Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers.
News
- WordPress 5.9 RC3
- Help Test WordPress 5.9 Features
- Episode 23: A letter from WordPress’ Executive Director
Accessibility
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
- Meetup Organizer Newsletter: January 2022
Docs
Articles:
Hosting
Marketing
Meta
Polyglots
Themes
Training
- Training Team Goals 2022
- January 2022 Sprint
- Social Learning Spaces Streaming Platforms
- Learn WordPress Version Taxonomy
Courses:
- Getting Started With WordPress: Get Setup
- Getting Started With WordPress: Get Familiar
- Simple Site Design with Full Site Editing
Lesson Plans:
Workshops:
- How to use the List View
- How to Style Your Site with Global Styles
- Organizing your Media Library
- Finding New Blocks with the Block Directory
Social Learning Spaces:
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
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
- Introducing Twenty Twenty-Two
Performance
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
PHP 8.0 and 8.1
Tooling
Miscellaneous
General
- What’s new in Gutenberg 12.4 ( 19 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
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