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It's the WP Minute.

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This week we're looking
ahead to WordPress 6.

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6.

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I know, I know, we just got WordPress 6.

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5 a few days ago.

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Well, it's coming up next.

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5 launch was nice, fairly uneventful.

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I didn't notice anything break on my
sites and I'm happy that I can finally

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select Google Fonts for the block
based themes I'm running like 2024.

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The community is already
looking ahead to 6.

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6 and versions beyond.

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With Anne McCarthy leading the
charge for another hallway hangout

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scheduled for April 24th at 7 p.

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m.

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Eastern.

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I'll be arriving back from a
fun filled vacation at Disney.

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Hopefully I have enough energy to join.

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Some of the topics on the agenda are

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Data view efforts and its
relationship to the admin redesign.

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Overrides and synced patterns,
including the user experience

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and the broader reasoning around
naming to unlock an override.

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Zoomed out view and the experience
coming together to focus on patterns

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rather than granular block editing,
including advanced content only editing.

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Layout improvements,
including grid layout support.

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Pattern styles, which would offer multiple
ways of styling content based on a

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single palette, and color typesets and
presets from the and colors and typeset

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presets from the theme style variations.

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Style inheritance to help
clarify where and why different

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items are styled as they are.

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Here's to hoping Overrides in
Sync Patterns makes it to 6.

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6 as we really wanted that in 6.

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5.

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If only Overrides makes it to 6.

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6, we'll have another nice but seemingly
uneventful release in mid July.

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You can see the roadmap by clicking
the link in the show notes.

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Slow, iterative, uneventful, open source.

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There's been a lot of fanfare around
wanting WordPress to be more, to go

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faster, to ship more things for builders.

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And I get it.

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I was that person once too.

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I'd wager to say that WordPress was a lot
further off from today's capabilities,

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but that's just software for you.

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Unification, stability, community.

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This is what I want from
my WordPress these days.

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It's not a product made by a product
company, or at least a traditional method

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a commercial product company would take.

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I know we can go on the fringes and break
that apart, but there's no marketing and

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sales team funneling customer feedback
into the product team, which disseminates

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it down to the engineering team and so on.

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There's not even just one team.

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Think about it, a 20 year old
software product used by millions.

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The amount of customer avatars
that touches this software

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would put a traditional product
marketing team into a tailspin.

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We know how challenging marketing
WordPress is, and most of the good work

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is done by those of us in the trenches.

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The recent wave of criticism
where WordPress might be

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falling short isn't wrong.

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It's just not a product solely focused
on solving a WordPress builder problem.

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The old me would have
taken issue with that too.

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We're part of the We're part of the
people in the trenches, after all.

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What I've learned is that
when WordPress continues to

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thrive, third party tools win.

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People in the service
industry continue to win.

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I'm either getting older or I'm seeing
the part where open source WordPress

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begins to make sense long term.

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So while 20 years is light years in
tech, it's still very young in how we

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all operate together as a community.

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Here's to WordPress thriving.

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Important links, slow news
week again, except of course

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for the launch of WordPress 6.

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5 and that's just the
first item this week.

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Again, you can check these links
in the show notes or subscribing

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com slash subscribe.

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5 Regina was released.

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I'm sure you've updated by now.

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Apparently, Woo.

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com is moving back to WooCommerce.

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com, citing a major drop in traffic,
impacting their organic search

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and their marketplace partners.

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A blurb was mentioned
in the WooCommerce 8.

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8 delay announcement.

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Linked in the show notes, somebody
forwarded me, Forwarded me the email

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they received from who I haven't
seen it posted anywhere else.

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Let me know if you've seen otherwise.

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Syed bulky announces that WP beginner
will be offering professional services.

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Steve Bird shows off an interesting
custom publishing workflow UI on

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Twitter for his suite of tools.

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Beaver Builder.

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The Jonas Brothers of Page Builders,
I'm still waiting for someone to

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laugh at that, celebrates 10 years.

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WordCamp Canada announced
its first round of speakers.

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Cammie McNamara tweeted that WordPress
community member Jocelyn Muzak

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passed away peacefully on March 31st.

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My condolences to Jocelyn's family.

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Eric Karkovac asks if we're going
too far with WordPress critiques.

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In the new video from me this week on
the WP Minute YouTube channel, watch

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this before you upgrade to WordPress 6.

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5, which is probably largely too late
for those of you listening to this.

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But if you're looking for a
quick recap of WordPress 6.

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5 in video form, click the
link in the show notes.

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