Hi there,
WordPress 6.7 RC1 is scheduled for October 22, 2024. That’s also the occasion to publish the Fieldguide listing the big and small changes coming with the new version. Below I listed the Devnotes that are already available. Anne McCarthy published the 6,450-words Source of Truth on this site as well.
It’s going to be a busy three weeks until the final release on November 12, 2024.
Enjoy exploring the new features and update in WordPress and have a great weekend!
Yours, đź’•
Birgit
Developing Gutenberg and WordPress
WordPress 6.7 Beta 3 has been released and the first Dev Notes are being published:
- Subscribe to changes in the Interactivity API state and context on client-side navigation in 6.7
- Updates to Script Modules in 6.7
- Roster of design tools per block (WordPress 6.7 edition)
- Updates to the HTML API in 6.7
- New block type registration APIs to improve performance in WordPress 6.7
- Auto Sizes for Lazy Loaded Images in WordPress 6.7
- Post Editor iframing with meta boxes in WordPress 6.7
Anne McCarthy found a new location for the 6.7 Source of Truth on the Gutenberg Times. The Source of Truth is a tool for others who educate WordPress users on the new updates. “It’s a foundational resource but, it’s so long and detailed, it needs to be repackaged to be useful in each space.” McCarthy wrote.
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Joen Asmussen shared a list of work done by the WordPress design team: Design Share #66 (Oct 7-Oct18). He highlights:
- Admin bar evolution
- Unseen icon update
- Navigation: Provide fallback when menu was deleted
- Admin themes
- Update component: Combobox
- Storybook: Color
- WordPress Photo Directory
- 5FTF. Sponsorship
Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners
In his video, WordPress, How to build Complex Layouts in the Block Editor Elliot Richmond showed how easy it is now to build websites with WordPress, even if the layout seems a bit more challenging. I liked how you get to hear about the reasoning of design choices and also how Richmond decides on the tools to use. In the methods of the Speed building challenge, Richmond takes you along as he rebuilds the Blookup.com website.
Robin Pietersen announced a few more blocks for FooEvents. In his post Introducing the New FooEvents Calendar and Attendee Listing Blocks you can take a look at the new FooEvents Calendar Block and FooEvents Attendee Listing Block, as well as updates to the FooEvents Express Check-ins plugin and FooEvents Ticket Importer.
Ronald Huereca tweeted he “quietly released Photo Block earlier this week.” An official announcement post is forthcoming. If you want to check out the new Photo Block, it’s available from the WordPress repository. The documentation page is already available, showing off the plugin’s features, that enhance the image core block: Cropping, Dimension support, Image Sizing and Object Fit, Add CSS Gram Effects, multiple caption variations and overlay support. It’s definitely worth exploring if you have a wider range of image needs.
Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks
Save The date! WordPress 6.7 and the new Twenty Twenty-Five theme are just weeks away. Theme Dev Leads, Carolina Nymark and Juan Aldasoro will join Developer Hours on Oct. 29 at 15:00 UTC for an in-depth look at the theme’s technical details and features. Developer Hours: Exploring the Twenty Twenty-Five Theme
If you are starting out building a Block Theme, it can be a bit overwhelming with the number of details you might have to consider. In Mastering theme.json: You might not need CSS, Justin Tadlock gives you a walkthrough of many tips, tricks, and techniques for using theme.json and style variations to their full extent.
Carlos Daniele created A developer’s overview of Twenty Twenty-Five, the next default WordPress theme. “Twenty Twenty-Five provides an excellent example of the philosophy of democratization of design, and this article will show you its structure in detail.” he wrote. Daniele looks at the code and explains some of the concepts that were incorporated into the new default theme, especially Section styles and Template patterns.
In Revolutionizing WordPress typography with full site editing and theme.json Jeremy Holcombe takes a comprehensive journey through the tools and features of the Site editor and block themes on working with typography on the web and how users can make their typography choices and add them to their site.
Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor
For the first time, Developer Hours were streamed from YouTube directly, and it made a difference in the numbers of people reached. If you missed it, here is the recording: How to Simplify Client Editing in WordPress with Nick Diego, Ryan Welcher and Jamie Marsland.
In his Live stream, Ryan Welcher, explored if he could replace custom blocks with Block Bindings. It’s a continuation of the show from last week. Looking at the Block Bindings API coming in WordPress 6.7
Alfredo Navas-Fernandini found You Might Not Need a Custom Block: The Block Variations API and teaches you how to create Block variations with a common examples, a Call-to-Action block, and a Team query block, assembled from core blocks. In the same mind set, Navas posted earlier You Might Not Need a Custom Block: The Block Styles API, showing ways to create more buttons styles and a custom header block.
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