A New Kind of Default Theme, the Performance Team Gets Its Own Site, and the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Recipients
This Week at WordPress.org (July 20, 2022)
A new approach to creating the next default theme has been proposed. • Cache Audit and Site Health Checks • Full-Site Editing Program Calls for Testing Category Customization • Parsell Scholarship recipients announced.
News
- FSE Program Testing Call #15: Category Customization
- 2022 Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Recipients: Margherita Pelonara, Simona Simionato, and Pooja Derashri
Accessibility
Community
Core
- [Request for feedback] Feature Notifications Proof of Concept
- What’s new in Gutenberg 13.7? (20 July)
- WordPress packages publish to npm every two weeks
- A Week in Core – July 18, 2022
Design
Docs
Support Articles:
Hosting
Marketing
Meta
- Exploration: improving DevHub (Developer Docs)
Mobile
- Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 20.3
- Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 20.3
- Mobile Team Update – July 13th
Openverse
Performance
- Performance team meeting summary 19 July 2022
- FEEDBACK: feature proposal for Audit Full Page Cache and Full Page Cache Site Health Checks
- SVG uploads (earlier discussion)
Polyglots
Plugins
Test
- FSE Program Pattern and Template Part Usability Testing Summary
- Week in Test: 11 July 2022
- FSE Program Testing Call #15: Category Customization
- Test Team Update: 11 July 2022
Themes
Test
Themes
Training
- What’s new on LearnWP in July 2022
- Proposal: Merging Lesson Plans, Video Tutorials, and Slides
- Block Theme Development Course – Update
- Brainstorming: Best practices for hosting Online Workshops
- Exploring WordPress Certifications
- Community Course Creation: A Proposal
Lesson Plans:
Video Tutorials
Online Workshops:
- Theme Development Workflows for Different Types of Developers
- Let’s code! Creating your first WordPress Plugin
- [CANCELED – Moved to July 28] Theme Development Workflows for Different Types of Developers
- Power Up With Free Wireframe Templates And Advanced Blocks
WPTV
Five for the Future
What's happening specific to Five for the Future? Provide your feedback on these posts:
- Noting milestones in contributions
- Charting corporate contributions over time
- New options in sponsored contributor profiles to show non-sponsored contributions too
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