Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the  #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting in Slack.

Attendees: @greenshady, @ironnysh, @ndiego, @milana_cap @bph (as facilitator). @bcworkz and @webcommsat (async)

Last meeting notes: Developer Blog editorial meeting summary, April 4, 2024

Updates on the site

Congrats to our new contributors to get their Documentation Contributor badges: @jsnajdr @beafialho @magdalenapaciorek @ironnysh @jonsurrell @luisherranz @cbravobernal and @flexseth

Newly published post since the last meeting: 

Since the last meeting, we published articles by new writers and received support from more reviewers. (see above)

• Introduction to Playground: running WordPress in the browser by Ronny Shani, reviewed by Adam Zielinski, Birgit Pauli-Haack 
• A first look at the Interactivity API by Magdalena Paciorek, reviewed by Birgit Pauli-Haack, Luis Herranz, Carlos Bravo, Jon Surrell, Ryan Welcher, and Justin Tadlock
• What’s new for developers? (April 2024) by Justin Tadlock, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Nick Diego
• Creating an external project template for create-block by Ryan Welcher, reviewed by Justin Tadlock, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Dan Soschin
• How to use WordPress Playground for interactive demos by Ronny Shani, reviewed by Birgit Pauli-Haack, Adam Zielinski and Brett McSherry. 

Huge Thank you to the writer and reviewers! 

Project Status

The project board for Developer Blog content is on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/.

In Progress:

• Optimizing your WP_Query queries for better performance by @oglekler
• Tutorial on using create-block scaffolding to write a multi-block plugin by @n8finch
• Case Study: How Pew Research Center is using the interactivity api to use blocks as interactive components @smrubenstein
• A real-world use case: custom meta + block bindings + variations + usage in templates by @greenshady
• WP-CLI for site owners and admins by @milana_cap
• When to use Transients API and how by @welcher
• What’s new for developers? (May 2024)

Post on the To-do-list, assigned to writers.

• Overview of the coding standards tooling available to WordPress developers by @welcher
• Tour Guide for First-time writers on the Developer Blog by @bph and @webcommsat
• Adding a “screen reader text” block option via themes by @greenshady
• Why you might not need a child theme by @karmatosed
• What you can and cannot do with PHP in patterns by @greenshady
• Tutorial on building a “hover reveal” pattern by @greenshady
• Migrate classic sidebars and widgets to block for themers by @greenshady
• Overview of “block theme” stuff you can do with classic/hybrid themes by @greenshady
• Timeline block with animated line (Interactivity API) by @colorful-tones

Topics, approved in in need of a writer

• How to add a template via a plugin (podcast, woo, LMS)
• Create Figma designs for WordPress Block Theme
• How to build a theme demo with WP Playground blueprints 

If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to write about them, comment on the Issue or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @bph in slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.

Topics closed

• Learnings from two Site Migrations After consulting Jasmine, it was clear that her idea wasn’t suitable for the developer blog. I offered to assist her to publish some place else.

New Topics approved

• Tutorial on how to create custom components by @fabiankaegy
• Performance best practices by @flixos90
• Classic themes: tutorial on moving away from widgets to template parts
• Customizing and extending the Formatting Toolbar by @magdalenapaciorek
• How JSON schema versioning works and how it’s different from the theme.json version by @ajlende

Topics not approved:

• Share change in process for agencies building sites with the site editor
• Version Control Considerations and Workflows in a Site Editing paradigm

There were no clear approval signals, and it seems the topics still need to narrow down the proposal to clear problem statements and suggested solutions. The discussions continue.

Open Floor

Next meeting: Jun 6, 2024, at 13:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel

Props to @greenshady for review of the post.

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