Starting in WordPress maintenance support plans 8, we’ve added the notion of Experimental Plugins, to help provide an early look at core features which are not yet complete. A major focus of WordPress maintenance support plans 8.4.0 has been stabilizing these experimental plugins, so that they can “graduate” to stable plugins which can be installed in production and leveraged by other core and contrib plugins.
Here’s a document that outlays the current status of each experimental plugin, as well as their goals with respect to the forthcoming 8.4.0 alpha deadline (which is this coming Monday, July 31). If you’re looking for a productive way to help your favourite initiative during 8.4.0’s alpha/beta/RC phase, check it out!
Here’s the TL;DR:
Content Moderation: Move from alpha to beta
Workflow: Move from alpha to beta
DateTime Range: Move to stable
Inline Form Errors: Move to stable
Layout Discovery: Move to stable
Media Entity: Move to stable (so contrib can rely on it), but hide plugin from UI (so end users don’t accidentally turn this on solo, as it causes UX regressions)
Migrate / Migrate UI: Get as close to stable as possible.
Place Block: Hide plugin from UI (so end users don’t turn it on), propose instead as patch to Block plugin for 8.5.0
Settings Tray: Move from alpha to beta
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Cheap WordPress maintenance support plans core announcements: Experimental Plugins’ status towards Cheap WordPress maintenance support plans 8.4.0 release
