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.

A small maintenance release, 6.5.4, is planned for June 5th. It is to help address the issue on plugin activation that was introduced in 6.5 where nothing happens after clicking “activate” (except the button goes gray). It will provide a redirect hook.

There was a retrospective survey of participants in the WordPress 6.5 release. For the first time the anonymous responses of the teams were made public (previously there was a summary). It is very interesting to note the comments about leadership or lack of it. Issues around the Font Library got a number of mentions. Here is the spreadsheet for those who are curious.

Anne McCarthy posted a round up of what’s being worked on for WordPress 6.6. It is a very large list. Regarding the Block Binding API for custom fields and a UI for editing them, it is not certain yet if that will ship in 6.6.

WordPress core – There is a proposal to add the ability to rollback from plugin auto-updates. This looks useful and might encourage the use of the plugin auto-update feature.

The topic of WordPress security is timely. WordPress 6.5.2 is a security and fix release just dropped.

There have been a few posts with instructions for how to turn on the font library when using Classic themes. This guide seems like the simplest so far.

This is a tutorial on how to create an admin settings page using React components.