This Week at WordPress.org (January 10, 2022)

Accessibility

• Accessibility Team’s goals for WordPress 6.0 and beyond.

Community

• Proposal: Mandatory Safety Measures for In-person WordPress Events in 2022.
• WordPress 5.9 Talking Points for Meetup Organizers: Six Features You Will Love About This Release.

Docs

• Meeting Notes: Theme docs updates for WP 5.9 and block themes.

Articles:

• Site Editor
• Block themes
• Navigation Block
• Template Part Block
• Template Editor
• Styles Overview

Hosting

• WordPress 5.9 and PHP 8.0-8.1.

Marketing

• Help contribute to social media materials for the 5.9 release.

Meta

• Discussion: Meta focuses in 2022.

Mobile

• Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 19.0.
• Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 19.0.

Polyglots

• WordPress 5.9 ready to be translated.

Themes

• Gutenberg and Themes: Week of Dec 5.

Training

• Social Learning Spaces Streaming Platforms.
• Learn WordPress Version Taxonomy.
• January 2022 Sprint.
• Team Goal Setting 2022.

Courses:

• Simple Site Design with Full Site Editing.

Test

• Hallway Hangout: Let’s talk about WordPress 6.0.

Updates

• Journal Entry | Log4j Vulnerability.

Openverse

• CC Search Now Redirects to Openverse.

Core

There’s a lot of information coming over the next few weeks leading up to the WordPress 5.9 release. Check back on the dev notes section as it will grow throughout the week when new posts are published.

Field Notes

• WordPress 5.9 Field Guide.

Block Editor

• Block themes, a new way to build themes in WordPress 5.9.
• Updates for Settings, Styles, and theme.json.
• Gallery Block Refactor Dev Note.
• The new Navigation block.
• State of the Customizer with block themes in WordPress 5.9.
• Take more control over Inner Block Areas (as a block developer).
• Using multiple stylesheets per block.
• New Capability Queries in WordPress 5.9.
• Locking Blocks in WordPress 5.9.

Theme & Customizer

• State of the Customizer with block themes in WordPress 5.9.
• Theme-focused changes and filters in WordPress 5.9.
• Bundled theme updates with WordPress 5.9.

Performance

• Enhanced lazy-loading performance in 5.9.
• WordPress 5.9 Performance Improvements.

Core API

• Posts, Post types and Taxonomy changes in WordPress 5.9.
• New Capability Queries in WordPress 5.9.
• New API to access global settings & styles.

Internationalization

• Introducing new language switcher on the login screen in WP 5.9.

PHP 8.0 and 8.1

• WordPress 5.9 and PHP 8.0-8.1.

Tooling

• Changes to the WordPress Core PHP Test Suite.

Miscellaneous

• Miscellaneous Core changes in WordPress 5.9.

General

• What’s new in Gutenberg 12.3? (5 January).
• Proposal: Changes to JavaScript Coding Standards for Full Prettier Compatibility.
• A Week in Core – January 10, 2022.
• Discussion: 2022 Major Release Timing.
• Proposal: Approving Block Pattern Directory Submissions.

Reminder: Gutenberg 11.9 ships with WordPress 5.9.