCfh8QAvD_BwE">International Rescue Committee</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.unrefugees.org/what-we-do/">UN Refugee Agency</a>&nbsp;</p>



<p><a href="https://donate.wck.org/give/236738/#!/donation/checkout">World Central Kitchen</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.techtotherescue.org/tech/tech-for-ukraine">Tech For Ukraine</a></p>



<p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wp4ukraine">#WP4Ukraine</a></p>



<h2>Transcript</h2>



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<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>00:00</p>



<p>Hello, everyone, and welcome to a special edition of the WordPress Briefing. I have Matt here with me today because we want to acknowledge that we are once again at the start of a very difficult time. Neither of us would presume to know what it&#8217;s like to be at the heart of such massive disruption in our lives. But who would we be if we didn&#8217;t stop and check in with you all, the project that we hold so dear? And with that, I&#8217;ll hand it right over to you, Matt.</p>



<p><strong>Matt Mullenweg&nbsp; </strong>00:27</p>



<p>Hello everyone. First, I want to thank Josepha for inviting me to join the WordPress Briefing to share what’s been on my mind in light of recent global events.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Matt Mullenweg&nbsp; </strong>00:37</p>



<p>I&#8217;ve been listening and watching events escalate in Ukraine, often in a state of shock. The scale alone is hard to take in. I mean, in the last 7 days, more than 500,000 people have fled their homes, more refugees are expected every day. The downstream humanitarian crises of the invasion are unimaginable.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Matt Mullenweg&nbsp; </strong>00:56</p>



<p>And seeing destruction in the world we live in is confusing, disconcerting, and difficult. In my experience, open source and WordPress bring people together; people from other countries and cultures, people that we know as friends and colleagues. Technology connects us, regardless of where we are. Nothing can negate the bad things happening in the world, but when I see how this community of contributors collaborates, regardless of borders, you all remind me of the good in the world every day.</p>



<p><strong>Matt Mullenweg&nbsp; </strong>01:30</p>



<p>I firmly believe that the web can be an equalizer and a force for good in the world. To me, the WordPress project is the epitome of goodness—everyone has a voice, a platform, and a community. You have the power to make your corner of the world, and the web, a sanctuary for those who need it—especially now.</p>



<p><strong>Matt Mullenweg&nbsp; </strong>01:45</p>



<p>If you or someone you know is affected by this war, I encourage you to be present as the ramifications unfold. While we may all feel fatigued and have a sense of languishing from the past two years of the Covid pandemic, the gift of time and support for one another cannot be overstated. I&#8217;m confident that every single person in the WordPress community will approach the situation in Ukraine with sensitivity and understanding.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Matt Mullenweg&nbsp; </strong>02:07</p>



<p>I invite you to join me in standing with those in the world working to end conflict and working toward a world of peace, promise, and opportunity. If you&#8217;re looking for a way to help support the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, I will offer some suggested NGOs, or Non-Governmental Organizations, that provide assistance to local peacebuilders in the region.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Matt Mullenweg&nbsp; </strong>02:26</p>



<p>In closing, please know that my thoughts are with everyone in our community. I know that my words here can’t change anything there, but I hope that we all remember that words of support are never unwelcome. And we can never know when a little human kindness can help someone share the invisible heaviness in their heart.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>02:44</p>



<p>Thanks for that, Matt. My friends, there are links in the show notes to some of the groups that Matt referenced. And that is it for this special edition of the WordPress Briefing. I&#8217;m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Be safe, be kind to yourself and others, and I&#8217;ll see you again in a couple of weeks.</p>
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<p>Overall, February has been a busy month for WordPress. To begin with, it was thrilling to see the enthusiasm for the release of WordPress 5.9 Joséphine from January continue last month, and that’s not all.&nbsp;</p>



<p>We have many exciting updates to share, so keep reading to learn about the latest achievements from the WordPress community.</p>



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<h2>WordPress 6.0: May 24, 2022 is the proposed release date</h2>



<ul><li>The proposed <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/02/16/wordpress-6-0-planning-roundup/">release schedule for WordPress 6.0</a>, the second major release of 2022, has been published.</li><li>While we’re waiting for 6.0, check out the <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/02/wordpress-5-9-1-maintenance-release/">WordPress 5.9.1 maintenance release</a> which was released on February 22, 2022.</li></ul>



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<h2>Gutenberg releases: Versions 12.5, 12.6, and 12.7 were released</h2>



<p>The Core Team launched three new versions of Gutenberg last month. All come with new features, code quality improvements, and bug fixes.</p>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/03/02/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-7-2-march/">Gutenberg 12.7 </a>is available to download. This version improves the Patterns experience, allows you to add border styles to column blocks, and includes other new features.</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/02/16/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-6-16-february/">Gutenberg 12.6</a> was launched on February 16, 2022. This release includes a new color panel, updated color controls, a new Post Author Biography block, Read More block, and plenty of other exciting updates!</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/02/03/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-5-february-2nd/">Gutenberg 12.5 </a>was released on February 2, 2022. This version allows switching theme styles variations, custom taxonomies filtering, and more.</li></ul>



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<h2>WordPress News gets a new look</h2>



<p>The redesign of <a href="https://wordpress.org/news">WordPress News</a>, which was first announced by Matt Mullenweg, Co-Founder of WordPress, in State of the Word 2021, went live on February 16, 2022.</p>



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<h2>Team updates: #WP Diversity, a new blog for developers, and more</h2>



<ul><li>The #WPDiversity working group, which is part of the Community Team, hosted an open Zoom meeting with volunteers on February 23, 2022. If you’re interested in contributing, read the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/02/24/recap-of-the-diverse-speaker-training-group-wpdiversity-on-february-23-2022/">recap of the meeting</a> to view available roles.&nbsp;</li><li>The Core Team shared a <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/02/25/proposal-to-start-a-news-blog-on-developer-wordpress-org/">proposal to start a blog</a> on developer.wordpress.org to share news and updates relevant to developers.&nbsp;</li><li>The first Gutenberg Developer Hours session hosted on February 8th by the Core Team was successful. Head over to <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/02/24/february-8th-gutenberg-developer-hours-session-evaluation/">this page</a> to learn more about the participants’ feedback.</li><li>The Core Team published “<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/02/24/feature-project-plugin-dependencies/">Feature Project: Plugin Dependencies</a>,” where they identified the problems with plugin dependencies and suggested potential solutions to improve the plugin experience.</li><li>The WordPress Photo Directory has a <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/photos/">new Make team</a>. There is currently an open <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/photos/2022/02/23/photo-directory-team-rep-nominations-for-2022/">call for team reps</a> and collaboration is happening at the new <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/photos/">#photos</a> channel of the Make WordPress Slack.</li><li>The Polyglots Team shared a proposal for a <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2022/02/01/proposal-milestone-template-for-polyglots-locale-teams/">milestone template </a>for the Polyglots Locale Teams.</li><li>The Community Team published a proposal for <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/02/16/proposal-refurbishing-camera-kits/">refurbishing camera kits</a>.</li><li>The <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/02/21/2022-global-sponsors-announcement/">Global Community Sponsors for 2022</a> have been announced.</li><li>The February 2022 edition of the monthly <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/02/15/meetup-organizer-newsletter-february-2022/">Meetup Organizer Newsletter</a> has been published.</li><li>The latest edition of People of WordPress highlighting <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/02/people-of-wordpress-tonya-mork/">Tonya Mork</a> was published on February 28, 2022. Read Tonya’s story to learn more about how WordPress helped her find herself again after a health crisis.&nbsp;</li><li>The February 2022 edition of the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2022/02/22/polyglots-monthly-newsletter-february-2022/">Polyglots Monthly Newsletter</a> has been published.</li></ul>



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<h2>Feedback/Testing requests: WordPress iOS 19.3 and Android 19.3 </h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2022/02/22/call-for-testing-wordpress-for-ios-19-3/">WordPress for iOS 19.3</a> beta is available for testing, along with <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2022/02/22/call-for-testing-wordpress-for-android-19-3/">WordPress for Android 19.3</a></li></ul>



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<h2>WordCamp Europe 2022 announces steps to ensure a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming event</h2>



<ul><li>WordCamp Europe 2022 <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/diversity-at-wceu/">announced a plan</a> to ensure more diversity and inclusion in events moving forward.</li><li>The WordPress Foundation published a post on how <a href="https://wordpressfoundation.org/news/2022/open-source-software-good-for-business/">open source software is good for business</a>.</li><li>In a recent episode of WP Briefing titled “<a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/02/episode-25-five-cents-on-five-for-the-future/">Five Cents on Five for the Future</a>,” Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy talks about future-proofing the WordPress project with the Five for the Future pledge.</li><li>The Training Team is hosting several WordPress Social Learning Meetups <a href="https://www.meetup.com/wordpress-social-learning/events/">in March 2022</a>.</li><li>Don’t miss the following upcoming WordCamps:<ul><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1e8-1f1ed.png" alt="🇨🇭" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://geneve.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp Genève</a>, Switzerland on April 9, 2022 (in person)</li><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1ec-1f1f7.png" alt="🇬🇷" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://central.wordcamp.org/wordcamps/wordcamp-athens-attica-greece-2022/">WordCamp Athens</a>, Greece between April 9 and 10, 2022 (in person)</li><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1e6-1f1f9.png" alt="🇦🇹" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://vienna.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp Vienna</a>, Austria from April 23 to 24, 2022 (in person)</li><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1ea-1f1fa.png" alt="🇪🇺" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp Europe</a> in Porto, Portugal from June 2 to 4, 2022 (in person)</li><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1fa-1f1f8.png" alt="🇺🇸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://montclair.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp Montclair</a> in New Jersey, USA June 25 (in person)</li><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1fa-1f1f8.png" alt="🇺🇸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://us.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp US</a> in San Diego, California from September 9 to 11, 2022 (in person)</li></ul></li></ul>



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<p><em>The following folks contributed to this Month in WordPress: </em><a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/anjanavasan/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>anjanavasan</a><em> </em><a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/harishanker/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>harishanker</a><em> </em><a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/rmartinezduque/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>rmartinezduque</a> <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/mysweetcate/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>mysweetcate</a></p>
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<p><strong>In this series, we share some of the inspiring stories of how WordPress and its global network of contributors can change people’s lives for the better. This month we feature a website developer and engineer from the US, who found the software and its community provide the impetus to keep her going forward.</strong></p>



<p>WordPress gave Tonya Mork a new lease of energy after a health crisis from which she nearly died. She had spent two decades as an electrical and software engineer in high tech automated manufacturing. But when she discovered the WordPress software, teaching it to others became her new purpose. Through this discovery, she has gone on to help thousands of developers understand and build code in great depth.</p>



<p>As part of her WordPress journey, she has shared her skills in the roles of Release Coordinator and the Core Tech Editor for the most recent major WordPress release, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/5-9/">5.9</a> Joséphine.&nbsp;</p>



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<h2 id="life-takes-an-unexpected-turn">Life takes an unexpected turn</h2>



<p>For the first 22 years of Tonya’s life, she rose through the ranks from enlisted personnel in the US Navy to a highly sought after chief engineer with a multi million-dollar industrial automation engineering firm.  </p>



<p>However, while she was working in engineering, her life was to change dramatically. In 2007, Tonya started to face health challenges that had an impact on all that she had known.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p><strong>“My career defined me. It was my canvas and my art. When it was gone, I did not recognize myself.</strong></p><cite>Tonya Mork</cite></blockquote>



<p>One day, she woke up at home ready to visit a client’s facility where her firm was building a robotic system. She said: “As I headed for the door, I fell to my knees, as this wave of pain crushed down on my chest.”</p>



<p>Doctors diagnosed her with a very rare heart disease that caused her blood vessels to spasm, cutting off blood to whatever was downstream of the blockage. </p>



<p>A few months later, she was diagnosed with a second rare and more serious condition, related to the migraines from which she had been suffering. Combined with her heart condition, this made every migraine attack life-threatening.</p>



<p>For nearly seven years, the unexpected changes to her health left her mostly homebound and constantly monitored. This meant she had to close her engineering firm and say goodbye to staff and clients. </p>



<p>“My career defined me. It was my canvas and my art. When it was gone, I was lost. I didn’t recognize myself.”</p>



<p>But in her darkest hour, she found her strength. Tonya made a choice to move forward, and make the most of her life.</p>



<p>“When you are at rock bottom, you have to make a decision or else it will consume you. My decision was that I chose to be happy,” said Tonya.</p>



<p>One of Tonya’s first steps was to start writing a blog using WordPress. In this she shared insights on how to find peace and joy in any situation. She wrote about kindness and helping one another.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The joy of making solutions through WordPress became a way for Tonya to accept her new life and not feel as limited by her health. She wanted purpose, and in WordPress, she found just that.</p>



<p>Tonya felt she could do something worthwhile in the virtual world.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 id="a-ray-of-hope-for-tonya">A ray of hope for Tonya</h2>



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<p>In 2013, Tonya’s health deteriorated further. She was admitted into intensive care and was diagnosed with a third rare disease, this time related to her autoimmunity. She was not expected to survive this time. </p>



<p>Following what she describes as a ‘miraculous recovery,’ she became stronger and was able to stop relying on a wheelchair. She used the energy from working on websites to keep going. “WordPress kept my mind alive,” said Tonya.</p>



<p>She had first used WordPress for her engineering firm’s intranet. But when she discovered the software’s full potential and the collaborative opportunities of open source, it opened a new world.&nbsp;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-pullquote"><blockquote><p>&#8220;Finding WordPress helped me to find myself again&#8221;</p><cite>Tonya Mork</cite></blockquote></figure>



<p>During the years which followed, she donated her time to build some WordPress websites and plugins. She said: “Through giving my time, I was able to do something other than sit in isolation.” </p>



<p>Tonya was amazed by the sharing in open source in general and in WordPress in particular. She said: “I was amazed to see people sharing so much information freely with one another. In my former engineering world, information was proprietary. Throughout my career, I had worked to break down those silos and help anyone to understand complex systems. I was drawn to this open community.”&nbsp;</p>



<p>She also became aware that WordPress developers were hungry to learn more about development. She wanted to be part of the solution with her passion for teaching and the knowledge she had gained in industry.<br><br>She said: “Finding WordPress helped me to find myself again. Here in this community, I was able to feel like a person again, not a sick one, but a professional with something to give.”</p>



<p>As her interest in the software grew, Tonya decided to start a non-profit where she turned to WordPress to build the websites. This re-sparked her interest in programming. She said: “I wanted to really know the code and understand what made it tick.”</p>



<p>The realization led Tonya to start the WP Developers’ Club, which in turn spawned <a href="https://knowthecode.io/">Know the Code</a>, to help educate individual developers, and is still used today.</p>



<h2 id="from-helping-wordpress-companies-to-working-on-wordpress-core">From helping WordPress companies to working on WordPress Core</h2>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-full"><img loading="lazy" width="300" height="300" src="https://i0.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/tonya-with-dog.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1" alt="Tonya pictured with her dog" class="wp-image-12328" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/tonya-with-dog.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/tonya-with-dog.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div>



<p>Tonya went on to work with big and medium size WordPress companies helping their developers and supporting them in raising their firms’ leverage with WordPress.</p>



<p>By late 2020, she knew she wanted to do even more with WordPress.</p>



<p>In February 2021, Tonya joined an international firm in the ecosystem and began working closely on WordPress Core.</p>



<p>At that time, WordPress Core was pulling together a new Triage team. Tonya started volunteering on that team to find collaborative solutions, and help others do so. In 2020 for <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2020/12/simone/">WordPress 5.6 Simone</a>, she became the release’s Triage lead, and again for <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/5-7/">WordPress 5.7 Esperanza</a>.&nbsp;</p>



<p>In 2021, she became a Test Team Rep and helped to expand the team and is an advocate for the value of testing and feedback in the release development process.</p>



<h2 id="a-new-successful-chapter-with-wordpress-5-9">A new, successful chapter with WordPress 5.9</h2>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="480" src="https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/WP59-thumbnail-jb.png?resize=1024%2C480&#038;ssl=1" alt="Tonya was one of the notable contributors to the WordPress 5.9 release featured in this picture." class="wp-image-12329" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/WP59-thumbnail-jb.png?resize=1024%2C480&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/WP59-thumbnail-jb.png?resize=300%2C141&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/WP59-thumbnail-jb.png?resize=768%2C360&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/WP59-thumbnail-jb.png?resize=1536%2C719&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/WP59-thumbnail-jb.png?resize=2048%2C959&amp;ssl=1 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div>



<p>Tonya’s passion for the software and getting people involved in its growth continued. For the WordPress 5.9 release in 2021, she took on the role of both the Core Tech Lead and the Release Coordinator. As this was a big release and included the first major implementation of Full Site Editing, it had many moving parts and hundreds of contributors. She was able to share the skills she had learned in communication and project management from her days streamlining and documenting engineering software and processes.&nbsp;</p>



<p>In the first 24 hours of WordPress 5.9 landing, it had more than 10 million downloads—and 17 formally reported bugs.</p>



<h2 id="giving-back-to-open-source">Giving back to open source</h2>



<p>Now in what Tonya describes as her third chapter. She said: “I’m a very different person from the engineer I used to know. What really matters in this world is when you reach out and make a difference in someone’s life.”</p>



<p>She feels she has found her purpose in this life. “I’m on a mission to give back and make a difference. Teaching is how I will do it. And in WordPress I have found my professional home, and I have all this software knowledge that I just want to share.”</p>



<h2 id="share-the-stories">Share the stories</h2>



<p>Help share these stories of open source contributors and continue to grow the community. Meet more WordPressers in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/category/newsletter/interviews/">People of WordPress series</a>.</p>



<h2 id="contributors-to-this-feature">Contributors to this feature</h2>



<p>Thank you to Tonya Mork (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/hellofromtonya/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>hellofromtonya</a>) for sharing her story. </p>



<p>Interviews and feature by Abha Thakor (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>webcommsat</a>) and Mary Baum (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/marybaum/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>marybaum</a>). Reviewed by Chloe Bringmann (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>cbringmann</a>), Nalini Thakor (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/nalininonstopnewsuk/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>nalininonstopnewsuk</a>), Meher Bala (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/meher/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>meher</a>), and Anjana Vasan (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/anjanavasan/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>anjanavasan</a>). Photo editing Reyez Martínez (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/rmartinezduque/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>rmartinezduque</a>) and Jean Baptiste Audras (<a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>audrasjb</a>). </p>



<p><em>Thanks to Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp;(@<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/">chanthaboune</a>) and Topher DeRosia (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/">@topher1kenobe</a>) and others for their support&nbsp;</em>of this initiative.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><em>This People of WordPress feature is inspired by an essay originally published on </em><a href="https://heropress.com/"><em>HeroPress.com</em></a><em>, a community initiative created by Topher DeRosia. It highlights people in the WordPress community who have overcome barriers and whose stories might otherwise go unheard. </em>#HeroPress </p>
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<p>WordPress 5.9.1 is now available!</p>



<p>This maintenance release features&nbsp;82 bug fixes in both Core and the block editor.</p>



<p>WordPress 5.9.1 is a short-cycle maintenance release. The next major release will be version&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/6.0/">6.0</a>.</p>



<p>You can <a href="https://wordpress.org/wordpress-5.9.1.zip">download WordPress 5.9.1 from WordPress.org</a>, or visit your Dashboard&nbsp;→ Updates and click &#8220;Update Now&#8221;.</p>



<p>If you have sites that support automatic background updates, they’ve already started the update process.</p>



<p>For more information, browse the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/02/16/wordpress-5-9-1-rc-1/">full list of both Trac and GitHub changes in the release candidate post</a>, or check out the&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-9-1/">version 5.9.1 HelpHub documentation page</a>.</p>



<h2 id="thanks-and-props">Thanks and props!</h2>



<p>The 5.9.1 release was led by&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/">Jb Audras</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mamaduka/">George Mamadashvili</a>.</p>



<p>Special props to <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>sergeybiryukov</a> for running mission control.</p>



<p>Thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 5.9.1 happen:</p>



<p class="is-style-wporg-props-medium alignfull"><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aljullu/">Albert Juhé Lluveras</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ajlende/">Alex Lende</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexstine/">alexstine</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/oandregal/">André</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/antonvlasenko/">Anton Vlasenko</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aristath/">Ari Stathopoulos</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/madeinua/">ArteMa</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/scruffian/">Ben Dwyer</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/blogaid/">BlogAid</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/poena/">Carolina Nymark</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/critterverse/">Channing Ritter</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisvanpatten/">Chris Van Patten</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/costdev/">Colin Stewart</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/talldanwp/">Daniel Richards</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbinda/">David Biňovec</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/get_dave/">David Smith</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dd32/">Dion Hulse</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ocean90/">Dominik Schilling</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eddystile/">Eddy</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ellatrix/">Ella van Durpe</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kebbet/">Erik</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fabiankaegy/">Fabian Kägy</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/azouamauriac/">Flinim Asso</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gadhiyaravi/">gadhiyaravi</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/revgeorge/">George Hotelling</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mamaduka/">George Mamadashvili</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/glendaviesnz/">glendaviesnz</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gziolo/">Greg Ziółkowski</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ianatkins/">ianatkins</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ianbelanger/">Ian Belanger</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ironprogrammer/">ironprogrammer</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/itsamoreh/">itsamoreh</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/">Jb Audras</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jffng/">Jeff Ong</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeherve/">Jeremy Herve</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson/">Joe Dolson</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joen/">Joen A.</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnbillion/">John Blackbourn</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/desrosj/">Jonathan Desrosiers</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorgefilipecosta/">Jorge Costa</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jrf/">Juliette Reinders Folmer</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kafleg/">KafleG</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kapilpaul/">Kapil Paul</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kjellr/">Kjell Reigstad</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/linux4me2/">linux4me2</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pyrobd/">Lukman Nakib</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/manfcarlo/">manfcarlo</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/clorith/">Marius L. J.</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mgol/">mgol</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nidhidhandhukiya/">nidhidhandhukiya</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ntsekouras/">Nik Tsekouras</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alshakero/">Omar Alshaker</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pls78/">Paolo L. Scala</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/swissspidy/">Pascal Birchler</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pbearne/">Paul Bearne</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/malinevskiy/">Pavlo</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/petaryoast/">Petar Ratković</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterwilsoncc/">Peter Wilson</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/walbo/">Petter Walbø Johnsgård</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnstonphilip/">Phil Johnston</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/boniu91/">Piotrek Boniu</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ravipatel/">ravipatel</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/youknowriad/">Riad Benguella</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/noisysocks/">Robert Anderson</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/rolfsiebers/">Rolf Siebers</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/">Sergey Biryukov</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/stacimc/">stacimc</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sabernhardt/">Stephen Bernhardt</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mahype/">Sven Wagener</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/staatic/">Team Staatic</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/tnolte/">Tim Nolte</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hellofromtonya/">Tonya Mork</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/">webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/webmandesign/">WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/antonynz/">wpcharged</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpsoul/">wpsoul</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dolphingg/">Yunus Ertuğrul</a>, and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/rafiahmedd/">Rafi Ahmed</a>.</p>



<p>Thanks to <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/estelaris/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>estelaris</a>, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/pbiron/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>pbiron</a>, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/ironprogrammer/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>ironprogrammer</a>, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/bph/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>bph</a>, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/abhanonstopnewsuk/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>abhanonstopnewsuk</a> and <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/threadi/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>threadi</a> for their help to test the release package.</p>
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			";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:4:{s:0:"";a:7:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:58:"WP Briefing: Episode 25: Five Cents on Five for the Future";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:80:"https://wordpress.org/news/2022/02/episode-25-five-cents-on-five-for-the-future/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Mon, 21 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:8:"category";a:2:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Podcast";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}i:1;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:11:"wp-briefing";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:53:"https://wordpress.org/news/?post_type=podcast&p=12288";s:7:"attribs";a:1:{s:0:"";a:1:{s:11:"isPermaLink";s:5:"false";}}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:450:"In this twenty-fifth episode of the WordPress Briefing, Executive Director, Josepha Haden Chomphosy discusses future-proofing the WordPress project with the Five for the Future pledge. Have a question you&#8217;d like answered? You can submit them to wpbriefing@wordpress.org, either written or as a voice recording. Credits Editor:&#160;Dustin Hartzler Logo:&#160;Beatriz Fialho Production:&#160;Chloé Bringmann &#38; Santana Inniss Song: [&#8230;]";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:9:"enclosure";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:0:"";s:7:"attribs";a:1:{s:0:"";a:3:{s:3:"url";s:60:"https://wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/WP-Briefing-025.mp3";s:6:"length";s:1:"0";s:4:"type";s:0:"";}}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:15:"Chloe Bringmann";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:40:"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:10286:"
<p>In this twenty-fifth episode of the WordPress Briefing, Executive Director, Josepha Haden Chomphosy discusses future-proofing the WordPress project with the Five for the Future pledge. </p>



