On the developers blog Justin Tadlock shares what’s new for block theme and plugin developers, as well as new additions to the Gutenberg plugin. This is largely information for developers and designers and gives some insight into want’s coming for WordPress 6.7.

This is an interesting post that provides insight into being a WordPress core committer. Remember to say thank you 🙂

This is a tutorial on building a block that uses the Interactive API.

This updates fixes two cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities and a path traversal issue.

WordPress is encouraging us to turn on automatic updates, but that seems a bit risky. In this video I discuss update strategies, look at a new feature coming with WordPress 6.6, and also look at the free Fatal Error Notify plugin for reporting on PHP errors.

WordPress has an API for storing and loading options, the Options API. Some changes to the Options API are coming with WordPress 6.6. One of the settings when creating an option is if the option should be auto loaded with each page. Up until now, the default when an option is created was “yes” to auto load it. However, a large amount of auto-loaded data can hurt page performance. The default is being changed to “null” and a ceiling on the size of auto-loaded options is being introduced. These and other changes are discussed in this article on the make blog.

During Matt Mullenweg’s Summer Update at WordCamp EU he listed eleven principles for guiding the future of WordPress. In this article James Giroux reviews the list and provides his take on them.

The Transients API is used to store information across page loads. Here is a good tutorial on the Transients API and how to use it.

This proposal on the Make blog using “Bits” as dynamic tokens as a replacement for shortcodes. Bits are placeholders for content and use an HTML comments syntax.