In this video I look at WP Cron and the free WP Crontrol plugin. Many users don’t even know that WordPress has an event scheduler, how it works, or its limitations. However, this is good information to have, if only for troubleshooting and site maintenance purposes. The WP Crontrol plugin provides a nice interface for managing WP Cron.

Paul Charlton jumps ahead to look at the future of the admin dashboard based on current experiments in the Gutenberg plugin. It looks like a good step forward.

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.

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.