<p><em><strong>Have a question you&#8217;d like answered? You can submit them to <a href="mailto:wpbriefing@wordpress.org">wpbriefing@wordpress.org</a>, either written or as a voice recording.</strong></em></p>



<h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>



<ul><li>Editor:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dustinhartzler/">Dustin Hartzler</a></li><li>Logo:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/beafialho/">Beatriz Fialho</a></li><li>Production:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/">Chloé Bringmann</a> &amp; <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/santanainniss/">Santana Inniss</a></li><li>Song: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod</li></ul>



<h2 id="references">References</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://ma.tt/2014/09/five-for-the-future/">Five for the Future</a>, on ma.tt circa 2014</li><li><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/governing-the-commons/A8BB63BC4A1433A50A3FB92EDBBB97D5">Governing the Commons</a>, Elinor Ostrom</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/files/2022/01/WP-Sponsored-Contributor-Team-White-Paper-Google-Docs.pdf">Five for the Future White Paper</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/02/16/wordpress-6-0-planning-roundup/">6.0 Planning Roundup</a></li><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/course/simple-site-design-with-full-site-editing/">Part I: Full Site Editing Course</a></li><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/course/part-2-personalized-site-design-with-full-site-editing-and-theme-blocks/">Part II: Full Site Editing Course</a></li><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/course/part-3-advanced-site-design-with-full-site-editing-site-editor-templates-and-template-parts/">Part III: Full Site Eiditing Course</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="transcript">Transcript</h2>



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<p>Episode 25</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:00:00]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>Hello everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing. The podcast where you can catch quick explanations of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project. Some insight into the community that supports it and get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I&#8217;m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy &#8211; here we go!</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:00:42]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>I have a non-mailbag mailbag question that I would like to answer for y&#8217;all today. Non-mailbag because no one actually emailed me about it and mailbag because Twitter is basically like a giant mailbag. And I do get a lot of DMS about this particular topic. If you want to send something to my actual WP Briefing mailbag, you can send it to <a href="mailto:wpbriefing@worpress.org">wpbriefing@worpress.org</a>.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:01:06]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>But the question that I frequently get asked in my DMS on Twitter is: what is Five for the Future? It&#8217;s not always that tidy the question, but that still is the question we&#8217;re answering today. So if you take a casual survey of active contributors to the WordPress project, the high-level answer that you&#8217;re likely to get to that question is “a way to remind people to give back to the project.” Or, if you run in more business-y circles, you might hear that it is an initiative that encourages companies to give back 5% of their resources.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:01:40]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>And both of those answers are true. So a quick mini-history lesson; the original concept of Five for the Future came from Matt Mullenweg in 2014. There&#8217;s a lovely blog post on it that I will link in the notes below, but it was essentially a call to any companies experiencing success with WordPress to contribute back to the project and make sure that the project was a success.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:02:07]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>The initial program then included outreach recognition, et cetera, proposed in 2017 by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/users/liljimmi/">Tracy Levesque</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/users/iandunn/">Ian Dunn</a>. Then that was defined and formalized with the help of the WordPress community in 2018. And then, in 2019, we had our first trial run with entire dedicated teams sponsored by companies inside the WordPress ecosystem.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:02:36]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>So that&#8217;s the mini-history lesson chronology of this program. The intentions that informed the work of building the program in 2017 have become a bit lost to the ages. So I&#8217;m here to share it with you. The basic heart and soul of the Five for the Future program is to make sure that there is a way to refresh the commons of the WordPress community and ecosystem.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:03:00]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>And as a result, ensure that the common resources of WordPress are available long after we have stopped being available to care for them. If you are familiar with the concept of the tragedy of the commons, Five for the Future was created to help avoid that tragedy. There were two original goals for formalizing the program.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:03:22]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>The first one was to acknowledge companies that participated in Five for the Future by sponsoring contributors to work on the WordPress project. And the second was to motivate more companies to sponsor more volunteers. Either by hiring them and paying them to contribute or by assigning their existing employees to contribute to the WordPress project.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:03:46]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>Of course, it&#8217;s hard to quantify participation and hard to qualify what should be seen as an impactful contribution, which is why when the program was originally created, it was in partnership with team reps and community members who were active at the time. There are many posts around that discuss the next steps for this program.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:04:07]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>And as I&#8217;m looking through them, the next steps revolve around some of the hardest and most important questions that we have to answer as a project and as stewards of open source. Those questions are things like:</p>



<ul><li> How do we remain true to these gloriously subversive values of WordPress and open source while also finding a way to thoughtfully secure our organization&#8217;s future?</li><li>Does contributing without the expectation of reciprocity hold up when we are looking at how to acknowledge contributors who sustain us?</li></ul>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:04:40]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>And if you&#8217;re familiar with Elinor Ostrom&#8217;s award-winning work, Governing the Commons, you may also be wondering how this particular program aligns with her eight principles designed to sustain organizations like ours.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:04:57]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>As an aside to that last question, this particular program does not have all eight principles accounted for, but among WordPress&#8217;s many programs, we do account for most of them. Although imperfectly, as is the way with human beings, that&#8217;s probably a whole episode unto itself, I did want to quickly answer that particular question.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:05:16]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>So to get back to my non-mailbag, mailbag question, if I had to tell you in the span of an elevator ride what Five for the Future was, this would be my answer. <strong>It is a v1 program with a dual goal of boldly declaring the need to refresh the shared resources of WordPress and offering the ways and means for communities and individuals alike to participate in refreshing those resources</strong>.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:05:45]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>If you want to learn more about the Five for the Future initiative, you can check out wordpress.org/5. Like literally just the number five. Or, if you want to learn more about the program that has grown from the Five for the Future initiative, you can check out the white paper that&#8217;s linked in the notes below.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:06:11]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>And that brings us now to our small list of big things. Number one on my small list, the planning post for WordPress 6.0 is out. I&#8217;ve included a link in my massive list of links below. But it includes our best guess at timing, features that we intend to include, and a call for volunteers as well. So if you are looking for ways to give back, that is a clear and immediate option.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:06:38]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>The second thing on the list is if you are a team rep, don&#8217;t forget that we have daylight saving time ending and starting depending on your hemisphere within the month. If you move meetings, if you&#8217;re in a team that moves your meetings, discuss it now so that folks have time to adjust their calendars.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:06:55]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>And the third thing on my small list of big things is that there&#8217;s a suite of Full Site Editing courses that are now available on learn.wordpress.org. I will add that to my giant list of links below, but I encourage you to wander on over and see what all the fuss is about. I think the courses are excellent. They&#8217;re great for folks who don&#8217;t quite know what Full Site Editing is yet, but then also they give you a few intermediate tips and tricks as you&#8217;re getting your legs underneath you.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy [00:07:27]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>So, that my friends, is your small list of big things. Thank you for tuning in today for the WordPress Briefing. I&#8217;m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. I&#8217;ll see you again in a couple of weeks.</p>
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			";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:4:{s:0:"";a:6:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:20:"A New WordPress News";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:56:"https://wordpress.org/news/2022/02/a-new-wordpress-news/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:56:05 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:8:"category";a:3:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:6:"Design";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}i:1;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"General";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}i:2;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:4:"Meta";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:35:"https://wordpress.org/news/?p=12244";s:7:"attribs";a:1:{s:0:"";a:1:{s:11:"isPermaLink";s:5:"false";}}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:385:"In June 2021, @beafialho in collaboration with @pablohoney floated the idea of giving WordPress News a new look. Today, those ideas become a reality—we&#8217;re excited to share that redesign of WordPress News is live! The new design leans on the aesthetics of jazz, intrinsically connected to WordPress and which ultimately translates its uniqueness, historic significance [&#8230;]";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Kelly Hoffman";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:40:"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:5727:"
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<p>In June 2021, <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/beafialho/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>beafialho</a> in collaboration with <a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/pablohoney/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>pablohoney</a> <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/2021/06/03/redesign-of-wordpress-org-news/">floated the idea</a> of giving WordPress News a new look. Today, those ideas become a reality—we&#8217;re excited to share that redesign of <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/">WordPress News</a> is live!</p>



<p>The new design leans on the aesthetics of jazz, intrinsically connected to WordPress and which ultimately translates its uniqueness, historic significance and future potential. Among other improvements, the new design leaves more space for content and includes new typefaces for better readability. It also uses a color palette intended to reflect the evolving Gutenberg language.</p>



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<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" width="2560" height="1605" src="https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/news_communitypodcast-scaled.jpg?resize=2560%2C1605&#038;ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-12262" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/news_communitypodcast-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/news_communitypodcast-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/news_communitypodcast-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C642&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/news_communitypodcast-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C482&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/news_communitypodcast-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C963&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/news_communitypodcast-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1284&amp;ssl=1 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure>



<p>The revamp of the WordPress News page includes the header and footer of the page. We also shipped those two global elements to all pages of WordPress.org. However, there’s more work to do within the header to improve the information architecture. This new design is just the first, small step to modernize and improve the site iteratively. Any further discussion on future redesigns will occur in the <a href="http://wordpress.slack.com">#design channel on Slack</a>.</p>



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<p>Take a look around and subscribe to WordPress News if you haven’t already. If you see something in the design that doesn’t look right, please submit an issue on <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-news-2021/">GitHub</a>.</p>
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			";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:4:{s:0:"";a:7:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:44:"WP Briefing: Episode 24: Three Goals in 2022";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:66:"https://wordpress.org/news/2022/02/episode-24-three-goals-in-2022/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:8:"category";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Podcast";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:53:"https://wordpress.org/news/?post_type=podcast&p=12176";s:7:"attribs";a:1:{s:0:"";a:1:{s:11:"isPermaLink";s:5:"false";}}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:413:"In episode 24 of the WordPress Briefing, the Project&#8217;s Executive Director reviews three big-picture goals for the year: Increased Gutenberg adoption, support of all open source alternatives, and stewarding the open source ethos. Have a question you&#8217;d like answered? You can submit them to wpbriefing@wordpress.org, either written or as a voice recording. Credits Editor:&#160;Dustin Hartzler [&#8230;]";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:9:"enclosure";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:0:"";s:7:"attribs";a:1:{s:0:"";a:3:{s:3:"url";s:60:"https://wordpress.org/news/files/2022/02/WP-Briefing-024.mp3";s:6:"length";s:1:"0";s:4:"type";s:0:"";}}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:15:"Chloe Bringmann";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:40:"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:9160:"
<p>In episode 24 of the WordPress Briefing, the Project&#8217;s Executive Director reviews three big-picture goals for the year: Increased Gutenberg adoption, support of all open source alternatives, and stewarding the open source ethos.</p>



<p><em><strong>Have a question you&#8217;d like answered? You can submit them to <a href="mailto:wpbriefing@wordpress.org">wpbriefing@wordpress.org</a>, either written or as a voice recording.</strong></em></p>



<h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>



<ul><li>Editor:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dustinhartzler/">Dustin Hartzler</a></li><li>Logo:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/beafialho/">Beatriz Fialho</a></li><li>Production:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/">Chloé Bringmann</a></li><li>Song: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod</li></ul>



<h2 id="references">References</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/01/21/big-picture-goals-2022/">Big Picture Goals 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/26/preliminary-roadmap-for-6-0/">Preliminary Roadmap for 6.0</a> (Gutenberg Phase 2)</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2021/06/a-new-design-is-coming-to-wordpress-news/">A New News Design</a></li><li><a href="https://wpmake.tumblr.com/">Making WordPress</a>: Unofficial aggregator for all&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/">Making WordPress blogs</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="transcript">Transcript</h2>



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<h2 id="episode-24">Episode 24</h2>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>00:00</p>



<p>Hello everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing, the podcast where you can catch quick explanations of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project. Some insight into the community that supports it and get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I&#8217;m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Here we go!</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>01:07</p>



<p>A couple of weeks ago, I published a post about the big picture goals for the WordPress project in 2022. As I was thinking through our planned releases for the year and looking out toward what would spell success for WordPress over the next three years, three things really lined up in both sets of answers for me.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>01:23</p>



<p>I provided some detail on how we can work toward these goals in the post, which I will link for you in the show notes, but I also wanted to take some time to explain why I feel we have to work toward these goals this year. So these all build on one another. To refresh your memory of the three big focuses, they are one to drive adoption of the new editor in WordPress, support open source alternatives for site building necessities, and three, open source stewardship.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>01:52</p>



<p>So the first one; is driving the adoption of the new WordPress editor. Early on in the start of the Gutenberg Project, folks could not go two days without hearing me talk about the phases of adoption and how those line up with the phases of Gutenberg, and who would need our support the most in each of those phases.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>02:09</p>



<p>I have always believed that what we would be shipping at this point in our project would prove the plausible promise of what we were doing in phase one. That&#8217;s definitely what I&#8217;m seeing from what was shipped in 5.9, as well as what we plan to ship in May with 6.0. And the people who need the most support right now are absolutely our users, your clients, no matter whether they were not keeping up with WordPress developments or simply were waiting to see what all the fuss was about.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>02:37</p>



<p>There will be people who look to you as someone who has been here a while to help them make sense of what they&#8217;re seeing. And what I find so exciting about this adoption, sort of, work in the WordPress project is that this is the time when we as practitioners of WordPress, no matter whether you are a designer or a developer or builder, business coach. This is the time when we get to guide others through the hardest parts of our learning processes.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>03:07</p>



<p>The process of helping people to learn new technologies relies not only on your hard-won expertise but also on the belief that the future is worth fighting for. Enabling someone’s success is an investment in the future and investment for that person or for WordPress or your community. All investments are welcome here.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>03:28</p>



<p>Fortunately, table stakes are just that you care. And speaking of future investments, the second focus is open source alternatives for site building necessities. So things like images, forms, stores, themes, etc. It literally just things you need to build a site. I would like to start by saying that I am completely aware of the fact that 99% of WordPress users will never care about open source freedoms and philosophies in the same way that WordPress maintainers and contributors care about open source freedoms and philosophies.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>04:04</p>



<p>You could substitute the name of any other open source project right there, and the statement would still be true. And yet, I will always believe that people should have the rights and freedoms that open source brings to them even if they do not know they are there. And so it makes all the sense in the world to me that as a project and open source community, we should strive to make choosing Open Source as easy as possible.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>04:33</p>



<p>And finally, open source stewardship is one of the focuses for this year. This one is obviously about supporting open source as a concept and maintaining WordPress as a project. But I also think that it is relevant to our current global circumstances. Open Source suddenly became very visible to the public eye last year following the Log4J vulnerability, and ever since then, I&#8217;ve been hearing consistent concern over how We make sure that WordPress is sustainable moving into the future. Fortunately, this is a topic that&#8217;s near and dear to my heart. And I have been delighted to see so many community members bringing that conversation to the forefront.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>05:14</p>



<p>There is a lot that is done in the WordPress project to keep us from the tragedy of the commons. But that work honestly never ends. Not only does it not end, but as we get bigger, there is more and more that we can and should be doing to keep us around for the long term. And, of course, for the keen readers of my posts, there&#8217;s a bonus focus.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>05:39</p>



<p>The bonus focus is, of course, that WordPress turns 20 years old next year. This year, we will also be seeing some preparatory work for that major milestone as well.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>05:56</p>



<p>So that brings us today to our small list of big things. There is a redesign of the News Page coming. We&#8217;ve been talking about this over on make.wordpress.org/design for a bit since like June of last year or something. But it&#8217;s coming in the next few weeks. I&#8217;ll share a link to the GitHub repo in case anyone has any specific things that they see as they are reading through all of our many news stories that come out on that particular page. I think it&#8217;s beautiful, and I&#8217;m very excited to take a look at it.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>06:30</p>



<p>The second thing is that planning is underway for WordPress 6.0; that release that we&#8217;re doing in May. I&#8217;ll add the project page link to the show notes. I&#8217;ve had a few raised hands for that release squad. But if you&#8217;re interested in participating in the release, I encourage you to keep an eye out on make.wordpress.org/core for updates and any news about how to get involved.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>06:53</p>



<p>And my third thing is actually that, in general, there are a lot of opportunities to contribute right now. There are discussions about projects, goals, and dreams happening all over the place. I&#8217;ll link in the show notes below the unofficial project “firehose” where you can see all the headlines and quickly find discussions that might be interesting to you.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>07:18</p>



<p>And that, my friends, is your small list of big things. Thank you for tuning in today for the WordPress Briefing. I&#8217;m your host Josepha Haden Chomphosy, and I&#8217;ll see you again in a couple of weeks.</p>
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<p>There are a few significant moments in the history of the WordPress project. January 2022 is one of them, with the release of WordPress 5.9! But that’s not all. Read on to learn more about the latest updates and achievements from the community.</p>



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<h2 id="wordpress-5-9-josephine-is-here">WordPress 5.9 Joséphine is here</h2>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><img loading="lazy" width="405" height="274" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Iq09sZdu0Npal6XWBF6Bbfqb8AWizWVPCUtCqxgU4T-1E3uWM1bmZ7cDEHA0RJlEaFTPN5jAAXwHfx-x52rIC2Gac55j96fhUSdFlHyEmFtooRM9_NmuLyRJ-_ujotnKAAYzBEBh"></p>



<p>Meet <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/josephine/">WordPress 5.9 Joséphine</a>. Named in honor of the acclaimed jazz singer, Joséphine Baker, this is one of the much-awaited releases. Version 5.9 brings full site editing to WordPress, among other exciting updates!<strong> </strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/download/"><strong>Download WordPress 5.9</strong></a><strong> and try the new features! </strong><br><br>Check out the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/10/wordpress-5-9-field-guide/">WordPress 5.9 Field Guide</a> to learn more. Lastly, everyone’s invited to participate in a retrospective of the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/27/wordpress-5-9-simone-retrospective/">WordPress 5.9 Joséphine</a> release!</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote has-text-align-center"><p><strong>Are you interested in contributing to WordPress core?</strong> Join the <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBWTW">#core</a> channel, follow the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/">Core Team blog</a>, and check out the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/">team handbook</a>. Also, don&#8217;t miss the Core Team’s weekly developer chat on Wednesdays at <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&amp;min=00&amp;sec=0">8 PM</a> UTC.</p></blockquote>



<h2 id="gutenberg-releases-versions-12-3-12-4-and-12-5-are-here">Gutenberg releases: Versions 12.3, 12.4, and 12.5 are here</h2>



<p>The Core Team launched three new versions of Gutenberg since last month’s edition of the Month in WordPress.</p>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/02/03/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-5-february-2nd/">Gutenberg 12.5</a> brings global styles variations and Query Loop block enhancements, along with the Code Editor view to the Side Editor. Moreover, inserting new buttons is now easier than ever!</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/19/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-4-19-january/">Gutenberg 12.4</a> was released on January 19, 2022. This version includes accessibility improvements, suggestions for assigning categories, keyboard shortcuts for the Site Editor, and more.&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-3-5-january/">Gutenberg 12.3</a> was released on January 5, 2022. This release brings new blocks, like the Author Name, Comments Next Page, and Comments Previous Page blocks, and many other cool updates!</li></ul>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote has-text-align-center"><p><strong>Want to get involved in developing Gutenberg? </strong>Follow <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/">the Core Team blog</a>, contribute to Gutenberg on <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/">GitHub</a>, and join the <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB2JS7">#core-editor</a> channel in the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/chat/">Make WordPress Slack</a>. Follow the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/gutenberg-new/">#gutenberg-new</a> tag for details on the latest updates.</p></blockquote>



<h2 id="team-updates-proposals-announcements-and-more-for-2022">Team updates: Proposals, announcements, and more for 2022</h2>



<ul><li>Executive Director Josepha Haden<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/27/proposal-2022-major-release-timing/"> shared a proposal</a> on 2022 major release timing. </li><li>In the <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/02/episode-24-three-goals-in-2022/">latest episode of WP Briefing</a>, Josepha Haden Comphosy reviews the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2022/01/21/our-three-big-ideas-for-2022/">three major areas of focus</a> for the WordPress project in 2022. She also shared the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/01/21/big-picture-goals-2022/">big-picture goals for 2022</a>.</li><li>The Core Team <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/31/ensuring-proper-attribution-for-contributions-to-wordpress-on-github/">made a proposal</a> regarding proper attributions for contributions to WordPress on GitHub. Although the proposal has since then been withdrawn, it&#8217;s still a discussion and comments are welcome.</li><li>Check out the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/26/preliminary-roadmap-for-6-0/">preliminary roadmap</a> for WordPress 6.0 (Gutenberg Phase Two). </li><li>Core Team members <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/26/proposed-improvements-to-the-core-editor-chat-agenda-and-format/">proposed improvements</a> to the Core Editor chat agenda and format. </li><li>The Accessibility Team made some <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/2022/01/22/accessibility-team-meeting-notes-january-21-2022/">major goal proposals for WordPress 6.0</a>.</li><li>The Polyglots Team shared a proposal for a <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2022/02/01/proposal-milestone-template-for-polyglots-locale-teams/">milestone template for polyglots locale teams</a>.</li><li>The <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2022/01/20/polyglots-monthly-newsletter-january-2022/">January 2022 edition</a> of the Polyglots monthly newsletter is out!</li><li>The Community Team shared an <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/02/03/open-invitation-diverse-speaker-training-group-wpdiversity-zoom-call/">open invitation for the Diverse Speaker Training group</a> Zoom call.</li><li>Although the WordPress Photo Directory hasn’t fully launched yet, you can now <a href="https://wordpress.org/photos/submit/">submit your images</a>. You can also contribute in other ways, as there’s <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2022/01/13/wordpress-photo-directory-call-for-volunteers/">currently a call for volunteers</a>.</li><li>Openverse has now a redesigned user interface and includes support for audio files. Check out <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/openverse/2022/01/25/everything-you-need-to-know-about-openverse-and-the-wordpress-photo-directory/">this post</a> to learn what&#8217;s new.</li><li>The Community Team will be hosting <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/02/02/community-team-goals-2022-open-discussion-sessions/">open discussion sessions</a> to collaborate on its goals for 2022. </li><li>The January 2022 edition of the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/01/14/meetup-organizer-newsletter-january-2022/">Meetup Organizer Newsletter</a> was published.</li><li>The Community Team shared a <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/01/10/proposal-mandatory-safety-measures-for-in-person-wordpress-events-in-2022/">proposal for mandatory safety measures</a> for in-person WordPress events taking place this year.</li><li>The Training Team published its <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/02/02/february-2022-team-sprint/">February 2022 Team Sprint</a>.</li></ul>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote has-text-align-center"><p><strong>Take the course on Learn WordPress to </strong><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/course/simple-site-design-with-full-site-editing/"><strong>learn about the full site editing features</strong></a><strong> in WordPress 5.9!&nbsp; Also, help spread the word about </strong><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/social-learning/"><strong>social learning spaces</strong></a><strong> on </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/WordPress/status/1487180438347128836"><strong>Twitter</strong></a><strong>!</strong></p></blockquote>



<h2 id="feedback-testing-requests-share-your-thoughts-on-wordpress-5-9-josephine">Feedback/Testing requests: Share your thoughts on WordPress 5.9 Joséphine</h2>



<ul><li>There’s currently a call for testing <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2022/01/27/call-for-testing-wordpress-for-android-19-1/">WordPress for Android 19.1</a> and <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2022/01/24/call-for-testing-wordpress-for-ios-19-1/">iOS 19.1</a>, along with <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2022/01/10/call-for-testing-wordpress-for-android-19-0/">Android 19.0</a> and iOS 19.0.</li></ul>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote has-text-align-center"><p><a href="https://forms.gle/Hf7E2JJokfnNLprG7"><strong>Share your feedback</strong></a><strong> on the release of WordPress 5.9 Joséphine.</strong></p></blockquote>



