Alright, strap in and hold onto your keyboards, folks, because 2024 is not just knocking on the door—it’s practically bulldozing through the wall Kool-Aid Man style, shouting, “Oh yeah!” with a slew of news that’s hotter than your laptop after a marathon coding session.
Welcome to this wild ride of the 105th
Let’s cannonball right in and bring order to the chaos!
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Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- Lovers of mega menu, however large or minimalistic, REJOICE! WordPress 6.5 will all you to
add custom blocks to navigation menus .
Just make sure you still make them accessible. But my word, this is a huge improvement. The only thing left to do is improve the “how to create and maintain a menu” in our FSE world.
- In a little less than a year ago, Mario Santos
published a proposal to add an Interactivity API to WordPress. This has been included in WordPress Core for the upcoming 6.5 release.
If you’re not exactly sure what you can do with the Interactivity API,
- Speaking of where proposals can lead,
a new proposal for the Gutenberg plugin to facilitate is for individual niche blocks to be maintained, and exist as standalone blocks in the Block Directory.
Chime in with your thoughts
- WordPress 6.3 introduced grid support in WordPress theme and Justin Tadlock explains, wonderfully as ever, how to
add support for grid to your theme .
- The WordPress Developer Resources just continue to improve. This week’s addition is
an advanced topics section for the Theme Handbook.
- Next week, Nick Diego and Ryan Welcher will explore how JavaScript is used in modern WordPress development. You can follow along as they share this in
a Developer Hours . It’s slated for Feb 13th.
- The international community organizations behind Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, and WordPress join forces in a leadership-level alliance, (representing) the CMSes behind roughly 50% of all websites. It’s called the
Open Website Alliance .
WordPress.org
- Just like
Timi last week , Aaron Jorbin also shared a list of plugins that make him happy . My favorite from his list is Revision Notes .
- Matt Cromwell shared the fact that he’s reintroducing his
Shiny New Plugins blog series .
- Brian Jackson shared their reasoning to switch the WS Form as their form plugin and
it’s a great thread with a lot of insight into the true power of WS Form.
🚀 Performance & Security
- I’ve mentioned this before in a previous newsletter, but INP is slated to be added to Core Web Vitals in about a month.
March 12th to be exact . This is your reminder to prepare yourself for INP . - Rob Cairns did a podcast with Tim Nash about security. Great listen. Tim knows his stuff.
My favorite performance optimizing tools in WordPress:
🔆 Within WordPress Highlights
- Blocks everywhere is pretty much what WordPress nowadays is all about. And with the many block extending plugins out there, it’s easy to lose track of where you’ve used what block. But guess what.
There’s a plugin for keeping track as well ! - Elliot Richmond shared a great video about WordPress Block Theme Development:
Some of my favorite WordPress tools:
💡 Interesting Finds
- James Kemp shared a super cool app. It’s called
In Your Face app and it helps you never miss a calendar notification ever again.
You know, if you keep missing alerts. You know who you are.
🎁 Bonus
The first Within WordPress of 2024 has already been recorded, and “as we speak” I’m recording the second one. My bonus for this week is for me, but also for you, my friend . because I would love to learn from you
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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