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This week we're looking ahead to WordPress 6.
6.
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5 a few days ago.
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5 launch was nice, fairly uneventful.
I didn't notice anything break on my sites and I'm happy that I can finally
select Google Fonts for the block based themes I'm running like 2024.
The community is already looking ahead to 6.
6 and versions beyond.
With Anne McCarthy leading the charge for another hallway hangout
scheduled for April 24th at 7 p.
m.
Eastern.
I'll be arriving back from a fun filled vacation at Disney.
Hopefully I have enough energy to join.
Some of the topics on the agenda are
Data view efforts and its relationship to the admin redesign.
Overrides and synced patterns, including the user experience
and the broader reasoning around naming to unlock an override.
Zoomed out view and the experience coming together to focus on patterns
rather than granular block editing, including advanced content only editing.
Layout improvements, including grid layout support.
Pattern styles, which would offer multiple ways of styling content based on a
single palette, and color typesets and presets from the and colors and typeset
presets from the theme style variations.
Style inheritance to help clarify where and why different
items are styled as they are.
Here's to hoping Overrides in Sync Patterns makes it to 6.
6 as we really wanted that in 6.
5.
If only Overrides makes it to 6.
6, we'll have another nice but seemingly uneventful release in mid July.
You can see the roadmap by clicking the link in the show notes.
Slow, iterative, uneventful, open source.
There's been a lot of fanfare around wanting WordPress to be more, to go
faster, to ship more things for builders.
And I get it.
I was that person once too.
I'd wager to say that WordPress was a lot further off from today's capabilities,
but that's just software for you.
Unification, stability, community.
This is what I want from my WordPress these days.
It's not a product made by a product company, or at least a traditional method
a commercial product company would take.
I know we can go on the fringes and break that apart, but there's no marketing and
sales team funneling customer feedback into the product team, which disseminates
it down to the engineering team and so on.
There's not even just one team.
Think about it, a 20 year old software product used by millions.
The amount of customer avatars that touches this software
would put a traditional product marketing team into a tailspin.
We know how challenging marketing WordPress is, and most of the good work
is done by those of us in the trenches.
The recent wave of criticism where WordPress might be
falling short isn't wrong.
It's just not a product solely focused on solving a WordPress builder problem.
The old me would have taken issue with that too.
We're part of the We're part of the people in the trenches, after all.
What I've learned is that when WordPress continues to
thrive, third party tools win.
People in the service industry continue to win.
I'm either getting older or I'm seeing the part where open source WordPress
begins to make sense long term.
So while 20 years is light years in tech, it's still very young in how we
all operate together as a community.
Here's to WordPress thriving.
Important links, slow news week again, except of course
for the launch of WordPress 6.
5 and that's just the first item this week.
Again, you can check these links in the show notes or subscribing
to the newsletter at TheWPMinute.
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5 Regina was released.
I'm sure you've updated by now.
Apparently, Woo.
com is moving back to WooCommerce.
com, citing a major drop in traffic, impacting their organic search
and their marketplace partners.
A blurb was mentioned in the WooCommerce 8.
8 delay announcement.
Linked in the show notes, somebody forwarded me, Forwarded me the email
they received from who I haven't seen it posted anywhere else.
Let me know if you've seen otherwise.
Syed bulky announces that WP beginner will be offering professional services.
Steve Bird shows off an interesting custom publishing workflow UI on
Twitter for his suite of tools.
Beaver Builder.
The Jonas Brothers of Page Builders, I'm still waiting for someone to
laugh at that, celebrates 10 years.
WordCamp Canada announced its first round of speakers.
Cammie McNamara tweeted that WordPress community member Jocelyn Muzak
passed away peacefully on March 31st.
My condolences to Jocelyn's family.
Eric Karkovac asks if we're going too far with WordPress critiques.
In the new video from me this week on the WP Minute YouTube channel, watch
this before you upgrade to WordPress 6.
5, which is probably largely too late for those of you listening to this.
But if you're looking for a quick recap of WordPress 6.
5 in video form, click the link in the show notes.
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