<h2 id="wordcamp-europe-2022-wants-volunteers-photographers-and-media-partners">WordCamp Europe 2022 wants volunteers, photographers and media partners</h2>



<ul><li>WordCamp Birmingham, Alabama has been postponed until April or May.</li><li>The WordPress Foundation <a href="https://wordpressfoundation.org/news/2022/what-is-the-wordpress-foundation-and-why-does-it-exist/">published a post</a> explaining more about the nonprofit’s mission and why it exists.</li><li>Don’t miss the following upcoming WordCamps: <ul><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1e8-1f1ff.png" alt="🇨🇿" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://prague.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp Prague</a>, Switzerland on February  26, 2022 (online)</li><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1e8-1f1ed.png" alt="🇨🇭" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><a href="https://geneve.wordcamp.org/2022/"> WordCamp Genève</a>, Switzerland on April 9, 2022 (in person)</li><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1ec-1f1f7.png" alt="🇬🇷" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://central.wordcamp.org/wordcamps/wordcamp-athens-attica-greece-2022/">WordCamp Athens</a>, Greece between April 9 and 10, 2022 (in person)</li><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1e6-1f1f9.png" alt="🇦🇹" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://vienna.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp Vienna</a>, Austria from April 23 to 24, 2022 (in person)</li><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1ea-1f1fa.png" alt="🇪🇺" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp Europe</a> in Porto, Portugal from June 2 to 4, 2022 (in person)</li><li><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1fa-1f1f8.png" alt="🇺🇸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://us.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp US</a> in San Diego, CA USA from September 9-11, 2022 (in person)</li></ul></li></ul>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote has-text-align-center"><p><strong>WordCamp Europe 2022 opened a new call for </strong><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/join-the-wceu-volunteers-team/"><strong>volunteers</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/capture-wceu-on-camera/"><strong>photographers</strong></a><strong>, and </strong><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/join-us-as-a-media-partner/"><strong>media partners</strong></a><strong>!</strong></p></blockquote>



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<p><em>The following folks contributed to January 2022’s Month in WordPress: </em><a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/anjanavasan/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>anjanavasan</a><em> </em><a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/harishanker/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>harishanker</a><em> </em><a href=''https://profiles.wordpress.org/rmartinezduque/'' class=''mention''><span class=''mentions-prefix''>@</span>rmartinezduque</a><em> </em><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/lmurillom/">@lmurillom</a> <em><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/">@webcommsat</a> and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nalininonstopnewsuk/">@nalininonstopnewsuk</a></em></p>
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<p>LottieFiles&#8217; new WordPress plugin is available for free on WordPress.org. Once the plugin is installed and activated, it will prompt you to sign into your LottieFiles account or a create a free account. You will also be given the option to share the account with other users and copy Lottie files to the WordPress Media Library.</p>



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<img width="1024" height="515" src="https://i2.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/05/Dee-Teal.jpg?resize=1024%2C515&ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-12955" />



<p>Dee’s story with computers started at school in New Zealand where discovering how a mouse worked and learning BASIC and Pascal was a catalyst for what later became a programming career.</p>



<p>At a time when computers were just becoming mainstream, there were no opportunities for girls in her school to consider this as a further option. She recalls: “No one thought to say, ‘Dee, you look like you’re good at this, you should pursue it…’. I mean, I was a girl (and I was told girls didn’t ‘do’ computers). No one in the circles I moved in really had any idea where this technology revolution would take us.”</p>



<p>With no particular career path into technology, Dee was encouraged in her final year of school to apply for a job in a bank where she worked and became a teller three years later. She gained financial independence, which enabled her to travel as a 20-year-old and spend the next three years exploring the US and Europe.</p>



<p>Looking back, she noted how the world had changed: the first computer mouse she had seen had come out in 1983, and 20 years later WordPress was founded.</p>



<h2>Journey into coding</h2>



<p>During those 20 years, Dee worked as a nanny, working in child care centers, in customer support, and as a temp.</p>



<p>In 1999, she packed up her bags once again, and moved from New Zealand to Australia. She took a place at a performing arts school where she honed her singing and performance skills and volunteered her time to the music director who was starting to experiment with sending out HTML newsletters and updates via email.</p>



<p>“And so my personal revolution began. On the day after I graduated from that course, I walked into a full-time role as that music director’s assistant and began my journey back to code.”</p>



<p>As part of that job, Dee edited and sent HTML newsletters on a weekly basis. This ignited her interest in programming, and she bought books about coding for the web and experimented on her home-built PC making web pages. </p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>“I’m sure, like a lot of us, I remember the thrill of creating that first HTML file and seeing a ‘Hello World’ or similar heading rendered in the browser. From there, I was completely hooked.”</p><cite>Dee Teal</cite></blockquote>



<p>Later she moved to the IT department and took on maintenance of all the websites. By 2004, she was working full-time as a webmaster. A year later, she was running a small business creating sites on the side. Four years after that, her business became her full-time job as she left employment to pursue her Masters Degree in Digital Communication and Culture.</p>



<img width="1024" height="768" src="https://i0.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/05/R0011864.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&ssl=1" alt="Dee with other contributors getting things ready for a WordCamp" class="wp-image-12961" />Dee and other volunteers setting up for a local WordCamp



<p>Dee found the theory and sociology behind the web, and its facilitation of human and machine communication fascinating.</p>



<p>She said: “I love the fact that the tech industry involves a constant constant curve of growth and discovery, which results in a perpetual exercise in finding creative elegant solutions for sticky problems.”</p>



<p>For Dee, being able to use her innate curiosity to leverage processes, people, and tools, fuelled by a focus on communicating a message, has been a defining inspiration in her work.</p>



<p>This combined fascination coincided with her meeting WordPress in 2009 and subsequently its community. She moved her existing blog to the software and it became the CMS of choice for all her client work.</p>



<h2>The WordPress community can change your world</h2>



<p>In 2011, she stumbled across WordCamps and by extension the WordPress community. Dee has reflected publicly that WordPress didn’t change her life, its community changed her world!</p>



<p>She flew on a whim from her then home in Sydney to attend a WordCamp in Melbourne she had found after a search for ‘WordPress Conferences’.</p>



<p>She said: “I met welcoming people, made friends, connected, and came back home excited and hopeful about continuing this connection with the wider WordPress community.”</p>



<p>Building a community locally around WordPress got off to a slow start in Sydney. From an inauspicious early WordPress Sydney meetup in the function room of a pub, her connection and involvement took off. Before long she was helping organize that meetup, and by the time she moved away from that great city it had branched into two meetups, and soon after, into three.</p>



<p>She was so inspired by the community that at the end of that first year and her second WordCamp, she raised her hand to help organize a WordCamp Sydney in 2012, and after moving interstate, WordCamp Melbourne in 2013.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>&#8220;WordPress and any other software package exist to serve people.&#8221;</p><cite>Dee Teal</cite></blockquote>



<p>Dee said: “WordPress, software, technology, the Internet will come and go, morph, and change, evolve. Maybe WordPress will last forever, maybe it will morph into something else, maybe one day it will look completely different than it did when I first started (actually, that’s true now). The thing that doesn’t change is the humanity around it. WordPress and any other software package exist to serve people.”</p>



<p>She added: “The thing that I have learned, not only through WordPress but in life, is that if we too serve the people around what we’re doing, we ourselves will grow, develop and change alongside the people we serve, and the tools we use to serve them.”</p>



<img width="1024" height="329" src="https://i0.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/05/Dee_POW_5.6_slice-large.png?resize=1024%2C329&ssl=1" alt="Dee pictured second from left as part of the WordPress 5.6 contributors" class="wp-image-12957" />Some of the contributors to the <em>WordPress 5.6 release</em> 



<p>Dee was a coordinator for WordPress 5.6 release in 2020 and was able to encourage others to learn about the process.</p>



<h2>Helping others and sharing knowledge through WordPress</h2>



<p>Dee has been an advocate for cross-cultural collaboration and understanding in both WordPress and her work for a large distributed agency which has people from more than 24 countries and operates across 16 timezones. She has also written about closing the gap between diverse distributed teams and how to meet the challenges of cross cultural remote work.</p>



<p>Dee has given talks at WordCamps, including at WordCamp Europe in 2019, on developing ourselves, our relationships, and our communities in increasingly diverse environments.</p>



<p>With a strong desire to share her professional knowledge and experience, Dee hopes her involvement in the WordPress community from being part of a Release Squad in the Core Team, and volunteering in the community through organizing and speaking at WordCamp events, will inspire others to get involved.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>&#8220;It’s the connections, it’s the friendships. It’s the network of work, referrals, support, help and encouragement.&#8221;</p><cite>Dee Teal talking about the community that makes WordPress specialbenefits of the WordPress community</cite></blockquote>



<img width="1024" height="576" src="https://i1.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2022/05/dee-wceu2019.png?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1" alt="Dee Teal''s talk at WordCamp Europe 2019 on ''Working a world apart''" class="wp-image-12958" /><em>Dee shared her experience with attendees at WordCamp Europe 2019</em>



<p>In contributing to WordPress and organizing community events around it, Dee found that for her: “At the end of the day it isn’t actually WordPress that matters. It’s those connections, it’s the friendships. It’s the network of work, referrals, support, help, encouragement that has kept me wired into this community and committed to helping other people find that connection and growth for themselves.”</p>



<p>Dee’s career in WordPress has moved through coding, into project management of large scale WordPress projects, and now into delivery leadership. Her connections to community have helped &#8216;fuel the transitions&#8217; through these chapters of her life.</p>



<p>She said: “I believe that the place I’ve found and the opportunities I have had owe as much to my own desire and ambition as they do to the help, support and belief of the community around me; sometimes even more than I’ve felt in myself.”</p>



<p>She feels that she is ‘living proof’ that by helping, connecting, and resourcing other people, you can be helped, resourced and connected into places you had never thought possible.</p>



<p>This has enabled her to reach and have a career in technology that she did not know existed as a teenager playing with that first computer mouse and experimenting with code. Dee hopes her story will inspire others in their journey.</p>



<h2 id="share-the-stories">Share the stories</h2>



<p>Help share these stories of open source contributors and continue to grow the community. Meet more WordPressers in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/category/newsletter/interviews/">People of WordPress series</a>.</p>



<h2>Contributors</h2>



<p>Thanks to Abha Thakor (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>webcommsat</a>), Meher Bala (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/meher/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>meher</a>), Mary Baum (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/marybaum/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>marybaum</a>), Chloe Bringmann (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>cbringmann</a>), Nalini Thakor (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nalininonstopnewsuk/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>nalininonstopnewsuk</a>), and Larissa Murillo (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/lmurillom/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>lmurillom</a>) for work on this feature. Thank you to Josepha Haden (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>chanthaboune</a>) and Topher DeRosia (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>topher1kenobe</a>) for support of the series. Thank you too to <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/thewebprincess/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>thewebprincess</a> for sharing her experiences.</p>



<p>This article is inspired by an article originally published on HeroPress.com, a community initiative created by Topher DeRosia. It highlights people in the WordPress community who have overcome barriers and whose stories would otherwise go unheard.<br />Meet more WordPress community members in our People of WordPress series.</p>



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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:72:"WordPress.org blog: WP Briefing: Episode 32: An Open Source Reading List";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:53:"https://wordpress.org/news/?post_type=podcast&p=12940";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:74:"https://wordpress.org/news/2022/05/episode-32-an-open-source-reading-list/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:11951:"<p>In the thirty-second episode of the WordPress Briefing, WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy shares her open source reading list for that post-WordCamp Europe downtime. <br /></p>



<p><em><strong>Have a question you&#8217;d like answered? You can submit them to <a href="mailto:wpbriefing@wordpress.org">wpbriefing@wordpress.org</a>, either written or as a voice recording.</strong></em></p>



<h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>



<ul><li>Editor:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dustinhartzler/">Dustin Hartzler</a></li><li>Logo:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/beafialho/">Beatriz Fialho</a></li><li>Production:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/santanainniss/">Santana Inniss</a> and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/">Chloé Bringmann</a></li><li>Song: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod</li></ul>



<h2>References</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://producingoss.com/en/index.html">Producing Open Source Software</a>, Karl Fogel</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BDGXVK9/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1">Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software</a>, Nadia Eghbal</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/CODE-Collaborative-Ownership-Digital-Leonardo/dp/0262572362">Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy</a>, ed Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Roger F. Malina PhD, Sean Cubitt</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Humble-Inquiry-Second-Relationships-Organizations/dp/B08VCRL6WQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=39U1NLFRD52VO&keywords=Humble+Inquiry&qid=1653587884&s=books&sprefix=humble+inquiry%2Cstripbooks%2C63&sr=1-1">Humble Inquiry</a>, Edgar H. Schein (Author), Peter A. Schein</li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/book/">WordPress Milestones</a></li><li><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp Europe 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://wp.me/p2U65r-9f3">2022 Annual Meetup Survey</a></li></ul>



<h2>Transcript</h2>



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<p><strong>[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:00:00]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>Hello everyone. And welcome to the WordPress Briefing. The podcast where you can catch quick explanations of some of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project and the community around it. As well as get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I&#8217;m your host Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Here we go!</p>



<p><strong>[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:00:40]&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>With the approach of various mid-year breaks and the prospect of wandering off for some safe, restorative travel, I&#8217;ve been updating my to-read and re-read list. As I was looking at the queued books for my Northern hemisphere summer, there were some common threads, mostly around leadership, but there&#8217;s also like a chunk that&#8217;s about cross-cultural group theory and economics, and then like some beach reads, but there&#8217;s one group in particular that you all might find interesting.</p>



<p>And that&#8217;s a group that&#8217;s sort of like a back-to-FOSS basics list. So I&#8217;ll share my top few with you in case you want to pack a copy for your next getaway.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The first one on our list is called Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel. I think everyone who contributes to FOSS projects has received this as one of their first recommendations. Like, y&#8217;all are building open software? Excellent, you need to read Producing Open Source Software. Like, that is just a sentence that comes out of everyone&#8217;s mouths. So this was one of the first open source books that was recommended to me when I joined the WordPress community. It was freshly revised in 2020, and I haven&#8217;t given it a read since then, which is why it is on my reread list this year.</p>



<p><strong>[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:01:54]</strong></p>



<p>However, it shaped the early days of the WordPress project’s leadership, and their lead developers, and some of WordPress&#8217;s basic philosophies. It&#8217;s all available online, under a creative commons, ShareAlike license. And so it&#8217;s worth the read. I&#8217;ll put a link to it in the show notes so it&#8217;s easy for everyone to find in the event that is your preferred beach read.</p>



<p>The second one on this list is a book from Nadia Eghbal. She wrote the excellent Roads and Bridges report that also is probably not light beach reading, but you know, this one is on my list to read this summer because Eghbal always delivers truths about the reality of maintaining popular software, popular, open source software, in a way that&#8217;s easy for me to access and process rather than getting paralyzed by the enormity of it all.</p>



<p>For what it&#8217;s worth your mileage may vary on that. I realized that, like, I live and breathe open source stuff. And so just because I am not paralyzed by the enormity of her explanations of things doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that you will have a similar experience. And so I&#8217;m just going to claim that elephant in the room for all of us.</p>



<p>However, if you only read one book on this list this year, I think that this should be the one that you read.</p>



<p><strong>[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:03:14]</strong></p>



<p>The third one is called Code: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy. It was edited by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh. I am certain that I butchered that name. And so I apologize on my own behalf to everyone that knows whether or not I said it correctly.</p>



<p>This book focuses on intellectual property rights and the original purpose of having anything like copyright in the world. So, right up my alley! The writers who contributed to this work promise exploration of the plight of creativity in the commons, the role of sharing in creative advancement, and a concept of what it would look like if intellectual property were to mean the second closing of an ecosystem versus a triumph of the commons.</p>



<p>I mean, obviously, this one is very light reading. You can take this topic to high tea and everyone will not know what you&#8217;re talking about. However, this one looks like a really interesting book to me and I am just super ready to read it.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:04:19]</strong></p>



<p>The second to last one on the list is a book called Humble Inquiry.</p>



<p>This is a new-to-me book that seems right in line with one of my favorite books to recommend to leaders in the open source space. From reviews of it, I have gathered that it takes a hard look at the value of listening and asking for clarification in a world that puts a high value on an unsolicited hot take.</p>



<p>It puts the importance of high trust relationship building, which is at the heart of any cross-culturally aware organization. And for folks who&#8217;ve been working with me for a while, you know, that relationship building is an important part of my leadership expectations for myself. So it puts relationship building at the front and center with a promise of practical applications for everyday life.</p>



<p>And if you ever have tried to tackle a complicated topic like this, you know that practical applications are really hard to come by and it&#8217;s often hard to understand it if you don&#8217;t have those practical applications. And so that is why this one is on my read and reread list this year.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:05:24]</strong></p>



<p>And then finally the WordPress Milestones book.</p>



<p>So this sounds like a shameless plug for WordPress. And on the one hand, this whole podcast is about WordPress. And so, yes! But on the other hand, I actually am reading this for two specific reasons. I&#8217;m rereading this actually. I read it when I first joined Automattic. And so the first of the two reasons that I&#8217;m rereading it this year is that volume two of this is, like the second decade of WordPress currently, being researched and written in preparation for WordPress’s 20th birthday next year.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So I am rereading this to kind of get that all back in my mind as that work is getting done. And the second reason is that I honestly like to remind myself of how far we&#8217;ve come sometimes. I talk about our work frequently. And I talk about what we&#8217;re working on right now, all the time.</p>



<p>I talk about what we&#8217;re looking at three years from now, five years from now. The biggest concerns of today, tomorrow, and the future-future. And it&#8217;s very easy to forget how much success WordPress has had and how much growth the contributors that support us have had over the course of our long and storied history.</p>



<p><strong>[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:06:40]</strong></p>



<p>And so I like to go back to that just to kind of give myself some grounding in our progress, as well as get some concept for how we can move forward together. So that one is also available online. Also under a creative commons ShareAlike license and it is also worth the read. I will share a link to that with the other one in the show notes as well.</p>



<p>That brings us now to our small list of big things. Let&#8217;s see what we got in the old lineup today.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So, firstly WordCamp Europe is happening this week and it&#8217;s possible to watch the live stream from the comfort of your own home. There are some smart and talented speakers at the event. So I encourage you to catch a few if you have the time. I&#8217;ll include a link to the live stream information in the show notes below, and then also you can always keep an eye out on Twitter.&nbsp;</p>



<p>There will be a lot of discussions, a lot of conversation there. And so you can engage with folks that are there at the time and catch up on those conversations, catch up on those presentations in your own time, as it fits into your day.</p>



<p><strong>[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:07:50]</strong></p>



<p>The second thing is that WordPress’s community team is preparing the annual meetup survey right now. So if you participate in meetup events, keep an eye out for that because your feedback helps us to make plans to improve that program so that it works better for you. And it helps you to learn WordPress better and feel more confident with what you are taking out into the world that way.</p>



<p>But, if you are wanting to use this as a chance to contribute, we actually will need folks who are able to translate the surveys as well. So I&#8217;ll leave a link to some information about that in the show notes. If all of that stuff about contribution didn&#8217;t make any sense, then just like keep an eye out from your meetup organizer and they will make sure that you have that survey so that you can have your voice heard.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:08:33]</strong></p>



<p>And then item three is less of an item. I mean, it&#8217;s an item cause it&#8217;s in this list, but it&#8217;s less of, like, a thing to know and more of a general thing to be aware of. It&#8217;s a general awareness item. There&#8217;s a lot going on in WordPress right now. I can see how hard it is to keep track of some of these things these days.</p>



<p>And I know as someone who&#8217;s looking at this all day every day that, yeah, it&#8217;s a lot. And it&#8217;s hard to get your bearings. So if you have a team that you contribute to already, don&#8217;t forget to reach out to each other, just to check-in. Sometimes we don&#8217;t think to ask for help. Sometimes we don&#8217;t think to offer help and you know, if no one needs any help from you at that moment, a little hello also can brighten someone&#8217;s day.</p>



<p>And that, my friends, is your smallest of big things. Thank you for tuning in today for the WordPress Briefing. I&#8217;m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. And I&#8217;ll see you again in a couple of weeks.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Mon, 30 May 2022 17:00:00 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:14:"Santana Inniss";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:5;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<ul><li>Music:&nbsp;<a href="https://soundcloud.com/xirclebox">Homer Gaines</a></li><li>Editor:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandy-reed/">Sandy Reed</a></li><li>Logo:&nbsp;<a href="https://markuraine.com/">Mark Uraine</a></li><li>Production:&nbsp;<a href="https://icodeforapurpose.com">Birgit Pauli-Haack</a></li></ul>



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<p><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-67-wordpress-6-0#shownotes">Show Notes</a> / <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-67-wordpress-6-0/#transcript">Transcript</a></p>



<p class="has-large-font-size" id="shownotes"><strong>Show Notes</strong></p>



<h2>WordPress 6.0 </h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/05/arturo/wordpress-6-0-release-candidate-2-rc2-now-available-for-testing/">WordPress 6.0 </a>“Arturo” Release post</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/03/wordpress-6-0-field-guide/">WordPress 6.0 Field Guilde</a> with all DevNotes and changes</li><li>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/oe452WcY7fA">Release announcement </a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjDhfW7FpAc&t=3s">Building a site with WordPress 5.0 vs WordPress 6.0&nbsp;</a>w/ Anne McCarthy</li><li><a href="https://wptavern.com/new-video-explores-site-building-progress-from-wordpress-5-0-to-6-0">New Video Explores Site Building Progress From WordPress 5.0 to 6.0</a></li><li><a href="https://pantheon.io/blog/what-expect-wordpress-6">What to expect from WordPress 6.0</a> by Birgit Pauli-Haack via Pantheon</li></ul>



<h2>Community Contributions</h2>



<ul><li>Plugin: <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/core-rollback/">Core Roll back</a> by Andy Fragen</li><li>Plugin: <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/pwa/">PWA </a>(Progressive Web App)</li></ul>



<h2>What&#8217;s Released</h2>



<h3>Gutenberg 13.2 </h3>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/12/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-2-may-11/">What’s new in Gutenberg 13.2? (May 11)</a></li><li><a href="https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-13-2-adds-persistent-user-preferences-and-a-visualizer-for-margin-and-padding-controls">Gutenberg 13.2 Adds Persistent User Preferences and a Visualizer for Margin and Padding Controls</a> (WPTavern)</li></ul>



<h3>Gutenberg 13.3 </h3>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/26/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-3-0-may-25/">What’s New in Gutenberg 13.3.0 ( May 25 )</a></li><li><a href="https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-13-3-introduces-experimental-table-of-contents-block">Gutenberg 13.3 Introduces Experimental Table of Contents Block</a> (WPTavern)</li></ul>



<h2>What&#8217;s being worked on or discussed</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/labels/%5BFocus%5D%20Blocks%20Adoption">Focus: Blocks Adoption</a> (Label on GitHub)</li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/37943">Allow usage of block based &#8220;template parts&#8221; without using block based &#8220;templates&#8221;</a> (#37943)</li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/41241">Site Editor &amp; Templates Roadmap</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/41232">Global Styles Ongoing Roadmap</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/38167#issuecomment-1132442560">Tracking: Add a Style Engine to manage rendering block styles</a> (Updated May 20th, 2022) </li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/39281#issuecomment-1134481258">Pattern as Sectioning Elements</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/41156">Add a zoomed out view to the site editor</a> (#41156)</li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/discussions/41349">Improving FSE for the Agency Use Case</a>&nbsp;#41349</li></ul>



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<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Hello, and welcome to our 67th episode of the Gutenberg Fran Podcast. In today&#8217;s episode, we will talk about Gutenberg 13.2 and free WordPress 6.0 and discussions that are taking place and would need your opinion. I&#8217;m Birgit Pauli-Haack, curator at the Gutenberg Times and WordPress developer advocate.</p>



<p>And I&#8217;m here today with my special guest and former co-host Grzegorz Ziolkowski, JavaScript developer at Automattic and virtual school contributor. For WordPress 6.0 release co-lead for editor responsible for the merge of the Gutenberg bits and bites into core. Mary Job sends her regards and is taking a break this week. Good evening, Greg. Thank you so much for joining me again tonight. How are you?</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: I&#8217;m great. I&#8217;m so happy that the release went out. Everything works, the work didn&#8217;t collapse, so that&#8217;s great. Also, want to thank you also for being part of the release team and also, I need to mention that I was also a co-lead for the editor with Adam Hevinski, his help was so important to making that happen, because that was a lot of work to bring all the changes from the editor to WordPress core and making sure that everything works.</p>



