A topic from the past for plugin developers – Many plugins leave their database entries behind when they are deleted from the website. WordPress has an uninstall hook and will run an uninstall.php if it exists. These provide a cleanup option.

For plugin developers – the Gutenberg plugin has introduced the ability to register block templates using API calls which makes it easier to include templates in plugins. This feature is scheduled for inclusion in WordPress 6.7.

Here is a useful video from Paul Charlton showing how to use ChatGPT or an online code generator to create a custom plugin.

Michelle Frechette and Corey Maass are starting up a new directory, an independent product alliance where WordPress product creators can work together to cross-promote each others work and hopefully get attention and sales.

Work on the Twenty Twenty-File theme has started. This post shares plans which seem prioritize flexibility. There are examples shown for a blog and for a photo blog.

WordPress org has a “Learn” courses area that has a large number of learning tracks. This is a good resource to bookmark or remember for when people ask for good courses.

This article on the developer blog has a good overview of what JSON schema is and it also lists and explains the several ways that JSON schema is used in WordPress. It is worthwhile reading this article for orientation purposes for power users even if you aren’t a developer.

In this video Brian Coords show the improvements to the Block Binding API. In the first half of the video he shows how it looks in the editor and in the second half he shows the code needed to implement it.

Mark Westguard was recently on the Do the Woo show and he shared some good points that plugin developers launching a product will find useful.