As we’re inching closer to WordPress 6.8 being released with the
And I’ve listed them all below.
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Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- Selfishly, I’m listing my blog post first about how I think
Hackathons compare to a WordCamp Contributors Day , and what I think introducing a Contributor Sprints is the way to go. And the people in the comments seem to agree in various ways!
- The
WordPress 6.8 Field Guide was published this week. This guide outlines major developer features and breaking changes in 6.8 and is published in the Release Candidate phase to help inform WordPress extending developers, Core developers, and others.
- With the Field Guide, there’s a ton of WordPress 6.8 Dev Notes published as well. Have a look:
Accessibility Improvements in WordPress 6.8 Miscellaneous Block Editor Changes in WordPress 6.8 Updates to user-interface components in WordPress 6.8 Interactivity API best practices in 6.8 New filter should_load_block_assets_on_demandin 6.8Changes to the .screen-reader-text class in WordPress 6.8 More efficient block type registration in 6.8 Data: A helpful performance warning for developers in the ‘useSelect’ hook Roster of design tools per block (WordPress 6.8 edition)
- WordPress 6.8 comes with a few new best practices and requirements in the
Interactivity API that are part of a longer-term continuous-improvement effort. Some of the relevant changes in 6.8 are an intermediary step: They do not include these enhancements themselves, but they prepare the project to add them in a future release by adding two new deprecation warnings. Interactivity API best practices in 6.8 .
- WordPress 6.8,
the Source of Truth , was published on the Gutenberg Times as well.
- Here’s the last WordPress 6.8 related item for this edition, and it’s a nice little nugget:
New REST API Filter for Exposing Menus Publicly in WordPress 6.8 .
- WP Engine’s annual conference is expanding its content to be more inclusive of the developers, agencies, marketers, and brands that are building the future of the web, and
DE{CODE} 2025 registration is open !
- Perfmatters, one of my favorite Performance related tools (scroll down for a small list of what those are) did a big release this week. With version 2.4.x being a major performance update. For instance, it’s now cutting script size by over 15% (32% uncompressed), on top of the 8% reduction they did in v2.3.7.
Perfmatters also added built-in JS deferral exclusions for Cloudflare Turnstile.
- Brian Coords built a system for
flexible WordPress Playground blueprints using Cloudflare Workers to help him spin up demo WooCommerce stores.
Man, I love these kinds of solutions, because in case you didn’t know yet, Cloudflare workers are the 💣.
- Sometimes you see a redirect on a WordPress site, and you don’t know what is causing it. Kaspars Dambis from WP Elevator shared
ways to determine the source of any redirect .
- Eric Karkovack shared a great article on Speckyboy on how you shouldn’t try to build all the things at once. And
why a modular approach is better for WordPress development .
🚀 Performance & Security
- 📺 If you feel like there are too many undiscovered features being shipped in Chrome’s DevTools,
this video’s got you covered to at least catch up on the last 3 major builds. - Jonny Harris published his blog post on
optimizing WP_User_Query Performance : Lazy Loading, Query Caching, and Memory Efficiency in WordPress. Can we have more of these posts, Jonny? 😁
- Patchstack released Q1 2025’s
Most Exploited WordPress Vulnerabilities .
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🎙️ This week we’ve got two podcasts published on the Within WordPress Podcast. Both are very much about the future of WordPress.
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Hope you enjoy both conversations. I think there’s so much to learn from both episodes.
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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