<p>The group that helped was so huge. There was, I don&#8217;t know, 20 people, at least helping all the time with different type of tasks, which was an amazing experience to see how everyone cooperates.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: And also the release team was much bigger. You and the documentation team also having a core lead like Milana, right?</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah, yeah.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Oh yeah. So it&#8217;s really interesting to be part of the team and see how it works. Also, the team was bigger than ever, as far as I know, and I think that it still could be bigger. In my opinion. We have so many tasks that are necessary to make all that happen.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; I was on the release course now as a rookie and of course I needed co-leads because as a rookie, you don&#8217;t know what to get yourself into. But there are so many pieces that go into this release and it all has been a mystery and most still are mystery to me. Yeah. But I learned a lot. I learned a lot from all of the people on the release squad. But it&#8217;s also the more I know, the more I know what I don&#8217;t know.</p>



<p>And so it&#8217;s kind of that really overwhelming feeling that, okay, I have watched so many times, but I still had no idea what is really behind it in all the different pieces that are there. So, and as you said, I&#8217;m in awe of all the brilliant people that make these run smoothly and are always there to help each other out. It&#8217;s an amazing experience.</p>



<p>Yeah, absolutely. I&#8217;m glad I did it. It was a lot of work and, but wrangling dev notes, it&#8217;s a unique experience anyway. But yeah, congratulations that you helped bring it over the finish line.&nbsp;</p>



<h3><strong>Announcements</strong></h3>



<p>So yes, WordPress 6.0, Arturo was released this week named after the contemporary Latino jazz musician, Arturo O&#8217;Farrill with a good Irish name. And there are many features and enhancements that are rolled out with a new version. We talk probably about all of them during the months, leading up to the release on this podcast, we will share again, of course, the release post, and then the field guide with the dev notes. And we will also share two videos with you. One is the release video by the design team. If you haven&#8217;t seen it yet on the about page or in the release post, watch it.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s a great design and cutting from screen to screen, to highlight all the features that are in there. It&#8217;s a great piece of art, so definitely watch it. And then the second video is by Anne McCarthy and she covered the site building process between WordPress 5.0 and WordPress 6.0. 5.0 was released just to repeat that December 6th, 2018. So it&#8217;s three and a half years ago. And in that video, you&#8217;ll see how it changed from the early versions to how you build sites now. It&#8217;s a great, interesting video to watch. If you haven&#8217;t tried out the block editor yet, if you&#8217;re one who hasn&#8217;t started using it yet, I think you will be surprised, or it&#8217;s eye opening to see how it really changed and maybe it intrigues you to start using it again.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah. It&#8217;s a huge change. How it all has evolved from starting small to edit only the content that&#8217;s post and pages. And throughout all that time, how data change itself, by bringing more tools that are supported and allow you to do more and more things with the content to add some styling and create beautiful designs without using a single line of code. And now even you can create the whole experience. And there&#8217;s many block themes that empower users to edit everything without ever opening and edit or code the detail where you need to deal with PHP files, CSS, and all that big stuff that are becoming more and more complex every year.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. And I think the biggest piece that helps a user to one part be in control, but on the other hand, not have to think about too much about design or the block patterns. And I think they have come really a long way from the first idea of a reusable block that people used this kind of templates or block patterns, but then they were changing it and then they changed it over the whole page site. But now combining just core blocks into this amazing designs and design system, it&#8217;s really remarkable. Yeah.</p>



<p>So that&#8217;s definitely part of that show notes today is that video. And we also shared the article that the WP Tavern posted about that. And then just today I found that Pantheon published an article by yours truly like what to expect from WordPress 6.0. And it goes a little bit more on the developer side. And apart from the enhancements, talk about the enhancements for the writing experience. It&#8217;s more about develop oriented, how to code, with code examples for the new pattern features on pulling in patterns from the directory wire theme, JSON Slug, or also create page layouts on the create page action, and then some block locking examples, and also how to establish those style variations in the theme, JSON. So it&#8217;s a little bit different than the release post on WordPress.org. So, Greg, what are the most intriguing features that you found for WordPress 6.0?</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: So you already mentioned them, from the coding perspective, you covered how to integrate them on, on the owners of the site. And I think for the user, very exciting possibility is to use style variation when they are provided with theme because everyone have different taste and style variation allow you to quickly change colors, fonts have presets that you can quickly pick one and another, and another until it&#8217;s something that clicks with you and you don&#8217;t have to go and change every setting on the website yourself is just, you have bigger chance to&#8230; The other thing block locking. I think it&#8217;s great and it has a lot of value, but it&#8217;s still missing much more detailed control because everyone can lock and unlock now, which is nice, but you can change that.</p>



<p>Yeah. But the idea is that in the future, you could have permission-based rules. So, as a site admin, you could just block everything you want for everyone else or whatever else you would like. So this still needs some development, but it&#8217;s the step in the right direction. And also all the work on patterns that how it evolves. You mentioned that how it was limiting and the beginning, and it was introducing with classic themes in WordPress 5.5. And it didn&#8217;t have so much power because for the content of the post, you don&#8217;t use design so often, but with templates, it&#8217;s just so powerful having a way to insert a footer, a header. And now this is even integrated more contextual. If you use this in line inserter and you are on the bottom of the page, it&#8217;ll propose you some footer patterns in other places, it will propose other patterns.</p>



<p>So it tries to be smart and help you to do the right choice. So it&#8217;s no longer, only core blocks in those inline researcher, but also patterns. And yeah, in general, I really like how all the concepts that we already know, they build on top of each other that you mentioned reusable block. So you can now do sort of magic things. You find the block pattern you like, you convert that to reusable block and suddenly you have something you like, and it syncs with all other places the same applies with template parts.</p>



<p>You can pick from the block directory pattern of footer and just magically it&#8217;s there and synced suddenly with all other places. So I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing more and more things like that, so people no longer have to worry that they open a new template or new post and they see blank canvas and they don&#8217;t know what to do. Now they open an inserter. There is so much inspiration in there and that you&#8230; it&#8217;s just a different experience. It&#8217;s so much easier to create the same website that you see on the themes demo side than it was before.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah, well said, Greg. That said, I also like the writing experience. So the favorite feature that I have, it&#8217;s not a big deal, but it&#8217;s actually helping, when you are doing a lot of in-line linking you have the two square brackets, and then you get a list of all the latest posts or pages that you&#8217;ve had. And then you can do in in-line linking for your site. And before you had to kind of look for that and search for it, and what&#8217;s the name of it? And you had to go out and then you had this. Yeah, so this is really nice. And I liked all those keyboard shortcuts that make it, I don&#8217;t have to change from keyboard to mouse and have a very smooth experience yeah. So 6.0 is out.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: It&#8217;s definitely for experienced users because there are lot more gems like that. Once you discover you never want to go back and you use all the methods. But it takes time, but&#8230;</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. And then the same, what trips me up. So the WordPress had this for a long time that when you have a highlighted text, and if you have a see a link on the browser and you copy the link and you highlight text, and then you can just Ctrl V you can actually, it uses the URL as a link on that highlighted text. That trips me up everywhere else.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski:</em> Yeah.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Especially, so I know that GitHub took it over. Yeah, now when you want to highlight, or have a link there, you highlight the text on that. You have to URL Ctrl V works. Yeah. That&#8217;s really cool. And I use a user note taking app called LogSync. They have taken that on too, but the Google docs, every link I put in Google logs, I have to do twice because it just over click. I can&#8217;t do it anymore. It&#8217;s just so interesting. Yeah.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Another experience.</p>



<h3><strong>Community Contributions</strong></h3>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Google docs get on it. We need that there too. Yeah. So another experience that I had during the WordPress 6.0 release cycle, during the beta and release candidates, I used a great plugin that I want to do a shout out for. And it&#8217;s called the Core Rollback Plugin. And it was created by Andy Fragen, who is a long time contributor to WordPress and also part of the beta tester plugin crew. And it allows me to select all the WordPress versions back to 4.0 and install it on a test site. So I was able to test the upgrade from 4.0.23, to 6.0, and does it work or does it bomb?</p>



<p>And then at first I was a bit disappointed because when I started it, I had a block theme enabled. And of course, then I can only have a WordPress version that actually can handle block theme. So I was only rolling back to 5.9, which didn&#8217;t help me much, but then I realized that, okay, I needed to change the theme. So I changed it to Twenty Ten theme. And then the other part was, how do I get to 4.0? I also needed to change the PHP version to 5.6 and I lose local WP. So that was really interesting. And then it took me maybe a minute or two to install the old version and then upgrade was WCLI to the next version. And that was so fast to test. And then I just went into the site again and did a comment or something like that, just to make sure it works. But that is really, it was very helpful.</p>



<p>So I&#8217;m sad that I didn&#8217;t know about it before, because sometimes when you had a WordPress install and the new version came out and you were way on the cutting edge, you had a plugin conflict or something like that. And then how do you roll it back to the previous version? And this plugin will save you so much time and headaches. So just make it sure that&#8217;s in your toolbox when you manage other people&#8217;s websites, because it can really help you with that, go back to the safe version within five minutes or so. And wait, the next two weeks till the next version comes out from workers. Yeah.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah. It&#8217;s also fascinating that warper still supports some old version that to get it working, you need to use PHP version that is no longer even developed like 5.6. But still, if people have that, they can use WordPress, which is mind blowing.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. It totally is. And I think Serge is watching that percentage of users that still use PHP 5.0 very closely, because I think it&#8217;s going to be real soon that WordPress is going to skip it and say, &#8220;okay, yeah, from now on, we are not supporting 5.6 anymore. You got to have to be on 7.4&#8221; or something like that, but it&#8217;s that promise of backwards compatibility and not kicking users out just because they don&#8217;t know they are hosting environment that still uses these old PHP variations.&nbsp;</p>



<h3><strong>What’s Released</strong></h3>



<p>All right, but this were two interesting weeks. So we had not only WordPress 6.0 come out, but in the last two weeks, we also had two plugin releases. One was 3.2 and the other one was 3.3 and we will cover them both today. So let&#8217;s get started. So Gutenberg 3.2 was released on May 11th and it had a few new features in there.</p>



<p>One was the new preference, persistence API, and we are also happy that it&#8217;s there. Now. It saves now the editor preference in user meta, not in local storage anymore for that the preference handling needed to be revamped before. So we talked about it a little bit in the last episode, but now it&#8217;s here in Gutenberg 13.2. So you won&#8217;t see the welcome guide. You dismiss the welcome guide and it will remember on the site. If you prefer the top toolbar, it will remember. And if you don&#8217;t like the full screen anymore, it will remember, but only on a site basis. So you can access the same site over and over again. And the user settings will be there for you.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah. It might be also per editor screen. I mean, if you are on the edit site page might be different and on edit post page or widget page could be different. I don&#8217;t know, because I didn&#8217;t play with that, but I would expect that to happen this way, because in the past, those changes were independent, but it&#8217;s a huge change. We waited for so long to make it happen. It wasn&#8217;t a trivial task, but we finally have that. And it&#8217;s a huge improvement for all users.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah, definitely for new users and long time users. Yes. I probably will miss the welcome guide popping up once in a while&#8230;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: And you can always enable it. There is a setting.</p>



<h3><strong>Enhancements</strong></h3>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. So in that version also received a visualizer for the panning and margin of all blocks. So when you use the dimension settings of your block, blue outline appears on the screen around the block and expands and contracts, depending on the width of your padding and your margins. And that is really helpful for people that don&#8217;t know what padding and margins are, but they know they want the distance and they want the distance inside or outside. Yes.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: The other change was for the comment query loop. So there is a new block, which is post comments form. And the idea was to reach the alt experience. When on the post page you would have comments section, which usually is a list of comments and there is also the form. So the form was missing. And now inside the editor, you have something that isn&#8217;t interactive, but just presents a preview of what you will see on the front end. So it&#8217;s on the front end, of course, there will be interactive form that you can use to comment on the website, which is a great change. And that brings the feature priority with the old approach that we had in WordPress 5.9 with the post comments block that is now hidden from the insert it&#8217;s still there.</p>



<p>But the idea is just to combine those blocks together in the future. So depending on what you use, what the team prefers, whether the new version of the comments log which allows you to move all the pieces around the rapid with group blocks, with all the blocks you can imagine within its template. And the old one is still based on PHP functions that all team authors know from the past, you can provide your own template with template PHP file. There is a lot of hooks, all the things. So I&#8217;m looking forward to see that combined to have a full experience for all the use cases we have for the classic blocks and for the new blocks.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; No, it&#8217;s wonderful. And I, there were about 10 new blocks coming to 6.0, with a common section. And this one, unfortunately it didn&#8217;t make it, but it&#8217;s coming then in 6.1.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: No we made it, it was so important to bring the same experience that we added that, that was still during beta phase because, the release happens, but that change was already one or two weeks ago so that there was still time to include that.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Oh, okay. Excellent. So there&#8217;s a full common suite. Suite of blocks for, for the common settings for themes and templates.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah. It also came from user testing during beta phase that people were complaining that they cannot replicate, their old designs without this block.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. So makes sense to backboard it to 6.0 yes. So we talked about the next version of the quote block and the next version of the list blocks are in experimental stage and you have to switch them on through the experience menu item on the Gutenberg plugin. And now with this release, the quote block version one now has the feature that you can exit the block just by hitting enter we know this from other blocks that works here with the list you have to hit enter twice, out of the block and then a paragraph block and the code block has now too, before you actually had to physically get out of the block by using the mouse or hitting tab or something like that. Yeah. So that&#8217;s really good. So explain to me, Greg, I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re here. Explain to me, so I&#8217;m at the block API section where now it&#8217;s allowing the custom domain path for the view scripts, assuming that&#8217;s through register that&#8217;s for blocks and that you can have a different path than before.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah. So that&#8217;s coming, if you ever build the theme or plugin, there is this domain pet metadata field that you can provide. It&#8217;s just when you are using translations, there is a default folder for that inside every WordPress, but as an author of the theme, you can generate all the translations yourself and put it in every folder you want. So because plugin, authors and team authors use that, we added a change that allows to provide the same type of functionality when you are registering view script, it&#8217;s mostly for plugin and team authors. And when they, if they want to have some special JavaScript code that is for many blocks, they add additional functionality, then it&#8217;s going to be useful.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Excellent. So I know there was something important, but I couldn&#8217;t explain it. Thank you. What&#8217;s also in 13.2, is that the style engine now added typography and color to the back end for the editor so you can, can add it to the block styles and is it for the blocks, Jason, right?</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah. As far as I know the study in gen, at least at this stage of development, it&#8217;s mostly about extracting existing code to something that in the future could evolve into something more sophisticated. So it&#8217;s more on the refactor side for now, but it&#8217;s a preparation for bigger things that we have planned for the future with having unified of way of the handing styles for blocks on the PHP and JavaScript side to ensure that it&#8217;s the same on both sides and in the future, we can do interesting things, we will cover that probably with the next release, it might be going in the next release. So one of the changes that recently landed in the Gutenburg is that because of the style in gen, you can only serve CSS styles for blocks that are actually displayed on the page, which is mind blowing that you can can think about all the savings you have because of that, because you exactly know, not only the blocks you used, but also what type of styles were enabled for those blocks.</p>



<p>And I think that&#8217;s the biggest win for this whole refactoring.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. There&#8217;s a whole discussion about, is of one of the implementation about standardizing, how themes interact with the styling of the blocks and as well as plugins. And I think that&#8217;s also necessary to standardize that in terms of when, when plugins want to introduce new blocks, they need to be able to use the variables that are introduced with the theme JSON file to just seamlessly integrate with, with an existing theme. Yeah. So what&#8217;s, I&#8217;m really sad to see that go. But what was removed was the experimental PWA support for the WP admin, which pretty much was playing around with the idea that you might get an offline and still would be able to write your post and manage your site. There was an experiment by Ella Van Durpe I think. And I think it was a good experiment, but it wasn&#8217;t pursued any further because of course, had other priorities.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: But there is PWA plugin from Google and you can also check it out and it has a lot of similar functionality but for the front end, which is also a nice thing.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Excellent. Yeah. And I will dig that up and show it in the show notes link in the show notes, the Google PWA plugin.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yes. And one interesting, I think from the release and being on the team, so together with Adam Janinski, we work on several improvements to the workflow of bringing code from the Google plugin to WordPress core. And we are using NPM packages as a way to share code from Gutenberg and use that directing core. And we introduce a change in workflow that is automated with GitHub actions. So if someone is using GitHub and actions that they know how powerful those tools are. And now we are tagging for the WordPress major release those packages and we can easily update all of them, by using only the distribution tax, little change in the code, but it simplifies so much things inside WordPress core and how the code is shared between those two code bases, which is quite interesting. Someone wants digging into strategies for managing deep projects. I recommend that reference.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. you should write about those little tools or little ideas that make such a difference on the release of WordPress, because I can see.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Oh yes.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; That other people can really benefit from that. But I think it takes a little bit more strategic approach than just a PR that it has been in the release. Yeah. And the Gutenberg release. So that would be really great.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah, it&#8217;s interesting because usually the code you need to write is the easiest part because all the tools are so advanced these days, Github has APIs tools for that. And so it&#8217;s not an issue to code something. The issue is to come up with all the steps, what needs to happen after what, so it works together. So we definitely will be updating documentation for the release team for future releases, how we use the tools we improved and yeah, also for NPM packages, that&#8217;s also something I plan to write to describe how the process has changed with this release and to benefit everyone.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah, definitely. So I found with the release that quite a few things have been done by the same people over and over again. Yeah. So the documentation is kind of the shortcuts for them, but if a new person would step in, then it kind of needs a little bit more flesh and strategy kind of yeah. High level information in there. Yeah. So what&#8217;s again, is there anything else in Gutenberg 13.2, we wanted to talk about? I guess that&#8217;s it for 13.2 and we are going right into Gutenberg release 13.3, that was released yesterday. Ryan Welcher wrangled the release over the finish line and posted the release notes. There are comments from 55 contributors among them with their first time contribution. Yay.</p>



<p>That&#8217;s really good. I was really amazed at the 6.0, sorry. Just digress again. Those WordPress 6.0 release was interesting that there were also 25% of the 500 plus contributors when new contributors, they had never done this before. So it was very interesting. It wasn&#8217;t, as I think previous releases 5.8 and nine were a little bit higher, but still, that&#8217;s a very high number of new contributors and&#8230;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah, the number of contributors is really interesting thing we know for Gutenberg about people who contributed with scope. It&#8217;s now over 900 people and, it&#8217;s only code and there&#8217;s so many more people that help with testing with finding issues, trying to, provide designs, documentation. That&#8217;s a lot. And for core, we don&#8217;t know the exact number for all releases because we have core commuters. So which is a smaller group, like 60 or 70 people only. But I would love to do to get the exact number of people who ever got props for WordPress core, that would be a huge number.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah, must have been in the tens of thousands of people there.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah, and you said it right. It&#8217;s not only those people that commit code, but it&#8217;s also those who, who argue about the best features, how to approach it. Yeah. and comment on things or review PRs or patches. So yeah. It must be a huge number and it&#8217;s still a huge number if you also consider the people that write documentation, the people that organized meetups, the people, they alone, 780 meetups in the world. Of course, the last two years, they were a little bit crippled because of the pandemic situation, but they will come up again and organizing months over months of meet up Wordcamp meet up, Wordcamp organizers that it&#8217;s just really amazing, people that test things. There are 20 different themes on make.wordpress.org that people could join and see what they can do.</p>



<p>So if you want to do something, just a little pitch here, it&#8217;s the end user documentation team still needs writers. They triage a lot of things and all in GitHub now where you can look for the first night issues, good first issues that you could start writing and help beef up the documentation. And if you are interested in doing just that, feel free to write to me or ping me on slack or on Twitter. And I&#8217;ll have you get onboarded on that.&nbsp;</p>



<h3><strong>Gutenberg 13.3</strong></h3>



<p>Well, let&#8217;s dive into 13.3 release. So the first thing is you can now transform a cover block into a media text block and keep most of the design too. And that&#8217;s fantastic. Because sometimes you want to do that and you couldn&#8217;t. So you had to delete the cover block and start all over again.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah. It&#8217;s really intriguing how far you can go with transform these days and also how block adjust, because now it&#8217;s not only content, but also a lot of styles and those styles are also, taken from one place from version to another, which is quite a complex thing to do.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. I tested it in WordPress 6.0 there is this feature where you can transform from a paragraph into a quote block or a list block. And it also keeps background color and text color. And it is really amazing. Yeah. And this transformation from cover to media text did not make it, but it&#8217;s now in the Gutenberg plugin,</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: I&#8217;m a little bit surprised to see that, but also it&#8217;s a great news that table of contents block is back in the Gutenberg plugin. I mean, it was disabled at some point because it&#8217;s hard to sell. I mean, it wasn&#8217;t ready for pride time for some reasons, but now it&#8217;s back and it&#8217;s still experimental. So that means it still needs some testing, but it&#8217;s really nice, especially for posts where you have a lot of headings because it automatically generates tables of contents, how the name says. And because of that, you will have a nice overview of what&#8217;s inside the post. And it&#8217;s also super handy to be able to go to the section when the post is very long. So that should have a lot of usage on some websites.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. And it automatically detects your headings and creates if they&#8217;re not already in there anchor links for them. That&#8217;s how it works. So you could also use the same anchor links if you want to link from outside of the post, into the post to a certain section. So that&#8217;s definitely a nice side effect for that. And it also does it, if you have on page breaks, it detects the heading over all the pages. And it also can jump from two headings that are on subsequent pages for that post. So it&#8217;s quite sophisticated in the feature set. One feature set that I&#8217;m actually missing is that it automatically creates the table of content as a numbered list. And I have never used a number table of content on a website. So it was always in a bullet list, but I cannot change it back into a bullet list.</p>



<p>What you have to do is to kind of create a static block out of that. And then it does a bullet list. But it does not update anymore when you add a heading. So then you have to delete it and start all over again. So that&#8217;s a little bit cumbersome, but I think I will file a feature request for that to have it as a real feature I advocated for it, but it didn&#8217;t make it in the first version. So what&#8217;s also interesting actually in this release is that the post terms, you can now add dynamic variations for custom taxonomies. So when you have the post term block, it kind of also lists every taxonomies that are registered with your site. And then the other part, what I really like is that query loop block now has a parents filter.</p>



<p>So when you&#8217;re working with, with a page, you can now use the parent filter to display content from the children of a particular parent page, which eliminates the need for a plugin again. Yeah. I think I need to count all the plugins that I have that I won&#8217;t use anymore because work has it built in, and the place on a list of the sub pages, or you can, even if you have featured images with it, you can even make some nice cards with that on the parent page and show up the next subsequent pages. At the agency. We had quite a few requests for that because some people couldn&#8217;t rock the post kind of post page thing and they always want the pages that&#8217;s so static. They never change, but you want them a different path of discovery and not just through the navigation menu, but also through imagery on the page where it can say, &#8220;okay, now you go here, then here and here and here,” it&#8217;s really interesting.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah. It&#8217;s also, the way query loop evolves and how many new features gets with every plugin. It&#8217;s really interesting to follow.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; So let me ask you this, are teams working, or is a team working on the idea that you have a developer ahead who wants to kind of modify the query a little bit more granular than just what you offer through the interface, kind of handled SQL statements or something like that.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: So to also support SQL, I don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s on the roadmap mostly because it&#8217;s way too complex and you still can go and code yourself something very custom if you want to right? So it wouldn&#8217;t be that hard to replicate, maybe let me put it this way, replace the server implementation of the query loop, the wrapping block and provide your custom query from that. That&#8217;ll be much easier in my opinion than allowing users to start filling with as well and all the square injection, vulnerabilities and stuff like that.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. I hear you. It&#8217;s a small thing, but in the new version, you now have tool tips on the split border radios control. So when you&#8217;re in the sidebar work on the border radios, you actually get tool tips where you are actually working on it. Is it the top part of the border or is it the left or the right part or the bottom part? And that&#8217;s really some quality interface and you can actually have a radio separate. And I didn&#8217;t know that, it&#8217;s kind of here now. You can have a radius control just for the left border. Yeah. It&#8217;s a little round, but the other three, they don&#8217;t have a radius at all. And it makes for nice, interesting forms. Now you can do this with Gutenberg in there.</p>



