Hari Shanker and Courtney Robertson have introduced experimental WordPress contribution health dashboards designed to monitor the performance of various WordPress teams. They also presented the pilot dashboards developed for the Make/WordPress Core, Community, and Training teams, along with key statistics from the WordPress 6.6 release. History and Challenges The concept of …
Gutenberg 19.0 Introduces Two New Experimental Features
Gutenberg 19.0 has arrived with two exciting experimental features, along with various feature enhancements and bug fixes. The Gutenberg team is actively seeking user feedback on these experimental additions. The first experimental feature is the highly anticipated UI prototype for connecting blocks and custom fields. To try it out, you can enable …
FSE Outreach Experimental Loses Two Words, Gains New Life
Sometimes success means having to say goodbye. That’s sort of what happened to the FSE Outreach Program, newly launched as plain Outreach. The longtime facilitator of this initiative, Automattic Product Wrangler Anne McCarthy, announced the upcoming changes in September 2023: What started as an experimental program …
Gutenberg 16.9 Let’s You Rename (Almost) Any Block, Adds Experimental Form and Input Blocks
Delivering on an highly-requested feature, Gutenberg contributors have made it possible to rename almost any block in the List View. Version 16.9 was released this week with the new feature, which builds on Gutenberg 16.7‘s introduction of the ability to rename Group blocks. It works in a similar way to …
Gutenberg 16.8 Makes Cover Block Smarter, Adds Experimental Pages List in Site Editor
Gutenberg 16.8 was released this week with improvements to existing blocks and some experiments that lay the foundation for Phase 3 focused on collaboration. The Cover block now automatically sets an overlay color when a user applies the initial background image. If the user doesn’t manually set an overlay color prior to …