<p>And I also like the color controls are now merged with a dropdown component that is a little bit more helpful. It shows when you change the background color to a gradient, it now also shows you in the sidebar when you just open it, what is the current color? And it also shows the gradient instead of just the breakdown color. And you surprised that&#8217;s not the background color that I had. It&#8217;s a gradient. And now you see it all. But the color panel has gotten quite complicated as well. With the same with you click on it and then it comes out and then you have two tabs on there, one the solid color, then the gradient color. And then in the gradient, you can then change the radius and it&#8217;s gotten quite complicated. And I can see that certain things take a little longer or need to be tested first with one block before it&#8217;s rolled out to the other blocks yeah. But that makes also for sometimes it&#8217;s not consistent over all the blocks.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah. But it also makes a lot of sense to combine all those related tools into one. So the sidebar is not so overwhelming for users. So before we had many colors, if you would open that, a year ago, that would be all those things that you see now in this tool table dropdown, they were inside the sidebar, it&#8217;s just the necessary step to organize all that better.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. I like that curation of settings, then there is for each section heading for the color there&#8217;s on the right end side, sometimes a little too subtle, the three dot menu where you can also switch on and off some features. Yeah. By default, you only see the color for the text for the background, but when you click on the three dot menu, you also see that you could actually manage the link color, but it&#8217;s not offered for every block, but you can switch it on if you need it, for instance, for a quote block or for a list block. But sometimes you need to kind of really go beyond the obvious and click on that three dot menu to find additional features that you knew were there before, but now are a little bit hidden. Yeah, that is&#8230;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yes, but if you are a new WordPress user, I&#8217;m curious how it works, because it might take some time for people to discover that the three dots actually allows you to enable more controls or remove the controls that are there, but they don&#8217;t like.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. So the same&#8230;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Feeling of similar changes, there is one, I would say big change because the block list, the thing you see on the sidebar, but the other side, the one we were talking was on the right side. But on the left side, you can see all the list of all the blocks that are on a given page or template. And that&#8217;s very important for the editing experience, especially for templates where there&#8217;s a lot of nesting involved. And now there is an option in your settings to show openly view as default. So before you have to click a button to open that list, but you can just dock it and it&#8217;ll be there all the time.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. I really like that, especially. Yeah, you&#8217;re right. The list view is such an integral part working with templates with all the nested blocks. Yeah. So having that open all the time really cuts down on the load time of the editor and your work workflow when you work quite a few templates or even in, on a normal post. Yeah. But I don&#8217;t think that setting is available for the post editor. I think it&#8217;s only for the site editor.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah. I don&#8217;t know about that.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. It&#8217;s only for the site editor it&#8217;s post editor. Well, has that too always open list view. Yeah. So I looked at the preference tables that were in the screenshots. It&#8217;s for both the post editor and for the site editor. Yeah. A lot of people ask me about that when I demoed some of the new features. So what else do we have?</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: There&#8217;s there is still no official post with all the change lock files. So we are using something that was prepared earlier. And so we might need to jump a little bit.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski:</em> To find other items that we have highlighted today. And one of the change is for the heading block. And now we have font family support there. So it was available in other places now it&#8217;s been enabled there for future party.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. And a lot of people have been waiting for that our user can now change the font family for the heading block and not just the theme developer. And there&#8217;s also a enhancement for the gallery block, but especially for converting a classic block gallery into a gallery block to also include the image caption up until now it didn&#8217;t come over with it. So that&#8217;s definitely a plus for those who converting galleries to gallery blocks. Yeah. And the other two things that are highlighted here are actually part of the table of contents block. And we already talked about that. So I think we are through with that. Was there anything in the three 13.3 that you wanted to point out</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: There is a lot of items as you rule in the change logs from two releases. And also we discussed work 6.0. So I think we covered a lot today.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. But we didn&#8217;t cover all and we never cover all. So dear listeners, definitely check out the change log that will be on the make.Wordpress.org blog when it comes out as a what&#8217;s new in Gutenberg 13.3. Yeah.&nbsp;</p>



<h3><strong>What’s Discussed and in the Works</strong></h3>



<p>And we are at the section, what&#8217;s discussed and what&#8217;s in the works that hasn&#8217;t been released yet? But it&#8217;s definitely top of mind and or discussed quite a bit. So there were some discussions on what keeps theme developers or agency developers who build themes for on taking, for instance, block themes or other features of the site editor.</p>



<p>So those issues come up quite a bit, not quite a bit, but once in a while, and to have some ideas on what would be good for an agency. So one of them was that made it into WordPress 6.0 was for instance, that themes could register blocks. And I think Grzegorz, you were quite instrumental in that to get it fixed or get it implemented that although the recommendation says that blocks are the territory of plugins. But we heard from agencies that we are building custom themes just for that one site implementation that had additional cost also to deploy a theme as well as blocks in plugins to make it available for them. So that was one of the discussions that came out of&#8230;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah, also the use case was that sometimes themes require some very custom design and this is a way for them to bundle a block that just is targeting that specific theme. And it wouldn&#8217;t make sense in all, all other places. And, but yeah, it&#8217;s not the recommendation blocks belong to plugins.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah, but just because it&#8217;s technically possible, doesn&#8217;t have to be, you have to use it, but it&#8217;s available for those who really, really need it. Now, before they had each agency or each freelancer who needed it, came up with their own hacks to make that. And now it&#8217;s just the standard way of using register block type on the theme PHP theme.</p>



<p>So to alleviate some of the adoption hurdles or blockers for adoption there&#8217;s now a new label on the Gutenberg rebuild called focus blocks adoption. And it&#8217;s used on the Gutenberg repo to identify those specific issues that if they would be solved, they could remove the blockers from adopting blocks or block themes. And I think it&#8217;s an interesting concept now to highlight those one of them is one issue. He got that label is by Fabien who has issues C7943 titled allow the usage of block based template parts without using block based templates. And that&#8217;s an interesting idea for classic themes that want to gradually adopt what&#8217;s possible now with the site editor also for their themes and how to implement that.</p>



<p>And part of it is already Grzegorz told me, and Ari has it in the issue is already available since 5.9. But what this particular issue is talking about that it also activate the site editor to edit those template parts without editing any other templates or sections.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah. So idea was that if you have a classic theme, you can also provide a template part HTML file that will contain this template particular template part, and that worked, but you wouldn&#8217;t be able to edit that. But the proposal is to open the UI for the same, that is inside in block themes for classic themes, which is an interesting way might be a challenge. But the more we open those solutions for classic themes, the better everything becomes.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. And it follows the narrative that Matias actually had when he joined us here at the show, after he published the preliminary roadmap of 6.0, when he said that all the things that come with the block theme are not there necessarily to replace how themes work. It&#8217;s more to expand the reach that classic themes can offer to their users or the site owners. And I really like that narrative because it kind of, has that new can come in, but in piece and bits and you don&#8217;t have to adopt it completely, it&#8217;s a gradual adoption. And even in two or three years, you still have a need for classic themes, but there might be a need to open that up for some of the user controls or for the site owners controls. So yeah. Block themes are not replacing or making themes totally redundant. It&#8217;s actually opening up the whole place for new things.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: It also opens an interesting world where you have a block theme, but you&#8217;ll like it, you could switch to the classic block and still retain template parts that you build in your previous theme, it&#8217;s WordPress, everyone can do whatever they like.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. And now you can do even more and you didn&#8217;t know that you liked it. Yeah. Like gradients.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So then another discussion that came up now that 6.0 is out Matias Ventura, the lead architect also updated already some of the tracking issues. And I&#8217;m sure there is a new blog post in the making in outlining the roadmap for 6.1. But he already has a site editor and template roadmap tracking issue about 19 tasks. And that&#8217;s about the site editor and how to create template and template parts changes to the interface or updates to the interface to make it for impossible, to edit a template part properties and focus mode. What is a focus mode? It&#8217;s another way of seeing the editor. There&#8217;s also a browse mode coming to the site editor that you look at it from, you just browse the designs, but you&#8217;re not editing.</p>



<p>So yeah. And other things like restricting block editing capabilities, we talked about the block locking at the beginning of the show that comes in 6.0, and that is now that needs to be expanded on. You mentioned that it needs to be role based of course, but also you probably want to lock down the editing part of a footer or header that people can edit it. Not just remove it or move it, but also not edited that is still missing.</p>



<p>So there are quite a few in this tracking issue, hints of what&#8217;s to come. And if you&#8217;re curious, we of course share the link in the show notes and what he did for template for the site, edit 10 templates, roadmaps Matias Ventura also published a global style, ongoing roadmap that he updated. And that covers some of the style engine that we talked about. If you want to learn more about it, also the main interface for making changes to the global styles, browsing styles, without having to edit things, web fonts that would just have the web fonts for the style variations right now. But the big part of the web funds API didn&#8217;t make it into 6.0, but it will hopefully make it into 6.1.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: Yeah. Also interesting discussion on Twitter where Matias were involved about the future of web phones that maybe openverse could host some web phones and having those open source version of phones, integrated with the WordPress for everyone. That&#8217;s also interesting perspective and general openverse opens so many new ways of reusing content created by other people, which is images, videos, music, and whatever&#8230; Phones. That would be another way.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah, and color palettes would actually be also quite interesting. Yeah. So you can swap out the color palette of your theme and just by bringing it in from the openverse. Yeah. Oh, did you see that there&#8217;s a new contributor batch if you added photos to the openverse, to the WordPress photo directory, you can now see that on your profile. Open verse open so many different things for WordPress. It&#8217;s amazing, yeah.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: I already have this batch. I just checked.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah me, too</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: I Uploaded two photos.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. I think I uploaded four or so but yeah, it doesn&#8217;t matter. It&#8217;s a contribution and it will be honored. Yeah. So you have the site editor, the template, the global styles tracking issue. And then the last one is pattern as the section elements. That&#8217;s kind of the next phase for patterns and interesting proof of concept there&#8217;s first a tracking issue. And then James Costa has quite a few little videos and what he kind of considers as a browse mechanism for where you can browse through certain block patterns for the header, for instance, but you see the full page and that will make working on their site so much easier when you&#8217;re actually not only just looking at that section, that&#8217;s visible in your screen, but you can see the full page. And that&#8217;s also available for posts, for instance, or for pages that you create. So there are quite a few things in the works that hopefully make it.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: It, the idea for those sectioning element is really interesting. You mentioned that you can just have the recent exploration is to have zoom out mode. So, you focus on the header and then you get ways to quickly switch the versions of this header by using block patterns or maybe pre-existing template parts, and you just use arrows or something else depending, or how you use that. And how&#8217;s going to maybe implement, and it just quickly switch to another version. Another, until you find something that clicks for you, but it&#8217;s inside the page. It&#8217;s not that you open a model, then you see only just some preview of these things, but you exactly see how it fits to your website.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah, and so we will share the links to those comments and PRs in the show notes. And if you&#8217;re interested in where things are going, definitely look at those and see what it does for you. And if you have ideas, how it&#8217;s made better or what does not look right or how it can be augmented. Yeah. Chime in now is the time because now people are working on it. And the last discussion that I wanted to point out is that during the FSE program Anne McCarthy did a hallway hangout to talk about the FSE programs and how it works and all that. And then there&#8217;s an issue created or it&#8217;s not an issue, it&#8217;s a discussion post on the developer experience category on the GitHub discussions. And what the full site editing for agency use case is what are the existing features that work that are available and then what are missing features.</p>



<p>And then as well as the features that can be improved, for instance, as a missing features, it identifies the robust permission system for the template editing, as Grzegorz mentioned earlier, or another one is allow editing for only template parts or only specific template parts, but not other parts or other templates that is much more granular. Another interesting thought was that WordPress inland CSS does not always respect the editor font sizes. That might be a bug, but it could also be that some of the mechanics don&#8217;t work as well.</p>



<p>But that comes all out of a hangout meeting, which is a hallway hangout meeting is kind of an informal meeting of brains, people that discuss certain things. And this came out of it. I shared the hangout notes, hangout recap, post by Anne McCarthy, as well as this discussion at the GitHub repo. So for all you interested people. All right. So Gregorz, we are at the end of our show. I&#8217;m so glad that you were able to jump in for Mary Job this week and walk us through some of the things. Thank you so much.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: That was a pleasure to meet with you again and talk about Gutenberg.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>:&nbsp; Yeah. And as always the listeners, the show notes will be published on Gutenbergtimes.com/podcast. And if you have questions and suggestions or news, you want us to include sent them to <a href="mailto:changelog@gutenbergtimes.com">changelog@gutenbergtimes.com</a> that&#8217;s <a href="mailto:changelog@gutenbergtimes.com">changelog@gutenbergtimes.com</a>. So this was it from me. Thank you for listening. Thank you for stopping by. I&#8217;m glad you were here and I will talk to you in two weeks. I say goodbye and goodbye, Greg, to you until I see you again.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</em>: You for having me, Birgit. It&#8217;s always a pleasure. See you goodbye.</p>



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<p>Mullenweg had the vision for what WordPress should be, even before it had a name. It centered on extensibility, a hallmark feature that has made the platform as popular as it is today:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>What should it do? Well, it would be nice to have the flexibility of MovableType, the parsing of TextPattern, the hackability of b2, and the ease of setup of Blogger.</p><cite>Matt Mullenweg &#8211; <a href="https://ma.tt/2003/01/the-blogging-software-dilemma/">The Blogging Software Dilemma</a>, January 24, 2003 </cite></blockquote>



<p>Although Textpattern, the interesting new publishing tool at the time, had everything Mullenweg might want in a blogging tool, he wasn&#8217;t sure about its licensing at the time. He decided to fork b2/cafelog, which lives on today in a different form as WordPress, thanks to its GPL licensing. Mike Little joined the effort and the rest is history.</p>



<p>The highlight of this year&#8217;s anniversary celebrations is the <a href="https://wp19.day/">wp19.day</a> website created by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dimensionmedia/">David Bisset</a> and his daughter<a href="https://twitter.com/lemonadecode"> Olivia Bisset</a>, who also managed the project. WordPress users and contributors from all over the world left their heartfelt greetings to celebrate the occasion. Reading through, it&#8217;s easy to get a sense of the tremendous good WordPress has done for the world, giving so many a voice, a livelihood, and a chance to live their dreams.</p>



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<p>The wp19.day website also featured video submissions from WordPress enthusiasts. Although many first came for the software, the common thread among those who have stayed is the value of the community that has grown up around the project and the leadership it has cultivated. WordCamp and meetup organizer Joe Simpson said WordPress empowered him to take a leadership role in his local community.</p>



<p>&#8220;Our community here is nurturing &#8211; it&#8217;s a family,&#8221; Simpson said. &#8220;I&#8217;m excited to see where we go from here. Happy birthday, WordPress.&#8221; </p>



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<p>Matt Mullenweg also joined in the fun of celebrating the milestone by contributing his own greeting to the wp19.day project. In his video submission, he said it&#8217;s very rare for a 19-year-old software project and its community to not just still be surviving but actually thriving and &#8220;doing better than ever.&#8221; He thanked contributors of all kinds who have helped people find their way with WordPress.</p>



Matt Mullenweg on WordPress&#8217; 19th Birthday &#8211; video source: <a href="http://wp19.day">wp19.day</a>



<p>&#8220;That is a testament to every single person who has ever told a friend about WordPress, participated on the forums, had a translation, contributed code,&#8221; Mullenweg said. &#8220;Anything that&#8217;s been part of the WordPress ecosystem is part of why WordPress is transforming the web and making it into a place that is more open, more inclusive, more democratic, and a place that we want our future generations to grow up in.&#8221;</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Fri, 27 May 2022 22:12:13 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:8;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:72:"WPTavern: Gutenberg 13.3 Introduces Experimental Table of Contents Block";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=134845";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:83:"https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-13-3-introduces-experimental-table-of-contents-block";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1960:"<p><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/26/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-3-0-may-25/">Gutenberg 13.3</a> was released this week with support for an experimental new Table of Contents block. It is perfect for longform content that is organized by multiple headings within the document. The block automatically detects Heading blocks within the content and will display them with anchor links that jump to each section.</p>



Table of Contents block &#8211; video credit: <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/26/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-3-0-may-25/">Gutenberg 13.3 release post</a>



<p>Users may select the block without knowing how it works with headings. If the post or page doesn&#8217;t contain any headings, the block inserts a message prompting users to start adding Heading blocks in order to display a Table of Contents. </p>



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<p>Other notable additions in 13.3 include the following: </p>



<ul><li>Query block now supports a &#8220;parent&#8221; filter that will display content of children from the defined parent</li><li>Heading block now supports Font Family controls</li><li>Save Block List default view preference &#8211; allowes users to set a preference for having the Blost Lick view open or closed by default</li><li>New transforms between the Cover and Media &amp; Text blocks</li></ul>



<p>The latest release also brings dozens of enhancements and bug fixes to preferences, border controls, error messages, tooling, accessiblity, and performance. Check out the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/26/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-3-0-may-25/">release post</a> for the full list of changes.</p>



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<ol><li>The community put together <a href="https://wp19.day/">an awesome site celebrating the occasion at wp19.day</a>.</li><li>We just had an <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/05/arturo/">awesome 6.0 &#8220;Arturo&#8221; release</a>.</li><li>Next week June 2-4 <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/">WordCamp Europe returns in-person in Porto, Portugal</a>, and I&#8217;ll be there and so excited to connect with the community! Tickets are still available.</li><li>Nineteen seems like an in-between number, but actually it&#8217;s very salient for me because now WordPress is the same age I was when the first release came out.</li><li>Which means I&#8217;ve now been working on WordPress half my life! </li></ol>



<p>Cheers and here&#8217;s to many more years together. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f942.png" alt="🥂" class="wp-smiley" /></p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Fri, 27 May 2022 18:14:23 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:4:"Matt";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:11;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:35:"Post Status: Post Status Notes #500";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"https://poststatus.com/?p=98171";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:45:"https://poststatus.com/post-status-notes-500/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:17546:"<p class="has-small-font-size">By <a href="https://poststatus.com/author/dan-knauss/">Dan Knauss</a> and <a href="https://poststatus.com/author/david-bisset/">David Bisset</a> <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/72x72/1f5d3.png" alt="🗓" class="wp-smiley" /> May 27, 2022</p>



<div class="wp-container-1 wp-block-group has-theme-palette-8-background-color has-background"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container"><div class="wp-block-post-excerpt"><p class="wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt">It''s the 500th issue of Post Status Notes and the Post Status newsletter coinciding with WordPress''s 6.0 release and its 19th anniversary! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/72x72/1f382.png" alt="🎂" class="wp-smiley" /> </p></div></div></div>



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<h2 id="wordpress-6-0">WordPress 6.0 Released</h2>



<p><strong>WordPress 6.0</strong> &#8220;Arturo&#8221; was <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-6-0/">released on schedule</a> (May 24th) with many new features and enhancements related to full site editing.</p>



<ul><li><strong>Gutenberg 13.3</strong> was <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/releases/tag/v13.3.0">released yesterday</a>. </li><li>Check out <strong>Anne McCarthy</strong>&#8216;s post on <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/20/core-editor-improvement-creating-containing-containers/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the latest core editor improvements</a>&nbsp;to container blocks and block locking. Anne shows off some new features to explore with rows, stacks, and groups.</li><li>Anne also has <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/05/25/hallway-hangout-discussion-on-full-site-editing-issues-prs-designs-25-may/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a recap</a> (video and written highlights) of yesterday''s hallway hangout&nbsp;on <strong>Full Site Editing</strong> topics.</li></ul>



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<h2 id="global-community">The Global Community of Contributors</h2>



<p><strong>Jean-Baptiste Audras</strong> offers <a href="https://jeanbaptisteaudras.com/en/2022/05/wp-6-0-arturo-contribution-stats/">some interesting stats for the 6.0 release</a> as he''s done with six previous releases —&nbsp;<a href="https://jeanbaptisteaudras.com/en/2019/11/distribution-of-wordpress-5-3-contributors-by-country-2/">5.3</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://jeanbaptisteaudras.com/en/2020/03/wordpress-5-4-core-contribution-statistics/">5.4</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://jeanbaptisteaudras.com/en/2020/08/wordpress-5-5-core-stats-contributions-by-country-company/">5.5</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://jeanbaptisteaudras.com/en/2020/12/wordpress-5-6-core-stats-contributions-by-country-company/">5.6</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/a496c333-7e64-412c-9299-9ea2c84e5d2c/page/j595B">5.7</a>, not 5.8, and <a href="https://jeanbaptisteaudras.com/en/2022/01/wordpress-5-9-core-contribution-statistics/">5.9</a>) so we can see compare them. Some highlights:</p>



<ul><li>519&nbsp;people&nbsp;(~25% were first-time contributors) from at least&nbsp;53 countries&nbsp;and 134 identified companies contributed.</li><li>The <strong>United States</strong>&nbsp;leads in contributions followed by&nbsp;<strong>Russia</strong>, thanks to <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/">Sergey</a>, who had the highest number of individual contributions to 6.0. Then comes Jean-Baptiste himself in <strong>France</strong> and <strong>George Mamadashvili</strong> in <strong>Georgia</strong>.</li><li><strong>Automattic</strong> (with its 70 contributors) had the most contributions, followed by <strong>Yoast</strong>, <strong>Whodunit</strong> (France), and <strong>GoDaddy</strong>.</li></ul>



<p>It''s interesting to see how national populations, the number of their contributors, and their total contributions are independent variables that can vary widely. <strong>Automattic</strong>&#8216;s <strong>Jorge Filipe Costa</strong> from Portugal is in the top 20 by contributions, and Portugal ranks high despite having only three contributors in all. </p>



<p>Some standout individuals, like Sergey, George, Jean-Baptiste, and Jorge do an enormous amount for the project, and there are quite a few of them! It is ultimately a community effort. </p>



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<h2 id="wordpress-is-19">WordPress''s Last Year as a Teenager</h2>



<p><strong>Nyasha Green</strong> <a href="https://masterwp.com/olivia-bisset-on-wordpress-and-wp19/">interviewed</a> <strong>Olivia Bisset</strong> about her work on <a href="http://wp19.day">wp19.day</a>. Olivia is also an intern here at <strong>Post Status</strong>. (An enthusiastic WordPresser, coder, WordCamp speaker and volunteer, Olivia is slightly younger than WordPress itself.)</p>



<p>Newly posted to WP19.day: brief video greetings from <strong>Matt Mullenweg</strong>, <strong>Lindsey</strong> and <strong>Cory Miller</strong>, <strong>Syed Balkhi</strong>, <strong>Vito Peleg</strong>, much of the team at <strong>Yoast</strong>, and many others. </p>



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<h2 id="wordcamps">WordCamp Updates</h2>



<p><strong>Hari Shanker R</strong> <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/05/23/regional-in-person-wordcamps-going-forward/">passed along the news</a> that regional <strong>WordCamps</strong> will not need to go through a proposal process anymore — they can directly apply to organize a camp for their region <a href="https://central.wordcamp.org/wordcamp-organizer-application/">using the WordCamp application form</a>. From now on, &#8220;WordCamp Central will evaluate the health of local communities when assessing a regional WordCamp application.&#8221;</p>



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<p><strong>Bob Dunn</strong> has some <a href="https://dothewoo.io/woocommerce-tips-speakers-wordcamp-europe/">nice, bite-sized tips</a> on building WordPress sites from some of the speakers at the upcoming <a href="https://dothewoo.io/woocommerce-tips-speakers-wordcamp-europe/">WordCamp Europe 2022</a>.</p>



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<h2 id="giving-back">Giving Back and Looking Forward</h2>



<p><strong>Thomas Fanchin</strong> at <strong>Weglot</strong> has <a href="https://weglot.com/blog/wceu-weglot-wordpress-community/">a great post</a> about his company enthusiastically embracing <strong>Five for the Future</strong> and becoming a <strong>WordPress Global Sponsor</strong>. He notes how much there is to look forward to in events, worldwide, in 2022. </p>



<p>Weglot has been sponsoring <strong>Juan Hernando</strong>, a <strong>WCEU</strong> organizer (among other things) and now <strong>Pedro Mendonça</strong> on the core Polyglot team.</p>



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<h2 id="5ftF">What Contributions Count for Five for the Future?</h2>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy</strong> has taken a stab at defining <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/05/20/defining-five-for-the-future-pledges-contributions/">activities that can be considered contributions</a> to <strong>Five For the Future</strong>, and she is looking for feedback. </p>



<p>Josepha says valid 5ftF contributions should clearly benefit the WordPress project and not an individual person or company. Contributions related to creating or supporting (third-party) WordPress themes, plugins, or blocks &#8220;are critical to extending the reach and utility of the WordPress project,&#8221; but they are also in a &#8220;grey area.&#8221; Generally they shouldn''t be associated with the Five For the Future mission or count toward corporate commitments to the program. </p>



<p>In the comments, <strong>Adam Warner</strong> asked if <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/05/20/defining-five-for-the-future-pledges-contributions/#comment-90">completely free code</a> like <strong>Contact Form 7</strong> might be worth counting, and <strong>Brian Gardner</strong> <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/05/20/defining-five-for-the-future-pledges-contributions/#comment-91">asked</a> about contributions to the <strong>Pattern Directory</strong> with <strong>Courtney Robertson</strong> <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/05/20/defining-five-for-the-future-pledges-contributions/#comment-94">chiming in</a> about <strong>CC0</strong> images contributed to <strong>Openverse</strong>.</p>



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<h2 id="managed-wordpress-com">Managed WordPress(.com) Hosting Starter Plan</h2>



<p><strong>WordPress.com</strong> has launched <a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2022/05/25/introducing-wordpress-starter-make-your-mark/">a new plan called &#8220;<strong>WordPress Starter</strong>&#8220;</a> for $5/month. It seems to be a the &#8220;in-between&#8221; option some were looking for earlier <a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2022/04/05/introducing-wordpress-pro-one-plan-infinite-possibilities/">when the &#8220;Pro&#8221; level was first announced</a>. The &#8220;Starter&#8221; level includes custom domains, additional storage, simple payment processing, and <strong>Google Analytics</strong> to the free option.</p>



<p>Notably, <a href="https://poststatus.com/what-might-wordpress-coms-pricing-changes-mean-for-the-wordpress-ecosystem/">WordPress.com is increasingly being marketed as a web host</a> for &#8220;managed WordPress hosting,&#8221; and it can claim to be <a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2021/06/08/fastest-wordpress-host-2021/">the fastest on the planet</a>.</p>



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<h2 id="wordpress-sustainability">WordPress and Sustainability</h2>



<p><strong>Joost De Valk</strong> explains <a href="https://joost.blog/optimize-crawling-for-the-environment/">how optimizing search engine crawling</a> can help save energy — and therefore the environment. Remember that search engines will crawl almost any URL they can find in your page source.</p>



<p><strong>Tom Greenwood</strong> shares <a href="https://opensource.com/article/22/4/zero-waste-web-design">some tips on reducing waste in web design</a>. Even if you just stop autoplaying videos, that''s a start. <br /><br />Over at the <strong>Matt Report</strong>, <strong>Hanna Smith</strong> asks, &#8220;<a href="https://mattreport.com/can-wordpress-save-the-planet/">Can WordPress save the planet?</a>&#8221; </p>



<p>It''s good to see these economic and ecological concerns emerging more in the WordPress space. If you''d like to take a hard look at the situation, try starting with the <strong>Stockholm Resilience Centre</strong>&#8216;s <a href="https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html">Planetary Boundaries Framework</a> (CC BY 4.0).</p>



<p>One of <strong>Bill Gates</strong>&#8216; favorite authors, <strong>Vaclav Smil</strong>, is also worth <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaclav_Smil">a weekend deep dive</a>. Smil is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst on the <strong>Faculty of Environment</strong> at the <strong>University of Manitoba</strong>. His new book, <em>How The World Really Works</em>, was <a href="https://sentiers.media/notes/modern-world-cant-exist-without-four-ingredients/">summarized nicely</a> in the latest issue of <strong>Sentiers</strong> by <strong>Patrick Tanguay</strong>.</p>



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<h2 id="lean-ops">Opportunities for Lean WordPress  and WooCommerce Solutions?</h2>



<p><strong>Rob Howard</strong> asks what growth opportunities <strong>WooCommerce</strong> <a href="https://masterwp.com/what-does-shopifys-crash-mean-for-woocommerce/">might see ahead</a> as <strong>Shopify</strong> suffers a post-pandemic decline in its stock price and market share. <strong>Shopify</strong> will likely stabilize as pressure from <strong>Wix</strong>, <strong>Squarespace</strong>, and WooCommerce increases. Some would say — unfavorably — this is an &#8220;Apple-like&#8221; tactic. But Rob''s right — there''s an opportunity here for WordPress and Woo:</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>&#8220;Let <strong>Shopify</strong>, <strong>Squarespace</strong> and <strong>Wix</strong> duke it out for the low-end market, and do everything you can to help <strong>WooCommerce</strong> corner the market for higher-end, highly custom e-commerce solutions.&#8221;</p></blockquote>



<p>There''s also a good opportunity for a &#8220;build a store on a mobile device quickly&#8221; experience now.</p>



<p>Check out the new <strong>Fruits</strong> platform — <a href="https://fruits.de/">it seems to do just that</a>. </p>



<p>What if something similar existed based on <a href="https://poststatus.com/post-status-comments-wordpress-lite/">a trimmed-down WordPress install</a>? Want a full store with custom features? Click a button, and it becomes the full <strong>WordPress + Woo</strong> experience ready for customization. </p>



<p><strong>Christina Warren</strong> and <strong>Dan Knauss</strong> have <a href="https://twitter.com/post_status/status/1529962415000940544">similar thoughts</a> about a <strong>Substack</strong> or <strong>Ghost</strong>-like distribution of WordPress. </p>



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<h2 id="wordpress-job-titles">WordPress Job Titles and Skills – Where Do We Stand? (2015-22)</h2>



<p>This recent <strong>Woo DevChat</strong>, with <strong>Zach Stepek</strong>, <strong>Till Krüss</strong>, and <strong>Carl Alexander</strong> is a deep, funny, and much more thoughtful (and generously, even inclusive) take on the age-old question &#8220;What is a WordPress Developer?&#8221;</p>



<p>Ten years ago this topic was reliable clickbait for much wp-drama because it was often expressed as &#8220;who counts&#8221; or &#8220;who deserves to be called a Developer?&#8221; Will the <em>real</em> developers please stand up? Perspectives have changed and matured a lot. </p>



<p>Maybe today there is such a thing as a &#8220;No-Code Developer&#8230;&#8221;</p>



<p>Zach, Till, and Carl''s conversation is <a href="https://mariopeshev.com/wordpress-job-titles-skills-stand/">reminiscent of this 2015 post</a> by <strong>Mario Peshev</strong> and the comment discussion it provoked. It''s worth a read still, and so are the comments.</p>



<p>Maybe that''s where Bob locked onto Site/WordPress/Woo &#8220;Builder.&#8221; I knew &#8220;Integrator&#8221; and &#8220;Customizer&#8221; would never be widely used.</p>



<p>2015 is probably about when (if not exactly where) a lot of us locked onto the inclusive but specific term, &#8220;WordPress Professional&#8221; that <strong>Jenny Beaumont</strong> introduced in the discussion over Mario''s post.</p>



<p>&#8220;WordPress Professional&#8221; slid into Post Status''s self-understanding too and grew to become quite central to <a href="https://poststatus.com/new-membership-options-at-post-status/">our idea of membership</a>.</p>



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<ul><li><strong>Make Lemonade</strong>: <strong>Mark Ashton</strong> shares <a href="https://make-lemonade.simplecast.com/episodes/mark-ashton-from-uipress-fhSWcpax">his story of success</a> with his product <strong>UiPress</strong>, a plugin that provides a white label WordPress admin experience.</li><li><strong>Matt Report</strong>: <strong>Hanna Smith</strong> talks about <a href="https://mattreport.com/can-wordpress-save-the-planet/">web sustainability</a>.</li><li><strong>Underrepresented in Tech</strong>: This episode contains <a href="https://www.underrepresentedintech.com/a-conversation-about-wordpress-event-sponsorships/">a discussion about the challenges of sponsored events</a> in WordPress.</li><li><strong>WP Tavern Jukebox</strong>: <strong>Mark Root-Wiley</strong> talks about <a href="https://wptavern.com/podcast/28-mark-root-wiley-on-creating-standards-for-css-in-wordpress">creating standards for CSS</a> in WordPress.</li><li><strong>Do the Woo:</strong> Two of the <strong>WCEU</strong> organizing team members, <strong>Takis Bouryouris</strong> and <strong>Taeke Reijenga</strong>, talk about <a href="https://dothewoo.io/episode-223/">that upcoming conference</a>. </li><li><strong>Woo DevChat</strong>: <a href="https://dothewoo.io/what-is-a-wordpress-developer/">What is a WordPress Developer?</a> with <strong>Zach Stepek</strong>, <strong>Till Krüss</strong>, and <strong>Carl Alexander</strong>.</li></ul>



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<ul><li><strong>WordSesh</strong>: Learn the path <strong>From Agency Owner to Plugin Shop</strong> from <strong>Lesley Sim, Aurooba Ahmed</strong> describes how to <strong>Hack the Block Editor for Faster Content Creation</strong>, <strong>Vikas Singhal</strong> has <strong>5 Easy Ways to Fix your WordPress Workflow</strong>, and <strong>Leonardo Losoviz</strong> asks, <strong>Will WordPress be Better with the Block Protocol?</strong> Keynotes include <strong>Anil Gupta</strong> explaining <strong>How Big Enterprises Use WordPress for Publishing</strong>, the <strong>10up</strong> team on <strong>Rebuilding WhiteHouse.gov in Six Weeks</strong>, and <strong>Susan Enners</strong>, <strong>Matthew Haines-Young</strong>, and <strong>Wisdom HamboluI</strong> on <strong>Building and Defending a Free Press</strong>. <a href="https://wordsesh.com/recordings/">It''s all there — and more</a>!</li></ul>



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<p>After a lengthy discussion, the Community Team has <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/05/23/regional-in-person-wordcamps-going-forward/">decided</a> to make it easier for organizers to apply for regional in-person WordCamps. These are events that pull in a community from a geographical area larger than one city or metro area.</p>



<p>In past years, WordPress Community Support (WCS) saddled regional events with numerous <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/wordcamp-organizer/become-an-organizer/regional-wordcamps/">additional requirements</a> beyond regular WordCamps, such as preparing a proposal and a minimum of three cities in the region hosting local events, with at least one having hosted a WordCamp. </p>



<p>&#8220;The Community Team has decided to simplify the guidelines for regional in-person WordCamps,&#8221; Automattic-sponsored WordPress.org community manager Hari Shanker said.</p>



<p>&#8220;Moving forward, regional WordCamps will not need to go through additional steps (such as writing a proposal), and can directly apply to organize a camp for their region&nbsp;<a href="https://central.wordcamp.org/wordcamp-organizer-application/">using the regular WordCamp application form</a>.&#8221;&nbsp;</p>



<p>Shanker asummarized community feedback that influenced the decision to ease up on the requirements and move towards using common sense as guide for hosting regional WordCamps: </p>



<ul><li>Regional WordCamps could be beneficial in restarting events in a region in a post-pandemic situation. It would be a great way to revive the community.</li><li>WordCamps should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, with conditions such as the region, geographic size, country, etc.</li><li>Successful Country-based WordCamps were held in the past, and the community team should not police event organizers based on the region. The event organizing process could be simplified.</li><li>City-based events could be difficult to organize because it’s difficult for a small group to organize a big event. It also causes repetition and a lack of repeat value for sponsors. Regional WordCamps might be a great way to solve this problem.</li></ul>



<p>Shanker emphasized that while guidelines are being simplified, it&#8217;s imperative that local meetups are presesrved when regional WordCamps are organized. </p>



<p>&#8220;Local communities offer more accessible ways to connect over WordPress, and more supportive pathways to participation in larger, more complex events,&#8221; he said.</p>



<p>Organizers who are interested in starting up regional WordCamps are encouraged to continue developing local leadership and will be required to impose a strict, two-year term limit on lead organizers.</p>



<p>More simplified guidelines for these events is particularly beneficial in Europe where many smaller countries find that regional WordCamps have a strong unifying effect for their WordPress communities.</p>



<p>&#8220;There is a reason that a &#8216;small country&#8217; like The Netherlands is now in the top of WordPress contributors and companies,&#8221; WordCamp organizer Dave Loodts <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/03/17/discussion-revisiting-in-person-regional-wordcamps/#comment-30060">commented</a> on the previous discussion. &#8220;It all started in the lap of all the previous&nbsp;WordCamp&nbsp;The Netherlands. Never underestimate the power of these kinds of events.&#8221;</p>



<p>Shanker is requesting feedback on the proposal, particularly on what metrics should be in place to determine the health of regional communities. The proposed change has already started receciving positive feedback.</p>



<p>&#8220;Switzerland is like the Atlanta metropolitan area in term of population (8 millions vs 6 millions = &#8216;similar&#8217;) and about 10 meetup groups,&#8221; &nbsp;Geneva meetup organizer and WordCamp Switzerland co-organizer Patricia BT <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/05/23/regional-in-person-wordcamps-going-forward/#comment-30158">commented</a>.</p>



<p>&#8220;Since we had to rename Switzerland to city name after 2015, we knew it was unrealistic to have more than one per year in the country (like if you asked people of Atlanta to have one WordCamp per meetup group) so we moved it from city to city year after year, which was awesome to onboard new organisers, but still missing a &#8216;united&#8217; event.</p>



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<p>This is a training workshop for anyone who wants to be a facilitator or a participant in the small groups that Post Status will be rolling out soon for its members. </p>



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<blockquote><p>&#8220;How do I define an Intentional Life? Spending your most precious resource—time—doing meaningful, purpose-driven work that fulfills you. It’s about clarifying your Core Value, embracing your authenticity, and reaching your potential by building your life, and your business, around what resonates with you on a fundamental level.&#8221;</p><cite>Dr. Corey Wilks</cite></blockquote>



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<h2 id="h-news">News</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/05/wordpress-6-0-release-candidate-3-rc3-now-available-for-testing/"></a><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/05/arturo/">WordPress 6.0 “Arturo”</a></li><li><a href="https://wordpressfoundation.org/news/2022/the-kim-parsell-memorial-scholarship-returns-for-wordcamp-us-2022/">The Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Returns for WordCamp US 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/05/20/defining-five-for-the-future-pledges-contributions/">Defining Five for the Future Pledges & Contributions</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/05/23/request-for-feedback-recording-five-for-the-future-contributions/">Request for feedback: Recording Five for the Future contributions</a></li></ul>



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<h2 id="h-accessibility"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility">Accessibility</a></h2>



<ul><li>Request for feedback on the&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/04/01/discussion-contrib-handbook-part-1/">WordPress Accessibility Statement</a>.</li></ul>



<h2 id="h-central"><a href="https://central.wordcamp.org">Central</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://central.wordcamp.org/news/2022/05/wordcamp-europe-2022-is-just-around-the-corner/">WordCamp Europe 2022 is just around the corner</a></li><li><a href="https://central.wordcamp.org/news/2022/05/join-the-european-wordpress-community-in-porto-portugal/">Join the European WordPress Community in Porto, Portugal!</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-core"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core">Core</a> </h2>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/20/core-editor-improvement-creating-containing-containers/">Core Editor Improvement: Creating & containing containers</a></li><li><a href="https://forms.gle/Fv1q9arLoCbHdPcaA">Survey to hosting providers</a> from <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/24/performance-team-meeting-summary-24-may-2022/">Performance team</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/24/performance-team-meeting-summary-24-may-2022/">Performance team</a> is seeking points of contact to contribute to Site Health iniatives</li><li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NzURb3u-KZTgYYHK9Gx_KPvSCX4N8Ci3oZfLsfVF7Tk/edit">Measurement overview doc</a></li><li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1elY0vgrLU2373mX3jSUj_vFZeGDyhED1WMPYwzSYiVA/edit">Capturing front-end performance metrics in WordPress doc</a> from <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/24/performance-team-meeting-summary-24-may-2022/">Performance team</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-community"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community">Community</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/04/22/wpdiversity-is-expanding-to-apac/"></a><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/05/11/join-the-community-team-for-a-wpdiversity-writing-sprint-may-23-to-may-30/"></a><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/05/23/regional-in-person-wordcamps-going-forward/">Regional In-person WordCamps Going Forward</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/05/11/join-the-community-team-for-a-wpdiversity-writing-sprint-may-23-to-may-30/"></a><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/05/20/seeking-feedback-on-annual-meetup-survey-for-2021-2022/">Seeking Feedback on Annual Meetup Survey for 2021-2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/05/11/join-the-community-team-for-a-wpdiversity-writing-sprint-may-23-to-may-30/"></a><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/05/20/meetup-organizer-newsletter-may-2022/">Meetup Organizer Newsletter: May 2022</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/05/11/join-the-community-team-for-a-wpdiversity-writing-sprint-may-23-to-may-30/"></a><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/05/20/wordcamp-europe-2022-contributor-day-plans-for-the-community-team-table/">WordCamp Europe 2022 Contributor Day: Plans for the Community Team Table</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-docs"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/docs">Docs</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2022/05/23/documentation-team-update-may-23-2022/">Documentation Team Update – May 23, 2022</a></li></ul>



<h3 id="h-support-docs"><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/articles">Support Docs:</a></h3>



<ul><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/site-title-block/">Site Title Block</a></li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/additional-guide-to-using-the-site-editor/">Additional guide to using the Site Editor</a></li></ul>



<h3 id="h-developer-docs">Developer Docs: </h3>



<ul><li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_widget_media/reset_default_labels/">WP_Widget_Media::reset_default_labels()</a></li><li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_widget_media/get_l10n_defaults/">WP_Widget_Media::get_l10n_defaults()</a></li><li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_widget_media/get_default_description/">WP_Widget_Media::get_default_description()</a></li><li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/term_exists_default_query_args/">term_exists_default_query_args</a></li><li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/registered_taxonomy_taxonomy/">registered_taxonomy_{$taxonomy}</a></li><li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/the_author_link/">the_author_link</a></li><li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_taxonomy/get_default_labels/">WP_Taxonomy::get_default_labels()</a></li><li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_taxonomy/reset_default_labels/">WP_Taxonomy::reset_default_labels()</a></li><li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_post_type/get_default_labels/">WP_Post_Type::get_default_labels()</a></li><li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/register_taxonomy_taxonomy_args/">register_{$taxonomy}_taxonomy_args</a></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/2022/05/23/design-share-may-9-20/">Design Share:&nbsp;May&nbsp;9–20</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-meta"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/meta">Meta</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2022/04/28/proposal-make-wordpress-team-or-project-updates/">Proposal: Make WordPress Team or Project Updates</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2022/05/18/mobile-team-update-may-18th-3/">Mobile Team Update – May 18th</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2022/05/17/call-for-testing-wordpress-for-android-19-9/">Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 19.9</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2022/05/16/call-for-testing-wordpress-for-ios-19-9/">Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 19.9</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-plugins"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/plugins">Plugins</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2022/05/24/plugin-review-team-update-23-may-2022/">Plugin Review Team Update: 23 May 2022</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-polyglots"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots">Polyglots</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2022/05/02/wordpress-6-0-ready-to-be-translated/">WordPress 6.0 ready to be translated</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-project"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project">Project</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/05/23/request-for-feedback-recording-five-for-the-future-contributions/">Request for feedback: Recording Five for the Future contributions</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/05/20/discussion-contrib-handbook-part-3/">Discussion: Contrib Handbook, Part 3</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/05/20/defining-five-for-the-future-pledges-contributions/">Defining Five for the Future Pledges & Contributions</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/04/29/discussion-contrib-handbook-part-2/">Discussion: Contrib Handbook, Part 2</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/project/2022/04/01/discussion-contrib-handbook-part-1/">Discussion: Contrib Handbook, Part 1</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-test"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test">Test</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/04/28/fse-program-testing-call-14-rallying-recipe-reviewers/"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/05/25/hallway-hangout-discussion-on-full-site-editing-issues-prs-designs-25-may/">Hallway Hangout: Discussion on Full Site Editing Issues/PRs/Designs (25 May)</a></a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/04/28/fse-program-testing-call-14-rallying-recipe-reviewers/"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/05/24/test-test-rep-call-for-nominations-for-remaining-current-term/">Test Team Rep: Call for Nominations for Remaining Current Term</a></a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-themes"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes">Themes</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2022/05/24/themes-team-update-may-24-2022/">Themes team update May 24, 2022</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-support"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/support">Support</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/support/2022/04/off-forum-support-requests/">Off forum support requests</a></li></ul>



<h2 id="h-training"><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training">Training</a></h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/04/19/migrating-contributor-training-to-learn-wordpress/"></a><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/05/03/may-2022-sprint/">May 2022 Sprint</a></li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/training/2022/05/05/the-training-team-faculty-program-is-now-live/">The Training Team Faculty Program is now live</a></li></ul>



<h4>Lesson Plan</h4>



<ul><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson-plan/intro-to-site-editor-and-templates/">Intro to the Site Editor and Templates</a></li></ul>



<h4>Workshop</h4>



<ul><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/workshop/getting-to-know-the-wordpress-dashboard/">Getting to know the WordPress Dashboard</a></li><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/workshop/understanding-the-page-editor-vs-site-editor/">Understanding the Page Editor vs. Site Editor</a></li></ul>



<h4 id="h-social-learning-spaces">Social Learning Spaces:</h4>



<ul><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/?meeting=open-source-principles-and-wordpress"></a><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/?meeting=i-want-a-website-not-a-blog">I want a Website, not a Blog!</a></li><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/?meeting=open-source-principles-and-wordpress"></a><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/?meeting=bloggers-own-your-content-and-share-it-everywhere">Bloggers: Own your Content and Share it Everywhere</a></li><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/?meeting=open-source-principles-and-wordpress"></a><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/?meeting=hello-blocks-creating-a-custom-block">Hello Blocks! Creating a Custom Block</a></li><li><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/?meeting=open-source-principles-and-wordpress"></a><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/?meeting=design-with-me-create-a-simple-website-for-your-small-business">Design With Me: Create a Simple Website for your Small Business</a></li></ul>
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<h2 id="5ftf"><a href="https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/">Five for the Future</a></h2>



<p>What''s happening specific to Five for the Future? Provide your feedback on these posts:</p>



<ul><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/five-for-the-future/issues/194">Default workflow for team membership lifecycle?&nbsp;</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/five-for-the-future/issues/192">Add activity when Meetup organizers host events</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/five-for-the-future/issues/189">Update Usermeta with latest 5ftf contribution.</a></li></ul>



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<p>When WordPress.com <a href="https://wptavern.com/wordpress-com-makes-major-unannounced-pricing-changes-slashes-free-storage-limits">rolled out major, unannounced pricing changes</a> on April 1, slashing free storage limits, users took to the forums to express their profound disappointment in the controversial update and the company&#8217;s lack of communication around it. After receving overwhelmingly negative feedback, WordPress.com <a href="https://wptavern.com/wordpress-com-increases-traffic-and-storage-limits-on-new-plans-after-overwhelmingly-negative-feedback-on-initial-rollout">increased traffic and storage limits</a> on the free plan before officially announcing it. </p>



<p>Seven weeks after WordPress.com began testing the waters with pricing changes, the company has responded to feedback about the wide gap between the free and Pro plans. Many customers were diappointed to learn that they would have to pay $15/month to have access to custom domain names, even though they do not need the commercial themes and plugins included in the Pro plan. Some users expressed that they felt &#8220;trapped in the net&#8221; with the pricing updates and planned to shift their sites to new platforms. </p>



<p>The new Starter plan solves some of these customer issues but it is still partially subsidized by advertising. Customers on this plan and the free plan will have ads displayed on their sites. This is different than the legacy Personal plan, which was $4/month for no ads, a custom domain, and the ability to collect payments. The fact that the new Starter plan costs more but doesn&#8217;t remove ads is a point of contention customers mentioned in the comments on the <a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2022/05/25/introducing-wordpress-starter-make-your-mark/">announcement</a>. It does, however, include Google Analytics integration, which was previously limited to customers on the legacy Premium plan and higher.</p>



<p>&#8220;The Starter plan is not meant to be a replacement for the old legacy Personal plan,&#8221; WordPress.com CEO Dave Martin told the Tavern. &#8220;Our goal with every additional pricing iteration that we launch will be to learn something new. The Pro plan and the Starter plan are two of many future iterations that we plan to experiment with.&#8221;</p>



<p>Martin also reiterated that customers on the legacy Free, Personal, Premium, Business, or eCommerce plans are able to continue on them.</p>



<p>&#8220;[If] you are happy with your current plan, we have no plans to force you to change,&#8221; Martin said. &#8220;You can stay on your current plan.</p>



<p>&#8220;Finding the right balance between the value that we deliver to our customers and the price that we charge in exchange for that value is something that generally has to be iterated towards. We plan to do just that.&#8221;</p>



<p>Moving forward, Martin said WordPress.com is aiming to do a better job at communicating important updates to customers.</p>



<p>&#8220;I made a mistake with how we communicated the pricing changes with WordPress Pro,&#8221; Martin said. &#8220;We listened to feedback from our customers, I took responsibility for it, and then we worked to correct that with this next phase of our pricing change. We’re constantly working to be better at communicating updates.&#8221;</p>



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<p>Mark builds<a href="https://mrwweb.com"> WordPress websites for nonprofits</a> in Seattle, Washington, USA with a focus on accessibility and usability. He&#8217;s a long-time<a href="https://wpseattle.org"> WordPress community member in Seattle</a> and has previously helped organise WordPress Seattle meetups and WordCamp Seattle speakers.</p>



<p>He maintains<a href="https://nonprofitwp.org"> Nonprofit WP</a>, a free guide for people building WordPress websites for their nonprofits, and has a few<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mrwweb/#content-plugins"> free plugins available on WordPress.org</a>.</p>



<p>He’s on the podcast today to talk about why he thinks that it would be useful for WordPress to adopt some CSS standards.</p>



<p>Over the years, as WordPress has evolved, the way that you implemented CSS was very much left to the individual user, themer or developer. You could do what you like, and that worked very well, after all, we all have preferred ways of doing things.</p>



<p>Now however, the reach of WordPress has outgrown those early roots and some 40+ percent of websites are using it. Projects that were built by one agency are often taken over by another. Users are often swapping themes to reflect their brand. Extra work is created for those inheriting sites as they try to unpick the way that the CSS is built and implemented.</p>



<p>Mark thinks that it’s time for WordPress to lay out some simple standards which are easy to understand, and if they became universal, would save us a lot of time and head scratching.</p>



<p>He’s not proposing anything radical, just some basic advice for the most commonly used CSS, and it’s quite a compelling idea which would need a lot of community buy-in, and possibly some top-down approval if it were to move forwards.</p>



<p>It’s very much the kernel of an idea at present, but thought provoking nonetheless.</p>



<h2>Useful links.</h2>



<p><a href="https://mrwweb.com/standardized-design-tokens-css-wordpress-future/">Standardized Design Tokens and CSS for a consistent, customizable, and interoperable WordPress future</a></p>



<p><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/38998">Standardized block markup, theme.json design tokens, and CSS classes to improve interoperability</a></p>



<p><a href="https://codepen.io/mrwweb/pen/bGYQKae">Variable Design Token Scales with Static CSS Classes (Proof of Concept)</a></p>



<p><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/04/13/core-styles-and-theme-customization-the-next-steps/">Core Styles and Theme Customization: the next steps</a></p>



<p><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/38719#issuecomment-1087145463">Explore options to add back semantic classnames to block wrappers</a></p>



<p><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/38167">Add a Style Engine to manage rendering block styles</a></p>



Transcript<div>
<p>[00:00:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox has a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, creating standards for WordPress&#8217;s CSS.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to WPTavern.com forward slash feed forward slash podcast. And you can copy and paste that URL into most podcast players.</p>



<p>If you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast well, I&#8217;m very keen to hear from you, and hopefully get you all your idea featured on the show. Head over to WPTavern.com forward slash contact forward slash jukebox, and use the contact form there.</p>



<p>Before we start, I thought that I&#8217;d let you know that there won&#8217;t be an episode of the podcast next week. This is because I&#8217;m hoping to be going to WordCamp Europe. I&#8217;ll be there with my microphone, recording episodes for the coming weeks. If you&#8217;re going to be there too, it would be lovely to meet up.</p>



<p>So on the podcast today we have Mark Root-Wiley. Mark builds WordPress websites for nonprofits in Seattle, Washington with a focus on accessibility and usability. He&#8217;s a long time WordPress community member in Seattle and has previously helped organize WordPress Seattle meetups and WordCamp Seattle speakers.</p>



<p>He maintains NonprofitWP. A free guide for people building WordPress websites for their nonprofits. And has a few free plugins available on wordpress.org.</p>



<p>He&#8217;s on the podcast today to talk about why he thinks that it would be useful for WordPress to adopt some CSS standards. Over the years as WordPress&#8217;s evolved, the way that you implemented CSS was very much left to the individual user, themer or developer. You can do what you like, and that worked very well. After all, we all have preferred ways of doing things.</p>



<p>Now, however, the reach of WordPress has outgrown those early roots and some 40 plus percent of websites are using it. Projects that were built by one agency are often taken over by another. Users are often swapping themes to reflect their brand. Extra work is created for those inheriting sites. As they try to unpick the way that the CSS is built and implemented.</p>



<p>Mark thinks that it&#8217;s time for WordPress to lay out some simple standards, which are easy to understand, and if they became universal would save us a lot of time and head scratching.</p>



<p>He&#8217;s not proposing anything radical. Just some basic advice for the most commonly used CSS. And it&#8217;s quite a compelling idea, which would need a lot of community buy-in, and possibly some top-down approval if it were to move forwards. It&#8217;s very much the kernel of an idea at present, but thought provoking, nonetheless.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re interested in finding out more, you can find all the links in the show notes by heading over to WPTavern.com forward slash podcast, where you&#8217;ll find all the other episodes as well.</p>



<p>And so without further delay, I bring you Mark Root-Wiley.</p>



<p>I am joined on the podcast today by Mark Root-Wiley. Hello Mark.</p>



<p>[00:04:02] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> Hello. Thanks for having me.</p>



<p>[00:04:04] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> You are really, really welcome. I always like to begin the podcast with a bit of orientation. I think it&#8217;s very important that the audience gets to know a little bit about our guests. Who they are, what their journey with WordPress is and so on.</p>



<p>So although the question is a little bit generic, I&#8217;m going to ask it anyway. Please, just give us a little bit of a history about yourself specifically in relation to your WordPress journey.</p>



<p>[00:04:28] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> Awesome. Yes, let&#8217;s see. It&#8217;s been a pretty long one at this point. I am a child of the web almost. So, even back in the middle grades, I was learning to make websites. And so, it&#8217;s always been my hobby and my passion. And so when I, when I went off to college and got a degree in sociology, of course, that was much less employable than web work.</p>



<p>So, I looked around at all the systems and I had some jobs and internships where I was working with Joomla and Drupal. And so of course I ended up landing on WordPress. So since 2010, I&#8217;ve been here in Seattle, Washington where I build WordPress websites specifically for nonprofits most of the time, and so, my journey has really been that about serving clients, building custom themes doing some custom plugin work, but really like, deep in the world of WordPress for well over a decade now. And, I got to say, I love it and I&#8217;m not considering going anywhere anytime soon.</p>



<p>[00:05:19] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Oh, that&#8217;s excellent news. Now the topic under discussion today is going to be CSS and in particular, we&#8217;re going to reference right at the beginning, an article, which was published by Justin Tadlock on February 22nd on the WP Tavern website. And it was called the case for a shared CSS toolkit in WordPress.</p>



<p>And we&#8217;re going to get into the nuts and the bolts of that in a moment because Mark, I think it&#8217;s fair to say, would like to see some kind of overhaul in the way that WordPress handles CSS. And as I say, we&#8217;ll get into what that means in a moment. But Mark, I know that you may not be able to lay out the history of CSS in WordPress perfectly for us, but clearly you believe there&#8217;s a problem.</p>



<p>I&#8217;m just wondering if you could give us any insight that you&#8217;ve got into the way that the legacy of CSS in WordPress has meant that we&#8217;ve got a problem where we are right now. What has been going on and where are we at now?</p>



<p>[00:06:15] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> It&#8217;s such an interesting question, and I think if I had to boil it down to just one sentence answer, you know, it&#8217;d probably be there used to not be very much CSS in WordPress and now there&#8217;s a whole lot more. To really expand upon that, I think what has happened is, you know, it used to be that WordPress really only had a little bit of front-end markup that it would put out. There were things, HTML for menus, HTML for the search form, HTML for widgets and themers just sort of applied their own CSS to that.</p>



<p>Maybe in some limited cases, WordPress had a little bit of CSS that they were adding to the front, but really very little. And with the block editor, we saw the project looking to really empower users to be able to control much more design of the sites they build, through the WordPress editor interface.</p>



<p>And if you want to give people more control over the design, you&#8217;re going to be, at the end of the day, you have to do that with CSS. CSS is the language we use to make design on the web. And so it has just become much, much more complicated. And I think all software, you know, to some extent, right, it&#8217;s always evolving, but I think in our world of open source, that development process can be much messier and much more organic. And I think that that can be a benefit sometimes. But I think that maybe this is one of those instances where, right now there&#8217;s a lot of different ways for accomplishing, you know, similar types of CSS on the front end. Certain blocks handle their CSS in different ways.</p>



<p>And I think we&#8217;re just seeing that, you know, it&#8217;s been what, three or four years now of the block editor and there still isn&#8217;t really a strong opinion of sort of, this is the way that the block editor handles CSS and that has made it really hard for, people in my chair. I&#8217;m trying to make themes that are going to work every time I hit the update button on WordPress.</p>



<p>There&#8217;s just more complex CSS. There&#8217;s more of it. It&#8217;s done in varied ways. With more code comes more complexity and, it&#8217;s time to try to bring some order to that complexity.</p>



<p>[00:08:20] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So it&#8217;s a case of the project being older than it was 15 years ago. There&#8217;s more that&#8217;s been added on top. It&#8217;s like a layer cake. We&#8217;ve had update after update, after update and things have been added in and fiddled with. We&#8217;ve had complete turnarounds in the way the interface has been put together and so on Gutenberg and all of those kinds of things.</p>



<p>And, essentially we&#8217;ve now got something which you, I think it&#8217;s fair to say, you would like to have a bit of a reset. You&#8217;d like us to rethink the way that the CSS is handled. And you&#8217;ve got some ideas around that.</p>



<p>Could you give me, before we get into the weeds of it, could you give me examples of pain points that you believe need solving? And you can be as specific as you like, you could describe a particular website that you built and a particular moment where you realized, ah, there&#8217;s things that I wish were different. So pain points that illustrate well what the problem is.</p>



<p>[00:09:12] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> Yeah, that is such a, such a good question. I think that in some ways, the WordPress 5.9 release gave us a brief set of examples that I think made things hard for a lot of us themers. What probably looked like fairly small changes to for instance, the HTML and CSS of the cover block.</p>



<p>There was I think one class that was removed from buttons that told you about the orientation of the buttons, how they were vertically aligned. But when that was removed, suddenly all these themes that had written CSS styles where they needed to know the alignment of buttons on their site, they just stopped working because that class had been removed.</p>



<p>So rather than even really an overhaul, I think it&#8217;s a lot more about refining the practices and making a public commitment to, in the future, we are going to include classes in all of these circumstances, so that you can rely on them.</p>



<p>We are going to output all of our CSS rules with a certain specificity. It&#8217;s time for the CSS to sort of be better, organized, more consistent, and just communicated better. Which is not really an issue of code, it&#8217;s more matter of having standards for the project. If anything that&#8217;s really what I am hoping to see.</p>



<p>[00:10:24] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> You&#8217;re not the first person to suggest that this would be a good idea. It feels in the article, at least anyway, you, you make the point that you are standing on the shoulders of giants, really. And do you just want to give a shout out to some of the people who in the past have elucidated what it is that you&#8217;re trying to do? There&#8217;s several of them, but I think it might be nice to give them some credit along the way.</p>



<p>[00:10:46] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> Absolutely. Yes. I completely agree. I hoped that when I wrote my big blog post, this proposal that I know we&#8217;re going to talk about. What I see as one of the strengths is that there&#8217;s very little original thought in it. It&#8217;s really trying to bring together all these other great ideas from other people.</p>



<p>I think it goes back to, and I think you can still find it, the theme user experience standards, or TUX that came from Automattic&#8217;s theme team. And I think they have an example we should talk about in a little while. So, I owe a lot to them. Rich Tabor, I think about two years ago had some really awesome posts about what it would mean if we could standardize how we named font sizes, how we named colors and how we handle spacing and WordPress.</p>



<p>I think that&#8217;s a critical thing that we really do want to make happen. That&#8217;s something that I would love to see. And then, I think if you&#8217;re just tooling around on GitHub and following, you know, people who are filing issues and the Gutenberg repository, or writing about it. I certainly think Matias, one of the lead developers of the Gutenberg project has written really, really smart stuff about CSS.</p>



<p>And there were also I think, a couple of like small folks I want to give shout outs to. Louis herons on Github, talked about having a theme block contract. Things that themers can count on for blocks, making that contract. I love that phrase. I think that is super important. And I think also, uh, Andrew on ocean has written about needing different layers of CSS. And I really liked that idea too.</p>



<p>[00:12:11] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Well, thank you. Hopefully, they&#8217;ll be listening in and they&#8217;ll acknowledge your acknowledgement, which is nice. So the idea really is you want there to be some sort of overarching structure. You want there to be some sort of consistency in the way that things are handled, and that WordPress Core would make moves towards that.</p>



<p>Now this is probably something that you&#8217;re going to have an opinion on, but there are out there already, all sorts of different ways of handling CSS. Frameworks, and what have you, you know. Just off the top of my head written a couple of down here, you know, you&#8217;ve got CSS Grid and Bootstrap and so on, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that that&#8217;s possibly not the approach you want us to go down. You don&#8217;t want to bolt those into WordPress Core?</p>



<p>[00:12:52] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> Definitely not. Yeah. I think that WordPress has never taken a really strong position on like, this is how your theme code has to be written, and if you&#8217;re going to pull in an entire CSS framework like Bootstrap or Tailwind, that&#8217;s way more opinionated. That would be very limiting to anyone who didn&#8217;t want to do things that way.</p>



<p>So, I think, when I sat down and really thought about like, what is it that I as a themer want. What it was is really baseline standardization more about just making sure that all block HTML and block CSS are done in a similar way. So that they&#8217;re, they&#8217;re sharing styles, they&#8217;re sharing CSS classes.</p>



<p>I think that there is also a ton of power if we can just standardize key styles that every site is going to need. So colors and font sizes. The amount of space between elements, things like that. But certainly not going as far as something like Bootstrap where there&#8217;s, gosh, sliders and drop down menus and modal dialogues and all those things.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s not at all about that. It&#8217;s really, I think the word I really settled on is it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s a toolkit. It&#8217;s providing more tools that all theme developers, all plug in developers, we can all use and share, but we still get to choose how we use them and how much we use them. So that, if we want to play nicely together, you know, those tools are available, but we can still choose to do things in our own way where it makes sense.</p>



<p>[00:14:18] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> We mentioned at the start that there was a WP Tavern article, which in turn was written because of something that you wrote and I&#8217;m going to include everything that we talk about today as far as possible in the show notes. But if you wish to pause this podcast and go and read Mark&#8217;s piece, it&#8217;s called standardized design tokens and CSS for a consistent, customizable and interoperable WordPress future.</p>



<p>You&#8217;re going to find that over at There&#8217;s no, no hyphens or anything like that. It&#8217;s just M R W web.com. That outlines everything that Mark is talking about. And so that really frames the conversation that we&#8217;re going to have from this moment on.</p>



<p>Now you mentioned that you wanted some sort of standardization. Presumably if that&#8217;s the case, you believe that the standardization at the moment is lacking. It&#8217;s messed up. It&#8217;s a muddle for people to create things. Everybody&#8217;s using their own different ways of doing things. Just kind of outline the specific problems about fragmentation versus standardization. What is it that you&#8217;re trying to overcome? What are the problems in Core that we&#8217;ve got at the moment? Things that need amending. Things that possibly need creating or uncreating?</p>



<p>[00:15:35] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> Yeah. I&#8217;m going to answer your question and I think I want to like start us maybe five years in the future and then walk backwards to get there. in five years, I think we&#8217;re going to see a lot of sites that were built with the early years of the block editor.</p>



<p>Like now suddenly they&#8217;re needing to move to new themes. And so what does that look like? And, right now what we have are a lot of what I think of as kind of in the moment decisions that have been made. Both by the themer and the editor. Let&#8217;s take the theme or example first.</p>



<p>So, the block editor from day one has always allowed themers to define named font sizes, right? So, they can call them whatever they want. A lot of themers have something like small, medium, large, extra large, I know. Justin Tadlock on the Tavern posted his extensively researched list of font size names that he likes. Definitely worth a read for anyone who hasn&#8217;t seen that.</p>



<p>But I think the critical thing is that you can call them whatever you want. You can call them broccoli, apple, bicycle. You can call them seven forty, two ninety six, even if that has nothing to do with their sizes. And so what this means is that if we&#8217;re going to switch to a new theme in the future, if we switched to a theme that uses different names, all those font size settings that were set on the last version of the site are just gone. There is no bridge.</p>



<p>And so if we could agree to some like naming schemes, whether it is small through large, or even just 0 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Now, when you move from one theme to another, you&#8217;re going to inherit, the choices that were made by the editors of the site, and be able to keep content as intact as possible. And right now I think the systems that the block editor is giving us are not really encouraging that consistency.</p>



<p>And it hasn&#8217;t really bitten us yet. The problems I think are coming. And so when I talk about portability of content. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about is how, what happens when we move from one theme to another. And I think that when you make that process smoother, it&#8217;s because you have good standards and that&#8217;s going to benefit everybody, working all the time.</p>



<p>[00:17:41] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So the idea then is that things would become more standard and hopefully the community as a whole would adopt some standards.</p>



<p>Now, although we haven&#8217;t discussed this in our conversation prior to clicking record, I&#8217;m curious about your thoughts about this. Do you have any expectation that this would be something that would be, if you like, top down, in other words, would this be something which you would like to just be reflected in documentation?</p>



<p>And it&#8217;s a thing that you could use, or are you looking for a framework for CSS where really there are standards, which must be adhered to. In other words, you don&#8217;t really get to choose. If you want to be a WordPress theme in the repository, then you must do it in such and such a way. And over time, you mentioned five years in the future, we slowly encourage people to become the writers of CSS in that way.</p>



<p>[00:18:38] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> That is such a tough question. I think that I guess I&#8217;ll say a few different things. I mean, I think that whenever possible, it&#8217;s better to use carrots than sticks. And I think that, right now in fact, I think the theme dot json standard is a great one where, if you&#8217;re building, what we&#8217;re now starting to think of is like classic themes.</p>



<p>Like you can use the theme dot json it&#8217;s on, it&#8217;s up to you and you also get like a ton of benefits by doing it. So I think that if we had standards like this, there would just be tremendous benefits to anyone who uses them, because themes would sort of work more similarly and even, there would be ways where plugins could suddenly sort of start referencing theme styles.</p>



<p>I would like to think that maybe this could bubble up, and be, you know, a community standard that people want to buy in, but aren&#8217;t forced to buy into. At the same time, I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s going to take to get this moving. Standardizing semantic names is something, we could talk about it forever.</p>



<p>And so I know that I personally, like I put out, in my blog post, a bunch of suggestions for the names. I thought really long and hard about them. I have my reasons. And honestly, like if someone said, nope, we&#8217;re going to use this really weird naming scheme that I don&#8217;t really care for anyway, I would use it in a heartbeat. I think having standards is more important than the specific names of them are. And so I do think that, there could be some room for some top-down decision-making here. As long as it&#8217;s a fairly simple thing, and we&#8217;re not going to punish people for not using it.</p>



<p>In WordPress land, you know, maybe that means we&#8217;re going to maybe throw some errors on occasion if you&#8217;re not using, some warnings, excuse me, not errors warnings. But no errors, nothing&#8217;s going to actually quit working.</p>



<p>[00:20:21] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> You mentioned in the piece that there are some recent issues They were obviously some kind of catalysts for you, where you thought, okay, these kinds of things are happening and it makes it pretty obvious that we need to rethink this. I&#8217;m just going to read them out, and maybe this will give some context to somebody listening to this.</p>



<p>You say to quote, recent issues make the need for a consistent, transparent approach, clear. Classes that were previously present and used by theme authors have been removed in favor of inline styles. Okay, we&#8217;ll get onto why that&#8217;s bad. Inline styles are redundant, hard to override and remove valuable selectors for theme authors. New instances of important, let&#8217;s just say that, CSS rules catch theme authors by surprise. Markup changes to Core blocks were only announced after the fact.</p>



<p>Now, I don&#8217;t know if you want to take all four of those or just riff on generally why you think these are the core things which need to be addressed, but yeah, there&#8217;s obviously something in there that sparked your interest and made you want to create this framework, if you like. Let&#8217;s just talk about that for a minute. Have you got something to say around that? What is it that you&#8217;ve found problematic?</p>



<p>[00:21:27] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> I certainly have things to say. I suspect that honestly, maybe it was just random, how many, how many issues in 5.9 there were that sort of just got my goat as it were. I think that this is maybe one of the areas where there has already been a little bit of movement actually, which is wonderful. So yesterday, was this day when sort of all the dev notes for WordPress 6.0 showed up on the make.wordpress.org/core blog, and it included a lot of announcements about some changes to things, that are coming in WordPress 6.0. And I think that that advanced notice, already feels like, maybe some of what I&#8217;ve been saying has been heard and, and that, that is really great to see.</p>



<p>So, you know, there&#8217;s going to be some changes to like how images get aligned, the quote blocks CSS, some changes around the group block in the block editor. And, I&#8217;m really happy to see that communication. So I do think that some of these smaller things were addressed, but I also think that the fact that some classes disappeared and some markup changed and nobody knew about it, and like important CSS got added. If you ever want to like really get a bunch of people worked up about CSS, just start talking about important.</p>



<p>I think the fact that those all happened at once, I think more than any one specific issue, it just felt like, okay, there&#8217;s a lot of people changing a lot of things all at the same time and there&#8217;s no cohesive vision for we&#8217;re trying to take CSS in WordPress.</p>



<p>[00:22:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. So essentially you want there to be far less surprises in the way that things are released and also to have some cohesive framework that everybody can dip into and everybody understands because it&#8217;s been well-documented and everybody can buy into it. As you said, carrot, not stick, because it just makes sense.</p>



<p>The article on the WP Tavern website had a very large amount of commentary on it. More so than anything I&#8217;ve seen in quite a while, to be honest, a lot of praise for the idea of what you&#8217;re doing. A lot of people saying, yes, we need this, we need this right now. And to develop it a little bit further, you are, you&#8217;re keen to get involved in a semantic approach.</p>



<p>Now that might not be obvious to everybody. So what does that mean? What is it you hope would come out of this? We may have a different vocabulary, in use in the end, but the idea is that we&#8217;re going to be substituting words or not as the case may be. So talk to us a little bit about that.</p>



<p>[00:23:43] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> Yeah. I when I&#8217;m talking about semantics here, it&#8217;s really about can we establish shared meanings for some naming conventions within our CSS? So, back to the font size example earlier, if we can all agree that every time we name our font sizes, we&#8217;re going to call them small, medium, and large.</p>



<p>And every time we create our color palettes, we&#8217;re going to start with a primary color and a secondary color and maybe an accent color. Having that shared meaning, that&#8217;s what semantics are, is going to just provide so many benefits, and it&#8217;s also going to speed things up.</p>



<p>There&#8217;s going to be less mental overhead, fewer decisions that themers have to make. There&#8217;s just tons of value there. Thinking back I had mentioned that the theme user experience standards were maybe the best spiritual forbearer to this kind of point of the proposal. One of the things they recommended is when you&#8217;re naming your menu positions to call them menu one, menu two, menu three, menu four. Maybe that&#8217;s not what I would have chosen, but I started doing it and I&#8217;ve done it ever since.</p>



<p>And what it means is that any time I switched one of my themes to another themes that uses that same menu naming convention, like, the same main menu just popped up in the header, right where I would want it to be without me having to update any settings at all, just because, our themes knew how to talk to each other.</p>



<p>So it&#8217;s really about, can we make our themes and plugins talk to each other better and, ironically or, or appropriately, I think that just means we all need to do a bit more communication together in the project.</p>



<p>[00:25:10] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Let&#8217;s get into weeds of the areas you think ought to be covered off, with some kind of framework. I keep using the word framework. I hope that&#8217;s okay. So for example, you mentioned fonts and you mentioned that the fonts might have things like small, medium, large, and that could probably extend up and down.</p>



<p>But also there&#8217;s obviously other things in CSS that we would like to cover. So before we get into nomenclature of what those things might be, let&#8217;s just talk about the things that you want to cover aside from fonts. What other things do you think are so essential that we need to have a standard that everybody just understands?</p>



<p>[00:25:47] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> Great question. So in terms of those kinds of like standard things that we should name, I think beyond font sizes, including font weights, because if you&#8217;ve ever used a font, you know, that some have nine or now in infinite number of weights. So we need a way to sort of have a standardized font scale. Colors and gradients I had mentioned.</p>



<p>And again, that&#8217;s something where WordPress already lets us name our colors and gradients. So let&#8217;s just agree to always call them the same things. I think font families. So what are you using for your copy versus what you&#8217;re using for your heading? And then I would love to also see maybe some border widths, and probably the biggest one that I am most excited about is let&#8217;s agree on one or a few named scales for spacing.</p>



<p>So the space between blocks in a post, also the space between columns. The space between a gallery. If we can all agree on those names, then we can have a gallery with small space, a gallery with large space. And that&#8217;s just always going to look good from theme to theme, even though those values are going to be different and up to the themer.</p>



<p>[00:26:53] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So aside from the fact that you would like to take into account things like font sizes and weights, colors, gradients, font, families, borders, spacing gaps, and so on columns and what have you. There would obviously need to be things that are associated with those, and you, you mentioned font sizes, small, medium, and large. Do you have some sort of insight into how far each of these go? Let&#8217;s for example take font sizes or weights? Well, let&#8217;s go for font sizes just for illustrative purposes.</p>



<p>How far would you like to take that, and do you have a system for making it so that it can be extendable indefinitely? So an example might be, one dash large or something like that, or XL large or something like that. Just give us a flavor of how far that scale would go down as well as up.</p>



<p>[00:27:39] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> Yeah, that&#8217;s a good question. So I think, if it were up to me, if I were making a top-down decision, I think I would just pick a scale of numbers. Either, you know, starting at zero or going up, or maybe even centered around zero with positive and negative numbers. I like the fact that you don&#8217;t need to know English to use a scale like that, and it is infinitely scalable.</p>



<p>I think the other scaling systems that a lot of people really like is what&#8217;s often called a t-shirt sizing. So instead of small, medium and large, we would just have S M and L. And the nice thing about that one is you can infinitely go in either direction.</p>



<p>So XL, XXL, XXXL. It gets a little silly after a while, but you can do it. Some people like to say like three XL instead of XXXL. And you can do the same with XS, extra small. I will say that I think that when it comes to what WordPress should be standardizing, I don&#8217;t think it makes sense for us to say that every theme needs to have a 15 point scale for font sizes.</p>



<p>Some themes are gonna want three or five and that will be fine. I like to think of, of the 80 20 rule. 80% of needs out in the world can be satisfied by only 20% of the possible names in this case, that we could come up with.</p>



<p>So I think that for something like font sizes, a seven point scale, maybe would probably meet everybody&#8217;s needs in terms of switching from site to site, and keeping things looking pretty good. Again, to go back to sort of like why I like to think of this as a tool kit. I wouldn&#8217;t want to ever say that themes can only have seven font sizes. Right. It would just be that if they want more than that, they&#8217;re on their own to go figure that out.</p>



<p>I will say that I did, I did a lot of thinking about this even after my blog post. And there&#8217;s, there&#8217;s a demo I put together that was showing how maybe we could even have a way of having really big scales that could kind of shift down to only a three point scale, or maybe you want to have a five point scale, but it skipped 0.4. I think there&#8217;s some clever things you can do with CSS custom properties that could allow that to happen. So you can find that demo in the blog blog post.</p>



<p>[00:29:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. I ran that demo. That was really useful to look at that. But let&#8217;s move on to colors and much, much more constrained there. You just want a handful really unlike font sizes, which there&#8217;s definitely more scope with colors. You just want a few basic standards that will satisfy most websites I guess?</p>



<p>[00:29:56] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> I think that&#8217;s right. And I think that the more colors that we defined, probably the more disagreement there would be. What purpose does the fifth most important color in your palette have versus what purpose does the primary or secondary colors have in your palette?</p>



<p>And so I think that, especially for colors, I think it&#8217;s the best example where if you had a bunch of standards, they probably wouldn&#8217;t actually be that useful. So let&#8217;s just, let&#8217;s keep it simple, right? Let&#8217;s not, over-complicate this. Let&#8217;s make as few things we all need to agree on as possible. So hopefully we can actually agree on them and move forward.</p>



<p>[00:30:28] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> The font weights and the font size is obviously really dramatically changed the way a website looks. And if you switch from theme to theme and those get messed up, it really can look remarkably different. And you mentioned spacing, so gaps and columns and padding and margin and all that.</p>



<p>Again, it can really catastrophic effect things. What was a very small space can become a gigantic gulf, given a change in theme and so on, and so I was just wondered let&#8217;s ask the basic question again. What kind of constraints are you placing on that? How many different things do you think you need regarding spacing and gaps and all of that? Are we looking at dozens of different options or just three or four?</p>



<p>[00:31:06] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> My first thought was, we probably only need maybe five, and I think that that probably would be about enough. If someone wants to do a few more than that, that would be fine. I think that spacing is maybe a really good example of the other key reason why I would love to see themes like shifting to these scales, because right now, for the most part, when an editor wants to change the spacing, of something in their posts, they can, you know, set a specific margin value or a specific padding value.</p>



<p>They can say, I want the top margin of this image to be 24 pixels. And they&#8217;re making that decision based on how their content looks in that moment, on their screen with that specific theme. Let&#8217;s say design trends again in five years are like really into white space. Maybe that 24 pixels is going to look super tiny all of a sudden. So if we can allow editors instead of having to pick a number and on the next page, they forget that they entered 24. And so they entered 20. And like now there&#8217;s just chaotic numbers all over the place. If we just say like, well, at the top of this image, I want to have a large margin.</p>



<p>Now, when they move to their next theme, it&#8217;s going to be not 24 pixels, it&#8217;s going to be whatever that is in the next theme. It&#8217;s always going to look cohesive. And so I think it&#8217;s really important to point out that it&#8217;s not just about standardizing the scales for theme developers, but I think if we provide these scales as options for customizing post content, we&#8217;re going to see editors just having to like not think so specifically, and that&#8217;s actually going to enable them to be more consistent, both in the moment and in the future, when they need to sort of switch their design.</p>



<p>[00:32:43] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> In a sense, you&#8217;ve read my mind because my next question was really about that because obviously your doing this for a living, you can probably come up with some naming system, some framework that works for you, and just keep executing that over and over again. But, that&#8217;s not the world. We live in the world where you&#8217;ll probably take over a website in a few years&#8217; time that somebody else built, and it will be littered with CSS classes and CSS styling, specific to that exact one little thing on that one page and how on earth did that happen?</p>



<p>But it did. And so you need to go back and unpick all of the problems. So there&#8217;s that. The developers amongst us have probably figured out a system for themselves over the years, and they&#8217;ve got something which works. But when you swap a website, when you go and take on somebody else&#8217;s work, the fact that there&#8217;s consistency and stability in the naming of things would really help.</p>



<p>But then you mentioned the bit, which I thought was really interesting, about the non-technical users and having things in easy to understand, non-technical language that somebody can just get a hold on and okay. All right. It would appear that that thing, okay, might not be the most obvious name in the world, but right, it does that. And it seems to do that consistently over the site. That just makes sense for end users.</p>



<p>You described them as editors, but it could be anybody touching the website who has the capability to edit things. They, they really don&#8217;t want to get involved with CSS. In fact, that&#8217;s probably their worst nightmare that they need to think about CSS. They just want a handful of things, easy to understand. A minimal array of choices. The styling decisions were made months ago, and I&#8217;m just happy to stick with them.</p>



<p>[00:34:17] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> You probably described that bit better I ever could. And, I think it really gets to this, there are lots of strong feelings about, is WordPress maybe becoming more like a site builder? Is it forgetting about being a content management system?</p>



<p>I truly believe that I think it can be both. And I also think that a lot of the work, especially around full site editing right now, like it has that more site builder mindset. And so I do think it&#8217;s important to remember that not every person with a WordPress site wants that super, super, super fine-grained control.</p>



<p>You&#8217;re right. I work with folks that just, they are busy professionals in nonprofits in particular. A lot of the organizations I have, you know, whoever is updating the website that is a teeny tiny part of their job. It&#8217;s probably not even in their job description at all sometimes.</p>



<p>They don&#8217;t want to be thinking about pixels or ems or if they don&#8217;t even know what MSR right. Can&#8217;t I just have some large space. That&#8217;s all I want, right. And so I think that not only are there these like huge technical advantages behind the scenes, but I really do want to just call out that I think this could actually like, just bring some simplicity to the editor and like help people make good decisions without constraining them.</p>



<p>[00:35:25] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It also provides some kind of muscle memory options as well, in that if you have been working with a WordPress website, let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re working for company A over here, and you&#8217;ve been working with a WordPress website, and you go to interview for another job and they say, have you any experience with WordPress website?</p>



<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s fine. I can do that. Then you don&#8217;t need to relearn it over on this site though. That thing does. Okay, that wasn&#8217;t quite expecting that. That&#8217;s a lot bigger than I thought. It makes the whole process of editors moving from one website to another easier as well. So it just seems like a bit of a win-win.</p>



<p>Now having said all of that, we&#8217;re 15 years plus into the project. Everybody in the comments on the Tavern article seemed to think this was a cracking idea. You seem to think it&#8217;s a cracking idea, the likes of Rich Tabor, they think it&#8217;s a cracking idea. And yet here we are talking about it as an idea.</p>



<p>What&#8217;s holding us back? What is stopping this gaining momentum if it&#8217;s such a sensible idea? Are we, is the project too limited in time? Are we concentrating on other things? You may not have the answers, but you may have some intuitions.</p>



<p>[00:36:33] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> I guess I would start with, this is, you know, a little off the cuff, just a theory, but I do think that the block editor is written in JavaScript. And so the amount of JavaScript in the WordPress project in the last few years has just exploded.</p>



<p>To be really clear, that&#8217;s fine. You couldn&#8217;t build the block editor without that level of JavaScript. But I do think it means that a ton of the development is done. When people are thinking in terms of JavaScript, and I will say that, one thing that I&#8217;ve looked for and I don&#8217;t really feel like I&#8217;ve seen a lot of, is people sort of starting with, like, what do we want the output to look like? What is the ideal HTML and CSS to allow a user to select the margins of their images, you know, how do we want to handle that? And then build the interface that&#8217;s going to enable that.</p>



<p>It feels like it&#8217;s sort of working the opposite way. If we&#8217;re worried about what is the settings interface going to look like? And then like, we&#8217;ll figure out what the code, to make it actually work on the front end is going to be last. I do think that maybe working backwards a little bit more frequent. What CSS do we want, and now how are we going to make sure that it can be created in a sensible way? I wonder if that would help, because at least to me looking, somewhat from the outside, it doesn&#8217;t seem like folks are working that way.</p>



<p>And now having said all of that, I think it&#8217;s mostly a people and a communication problem. And I think that&#8217;s just harder than tech problems, right? Give someone an infinite amount of time and by themselves they could build the block editor on their own, but they certainly could not organize an entire community to agree on what to call font sizes.</p>



<p>That just requires folks coming together. And honestly like making compromises and, and trying to think about what&#8217;s best for the community and not just best for themselves. I think that&#8217;s really hard. I think we can do it. I think things like that have happened in the past. I do think that&#8217;s the fundamental issue and so I don&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t know exactly what&#8217;s needed though.</p>



<p>Again, that&#8217;s why I do wonder, could someone maybe make a, a bit of an executive decision on this one and, and just try to say this is happening and we&#8217;re going to be taking comments for this long, and then we&#8217;re going to make a decision and roll with it because we think the advantages to having a system are bigger than the disadvantages to any sort of, in the weeds decision that might make it through.</p>



<p>[00:38:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I wonder if it&#8217;s because CSS, of all of the different parts of WordPress. The HTML and the CSS bits, they&#8217;re the easy building blocks, aren&#8217;t they? They&#8217;re the bits that a lot of people can get hold of really quickly. And with a quick flick through some kind of 1 0 1 tutorial, you can get yourself up and running with the basics of font sizing and padding and margins and, and quickly gain an understanding of it.</p>



<p>And so everybody&#8217;s been left to their own devices on that. The theme may very well take care of all of that, of all of that for you. And you may need to adjust absolutely nothing. You&#8217;re entirely happy with the theme and you don&#8217;t dabble. But if on that one particular occasion, you just wished to change that one particular thing you want the, I, don&#8217;t know, the, the heading to be slightly bigger, you just fiddle about and locate the CSS for that and modify it, add something to a style sheet, so on. And it&#8217;s fairly straightforward and it can be done by more or less anybody on their own, but it doesn&#8217;t require any consistency. Naming what you like so long as it works.</p>



<p>But your approach is, is slightly different. And yeah, it feels as if maybe it&#8217;s not got the momentum at the moment, but it feels like, you know, maybe with things like this happening, your initiative happening, people talking about it more, maybe somebody could take this on. And as you say, maybe at some point it does need somebody on high to make a decision executively and say, okay, we&#8217;re going to concentrate on this and it&#8217;s going to become important. But I don&#8217;t know that any of that is in the roadmap right now. So you may need to keep banging the gong for a little bit longer I think.</p>



<p>[00:40:23] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> I actually, you know, I, I played a lot of percussion growing up, so I love banging a good gong. One thing I noticed is, you mentioned the number of comments on the Tavern post, I certainly got a few comments on my blog post and I published a, sort of a Github issue that the sister of the blog post and it got a lot of comments and, and I do think people are listening.</p>



<p>I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s required to sort of get some action steps. But, I will say that, what really made me think that, yes, I, I do think people are listening at this moment is there was a blog post, at this point, I think about a month ago, on the make wordpress.org/core blog called core styles and theme customization, the next steps.</p>



<p>The gist of that post is basically like here&#8217;s a bunch of links to get hub issues, please go read them and leave your feedback. The speed of change in an open source project is never going to be what we want it to be. And I really do try to always remember that when I&#8217;m feeling impatient, which is certainly why I wrote this whole thing.</p>



<p>But I do think that, it is important for folks to always be paying attention, always be sharing their mind, because I do think, at some point, especially if a lot of us keep talking about this, like some decisions will get made. And so, you know, make sure if you&#8217;re interested in this, make sure to go leave some comments on, on these issues and keep bumping them up so people can see that they are high priority for a lot of us in the community. I know it&#8217;s not just me.</p>



<p>[00:41:42] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, it was quite interesting. The article that you mentioned, the core styles and theme customization, the next steps I was highlighting the bits that were basic replications of everything that you were saying. And quite a lot of the article got highlighted. Let&#8217;s put it that way. So it would seem that, on some level, there is movement here and people are definitely in agreement with you.</p>



<p>Do you have any insight into how this might get revved up and get more interest attached to it? In other words, are you willing to put your best foot forward and become somebody in the vanguard? Like I said, banging the gong. Or do you find that there&#8217;s probably a better way of, have you got any insights into where people could go if they agree with you and want to get involved to make this happen?</p>



<p>[00:42:25] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> Gosh, it takes everyone in the community weighing in, I think that. One thing I&#8217;ll say is that, you know, I tried to get a lot of people to review my blog post and, even gives me advice on like, how should I publish it and who should I let know about this?</p>



<p>Cause I think that if it&#8217;s just me it&#8217;s ineffective. It does need to be a community. And so, you know, I would say I would love to see other people sharing their own proposals even. I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t even know if you want to include this part, I don&#8217;t think it can just be me.</p>



<p>I it&#8217;s pretty silly actually. I published this blog post and then 24 hours later, we had a new baby. I definitely had to fall off the face of the earth and disappear for a while, but I was so thrilled to see other people, saying like, yeah, this is awesome. And here&#8217;s the couple of things I have to add.</p>



<p>[00:43:08] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> There&#8217;s a whole lot towards the end of the article where you outline the different problems that your solution may solve. I won&#8217;t list them all now, but all of it kind of makes common sense to me. One can only hope that the ideas that you&#8217;ve suggested go forwards and that people, as a community, can coalesce and come up with an idea.</p>



<p>And as you said, you&#8217;re not bound to any one particular way of doing it. It&#8217;s just the mere idea of standardizing things, whether it be named this or that is not important, it would just be nice to have some standard documented that everybody can adhere to and therefore make it a lot easier for all of us to make websites, whether we&#8217;re building them for clients or we&#8217;re just editing and tweaking them ourselves.</p>



<p>One of the concerns that we may have is the stability of WordPress CSS in the future. And I know that you have possible concerns that in the future, for example, Gutenberg blocks, there&#8217;s no requirement for the CSS, the classes, and so on to be the same today as it will be tomorrow or indeed yesterday.</p>



<p>So in other words, is that a problem, do you think? Is there any problem of consistency where let&#8217;s say that you build something and you ship It, and it goes out to your client. It&#8217;s using blocks, but suddenly unbeknownst to you, the blocks CSS classes all get modified, perhaps ever so slightly, but enough to break things. Is that a concern that you have?</p>



<p>[00:44:36] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> It really is. And I think that this is one of the biggest things I sort of learned from this intense period of engagement I&#8217;ve been having with the project is that, in discussing this with other people and really closely going through, uh, lots and lots of issues and the Gutenberg Github repository. I found some core development team members really saying that they viewed the HTML markup and the classes and how the CSS has written as essentially like non-public, which is to say you can&#8217;t count on this stuff not changing in the future.</p>



<p>That was really shocking to me. And I think for a couple of reasons, I mean, th the first is that, you know, that&#8217;s never how it&#8217;s been in WordPress in the past. The HTML for the comment forum, the HTML for the search forum, like those weren&#8217;t always seen as, you can count on this, there are ways to change it if you need to, but if we&#8217;re going to change this stuff, it&#8217;s going to be a huge deal and you&#8217;ll hear about it in advance, and we&#8217;re really gonna try to avoid that.</p>



<p>And so it felt like, uh, that was a departure from how things had previously been. And also as I&#8217;m someone who I think follows the project, like more closely than average, even though I, you know, I&#8217;m certainly not like a day-to-day contributor, or anything, but this was huge news to me as someone who&#8217;s been working with the block editor for years now.</p>



<p>At least to me, I don&#8217;t even really know that it&#8217;s reasonable to just say that like, well, here&#8217;s a bunch of HTML and CSS. Themers I know you have like your job to do and you need to make changes to this, but like, you can&#8217;t count on it. That doesn&#8217;t really seem fair.</p>



<p>And I certainly don&#8217;t think people are really aware of that. They&#8217;re not going to go in and one day, you know, completely change the image block or the block quote block drastically. I don&#8217;t really think they mean we&#8217;re going to just completely change everything. But I do think it just highlights the need again, to really spend some time focusing on what is the HTML that can serve as best going forward. So we don&#8217;t need to change it.</p>



<p>What are the CSS classes and the ways of handling CSS styles that we want to commit to now so that we can all just know what&#8217;s coming in the future. And so that when there are changes made, they are a big deal, and people are given lots of advance warning and they can, they can react.</p>



<p>And so I think I&#8217;m seeing more advanced warning in WordPress 6.0, which is awesome. It&#8217;s time to have that conversation about how can we just reduce the number of times we need to make big changes like that. Cause people are going to style HTML, no matter what.</p>



<p>[00:46:58] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. I wonder if it&#8217;s a product of the fact that the block editor is now basically a conduit to put in lots and lots of little components. So you might have a paragraph block and you might have a, an image block or a cover block or whatever it might be. You&#8217;ve got all of these different blocks and the functionality of that is not yet a hundred percent certain. In other words, aspects of it could change. And so I wonder if them communicating CSS will change is a product of that. They&#8217;re just not sure exactly what those blocks will look like in a few years time. And if they become radically different, maybe the functionality changes. Let&#8217;s hope it doesn&#8217;t. I&#8217;m sure it won&#8217;t, but if it did, some of the CSS may need to change. I don&#8217;t know.</p>



<p>[00:47:42] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> I think you&#8217;re right on the money there. I mean, the block editor is so much more powerful and I want to be really clear that like, that&#8217;s awesome. Like the folks I work with generally, like love that they can do more complex things like columns, or like finally putting text on top of an image for the cover block.</p>



<p>Those are good things. And we had to have a more complex system to make that possible. So I&#8217;m not against the complexity, but I just think it&#8217;s really important that the folks who are building the product, don&#8217;t forget about those of us in the real world who, you know, have to make things work every day. And we have, we have new sites we&#8217;re constantly working on, the impact of even what can seem like a really tiny change can be really big.</p>



<p>To bring it all back around, I really do think that if we can have just a few more standards and right, if we can have that kind of contract between themes and blocks, I think we can reduce the amount of times that those kinds of changes happen.</p>



<p>I totally acknowledge that they&#8217;re going to have to happen every once in a while. If we want to have this like big, nice thing, we&#8217;re going to have to put up with probably more changes. Cause there&#8217;s more things that can change, but, let&#8217;s really, let&#8217;s take a minute and figure out how we can make that as infrequent unpainful as possible.</p>



<p>[00:48:51] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. It&#8217;s interesting your language there. You described it as a big, nice thing. And in a sense it&#8217;s a big, nice thing made up of lots of smaller little nice things. Each of those little nice things is completely independent. And you may not use those on your website, but you may.</p>



<p>And if there&#8217;s modifications made to the CSS classes and what have you, the downstream effect could be pretty catastrophic. You know, if you&#8217;ve just built 50 websites and they&#8217;re all using the exact same block and some tiny little change affects you 50 times, that&#8217;s suddenly created a lot of work for you that potentially was not even thought about elsewhere.</p>



<p>[00:49:27] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> It has. In some extreme cases, this is maybe the reason why some people are often building custom blocks that really they could just be using the core block, but I&#8217;ve, I&#8217;ve at least anecdotally heard that folks do that sometimes because they know that their block isn&#8217;t going to change, even if they don&#8217;t want to have to take the time to build it.</p>



<p>[00:49:44] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> If people Mark wants to find you. They want to actually reach out to you. You may wish to share a Twitter handle or a website or an email address. Totally up to you. Yeah, any place that you could be found if people are inspired to join you?</p>



<p>[00:49:58] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> Yes. I am M R W web pretty much everywhere. So that&#8217;s, uh, MRW web with two W&#8217;s, uh, I&#8217;m MRW web.com. I&#8217;m M R W web on GitHub and Twitter and in the WordPress Slack and Post Status Slack. All these other places. I have a highly Googleable namee. If you want to come find me, I would love to hear from you I&#8217;m. I am not that hard to find.</p>



<p>[00:50:23] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Well, Mark, thank you very much for being on the podcast today. I really appreciate.</p>



<p>[00:50:28] <strong>Mark Root-Wiley:</strong> Thanks so much for having me. This was a blast Nathan. Great, great questions. I got to say.</p>
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<p>Check out the official release video for a quick overview of some of the most important changes.</p>



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<p>This release introduces sweeping improvements to the block editor and its utilities and design tools. Most notably, users can now <a href="https://wptavern.com/text-selection-across-multiple-blocks-is-coming-to-wordpress">select text across multiple blocks</a>, manipulating the highlighted portion as a group while keeping the rest of the content blocks in tact.</p>
